Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-05-04
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ment ye judge, ye shall be judged"
This sage counsel d Divine revelation is not generally held
be of universal application by of u.s. On the contrary
all ready Judge every body ese-oiten without
testimony, without inquiry, and without charity
Who responsible for slavery at the South, for which
Southern men are constantly, and unusy and unspar
ingiy abused
Did the South send their ships Africa rob and plumber
Its inhabitans-to msie merchandise of human sous-o
steal their eow-men Did they make their gains by human
traffic They have often been charged with t-but al!
charges are not true Who charges 1t Northern men,
Northern editors in every free State with few splendid ex-
cepons And well might the words of the prophet to the
guilty King of Israel be reor,ed upon them, people,
" Thou art the man.. Il Northern men who imported
the slaves they who guilty OF all the excuses
of cruelty the very reference which produces nveun
tary shudder Of humanity They originated the evil from
base motives Of avarce-hey continued and enlarged by
myrads under the most excessive cruey-and they would
the odum they have long since done the respon
sbity of their criminality, upon Southern people.
They would cut them off from law and gospel, and refuse
them the civil rights and privileges for which Southern men,
as shareholders have always largely contributed whether
with treasure or with boodand which they themselves have
soemny guaranteed them by solemn compact-an nstru-
men, they all profess reverence but from the obaonso
which they begin 10 desire absoution
have Southern men done towards these unfortunate beings
They took them from the bloody hand of Northern men
babaans full of ignorance and obsnacy, unified for any
efl employment snaccusomed the OF any instru
ment of industry unable understand speak Ian
guage to both parties they clothed and ted and IN
sucel them they them houses to live ln iood to eat
and clothing wear and they taught hem to labor they
gave religious instruction, and the blessings OF civza-
ton they have hundreds of thousands al liberty, Gull
the number freed became nuisance and was necessarily
restrained by aw) their physical and social condition has
been ina constant of smeioraton from the moment they
came under Southern nuehce-i has been always onward
and mpeded but by the wanton reckless and uus
fable interference from Northern and their present
condition. though what would have been had they been
of different race what the South could wish to be, is
vet infinitely superior to that of their fellows en Africa,
10 the free coored people the free Staes and very much
above the abong peasan,y civilized Europe generally
of the working classes in Great Britain. comparison is
challenged and Northern and Europeans who have
visited them and inspected their condition, shall be the judges
But every referred to in all the abolition papers
for the past thirty years combined and all true and
multiplied by its quantity, it would not equal in degree
the suffsrings endured sing slave ship single pas
sage across the Atlantic under Northern and OF which
Northern men the authors. Who, them has done
them the most evil Who has done them the good
The North or the South
Africans moreover are like other men, and have faults
These necessarily provoke punishmenand that has often
been excessive doubt But what provoked the North to
fit out ships TO 90 Africa and make merchandise of human
flesh Did Africans them any thing Did Africans
provoke them by crimes and dsobedence, idenes and
injuries
The North first made property Of them, aud owe much of
their gains to them. How many hundred did they lib
crate On the contrary, when single individual at the
South recently liberated sixty, worth property then at least
$780, O00 it was found difficult, nay impossible to raise
So 900 in all the North send them Africa and large
proportion of that insignificant contributed from the
South.
Where the Northern man, old or young living DYING
that leaves any requests of any kind beae and restore
these people, whom their fathers themselves have plum
dered and robbed from Africa, to their homes
But what does the North aer themselves having done
much evil and little good the African race require of
the South in regard to them To emancipaie them
diqtely, or sooner.
Have they calculated the cost of such act Do they
know that there personal value in them property equal
to tro thousand millions Of dollars and that additional
loss by depreciation, equal much more, would be the
necessary consequence of their liberation Moreover, who
,eouM or who could live the midst Of them having many
free blacks as whites, and more in many places
Would it not be as reasonable for the South to ask the
North set fire to all their property both real and PERSONAL
and TO run away by the light of it, for the North to expect
compliance with their demand for emancipation.
Blu, another cry raised there shall be no more Stare Ter
-itory say the Free Soiers. Why not How did you get
rid of slavery Did you have the South to send your
slaves 10
Have all the free States rid themselves Of most of their
slaves by sending and selling them South II have they
any right refuse let the South have outlet for
theirs two
Who be benefited, either by immediate emancipation,
by the confinement Of slavery within certain limits We
have that the and would be retrevaby
ruined loss Of four thousand million dollars would involve
this whole country in bankruptcy, and shock all the principal
parts Of Europe for years.
Would the slaves be benefited by it Are they not
and moral than the free blacks in the free States And if
those States became free, with numbers much greater
would not the loss them be only equal but greater
Are the slaves be benefited by restriction within
limits Is the condition of the lower classes always
in thckes populated countries Are you then con-
tending for benefit either the whites the blacks Ga
the contrary, d. all your poend ruin to the
whites, and unmixed evil to the blacks
Are you good men, and wish DO good your species
Reflect your measures and their tendencies change
them from evil good There is great field open for
good go and send occupy for good, both the
white and the black Go teach the black man how
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