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

sd.n,on Of the persons consigned TO that condition
Nor are women and children IN slavery among us,
crazy theorists have asserted h, oI, ony ~ is
groes are To break up this fitness OF things would
Be- 10 break up the government The restraints OF the
domestic or ssde having been removed moved
France mobs OF and boys overawed the National
Assembly Versailles in the days OF the French evou
" hs mdss left
turned loose the negroes OF the republic OF Colombia
Where is the republic OF Colombo II is not on the
Of The world was there and you Lsp NaSs
be called on 10 She will say that ~ was wneh
political fanaticsm violated her BY disregardng the ds-
tncons which she had made, that the French republic
fell and Colombia was botted from her place among
the nations
II would be bad enough to break up confederacy
for the benefit Of few NEGROES or even OF AZ =.
to do so to impose them thing that has always
been ratsbane to their minds and morals.
great mass Of the people North and South Of both po
litical parties. view with pride and admiration your
patriotic efforts in the of Union, and that you are
its boundaries as one OF the chief defenders OF the Unlon
the law and the constitution Your arguments are amply
sufficient preserve the Union against the action Of those
who satisfied with it as it is, and are only anxious
that the obligations imposed by be respected by the peo
pie of all the States But they have no tendency to re-
strain that portion OF the people at the Norm VINO DE-
est in remanding ugtves from service back into bond
age those Of the South who believe 1t does TOO NUE.
or worse than nothing and about to be perverted INTO
an engine TO crush them. - .
Both these parties are growing parties and will il not
checked, soon outnumber the constitutional or Union
party. The belief is ndustriously Propagated at the NORM
by George Thompson Co that the constitution tolerates
injustice authorizing the enactment OF laws to restore
ugitves to the bondage from which they He'd ana hat
all such enactments are yiolences oneed 70 .ne con
sciences OF moral and religious people, being contrary
the higher tdW OF God Great numbers are inclined 70
favor such opinions who not with Thompson and his
abotionsts but are willing to carry out the laws IN gooa
faith until they have an opportunity to alter or change
them Even your eloquence cannot long make the hon-
people love Union requiring them to do violence 10
if by so doing they believe they are violating higher
law OF God Nor could you restrain such-even among
your neghbors-from agtating the repeal OF the ~
tain of time, and make them behodiwth their eyes the
grass growing in the streets OF Boston, their trade
and manufactures destroyed, the South locked against
their former best friends and customers, and their
best blood flowing in the unnatural STRIFE You know
that the OF the Pilgrims are made OF that stun 10
lose all these to their conscience Conscience the
same whether pinned to false Jacobinca French by
pohess asserting the negroes right TO liberty and equal
y, or to the eternal word OF truth, derived IRON Ma
ue and revealed in the Bible denying that ght Fana-
cism religion, and patriotism, alike in some re-
spects being nsenslbe to the dolla argument and alike
that either has espoused Although your eoquence has
much power the Souhyea more than that OF any other
man-it cannot long keep up the love OF Union among
people. if that political compact be perverted from its
original intention OF securing peace and equality INTO an
instrument OF aggression in the hands OF an unbridled
majority, 10 rob of equality and TO kick us into
TO dwell submssioniss until the IRON heel OF
power ,reads into the dust Here not five, Mr.
Clay would say, two bleeding wounds requiring to
be stanched to save the Union, if not from Immediate
from ultimate dissolution. And who are to stanch
them The sovereign people They have long been
trying, but they work awkwardy, not having the re-
qusite knowledge Of the anatomy of the body poilc,
aI .,,An apAi TIM "a nj
GENTLY to know that, from the laws OF necessity, some
parts OF the complex machinery must be made 10 honor,
aad others to dshono some TO gather and others 10 con-
the products gathered; that, like the human sys
tenn il is composed OF elementary organs, as different
their nature and structure as the brain from the stomach
the muscles from the bones and that the stimulus that
moves one will not another, being endowed with differ
ent kinds of sensibty. By going deeply into the
ganzaton OF political instu ons, IT will be found
that domestic slavery is not blot excrescence upon
them but component part OF their structure, and
be excsed cast off without destroying the organ
ism uniting all the parts of this conederacy into grand
wonderful and progressive whole, such as the world
never before The is that the African is not
constituted in mind body in the skin under the skin
like the white man, but rs being peculiar 10 hmsel 4,
and unlike any other kind OF So different was he
from the rest OF the population that when our fathers
brought him into the Union they retained him in the same
position he occupied anterior TO his admission into it. Nor
did the revolution, the State constitutions or that OF the
federal Union, make any change IN the government OF
the and children--no political power being ac-
corded to them nor did they want i nor would they
have accepted OF il had been offered 10 them, because
its exercise would have been unsuitable to the sex Of the
and the tender age OF the other As they in
colonial tines they now, and are the negroes
each OF these parties being left to move IN those paths
wherein il has always found its greatest happiness.
1t is suppose that the cotton and sugar in
est grown up the adoption OF present consu
on has perpeiuated domestic slavery the South which
otherwise this. would have been voluntarily rein
pushed The extension OF the cotton and sugar culture
far from being amsorune TO the slaves has tended
than anything else amelioraie their condition because
the product their labor thereby sufficiently valuable
to enable their masters 10 supply them with all the
mainly, by the motives of interest The most efficient and
OF the most profitable laborers those who
the most active healthy, happy and conened To be
tive healthy happy and conienled there higher law
which says their griefs shall be inquired into their
trosbles removed and they shall be well fed lodged and
clothed Interested motives If nothing else, would force
the MASTER whose slaves are profitable to him, protect
them from what called the abuses OF slavery and 10
besow them every comfort and attention that the
tender humanity would give. Everything which
bances the value OF the slave improves his condition.
il brings the selfinerest of the the strong
ly 10 bear IN protecting him against abuses, and in adding
TO his comforts. On the other hand everything ha, d.
mnishes his value that of his laborwhether be the
introduction of Chinese aborers into India, the exclu
of slave labor from any State Territory where II
would be prohabe-operaes inunously against the in
teress OF the slave who may with truth say, Save me
from my friends and the laws of God will make il my
at the time Of the formation OF present Union not
as good condition for the blacks OF the South il is
now because the profits OF that kind OF labor not
sucien, afford the labores the comforts of life they
enjoy.
Their value was also uncomfortable. that enter-