The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-10


slavery.
The following jadicioas observations in the Journal OF
Commerce Of the 2sh OF May founded facts which
ought 70 teach all portions Of counynen moderation
and ofbessncs in their specusions the slavery ques-
ton. There those alive who have traced the for
tunes II pAgTo families that taken from Virginia
and Maryland 10 the New England States about the close
Of our revolutionary war, and who can prove by I'M
eng figures that those families have decayed and per-
ished almost rapidly the sborignes OF country
The tendency oil the negro made free placed contact
with the white man. is evidently TO state which units
him more and more to multiply his species and contribute
to the civilization Of which he is rather mourniu spec
aior than Intelligent friend In this respect he is not
unlike the Indian who, under opposite principle,
though in obedience TO law which he cannot con-
troll finds himself refining from river to river. and
from mountain to mountain. in despite of all that
civilization can do reconcile him to the laws which
regulate progress Tue negro in state OF servi,ude
and in the climate OF his nature, finds theatre in which
be can be useful and accordingly see him progress
ing with the civilization Of bis MASTER his species multi
plying, and his qualities developed and improved in pro-
portion the products Of his labor enter into
the commerce OF the world. The Indian. on the
other hand. destined by Nature to occupy theatre on
which to have been the purpose OF Providence
display the inability Of by his mere reason to per-
peuate his race has thus far done little than
mock the efforts Of humanity to teach him the arts of
civilization and is obvious that the period is not
far distant when the existence Of the powerful and nu
mefous tribes that inhabited this continent will enter
into the pages Of history almost myth,
The negro, Withdrawn from servitude by false phi
lanthropy. and treated political agent in system for
which he is made incompetent by nature, admonishes
the abolitionist 10 dess from efforts that both de-
strucve Of true liberty and at with the principles
of Christianity The Indian teaches lesson equally in
strucve from point Of view directly the opposite. He
teaches the real phanthropist that his eyetons
vain a those OF the false phanhropst when they
applied without a due regard to the circumstances
which surround him. The liberty OF the Indian is
liberty that cannot save his from extinction,
because it is wild and unregulated The liberty Of
the negro, in contact with the white man, is equally
fatal because he 10 unprepared for the intelligent
erciss Of the virtues which depend government
founded the enlightened exercise Of the duties taught
by Christianity and the sentiments and hopes inspired by
the highest civilization II the fate OF the negro TO be
lave in such system just is the destiny OF the
Indian to be rebel The enlightened searcher after the
causes of these phenomena do no than recog
Mise that they compatible with the DEGREES OF Divine
Goodness who has made duties depend not much
on the facts OF creation, such have been
presented us, to remind us OF our fray
and nn others 10 keep alive the motives for exer,on,
morality, and order We may not be able TO explain why
it was that it said by Divine authority, Cursed be
Canaan a servant Of servants shall he be unto has
brsihren"--nor why it said TO Shem that Cancan
skoi b his serpant and God shall enlarge Japheh and
he IaH dsosA the tents Of Shem and Canaan shall BE-
his servant " but all history proves that the descendants
from these primitive stocks Of the human family, in
all the mutations brought about by the influences Of
war; climate, and Institutions, whether voluntary
forced have wonderfully verified that the leading char
actescs OF their relations each other have remained
what they were in the immediate generations Of Noah
This subject pregnant with important consequences
1t the present moment to the future peace and harmony
OF our Union and that has yet been examined
inH it, relations TO political system well as in It's
coasexion with the general progress Of the world in civil
llzaton and true Christianity. We trust that some great
mind will take bold Of it, and enable those OF
citizens Who have been perplexed with the common idea
that slavery political in that sense which enjons
upon the southern portion Of the Union the duty Of abo
hing il. to that this conscientious feeling ought not
10 be disturbed by philanthropy which is founded rather
on the short-sghted views Of the human economist,
than those which proceed from tne Wisuom aught ny
the Holy Scriptures As question OF dollars and cents.
il may be easy prove that great portion OF the south
ern country might the process OF some hundred years.
be in condition dispense with the labor OF the negro
But it is not merely question Of dollars and cents
that the subject ouxh, and must be considered in reference
10 ourselves and the other great portions OF the world
which are interested in the production of cotton sugar.
rice and tobacco There far higher considerations
- a itfad IN
to disregard than is the moral principles which are
inseparable from ability to maintain our national
independence and power. The negro-a portion OF
the human family. savage, helpless, and inferior
has been transferred to this continent by foreign
power which has been faihless to the humanity
which in all situations is called upon to do good
This duty by the OF Providence has fallen on the
southern portion OF the Union; and if thus far il has
been performed such manner 10 improve the con-
dton of the negro at the time that the capacity OF
his master compete with his brethren in other portions
Of the world in the great work Of republican civilization
and progress has not been enfeebed must infer that
il cannot be abandoned without ena'linG upon the world