Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-05-25

ture 10 one mass oil utnorage OF OF bloom; produ-
cling, in either case, an indescribable monotony Of
aspect and condition.
Do as we will, we cannot alter the decree which
is, and ever has been,
sEsa Meath the sun,
h. The many still must labor for the onei' -.. i
and so far from condemning, or wishing to change
the system of Servitue, as it exists among us, aud
which was. before tempered with by those who
know, from experience, nothing of its tenure, or
its workings, ana will not listen to instruction,
equally and naturally benefcent to master and
slave; should we not desire 10 preserve it, and
rejoice that the lot which, III all communities must
fall on Some has i'll ours been assigned to Iace
differing essentially from our own in physical and
moral endowmentS; on whom 1t sits lightly; who
are happy under its operation; ignorant and e.
less of its degradation; better qualified to enjoy
the substantial tina to comprehend the theoreIica
and more likely to be content where their animal
wants are supplied, and their comforts provided,
than to be satisfied long deluded by the magic
of name which would br,ng with it the neces-
sity of exertion foreign to their natural propens-
ties, and dlspoStions2 impart to them you may,
new attributes by inusing into their veins other,
and nobler blood, as Mrs. Stowe has, with her
bsau ideal of African sentimenaty, and you change
their idioSyncracy, and give them loftier aSpira-
lions, and higher destiny; but nothing, short Of
wild romance, or credulous fanatacism, can invest
the genuine black-the veritable Uncle Tom, with
other than initiative excellence, or instructive in
telligence, or convert him into saint, apostle or
martyr. There is that in his constitution which is
at variance with the contenance of the first; he
is deficient in the essentials OF moral courage,
fortitude, and consistency OF purpose, required for
the second; and an enduring spirit, and patience
of suffering, necessary 10 the last not charc-
teristc of his tribe, disposed they proverbally
e, to magnify pain, ami be garrulous in COM
plant.
Nothing is easier to fertile imagination, aided
by fluent pen, than to bring system into dsre-
pute il permitted only TO enumerate its anomalies,
and to dwell upon its abuses; especially with
those W no trnSt the guidance their OD;nlOnS 10
Others, and when preiudices are in advance of
their judgments; who see, but do not reflect; who
feel, but do not consider Political government
would appear curse, if only the acts and admins
tration of tyrants subjects of history, Religion,
ITSELF would seem horrible if only its prosecutors,
It's intolerance, its wars, and its bloodshed were
recorded; and the sacred institution of marriage
affords instances of depravity aggression, and suf
fering to fill volumes with heart rending incidents
of CRIME, and misery; to make us blush for our
species, and doubt the wisdom of a contract which
gives us such power over the weaker sex. In this
legaized, christian, and in most cases delightful
bondage, without which man were, indeed,
ga world without sum-
how often is its innocent victim, the wife and
mother, made to weep over the moral, as we'll as
the actual sestrang ement of husband, and child;
the turpitude of the one, and the ingratitude of
the other frequently nflicting her sensblities
wounds as poignant, andas hard to be borne as
those which the lash of the master leaves on the
back of the slave.
" nat, InaL Is anu lIIlpeIIGCl,
but has its dark side? Even, in the natural world,
the rose has its thorn; the globe its convusions,
the armament its tempests; and yet, good is the
prevailing order of the universe, and government,
religion, matrimony, the BLESSINGS OF social con-
ditIon, wherever an inconsiderabe amount OF
benfcence may be stated Offset to comparitiye-
ly small sum of inevitable evil. Tyranny, perse-
cutlon, fraud, violence, and the baSer agencies
are the exceptions to the lule; peace, ORDER har-
mony, protection and happiness the intention, and
generally the result; and he who sees only the
imperfectons and overlooks the blessings of what
Soever human wisdom and human ingenuity have
conrived, and human falibility administers, is as
incapable of forming correct judgements 70, him
self, or of reporting truthtully to others, the
sick man would be to paint the enjoyments OF
health or the prisoner in his dungeon, TO feel and
describe the exultation of the free.
1t is natural to us to look with an unfriendly
eye on restraint, however benevolent, or prudent
its purpose. 1t is irksome to ourselves, and often
appears to u.s. unjust and unreasonable when i'm
posed on Others We extend cur pity to the fellow
in his prison, even while we acknowledge it would
be unwise to 10 set him at large The child rebels
against its nurse; the school boy is impatient
of his tutor; the man frequently condemns the
law that holds his inclnations subsection; the
negro, satisfied, until late, with his portion in re-
slrction, commonto all; deemng his bonds not
more onerous than those borne by his superiorS,
and unconscious, and careless that they were con-
sidered more odiouS, as happy in his ignorance,
as we have seen in the case of Uncle Billy, until
wiser heads, and more sentimental hearts have un-
dertaken to enlighten him, as TO his misery, and
degradation, and stimulate him to resistance. But
We would have these sol disdnt phianthIopists
to bear in mind, that there law Tor the Whites,
which is negative in its effects on the Blacks; and
of the insuficicncy of which, TO keep them in
subsection, no stronger proof is needed than may
be found in their free communities, as established
in our large cities, in free States, espec-
ally favored with their congregations; and in
which, by the way, efforts making to get rid of
them, though encouraging, at the same lime, a
doctrine which, if carried out, would inflict the
evil on the country al large; as, in our State,
while we are beginning to look with Mort hern
eye upon slavery, devising laws to regulate,
and IN fact to curb, those who have already been
emancipated from 1.-THE law to which we would
alude, is that of order, decorum, of selfrespect,
Of prudence; in a word, those moral consideIa-
tions which govern our own department, and are
distinct from enactmens intended 10 deter us from
crime. We say boldly, and in defiance of con-
tradichon, that, with some rare exceptions, which,
as we have before maintained, do not establish a
rule, these guarantees for correct demeanor are in
sufficient for the control of the African race, as
domicillated among us, and that, as are respon-
sible to public opinion, and TO each other for vio-
laion of the prophecies of society, as we are to
the statute, for infringement of the rights of life
and property; the Negro race, if retained among
and il we consult its we'll being, as well as our
own; is most secure, and we confidently add, most
happy, when made subseryient to some other in.
hnence than that which serves to bride the i'm
moral tendencies of the whites.
We cannot at present, imagine a better expedi-
ent, for this purpose, than that which our wise
foretathers, who sanctioned the introduction and
establishment of these humanities-we are not