The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-07


being entirely unfit for .sagrlculturali
purposes, there not being arabic land.
sufficient to, furnish sone-tenth of the.
mining population with the common
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LensaoRa Slave Case. s .,t
1t is by no means remarkable fea-
ture in the pscud@.philanthropy Of
Northern Abolitionists that while their
humanity urges them to move heaven
and earth to break up the benefcent
connection between. master and slave,
and expend thousands in fomenting
trouble md distress among those who
subsist by the institution of slavery,
their sentimental doctrines by no
means embrace within the scope of
their benevolence the unfortunate be-
ings in their own midst who Glamour,
not for vague and nominal freedom,
but for some alienation of those afflic-
tons, which abide with poverty even in
the midst of civilization nnd boas,cd
independence.
Error is always inconsistcnt-al always
cruel and savage, even when, in the
eyes ofits apolcgists, it seems to 'lcnn
to virtues side" Unless the doctrines
and the sentiments of men are based
upon something more substantial and
commanding than the innate and natu-
raj impulses Of their own hearts they
must ever be erroneous, and lead con
tinually to the. perpctration Of acts
which cannot stand the test Of reason
or Of time.
In the late LEMON slave case ut the
North which was decided by Judge
PAINE We have striking illustration of
the manifold mischief committed by
those who profess to be guided only by
an enlightened regard for the interests
Of humanity and desire to promote
the we'll being Of their fellow men.
AS our readers already know, some
eight slaves the property ofMr. LKMoN,
of Virginin,-a stranger on his way to
to Texas via New York-werc forcibly
taken from him end declared free BY
the decision Of the court. Here accord.
ing to the doctrines Of the abolitioniste
was q great point gained. Eight hu-
man beings were rescued from slavery
and restored to that independence
which is tho "inalienablc right" Of all
men. Such is the abolition view and o
glorious one no doubt it 10 40 seen
through their own perverted vision
But we should like to know il thia now
ly acquired independence will purchase
for these eight slaves o morsel of bread
to relieve the. pangs of hunger Will
IL clothe their nakedncss or shelter
them from the icy blasts Of o Northern
wintcrl .Ifit will it is peculiar inde-
pendence, o more glorious ono, than
we descendants Of the saxon can boast
of.
But our Northern friends were not
satisfied with reducing eight well fed
and comfortably clothed beings who
had never known n want to state Of
helpless and abject misery they must
needs pay the owner of these slaves
five thousand dollars for the privilege
of rendering them helpless and needy
and reducing them to condition infn.
itcly worse than death. Was not this
purchasing the misery Of eight human
beings at too dear rate?
We know but little expcrimentally
of tho hardships and sutlcrings of the
poor Of New York. But we know full
enough to enable us to declare confiden-
tally and boldly that the abolitionists
Of New York in order to- reduce eigbi
negroes to misery and actual starvation
have paid out sum Of money sufficient
t" have fed and comfortably clothed,
through long and incleHtens winter
trentyJonr families, Of five persons
each, of their own toiling, starving
freezing population. Such is the in.
consistency, the cruelty of fanaticism
which Pcrpctrates thousand crimes in
the name Of virtue and in vain looks
upon the work of it's own hands for n
single deed, which can challenge admi.
ration or afford encouragement to their
utopian schemes for the amclioration
of the World.
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The President aasea MIR. Law.
Among the amusing events of the
day perhaps the most droll and lnugha-