The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-08-28

Wherever TIE Climate 1Mu mole 81 EuLl~l
Ealion viii permil rs pT 0habie employ
ment- B0tls speak 10 ne personally As
an individual. % appeal 70 my Judgment
as man about taking measures any
way. under any circumstances hooking
10 dissolution az this Union. because NE
are not AZ liberty 10 earn slaves 10 Cali
lorna. New Mexico. of 20 Utah, why.
there seems 20 b. 10 proportion under
heaven between The Comparatively small, ,
almost undiscensble premises. and abe
vast and ponentous conclusions. Iwish
Northern gentlemen would ihinkoiher-.
wise than they do al ihismaiierof slavery
and the diffusion ofshe slare population
They take upthis IDEA: slavery is aneviI (;
q isa graiesii; ia Is a physical evil; Il IS a
moral evil. Therefore, as SON rs possible.
we must bring about The abolition Of H.
must nj once adopt measures for that
end. OF al any rate promptly prevcni The
extension os us area. This IS the wholr
argument. And how does Il slandi Why,
when gentlemen express these views,
and urge the conduc, founded upon then.
one might suppose them speaking Of a
world were evils had been hereafter un-
known, where every thing had been in
harmonious order in The moral and ply
steal state and suddenly this one single
evil had fallen among Us to disturb our
peaceful conditions; and we need but 10
eradicate j, and restore ourselves at once
TO universal happiness aud virtue. But Il
is moi so. We liYe, and ever have lived
but for brief space, IN the midst of
evils necessary, which cannot and ought
not 10 be at once removed. Physical
pain Is an evil. But yet do we not know
that. without Iouking Al the higher moral
purposes which il IS made 10 serve, the
moment we consider man rs mortal
being. subject TO various diseases which
produce death, if not met by proper re-
me'lies. but which may relieve, by their
timely application AMI regard. pun. as in
truth il is-the sensatinn by which ma
iure warns us ofihe existence OF disease,
and points out its localhy--thc whole
cha raclrr Of the subject is chauged, and
what is 10 itself unden ably an evil, be-
Comes. under the circumstances, an
evil. and necessary to protect us from a
greater, aud therefore relatively good
The necessity Of labor--thal man should
be obliged TO work to-day thalhe may cat
to-norrow--is, in itself, an evil. We
know that il is an evil, because The nee Is
sily Of il was hrs. pronounced upon man
as punishment for lransgression. .In
the sweat Of Thy face shalt thou eat
Bread" A curse--a punishmcnt--yel
not merely penal, but remedial also.--
For does not every one see that though
in itself an evil, yet IN the actual moral
condition Of man, il is an evil necessary
to prevent far greater, and therefore a
distinguishes we must all. perceive
that if man, with his present passions
aud corrupted nature, were turned lsose
ina world producing spontaneously every
thing to maintain his strength aud crafty
his appetites, he would be monster Of
revolving crimes aud misery (; and
therefore this necessity Of labor, in itself
an evil, becomes incidentally a good. Is
il not so with every thing, or nearly
every thing! II was very well said by
the Senator from Louisiana. Mr.. Soule,
a few days ago, that government was an
evil. II is true, all government is an
evil. That one man or twenty men
should be authorized 10 exercise authori.
Il " over another man as good as them
], selves was an evil. We know it is in it.
self an evil. The first institution Of any
sanction of government upon this earth
was a curse Pronounced upon Eve !:
SHY desire shall be unto thine husband;
he shall rule over thee" Before that
there was no such authority upon earth
They lived perfectly equal. All govern
ment is an evil. The best of government
in itself is an evil, bee luse It involves the
control of one man over another. Blu
j does not everybody know that, such as
: man is, there must be government u
i prevent the most irightiul crimes and
consequences, the most desructivc Il
everything that is excellent, viriuous
aud desirable upon earth! And this
l.
government, in itself an evil, because an
evil necessary u prevent worse. becomes
good. We all look upon arbitrary and
i absolutely government as specially an
evil, and yet every man knows even thai
that may BE- a blessing. liza people are in
such state aud circumstances rs 10 be TO.
tally unfit to govern themselves, il is fll
better that they should be governed BY
one man than be left without any govern,
ment at all. That is undoubted.
Again, to refer To another instance !:
Pelygamy is an esi, undoubtedly anevil,
because contrary to the original Institu-
ton Of marriage by Cid himself. Il is
an evil existing amongst large portmn
Of mankind, and has existed from the
earliest times.
Now, what is the course Of our friends
reasoning apon their principles upon this
evil Of slavery Why. II must he erat:i
Gated; il must he no further diffused il