Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-27

slave But there can be no property In the ao, and
vices Of human being slave how Is it that there i sucb
properly IN human being as wife, child ward or an
indented servant?
How is it that it is any the crime Of theft TO rob or
steal from slave Of money of the value Of his
slave than TO steal the slave purchased with such sum Of
money "
Yet this permitted with impunity or rather with apDro
baton, by the people the Staes by the influence
Of this doctrine that there be property avesa doc.
trne wholly variance with the commandments and the
practice and teachings Of Christ and his Apostles So far from
stealing slave Paul taught runaway slaves their
masters but the people Of the States although uu-
der constitutional obligation runaway to their
masters steal them from their when re-taken and
some OF them have passed penal laws preventing reclamation
under the constitution and of Congress requiring it, But
In slaves Is recognised in all the States Il
Is recognised and titles TO pass under the laws of dbu-
ton and of hochpot in all where master Of slaves
the slave States which make personal
dies domcled In nonave State. tisrecognsed where the
sale slaves constitutes the consideration Of contracts which
are TO De paid and performed in the nonsave States Innu-
meraoe titles to slaves have been acquired from the United
States BY sales under direct tax laws and judgments OBJ
tanned by the United States in all the slave States.
The ensavement of the savage brutal heather African by
placing him in this domestic relation Of obedience labor and
service christian and civilized MASTER of the highest supe
ror in land Of liberty, be the only means by
which that degraded could be elevated to condition Of
civilized humanity Slaves slave States are vastly ee
in the rank human beings above their race now
listing in Africa. Slavery has effected this improvement TO
greater extent in shorter PERIOD than any other means
which the charitable have devised will DEVISE for the re-
dempon Of the black from the bondage of hea
thensm and babariy When its wise ends fully accom-
pished and slaves improved by examples around them
maintain and support themselves and to be their masters
and when the condition of society is such to render their
emancipation both safe and expeden will doubtless dssp
without the aid Of laws and without violence and disor
der as has in its natural COURSE disappeared in other
countries But laws to confne slavery limits hem
ming tin and surrounding the slave States with Gordon Of
assang States all Sides seeking their destruction by pre-
venting its extension into the Territories tend to render il all
IVA
slave States Such extension does add the number of
slaves only spreads the number greater sur
face, dispensing them among greater number Of free white in
haban lessenng the danger of emancipation from proximity
of numbers &.a
Before the generation (some Of whom are horny shall
pass away the free white population Of the United States will
probably number less than hundred and sixty or two
hundred millions Wealth, luxury, the multiplication and
division OF empoymen and among them of inferior
NAL offices fitted for emancpaed slaves which win attend
upon this vast increase of free white population would afford
an easy means of employment and support sufficient for
emancipated slaves if placed among this white population
The employment Of slave labor in agriculture any
employment in which capitalists would be likely employ
them, may become Improbable and masters scarcely realize
income from the labor slaves than sufficient for their
uppor II will then become their interest to emancipae
hem and they do with safety their social and po
lcal existence, slavery will exist If slaves
should be scattered over half the territory of the Unon when
this time arrives they will be surrounded with and in the midst
of an overwhelming superiority in numbers of free whites
among whom they will find abundance Of employment
an easy support and slavery may disappear silently and
unnoced in its character of vassaage has done in
England.
In asserting that by rayng the constitutions they ACQUIRED
power and assumed moral responsibility to destroy the
slave States, great moral social and political evil the
slave States have conceivable purpose but disso
luton Of the Union How well it would read in history that
the Union dissolved upon extraordinary dispute be-
tween the asaing and the asaed States controversy
whether the States became bound by their constu
tona compact odestoy the slave States great moral
sence by laws Of Congress against slavery SIM when the
very organization of that Congress efis fundamentally based
upon that sin Of slavery But why do the non-slave States
by such strange ndirecon, seek dissolution Of the Union
with the slave States J
For years petitions have been addressed to Congress by
women who claim social civil, and political equality with
men, and by men who admit this equality, demanding the
abolition Of slavery, great moral, social and political
evil And although Congress has power the
subject and right to receive such petitions than if
they petitions abolish the laws Of marriage great
moral social and political evil, than the Supreme Court
oMassachusetts would have suh petitions addressed
that respectable tribunal yet refusal to receive them has
raised QUERY that the great right Of petition has been vio
lated 1t has als been yielded by Congress- thereby
serting power to abolish slavery.
State Legislatures of the non-save States have addressed
Congress by resolutions asserting their power prevent the
extension slavery into the Territories, and abolish it
in all places which they have exclusive legislation
denouncing it moral evil
Party Conventions Of every political complexion have
solved that slavery evil which Congress has the power
Coumbs, board of all national and merchant vessels,
and in all places which Congress exercise exclusive
legislation, and that the United States are responsible for the
longer existence of this evil
The controversy is most alarming every lover of
the Unons blessings aud gloes It is dispute between
fourteen States the side and sixteen States on the other
sde Of fifteen each side if Delaware should fratenize
with the South. Threats force on either sde can never
settle the controversy by intimidation The passions Of the
parties may be good servants but bad Interest,"
justice humanity, patrioismhe love Of the Union,
of it's great advantages and Of the evils of dsunon the sp-
rit Of past generation of common ancestors, who
achieved independence framed the constitution ratified
and formed the Unon must to the settlement Of this
question in all the States 1t is certain the slave States with
the Bible in their hands, while they claim be Christians
and have Moses and the prophets Christ and his apostles for
authorities, admit that slavery moral evi-a
violation Of the laws of God. They admit they
have delegated power prohibit its extension into Ter
tories belonging to the United States abolish any
where moral social, political evil They
admit that the nonslave States assumed constitutional espon
sby for its existence where because they have power
elect President and send majority oSenators and Represen
tatves to Congress- to pass laws prohibit abolish in any
place. They cannot yield upon these questions, hecause
their social and political existence Saies well their
domestic relations and thousand millions of dollars of capi-
tai in the property their slaves abores and servants de-
pend upon their successful resistance of such laws
IT, the other hand the non-save States combine toge-
Their in the assertion Of their to abolish prohibit sa
very, by elecng maoy Of Congress, and President to
pass such laws they persist the assertion Of moral
sponby TO their power to destroy slavery in the Unit
ed States because is sin against the law of God great
moral social and political evil is difficult 10 perceive how