Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-10-08
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three millions of people in this land, which is
sacred from such violation. Is ii crime TO let
murder and all other offences go UNPUBLISHED p
There Is no form of crime which a white man
may not commit against slave with entire ims
punty, If he will take the precaution to let none
but slaves witness it Would it be crime 10
practice some demoniac art, by which the growth
OF body and limbs should be arrested in child
hood, and the victims should be with only inlaI
ulepowers to contend with cold, nakedness, hun
ger, and all the hosts of painl Then it is an
Infinitely greater crime TO infct weakness and
ignorance upon those glorious faculties of the
mind, by which alone its possessor can sol, O
the mighty problems Of future destiny, of etern-
ty, ana OF the souls veal or VICE. | repeat, then,
That the worst forms of all the crimes which a.
human being can commit-theit, robbery, muir
der, adultery, incest, saCrlege, and whatever else
| there Is that inticts wide wasting ruin upon So
ciety, and brings the souls of men 10 predition
| the word slavery is the SYNONYM of them ALL
Analyze slavery, and you will find its ingredients
to consist of every crime. Define any crime, and
you Will Ind 1t TO be incorporated in slavery, and
aggravated by it.
AS the complex and infinite meaning of the
word Con cannot be adequately understood, I'M
Ill you anayze it, and divide and subdivide it.
| anu give " IL NlC tHOuSdlu names OF OInlOO-
tence and omniscience and omnipresence, of in-
finite justice and holiness and benevoence, of all
sanctites aud verities and benignies, of all law
so when you penetrate and lay open the infinite
meaning of the word SLAVERY, it resolves it.
self into all crimes and all cruetes all debase-
mens and all horrors. The telescope of the as
tronomer reyolves the star-dust of the universe
in It's retuIgent systems that gorily their Maker
the telescope Of the moras resolves the Tarta-
rean clouds of slavery into all the impctes and
wickedness that deiorm humanity.
Now, between these two great antagonisms,
between God and the Right on one side, and Sla-
very and the Wrong on the other, these two Bal
| tlmore Conventions have chosen the latter
! They have said to Evil, be thou my Good
They have voted to annul Gods laws They
have resolved that discussions on the great ques-
ton of human freedom which involves the whole
question of free egency and human accountable
ity, and the entire plan and order of the Divine
government, shall b, silenced.
So much for the ntriustic nature Of slavery,
which the Baltimore Conventions have welded
their bride. Now let us look at some OF the COL
lateral wrongs the selt-stultfcation and atheism,
for which slavery III this country is responsible,
and which those conventions, therefore, have
sanctioned and ratified, a nd declare their purpose
to continue.
When q nation is born into the world, pos
sessng the attributes and prerogatves of nation
ality, it is the moral duty OF existing nations 10
welcome it into the brotherhood of the human
family. Such recognition of new sovereignty
| tends to increase commerce, to foreiend war and
to dffuse the blessings of knowledge and sci
ence, and the arts. 1t becomes, therefore, duty.
Yet, what is the posture in which this Govern
ment stands to Liberia and llayG Great Brit
ain, with France, Prussia, and other continental
nations, have acknowledged their existence. We
refuse and stand aoot And this is for no other
reason than to CRAFTY coorphobia which breads
| equity as the hydrophobc does water. Writ
ers on national law call nations moral entity
| We find color in a moral entity, and repudiate
its claims.
Contrast the alacrity of this Government in re-
cognzing saveholding Texas, with its utter re-
| fusa, for a quarter OF century in one case and
! for half a century in the other, to recognize tho
! Free Soil government of Hayti and LIBERIA
This is one of the collateral wrongs growing out
Of the repugnance of slavery to do justice to tho
colored man anywhere; and the faint of this
moral disease at the South spreads its infection
over the North.
| Mark great sign and proof of the deprava-
ton of the public intellect, originating in the same
prolific source of wrong. The basphemous ar-
gument has been put forth, that God foreordained
and instituted African slavery amongst us for
the ultimate and consequential purpose of carry
civilization and christianity into Africa. Not on
ly has the logic of the politician and the ethics
of the moralst been corrupted into this falsity,
but even the divine, with the preservative pow
er of the gospel of Jesus Christ in his hands,
has cndeavored to reconcile our people to the
crimes and the curses Of slavery by his impious
argument. They maintain that God has looked
| oil of n(t
! African slave trade--that the groans and agonies
of th3 Middle Passage have assembled as a sweet
smelling SAVIOR before Ills high throne; that He
has seen with approval, within the last three
centuries, forty millions Of native Afrcans--yes,
sir, forty Millions for that is the estimated num-
! Der almost double the population OF this coun-
! try, and more than one third more than the pres
| ent population of Great Britain and Ireland put
to0ctLcr-of native Africans, tCra from their
homes and driven through gates of fire and
realms Of torture, to bondage and 10 death-that,
during all this period, lie has looked with delight
upon the most irighttu forms of war, the pllagc
and COnfiagrauOn Of cities, and wholesale muir
der. not only raging along the Eastern and West
ern shores of that devoted continent, but at times
extending their ravages and havoc twelve or
thirteen hundred miles inIand-and that His be-
nign providence is still fulfilled by the success
! full prosecution of the slave trade, though for
every thousand human victims in Africa, it is es-
timatcd that only three hundred finally reach
! their carh-born he'll Of Cuban of Brazilian sugar
or cotton fields. Now, that God sent out slaves
| from Africa to America, at this Uncomfortable
cost Of time on tie one hand, and of suffering on
the other-that his providence has raised up
hosts of ficnda in the shape of men, century al
ter century, for the roundabout purpose of car
rying Christianity and civilization into Africa, in
some remote age, we know not when--this is
the basphcmous doctrine we are made to hear
from the political rostrum the lectnr9-room, and,
| Incredible Is relate from the pulpit itself!
| Now, say, sir, that to I'M ut any such cru
el-hear and simpeton-minded scheme to our
All-wise and bcnjgnant Father in Heaven, is
wild and wanton impety and blasphemy. No
parallel can be found in heather ms tholoeywhere
such shorts tied fcIly and crime have been
charged upon Of the bloody gods of all their
pantheons. ! he very hypothesis is founded on
an inversion Of history and it pre-suppo4es for
It's conception a perycrsion of the human intel-
/ lect.
The system of enslaving Africans was COM
meHced in ancient times by the Egyptians and
J the Arabs and carried in late periods by the