The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-04


portion of than millions ofpeople forced
to live in state of concubnage Is crime to abandon
slightest protection oflaw! Inths country, million and
half of females constantly abandcned and the rear
sutans is systenaiize and iegaiized business. Is
crimeto break asunder all the ties of human Affection to
children from the their and pares from
each otheri There is conueal, or parental or hal
affection among than three millions of people in this
land which sacd from such violations Is if crime to
let murder and all other offences go unpunishsdl There is
slave with entire impunity, if the precauon
but slaves witness it, The darkenng OF the IN
tbs forbiding of spirit which God made image
commune with its Maker is more than common crime
which no other nation on this earth civilized heaheEs
committed 10 the exeu that 1t Is now com
med here And yet this locking of the temple OF knoW
against whole this drawing of an imp nerabe
ssnDst ali that God has done to reveal Himself 10 His Off
spring through the work Of nature and the revelations of
penalties, and administered by who call themselves
Christians though Jesus Christ could have subscribed
men of Gospel and freedom interpret it; but the
slave code does THE by Withholding letters from the slaves
thus postpone enanchsemen and salvation
of his soul another when he can no longer be any use
his earthly Would be crime practice
demoniae art by which the growth body and limbs
should be arrested in childhood and the victims should be
len only nfantile powerso cold, naked
ness hunger and all the hosts of pain! Then is
ney crime to inict weakness and ignorance
glorious faculties of the mind by which alone s pos
solve the mighty problems of future destiny of
eternity and of the souPs veal of repeat them that
worst forms of all the crimes which human being can
csmmt-theft, robbery, adultery incest, sacrege, and
whatever else there is that ncts wide wasting ruin
society," and brings the soul Of pedtion-the word
slavery is the synonym of them all Analyze slavery and
you will find its ingredients consist of crime De-
fine crime, and you will find incorporated in slavery
and aggravated by it.
As the complex infinite meaning word GOD
not be adequately until you analze and devde
and subdivde it, and give to it the thousand of
sanciities beugnes, of all energies
and beauties, all wisdom and all law; when you pen
citrate and lay the infinite meaning of the word
resolves selfnto all crimes and crueties all debace
ments and all horrors The telescope of the
that goy their the telescope of the moralist
and wickedness that deform humanity.
Now, between these two great anagonsms between God
and the Right side and Slavery Wrong
other these two Baltimore Conventions
ter They have said to Evil be thou my God. They have
voted to annul They have resolved that discus
sions on the great questions of human freedom which
wolves tne whole question OF and human account
ability aud the entire plan and order Of the Divine
| ment shall be siienced.
So much for the intrinsic nature of slavery which the
baltimore Conventions have welded their BRIDE Now let
US look at of the collateral wrongs the sestultica
sporsibe and which those conventions, therefore, have
sanctioned and ratified and declared their purpose
tinue. ..s@s-=-- Is -----r
WE RECOGNISE NATIONS WITH ALAcR1TY.
When nation is born world, possessing attr-
butes and perogatves of nationality duty
existing nations welcome into the brotherhood
man family. Such recognition sovereignty tends
to increase commerce, forefend war; duse the
therefore, duty. Yet, what posture in which this
Government stands to Liberia and Hast Great Britain,
knowledged their existence We refuse, and aoo
s rpn oe
on national law call nations moral entity. color
moral entity and repudiae its claims. Contrast alacy
of this Government in recognizing savehodng Texas with
us utter REFUSAL for quarter of century and
ernment of Liberia and Hayt is one of the collateral
growing out of the repusnance of slavery JUS
disease al the South spreads its infection the
Il GOD EoREoRDAINED SLAVERY!
Mark great sign and proof ofthe deprivation of the pub
lie intellect originating in the prolific wrong
ne Dasphemous argument has been forth,
ordained and instituted African slavery amongst for the
and christianity Africa Not only has the ogic of The
Ss anG h Inc ethics Of the mora been corrupted into
of the Gospel Jesus Christ hands, has
by this impous argument They maintain that God has
looked with complacency all the A
Passage have ascended His
hrone that he has with approval within last three
centuries, forty millions of native Acans-yes forty
millions for that is the estimated double the
entire population of this country, ami than
more than the present population Ire
land put Africans, their homes
bondage to DEATH that during all this period Te M
looked with delight the most ghtful forms of
pilage and confagraon of cities, murders
and stealing worse than MURDER only raging
and shores ofthat devoted continent
times extending their ravages and havoc twelve tee
hundred miles inland; and that His benign providence
though every thousand Africa it
tmaed that only three hundred finally reach
81 from Africa to America a, this in
y conceivable cf crime the hand sufern
F'V'iuOhSo
friends in the shape OF century after century, for tn
roundabout purpose of carrying Christianity cvizato
y into Africa in remote know when;-ths
y the basphemous doctrine made hear p
itica rostru the lecureroom and incredible, reat
~ ~ from the pulpititself
Now, say, sir, that any cruehearted
"a supplemented scheme to A-wise and benigna
~ Father Heaven, wild and mpiety blasph
e N.Y. Noparale can be found in heather mythology whe
short sighted folly and crime have been charged
of the bloody gods of all their panheons. The
hypothesis is founded inversion of history and
for its conception of the human int
n AFRICAN BARBARIsM-THE SLAVE TRADE &c.
The system of enslaving Africans commenced in
times by the Egyptians and the Aabs and carried
,n ing Christianity futo Africal In modern times the
system, with unspeakable aggavaions
by all the commercial nations of Europa and of this con
From time immemorial, therefore, Africa has be
made the hunting ground of the manstealer For thirty
forty centuries malice and have wreaked their
NJ. geance upon that devoted land.
are All crimes caamtes confagration pesence brut
y and havochave been poured over it in crimson floods
conne views within the three ast centuries alol
who adequately conceive the effects of robbing
forty millions of people brief period, with
the wars, devastations cructes and treacheres, wh
MOI this OF wrath extendeditsef upon the
alone As said before forays and
ges have swept inland mil
further than from the Atlantic the Missssippas far
from the Gulf Of @ 70 tne mas DC
er in this that find the of Arca's degree
an tionno the hopes Of her redemption The white man
created the very which he impiousy
her fore Heaven excuse or the crime of creating it,
d engrated the full developed vices and
at of civilization which they profanely CONTEND
leir further of slavery is to supply The A
slavery; and according the
and remedy slavery The clutches profits
be throws wickedness God But what kind
SOL God does he man, equally
ent, fromdiseasa and remedy
les Mr. Mason desire ask gentleman from Mas
ain chusetts single question. wish call his attention
which learn from the history of the that
ter millions the United say
in condition, physically and morally, than
the African that have existed since
the of them. the genen
and consider the in the
mo- physical condition of these negroes, sufficient
pirit tuition of slaveryl
lbed Mr. Manu. That is fair question: and am ready to
pine it. According the laws of population which
me, barDarous nations Africa has many inhabitants
out would have had if The robber had invaded her
des- MAN, and away her children Among barbar
10 tribes the population the of subSste
and faster than the of subsistence
and Remove of the great family from the
over whepce they supplied and their places viii
than soon filled y Others according to the laws
de Therefore, have diminished the numbe
al suffering degraded and demoralized beings in Africa,
more unit of taking portion of their
tee- from them
y, it Mr. Mason. What would have been the condition of
COM three millions negroes had their
out brought this contry7 Would they by degrade
and starvation. have gone out of existence!
hing Mr. Mann They would never have come into exste
to but their places would have been occupied
TO white population of race of kin
moral to our own would have been substituted
the thern-whites for blacks, freemen for slaves.
back Mr. Mason. slaves better off, both mo
physically than three millions of negroes ever
loom in Africa? ISL '-.
they Mr. Mann Before the gentleman institutes compar