The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-30


causing them should be removed or even ia prospect
81 their removal by new train OF thought started IN .he
North by northern political chieiain renouncihs uhe
OF education and coming out boldly ana pain
y for the truth South Carolina would mol now stand
alone with secessonism on her banner, you nofth-
B statesman, whose politics have heretofore been IN OPP
position the southern majority had not taken the no
Die stand you did take the laws and the constitution
and boldly faced northern fanaticism. ,
Believe your course in facing political DEATH IN de
Tying fanacism in the North, and touching II win the
spear of hue has restrained the hands ready TO uniuT
The secession banner IN almost every Slate SCUM, ana
which, butfo YOU would have been unfured inns One
step further and you restrain South Carolina herself not
by drawing the sword, but by dhusng thought BY du-
sing thought you defend the laws and the constitution
by bringing northern patriotism into the field to repel the
aggressions OF northern fanalicism.
By difusing thought you could bring all America TO
your standard in defending the foundations which re-
publicanism, the laws, and the constitution and The
wife analysis Of the slavery material in that founda-
ton so to ascertain its different composition and
ture would be 10 take the desired step that would do
more 10 strike down the secession banner in South Car
DINA than could General Scott the head of the largest
army that ever mustered into the service OF the Uni
ted States.
northern leader discarding Jacobnical sophisms and
examining into the question fathers did, for the
best political position for the black population, by the light
of experience and the nductvc method OF arriving at
truth she would pause long and deliberately before making
the fearful experiment of SECESSION because there would
be grounds of hope that that method of investigation would
ultimately TevOluuOniZc nOrtneIn OpInlons ny
demonstrating that the negro as not tohite man pointed
black, they have heretofore supposed but different
being OF different nature, and affected in directly oppo
sr S,'s and ssrey The I pubic po
at the North that the negro can be mashed hite by
personal freedom, political and social equality, and
that it is sin and shame to Christianity republicanism
and humanity, let him remain so long unwashed. has
led 10 system OF fanalical aggression al the North which
South Carolina believes will bring swift and sure des'ruc-
ton upon her she remains IN the Union and hence shs
tn laan aQ frOnn m
of secessonsm She is deaf 10 the recital OF the dangers
she may out Of the Union, believing that sure
destruction awaits her in It But IT public snd
commanding intellect. into another channel OF thought
calculated to lead the truth, she would have hope
hope that would make her pauseas she only leaves the
Union because she no hope OF safety IN It,
The North could not object to a consideration OF the
question on the hgheraw basis, and to inquire
into the reasons why our fathers, anterior to the
revolution during the period and at the formation of
present constitution, kept the negro under the same
institutions he is still under in the South These rea,
will be found not so much in his inferlory OF mind
az in marked difference in his disposition and nature
from either the white man the Indian. Observing that
by the operation OF some higher law, he was essen,
TALLY different from any other human being they retained
him under institutions compatible to him, but lncompat
ible 10 either the white man or the Indian. Without
taking sides in the controversy either for the North
the South but only for the truth you might render the
country great service by directing public attention TO
the only safe and mode of finding the truth The
truth found would, no doubt, put South Carolina and
Massachusetts where they were in the days OF the rev.
oution-shoulder to shoulder in the cause OF American
liberty, power, and progress. Misunderstanding be-
the North and the South has arisen; and those
who foremost in the revolution Tor union and con-
cert to make America strong are now foremost IN those
measures of disunon and strife that, II persevered in
much longer, will make her weak and contemplate in
the eyes OF the world The one party claims as rights
what the other parts does not regard rghts-the right
of property in man-the right TO hold man IN bondage.
The claims the right by virtue OF Natures laws the
lessons OF experience and the laws oil necessity; the
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sumes that all alike, and entitled to the
privileges and immunes. Both parties except that por
lion under anti republican and foreign influence desire
the truth Both wan justice, and nothing Both
seeking the welfare OF the negro and wish to reach it
whou, destroying their own-ths one contending that
his welfare lies in slavery and the other IN freedom
As the premises be settled by the parties them
selves would be better to refer them to the umpirage Of
comparative anatomy, physiology. chemistry and his
tory Comparative anatomy II Intercepted whether the
organization of the white and the black man be the
not could put the question beyond controversy, and
leave The North and The South nothing 10 dispute about.
Physiology could say whether the laws governing the
white and black mans organism be the different
Chemistry could declare whether the composition of the
bones the flesh, skim and the secreons, be composed
Of the same elementary substances, IN the same proper
tons and combinations in the two races or in different
proportions and combinations, History, likewise, could
throw much light on the subject OF what has proved
best for the negro. Mr.. Seward and the higher
object 10 your recommending the higher-law mode
OF investigation, and settling forever this vexed ques-
ton. venture to predict that II would show HIM The
h gher law, which keeps the negro IN servitude,
written in his organization The abolition divnes, who
preach the higher law, could discover the same thing
that anatomy will reveal written in Hebrew in the ninth
chapter OF Genesis and in other places in the Bible The
common higher law aboitionsts. who have not the time
devote TO the dissecng room or to the Hebrew could
the higher law any night OF their lives, by looking
at negro asleep, breathing the mephi'ic air called car
bonic acid gas, manufactured in his own lungs, being
cangh, and confined by the covering the higher law
pels him TO put around his face The effect of con-
fning. by covering his face, his breath, 10
breathe and again the whole night and every
night OF his life, produces certain effects upon the blood
and the brain requiring the chemist and Psychologist TO
explain. But that explanation would only be repeating
stry proves and the Bible eveals-tha by higher law
than the Union, the constitution, any other human
aetments. the negro is slave.
The negro being a slave by Nature, no legislation is
necessary TO regulate slavery or 10 say where shall
list, where il shall not exist. The institution will
reg uate itself under the higher law OF Nature, If that
law be not obsucled by unwise Legislation Under the
ment, II abolished in the northern States /, proved
by experience TO be evil in those States because from
the nature OF the products and the climate it found
10 be much less expensive 10 purchase free white labor
than to be burdened with the and care OF supporting
such inefficient waseful, and laborers as
negroes were found TO be.
Hence, after the black population re somewha, di.
mnsbed by being sent South, the balance, very
merous were emapcipated. The emancipation acts of the
northern masters glad TO lie, their slaves 10 free
before The time fixed by law, finding them TO be tax and
a vexation.
Delaware and Maryland are now in Ira asi,ion stale
10 becoming free Staes-selling their
slaves TO southern planters until their numbers be 80 far
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