The Woodville Republican., 1852-05-18

'tohStuIACu hisiuhitutt AuioNSh Whut'
aloue, under the guidance Of infinite WI
dom the ultimate regeneration Of an obler
and degraded race is ever 10 be arcompIish
led. IL is u our object to enter into Ia
ezPOSe OF the authors veiy able argument ia
defence oil the Institution of Slavery--ln.
deed, such an attempt would be out OF place
here. coming as il does more ligi,imstely
under the province Of the reviewer. and we
could but reproach ourselves with descent
to burlesque /; but, we may perhaps he
held pardonsble, and in measure, escape
such charge in presenting the mere bass
upon which this impasiug structure rests.
The author after very happy reputation
Of th sc popular dogmas which have been
so fondy built up into bungIing confusion
of faith by a certain portion Of American
Society who have essb'i>hedbeyond all ques
rion, the infaII'biily OF such great lights as
Drs. Nsyiand, Claiming, and Banes-rhe
former, in virtue Of direct inspiration hay-
ing revealed TO him the actual existence OF
newborn faculty called "the moral sense"
the two latter. in consideration Of their
repnted puppet actions. proceeds TO show
that slavery IS as necessary consequent
upon the first Jransgression as are death, aud
all those other devastating ills that have fol
lowed the fala! train OF the violated law,
aud flied TO it, brim the cup OF human life
with deep misery and wo ard that as such
it has become f1ed law which can never
be abrogated so long u truth ls lmmuiab'e
or the seeds of depravety reinnln planted in
the human heart lie regards 1t as vast
moral reservoir---a great Beihsaidan Pool
in which. all those corruplions, huring hu-
manity down into The abyss of physica aud
moral destruction, are arrested and washed
away by the one agltating influence Of a
superior race--a race, still reposng under
the shadow of the PatriarchaI Covenant aud
winch is always to be the "sat Of the earth"
1.-The light OF Tie world $50 long as II
keeps alive the sac ed fire and preserves, IN
purity, the rue worship OF the living God.
He would justify slavery on the same
grounds that morist, reasoning a prtort
upon the existence and attributes Of the
deity, recognizes the justice OF 'ha' doom
which has been pronounced upon o fallen
race; and argues that Slavery is nothing
short of temporal deah, from which. lis
unfortunate victims can only be resuscltated
through the might Of a temporal power
which power, through the attribute oi mer.
cy, is vested in snperiorior race--so made
b, virtue of its having paid a sIricter obe.
dience to the moral law and, that The SIM
pie act of assuming the governance and
control of race, stepped in the lowest
depths. of de2radation--the result of sin--
is, by the very law OF love, made a right
aud duty directly incumbent upon every.
true christian and phiantrophi~t. This sin-
gle idea is the great stand poiut OF the au.
thor's argument around which all colater-
al evidence is made, in striking harmony To
revolve. Sin is his whehning argument tu
justify the attribute OF Veugence aud Siav.
cry, is one OF the dark executors of justice
exacting teirpo,al ,etributlOns of the SONS
of men for their wiIfnl depravity. In this
light, he regards the whole human family
as race Of saves--slaves 10 sin, and rea-
soning a prinrt, concludes that. lrasnuch,
as a course OF SIN. pursued either by the in
dividual or the nation, leads 10 inevitable
degradation, both physically and mentally
degradation 30 which, Slavery IL, in he
majority OF cases, happy aud even desi'a.
bic elevation such individual or society Of
indiJ iduas. thus reduced, hao. agreeable TO
our idea of human rights and the revealed
wall OF God, sustained righful for eitnfe OF
those civil and political inlnnnliies, which
for want oil better word, men have de-ig.
mated. Freedom--lhe invaluable rights Of
rational creatures who have made the laws
of God, the laws Of accountable men.
He is no further an advocate Of making
the slaw OF might. the law Of right" than
is the civil authority when it exacis ahor Of
mendicAnt who has sought an asylum with
in the precincts Of the poor honse or, the
conviuct. who drags out miserable exls-
tence under the key Of The State prison, aud
recognizes in the law of "crime and capiivi.
ty." no other legitimate Office than thai OF
regeneration and reformation, TO be carried
on, (he thnks), from generation TO genera
ton, Iill-to use an oft lustraiion Of the
author's--"the sour grapes eaten by he
parents will cease TO pnt the chlidrens
teeth on edge" Now 'fhis is The rub -
the great turning point of the whole argu-
ment, and we leave it to the readers of the
"Studies" 10 determine whether or not the
author has made il apparent to the unpre.
JUDGED mind that the law of "transmission"
is right. Sir. VIM Blackstone, declares
| (de Jura pc nasun, p. l24) that there is
! no such thing a. absolute freedom. and that
man, in becoming member Of socie yin
subscribing to the social compact. surrend'
ers portion Of hisibenies in order that he
may enjoy protection which tina. compact
holds out to him.
!, II, however he should act in bad faith 10
the spirit ofthat compact. by openly si0lai-
ing the sanctity Of hose eternal principles OF
Justice which Sir William has called the
Rights of Man" Sir William tells him,
. ''Sir. you have, this moment, ceased 10 be
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