The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-02
From ths Detroit Free Press, Juns 10.
RIaxarx PhIlanthsopy.


Ii cannot have escaped the notice OF rejecting OF
both political parties--we are no artists, and have no
c0ors il we were, by which TO distinguishing various
shades of opinon and organization between the two
hat there is an alarming tendency in the public mind TO
entertain extreme opinions II ought 10 be obvious to
all, from The very nature OF things, that this tendency
can result IN no good to mankind. Ii has been
founded with The popular idea OF pogressan idea OF in
estimahe value, but which, like every other unfolding
principle oil The human mind, is liable 10 subyerson TO
the worst ends oil mischief and faction. There be
no progress that word is understood without lis
corresponding good-any more than there be ee-
WALTON oil The race without an enlargement OF The intel
lect and an expansion OF the benevolent instincts oil
nature Truth ls It's terminating principle; and truth
cannot be unfoded without extending mans usefulness,
and removing the obstacles which lie in the way OF
faithful discharge of all his duties Whatever, then,
may be counted on as promoting higher destiny Tor
mankind as securing greater prosperity and happiness TO
The whole race, may be set down as involving the true
principle OF progress. This principle has reference
much, however, 10 means as ends for though the end
might be desirable an absence OF 1deious means Tor its
accomplishment ought TO he regarded evidence that
The time has not come TO effect IT,
Let Us be understood. In this country we have what
is termed the institution OF slavery We are no apollo
gsls of the relation of master and slave and
free to say we do not feel authorized 10 condemn it,
is evil, social and POLITICAL for which not re-
sponsbe either in its origin or maintenance We have
power IL and II extend TO under our po
lical SYSTEM rightly understood, OF its influences
the way the other We do not see lis evil to
the hand, the right Of its extirpaton the
other II il extended 10 us SO that by our volion and
the exercise OF rights citizens could be made
responsible for it, il would then behoove every TO act
with reference either TO lis perpeuaon its extinction
1T is at BEST and at worst, difficulty hand and al
though might, If we had the power endeavor to find
rational means tor its extrpalion, it is in manner
tain that this end could be effected without infcling
greater evil than exists in the institution of slavery
itself Now although might be taken Tor granted that
the removal OF what called The "cuTse OF slavery would
be doing that great good to mankind of which we have
spoken and therefore bringing that work within the range
OF rational progress, yet 1t II can be effected only by the
creation OF greater evil OF an opposite character anarchy
and OF races then we should say that Providence had
withheld the MEANS for some wise purpose, oil its present
removal Slavery is accident to the race; il has
age and form that indicate lis thorough maturity il is
therefore not 10 be eradcaled by the remedies OF
tempoZlng NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. political exirs, COM
pounded OF equal parts of self love- ambition, ignorance
delermlnae and fixed as the nations themselves 1t has
entered INTO The constitution OF this government, and
less so into social and economical system How idle
Is IL them 10 talk OF It's removal by the breath OF
political plrens, And how well we ought TO be
WINGED OF this by what has occurred in the last fifty years
Nothing has been done outside The operation OF general
laws Tor IT'S removal The foreign slave trade has been
nleriiced; but slavery itself remains where il was
he efforts OF Jealous and mscaed benevolence have
| resulted IN nothing else than imposing more srn-
senl burdens upon The slav.-he disease has only
been Increased by the empirIcsm OF seli-hness and
ambition. 1t has been assaied by distant arms-lengh
philanthropy, but in instance has thus produced any
othe than aggravatng sysens, injurious alike 10 the
slave and 10 lr credit OF The nation for humanity We
10 not say will be perpetual II cannot be- Slavery
kept IN existence by interest," and interest will sus
MI natural remedies shall effect its exlirpaon-
TIL superior populatlon-superior productive industry
shall crowd il out There is now going in this coun-
slave-and especially is this the in Delaware, Mary
land, The upper portions OF Virginia, the district in
North Carolina and Kentucky. Free labor has gained
The ascendency these places, and the result has been
the formation Of public sentiment less attached 10 the
policy OF holding slaves. Slavery does exist and
never did exist where there we've fifty persons TO the
square nile. Ii cannot be sustained In population
nearly crowding production; and always before popu
laton crowds on production 1t crowds out slavery But
the abouousts OF England and The United States ask.
what abolished saveryIn the British West Indies Was
tile work Of Tree labor driving il out Wber-
force and others! We answer was a foreign jusic
ton which acted in violation OF rghthe jurisdiction OF
might, OF poWer-and the sequel shows this TO be true
Ii slavery was abolished IN England in obedience TO the
true demands OF humanity ought 10 follow that either
The black the white has been benefited Now, the
truth The former has been deg raded and the latter OPP
pressed Besides this, flood of copyisls in this
country has been raised up, anxious 10 mmoalize them
selves, like their BRUSH prototypes, without regard 10 the
misery which their policy has entaed upon mankind
The Parliament did not convince British subjects in
the West Indies OF The right or necessity OF abosng
slavery; were there ten members in the Parliament
that knew the Effect abolition there. 1t argued
The British public that the destruction of slavery would
bring into lis place the more potent power OF free labor
and as a consequence oil thus vastly multiplied pro-
ducon Of sugar Tor the consumption Of England This
enlarged production would reduce its price and England
paying huRdred millions oil dollars Tor the freedom
OF her colonial negroes, 10 receive il back in the
duced price OF sugar within the first hive years after the
passage OF The emancipation act. How sgnally this
OetH WOTl1 netd not De told.
garden OF production has been turned into desert
Wealth, happiness, and contentmen even among the
black population have been exchanged for Incidence,
misery, and crime. The fine sugar estates OF Jamaica
exist now only in story, and Englan instead OF
keeping up her former active business, has turned
them into pensioners upon her bounty. The black
population thus turned loose, warning against
their dellverers, and attempting TO extrpaie them.
Eng and has been driven 10 the East Indies and 10 Cuba
or the very supplies which, before the act OF emancpa
uon, flowed into her lap from her people. Here is
lar result oil forcing upon the world principle oil
philanthropy in opposition 10 the natural laws OF gov
eminent and busIness-oi adopting idea oil progress
which, in single bound, has enlaed positive evil
and suffering upon The races interested than the in
stluOn OF slavery has created the whole west
continent. WllberfoIce and his associates were
doubtless honest but they have left behind the imposs
bic work OF ustyng the practical effects OF their
upon the present generation.
In The grain growing portions OF country slavery
has ceased already TO be OF value and the philan.
hropst who seeks practical good 10 his kind in what
ne does aud equally in what done by the operation OF
Providence doeth all things well !" for while IL points
10 termination OF the institution II raises up benevo.
lent spirit, which is equally necessary 10 the end, by
which The negro returned partially civilized to his
country THIS is in The fact that The gem OF cvlli
ZaOn itself IN Africa has been planted there through the
agency OF colonization from the United States.
There is 10 evidence OF any such good resulting from
the acts OF abolionIsls here or elsewhere; the con-
ary all this work has been accomplished in spite OF their
efforts The difference here lies IN the means employed
10 effect the same end. You might well claim the
light 10 perform surgical operation with knife,
Justify The ground that the cutting
r., Justify the application OF improper remedies To re-
move II icnlties connected with our social and political
) stem. The application Of skill and experience Is re-
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