The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-10-16

principle. In considering the rights OF man,
the great question IS not, Has a master u
right to hold slave? but, Has one human
being a right to hold another? The rights
of man may be invaded, and the idol Lib
erty cast down, by those who are loudest in
their philanthropic denunciations respecting
slavery. is there as much cruelty in hold-l
ing slaves, even under the most unfavorable
circumstances, as in selling into bondage
whole nation2 Let the brave chiefs of the
Rohillas answer from the battlefield Let
cries reply from the burning cities of Rohil-
eund. Let the princesses Of Dude speak
from their prisons
Close observation, prompted by kindly
heart, had brought Mr. Calhoun to the opin-
ion that the Africans in this country were
happier in existing circumstances than they
would be in any other; that they we're i'm
proving in their condition, and that any at
tempt to change it, at least at present, would
not only be an evil to the country, but
fraught with suffering to them. A state of
freedom, so called, would be to them a state
of care and disaster. To abolish slavery now
would be to abolish the slave The race
would share the doom of the Indians AL
though here nominally slaves, as a general
thing they enjoy moro freedom than any
where else for is not that freedom where
one is happiest and best, and where there is
a correspondence between the situation and
the desire, the condition and capacities? p
May we not say with the angel Abdiel:
"Unjustly thou depravest it with the name
Of servitude, to serve whom God ordained,
i Or Nature. God and Nature bid the same,
;, When he who rules is worthiest, and excels
Them whom lac governs. This Is servitude,
TO servethe unwise.n
Mr.. Calhoun found the local attachment of
the slaves so strong, their relations to their
owners SO satisfying to their natures, and the
Southern climate so congenial to them, that
he did not believe any change of place or
State would benefit them.
These, as nearly as | can recollect, were
his opinions on the subject of slavery, and
were expressed to me in several converse
tions Sentiments similar to these are en-
7 tertained by many high-minded and benevo
l lent Shareholders. That this institution, like
every other, is liable to abuse, is admitted
!. but every planter must answer, not for the
: institution-for which he is no more account
S able than for the fall of Adam-but for hi:
. individual discharge of duty. If, through
; his selfshness, or Incidence, or false indul
gence, or severity, his servants suffer, then t
y his master in Heaven he must give account
u But those who obey the divine mandate, Civ,
Z unto your servants that which is just and e
Il quail" need not fear. In the endeavor t.
! perform their duty in the responsible spher
II in which they were placed by no act of thei
? own, they can repose even in the midst of tn
L wild storm which threatens devastation to on
y fertile land; they can look away from tn
oe judgment of the world, nor will they, eve
- if all the powers of earth bid them, adopt
III policy which will ruin themselves, their chi
dren, and the dependent race in their mids
= they will not cast people they arc bound
~ protect on the tender mercies of the crue
II In their conservative measures they are, an
| must be, supported at the north, by men
r. liberal and philosophical minds, of extendc
III views and benevolent hearts. But have sal
IS far more on this subject than intended, an
n will add only that those who do not, from pc
e- sonal observation, know this institution in i
e best estate, cannot easily understand the sof
g ened features it often wears, nor the high Vi
e. tues exhibited by the master, and the con-
Lecc ding, dependent attachment of the servan
q Often is the Southern planter as patti
es arch in olden times Those who are stri
ne ing to sever his household know not VIII
:, they do.
lld Well may We who live in these trouble
DIV times exclaim with Madame Roland, the ma
III tyrof the false principles of her murderer
90 Liberte Libcrte. quede crimes on COZ
met en- ton nomw This she said, turning
E. the statue of Liberty beside the scaffold.-
Tor Liberty unrestrained degenerates into licens
l There may be political freedom without S
his cial liberty. Says Lamartine, speaking
he the inhabitants of Malta, oils sont esclav
OF de la lei immuable de la force que Dieu lie
the fat; nous sommes esclavos des lois variabl
.ne ct capricieuses que nous faisons y
lld a few years residence on this soil mig
re- teach even Wilberforce to turn in
ere philanthropy to other and wider fields of +;
co ton
IN OF Mr. Calhoun's character as mast
much might be said; forall who knew him
the NIT that it was exemplary. Butwe need I
red multiply examples to prove his unaffect
test goodness, and viii repeat only circu
dit stance or two, which, by way of illustrate
lrts some subjects discussed, he incidentally M
) OF toned to me. One related to free neg
use formerly slave in Carolina, but then liyi
use in one of our northern cities, who came
and him in Washington begging him to interct
gcd for his return to Carolina. He represen
he hiseondition as deplorable; said that he CO.
nth not support himself and family by his ira
his Che was shoemaker and that not being
bear bic to obtain sufficient food or fuel in t
ad-icold climate, they were almost frozen
ling tsVYhen j told him" said Mr.. Calhoun, It
Iwould do all I could for him, he seized b
nres my hands in his, and expressed feryent g
not fitude Atanother time, speakingof a +;
cat lily whom his son designed to take to Z
.ele- bana, he told me that the motherof the E
y ally came to him and said she would prefe
mpt stay with her master and mistress on.
s IN plantation, even if all her children went y
ent, master a. Mr. Calhoun added, I co
t in not thin1of her remaining without eithe
wis her children; and as she chose to stag,
s at retained her youngest son, boy Of I've
suf- years.
ding Mr. Calhoun. required very little Of
ratio one. doing more for others than he askel
hers them. He seemed 70 act upon the rrinc
pect- tba she strong should bear the burden
ltur- the weak. Insickness he feared to- give tx
tions e; and unless his friends insisted would
3 Be little done for him Energetib as he s.
and said near relative, he would lie pate
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