The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01
DAILY.

same city, as reported by the public press. The
city is set on fire almost every night by the fire.
men themselves, at remote points from the resi-
dence Of other fire companies, against members
of which they have u grudge. So that, when
those living at distance come to put out fire,
they can get the advantage, and whip them in
the absence of friends. And thus do the laYless
hold sway in this city of Brotherly Love-" at
the risk of life and property and all that may be
sacrificed to the unbridled passions
Here, too, the labor is hired, and those pious
pretending philanthropists, instead of feeding,
clothing, and rearing the children of those poor
sewing women, rs they should be, and prevent
ing, or suppressing riot and disorder among
their youth, are taking the profits made out Of
the daily task of the mothers, and paying it out
to support hypocritcs, to agitate the people by
lectures, and annoy Congress with petitions for
abolition; and, strange to say, politicians north
and SOUTH rather than lose their votes and sup
port, either encourage them, or are silent. n
So much for the charity and humanity Of ia
naticism as practiced in our principal free soil
cities. Let us now inquire into its christianity,
according to the best tests given us by its Divine
author. tf.
When the African was brought to this coun-
try he knew nothing of God or Saviour, as
worshipped by christians He was then can
nibal and heather. His descendants are now
humanized christians, few if any infdels being
among them. will venture my life that can
find greater number of scoffers and infidels
and unbelievers in the Divinity of the Saviour
within sight of the highest church-steeple in
Boston. than can be counted among the three
millions Of slaves in the Southern States, and
4 L. A.
people think Christ worth preaching about, or
praying to, then all of these pretended abolition
lists, on Christs account, are nothing but hypo-
critics and blasphemers.
What would be thought of the tenderness of
that mother who seeing her child fall and bruise
itself, instead of picking it up and soothing its
sufferings, would leave her own in its gore, and
run gadding some half-mile to see if a neghbOr
woman's child was not doing worse than hers
Who would like to be husband to such a wo-
man? Out of your own mouths are We con-
demned. You neither feed as WELL clothe as
well, nor treat as kindly your hired laborer, as
we do the one we own, nor have you rs yet
proved yourselves better christians than we
But there is a class of members who aspire to
the distinction of statesmen, who take another
view of this question. They allege that the
war against Mexico was brought about by slave
holding States = that the war was immoral, and
a robbery, or at least plundering of so much
Mexican territory without cause, and il they let
slavery go upon it, we will be encouraged to in
volve them in other wars for the acquisition OF
more slave territory; and therefore, to bind us
Z to keep the peace" in the future, they will moi
allow any more new territory to be made slave
territory saga ssn .
l have examined this view of the case, since
it has been so extensively used, and neither
nor my constituents can comprehend its morality
or justice. Let us put it in plain English, 50
that we may understand it, by supposing that
one Of two partners in business were to rob OF
cheat stranger out of his money or goods, ane
that the honest partner, to prove his own abhor
renee of fraud and robbery, were to size upon the
| whole and apply it to his own use, to keep the
other partner from robbing and cheating again
, that is the substance of the proposition. II
means neither more nor less ! am of opinion
that all of my constituents will not understand
this kind of morality. They have an idea that
property not honestly got, cannot be honestly
held. They cannot, therefore, understand the
Of the Mexican territory, under pretence Of your
being the honest members of the Confederacy
and let me now declare to you, that so far from
having morality or honesty enough in such argu
ments to keep this Union together, there is no
honor enough in the p OPPOSITION "to hold bant
of thieves together"
| Having examined somewhat into your claim.
for superior morality in relation to negroes, We
will inquire into your pretensions and practices
respecting the Indian tribes who inhabited this
continent. We had four powerful tribes resid-
ing among us of the South Cherokees, Creeks
Choctaws, and Chickasaws; each of which have
doubled their population and more than trebled
| their wealth within the last twenty years. They
| are becoming christians; have built churches
| established printing presses, and regular forms
of government, and now exhibit to the traveller
| every evidence of comfort and abundance One
can be lodged, fed, and waited upon as he jour
neys among them. ........
But while this state of improvement was max
! ing among these Southern Indians, the Northern
newspapers were filled, and the pulpits anC
Legislative halls were made to resound will
! lamentations and wailings for the crueties "whicl
the slaveholdng South were inficting upor
their poor prosecuted red brethren" A stran
| ger to Northern character would have supposed
You in fear of instant perdition and everlasting
torrents, for even permitting such cruelties t.
exist in the land.
You, however, had Indians among you during
all this time but where are they now? Blasted
dried up, eaten out, or driven off; scarcely
remnant has been left of each of those one
powerful tribes, SO completely have they beer
consumed by these Indian-negro- -philan
thropists. These are about the recorded evi
dences of the condition of the Indians residin!
in the different sections of the Union, as fur
nished by the Indian Bureau; and if you hat
the same chance at the negro, he would fare M
better with you than the Indian, your superio
morality to the contrary Notwithstanding.
| You sometimes console yourselves, however
with the idea, that you have used the Indians
up in g a peaceable way" That is, you have
traded him out of his country and life; and som,
Of you have gone so far to erect statues " t.
the memory of the man who bought the grea
and wealthy State of Pennsylvania with few
strands of beads and little red ribbon. Upor
this subject, however, | wish to submit, for thu
consideration of my friend who represents par
Of the l.cty of brotherly love-" Mr.. RoBBISs
question: Whose chance he would prefe
to take in the next world, old Daniel Boon's
| who obtained Kentucky in fair, manly fight
| with rife and tomahawk or that of the "man O.