Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-23
For the Journal.
WEree SOiliNm.N

For the Journal.
"Free SOilism."
Mr.. EDITOR: Your response to nv obiec.
tions is amusing. l designed no argument,
but "a simple statement of objections, hoping
you would give US your arguments on TIE
several points, not having imagined that
you had offered anything in proof or, argu.
ment until read it in your last issue.
Your charges of boyishness," want OF
argument," want of " honor" &c., can
bear patiently. ssS
There are two points to which will once
more invite your attention:
/. The willingness of the South to give
up their slaves so soon rs peaceful mode
of disposing of them is found. You assert,
| deny. II might look modest in me to wait
for proof afhrmativelv, but, judging the
future from the past, should wait in vain
for in that line you seem like Washington
with the darkie, resolved not to be outdone
in modesty. will, then, offer one or two
thoughts, negatively, in advance.
A mode is devised which the ,porM ad-
mits is peaceful--namely, to colonizo them
on the continent of Africa. A few slaves
have been by noble Southerners made
Shareholders by the force of circumstances
--emancipated for colonization; but the
records of that Society show plainly that
this wor, has been confined chiefly to the
FREE people of color. There is no contro-
versy as to the philanthropy of some indi-
viduals in the South that all admit; but
are the slaves States, as such, ready to
8 let the oppressed 60 free 20 Their laws,
the proceedings Of their public bodies, and
the sentiments OF their public men, must be
looked to to decide this question. will
not tax you with numerous or lengthy quo
tations-two must sufTice. Mr.. Calhoun, in
the S nate, a Few years since, expressed the
sentiment Of the South. in these words -
Many in the South once believed that
slavery was a moral and political evil. Tint
folly and delusion are gone. We see it now
in its true light, and regard it as the most
SdAc uIu DhSis IVT ITtc lnsLlLuIIUnS III
the world" Mr.. McDufie says: "Domes-
tic slavery, therefore, instead of being a
political evil, is the corner stone OF our re.
publican edihcs. No opatriot, who justly es.
Inmates our privileges, will tolerate the idea
of emancipation at any period, however re-
mote, or on any condition Of pecuniary ad.
vantage, however favorable. would as
soon open negotiation for selling the hb-
crty of the State at once as Of making any
stipulation for tho ultimate emancipation
Of our slaves.''
Here, sir, you have frank statement OF
their 6 willingness to release them." You
will perceive these views and sediments are
entertained relative to the +" ultimate eman-
cipation," even at i" the most rensote period" ("
2. You say of my 7sh objection" anoth.
or assertion, with charge of theft" Now,
| did not suppose that you editors consider
transfer of neUs or sentiment from an ex-
change, clothed in your own language,
siea!ing. If so, you must be the most in.
ioierabLe thieves in tho world for nearly
every issue of your paper contains such
items, already familiar, and that withou,
credit. | only intended to say you had
taken the statements of others as authority,
without having personally examined.
Brutus is an homo. able man" and would
have the laws of honor reciprocally OBJ.
served and challenges you to assert thai
you have ever read enc page written by the
leaders of the sec, ssion at the time Of rup-
ture, giving their reasons, or Of the defend
ants of the Methodist Church in response.
The action of the General Conference o.
1874 in the cases of Hardin and Bishop An
drew was the immediate cause of the sepa
ration. This action was taken by almos
every one of the delegates from the fre
states and a number from the slave States
1t was sustained by the Annual Conferences
and by the Church at large, both by minis
ters and laymen. These are the facts; AM
now these men-many of them venerabl
for age-men to whom the people were &C
customed to look as their religious teachers
and whose characters for lofty patriotism
were above reproach before you were bor
ARE by your verdant pen published abroa
as "passionate lncenoiaries- cursing on
Democratic institutions with zeal neve
equaled by the most prejudiced foreigner
With how fine grace this flows out froI
one himself $ scursing" the laws Of th
country-laws secured by the concurrence Z
the most aged and gifted Of our Statesmen
North and South-as "helli,h," and Ii
like!
S.reiy, Brutus 10 modest man and 10y
Whig. OBJEcToR.
Muscatine, Sept. IA, 1853.
; BEAUTY, as the towering blossom
soou iades /; but the divine excellene
OF she mind. like medicinal virtues
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