Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-02-21

roL and the auctioneer will continue 10 sell aud
women, and little children, sight of the President and
Vice President and Congress- aud all public junction.
aries and foreign ministers, cattle IN the market and
the free will own his slave man, he does his dog
and pig And all the territories will be open the
saveholder and liable become the inheritance of
slavery.
The writer OF this article political aboiitionist and
does belong the Free Soil party, but he could
shut his eyes the monsiroUs evils of human slavery
What they? While charity besses both him that
gives slavery both that
buys and him that is bought IL passes laws to prohibit
all legitimate marriages among the ensaved-to prohibit
their instruction in the very lowest branches of COM
mon school education-to keep them in prooundes
ignorance of the nalienabIe rights Of man, and OF all
that belongs civilization, except of the simplest
mechanical arts and the Of farming tools by which
they become useful 10 their masters,-a OF which
tend RIGHTEOUSNESS and dleness the case, and
degradation and gross vice in the other. Slavery para
yses enterprise, and tends 10 blunt the moral and rel-
gious sentiments of the whole penple Its tendency
only evil, that continually and great
the white as the black race, nasmuch the has
something lose, while the other gains nothing but de-
graduation.
1t is my intention discuss the evils of negro
slavery the abstract this connexion. take its deep
damnaiOn, n all its relations to- aud bearings upon, the
character and prosperity OF the people whu create tot
crate il, for granted OF fifteen States Of this Union,
where it lives by special legislation, not than eight
vz.-Soulh Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Florida, Mss-
sipp Arkansas Texas and Louisiana, could be reckoned
upon doubtful question of recreang il by law,
were it abolished; and OF these, had
it existed in them, could aud establish
ii institution 1t 80 is of frighul
men, that be hated needs but 10 be seem IL is bare
y tolerated. but not approved by the great of the
white population in the States where exists; and is
tolerated only because of the supposed greater evils
tending its discussion and abolition 1t may be granted
that the condition of the present generation OF slaves
would be beIered by being emancpated, and that
they ought be emancPated without all proper
pdration still the abstract question remains unchanged
Intelligent politicians In the free States do not advocate
Immediate, but prospective and gradual emancipation
best for both And they insist upon it that the
slave States shall prevent the abolon-of slavery in
the District OF Columbia if such be the ,c Of majority
of the tegal r0ters thereof; throw black flag over
the unspotted hills and daes of the aud free COM
mon domain.
To ercuse and tolerate an acknowledged evil, as a
choice between aud greater evil, is thing; and
to advocate and support il The abstract another and
derry different thing. The first may be usi6sble; the
last is unpardonabe. The first may tolerate slavery
where it isthe last seeks spread aud propagate
IL where it is not. The first, free man, Of free
State, let alone. But the last, l aaatheniatise
Slavery is an anomaly among our free institutions. We
received il legacy from the kings OF England, France
and Spain, as we did the slave trade which we have
abolished, and stgmatised piracy children will
abolish and slgmase lis surviving rect If slavery be
usable abstract proposition, is the sldre trade
and every member of Congress who advocates
in the federal District, the continuance OF the
slave trade there, It's extension into any territory
Free TO be consistent, should advocate immediate
turn the African slave trade and the destruction of Lii
IBERIA and all the free settlements upon the African coast
designed TO check and overthrow il.
That every of the signers of the Declaration OF
Independence hated and repudated slavery there is no
doubt In that eternal chart of liberty. that will be
held sacred BY free nation upon the earh long
is worthy the blessings OF freedom, find Penned
by THOMAS JEFFERsoS these imperishabe truths, viz
ave hold say these immortal mem" We hold these
truths to be sefevdent:.THAT ALL MEN ARE
CREATED EQUAL; THAT THEY ARE ENDOW-
ED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN IN
ALIENABLE RIGHTS; that among these life,
LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness. That to se-
cure these rights governments Instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the of the gov
erned.'
All the State Constitutions vet formed contain similar
declarations sentiments. That of blaine says" All
men born equally free and independent, and have
certain natural, inherent and naensbe rights" DC.
Massachusetts, All men born free and equal, &c.
New hampshire" All men bora equally free and
independent &c. Virgnia-" That all men by
turs equally free and independent, and have certain in
heren rights, OF which, when they enter into state of
society, they cannot by any compact, deprive dvest
their posterty viz. The enjoyment OF lite and liberty
&c.
Iii true that some of the slave States their constu
tions have incidentally limited the application of these
self cUident truths the people, instead OF extending them
TO all men, thereby meaning The free 0he inhabitants
but notwithstanding the general sentiment oi The Deca-
ration of Independence through all in spite If their
cautious language
The Declaration of Independence, the nobie>t and
boldest assertion of the inalenabe rights of
made is the work of outraged liberty and the federal
league, and then the present national Union, its
offspring.
Slavery is abominabe excrescence the body of
our political nsuiions and has been considered aud
10 MARTIN VAN buren, aud Thomas Ii. Benton. 1t is
felt be by all intelligent and honest American cit
zens 1t has been bone of contentIon-a clscOrdant
element from the first, cursed and Oathed by The
friends of the Union both North and Souh And has
been perfectly understood by them, that later,
by powerful violent it would meet It's death,
and find grave. Its crisis be apprOach-
ing, if may credit the sincerity OF Southern men, who
threaten the dissolution of the Union in the contingent
ces OF prohibiting the slave trade and abosIDg sas cry
in the District Of Columbia, and the extension OF the
principles of the ordinance of 1857 free
territories. That these contingent will become
sober facts within few brief years. discerning poli
clan doubt And if dissolution Of the Union should
follow, threatened, nothing in the future be
certain than the sudden and violent death, and eternal
oblivion OF this black monster. Nothing but the Union
has preserved and prolonged its existence this present
time. This fact well understood by the Garrison school
OF abolonsts and hence their efforts dissolve it, But
the threats Of dissolution from another equally excited
quarter quite and proceed only
from the we'll known truism that whom the gods would
destroy, the first make mad.' That attempted disso
luton of the Union, (succsssul not would be the
grave of slavery in every State where should
dare TO raise voice, admits Of reasonable
doubt But much hate slavery, do not desire to
death by violence 1t would be far better seems
of national liberty every where that should bide
its time aud die natural death, than by foolhardy at
tempt overthrow the strongest and best-tbe only de-
mocraiic government in the world.
Slavery may lay violent hands upon itself and commit
suicide; but the Union had its birth a struggle for
nal jusee-it has attained youthful mauhood in fight
ing baes-and its flag floats every sea, and
is filled by the winds of the four quarters Of the earth
and its and stripes gladden. the hearts Of the ends
Of freedom in every cline, upon and shore. Yes:
and will endure, and comfor and bless the millions,
when the places that the maleontsnis shall
| know them forever-when they shall be
though they had not been.
Did these dsunionisls besiow cool and careful
thought upon what they SO fiiPpany threaten! Have
they weighed themselves in the balance against the
Union? DO they find themselves heavy enough 10 make
il kick the beam? II they have not done these things,