Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-08-19


pressive that comparison with the slave
OF the South could not be maintained for .
moment But it is not our intention to dis
cuss tie various grades of slavery, as ex
listing in the different countries of tn,
world, for the system is deplorable enough
exist where it will. Unless we call ever,
individual who has ever advocated the abo
lition OF slavery an "abolition party" We
ask again what good has abolitionism done:
Again our correspondent afirms that it il
the aim Of the party to ssabolish slavery
within the jurisdiction of the constitution. ),
Now what is the extent of that jurisdictions
The Federal Congress has power to abolish
slavery in the District of Columb and
there its power ceases. But what will be
the consequences of an exercise of this ma.
tional right? 1t will not set the slave free.
but will erect market stands upon which to
auctioneer the bodies and souls of coutented
servants; it will only change masters; give
them the hot sun of the South for the cool
breezes of the North; increase their tolls
and labor; cause the sweat drops to roll
more profusely down their limbs, and the
task masters whip to fall heavier and faster
upon their backs. Good God! would YOU
bring about such change and call it hu
name act of charity? VIII you bind the
CHAINS OF the poor African still stronger.
and then boast of your righteousness your
goodness and humanity? Heaven preserve
us from ever requiring the protection of
such fraternity. What, we ask, has the
Abolition party done? Again, those States
which are free ESQ called) are laboring
with all the power legislation affords them,
to prevent the colored people from settling
within their borders; they strive to enact
laws that shall drive those that have previ-
ously settled in free States out of Them
The result is, they 60 into large cities and
towns and worry through most wretched
and miserable existence.
Liherate the slaves in one Of the Sout hern
States and what would be the inevitable
consequences? The Anglo-Saxons are pos
sessed of wealth, knowledge and power.
The slaves are entirely deficient in all or
either OF these requisites for gaining live
lihood, and how will they support life /? If
Abolitionists were successful in procuring
such an abolition would they not be expos
ing the slaves to encounter ten thousand
dangers and hardships with which they are
now entirely ignorant? 1t is fact as well
established as the DEGREES of fate, that,
whenever the condition of the slave is
ameliorated it must be by adopting some
plan for separating the whites from, the
blacks. Jefferson said, (wc quote from
memory that, smoothing is more clearly
written in the book of destiny, than the
emancipation Of the blacks. 1t is also GER.
tain that the two races can never live in al
state of equality under the same govern
ment, so insurmountable are the barriers
which nature, habit land opinions have estab-
lished between them" Now why do not the
abolitionists cease their continual harping
and do something effectual for the relief of
the wn.trodden and oppressed sons of
toll? By thy fruit shall ye be known.
Again we repeat the question what have
Abolitlonists done !?
Once more and progressive 1t is for
the interest Of the South to get rid of their
slaves; therefore, that individual who shall
posses an inventive genius of sufficient cal
ibrc to inform the South how it can be done
with safety to themselves or slaves will be
extensively rewarded. Why, the negroes
are not to be benefited by the abolition of
slavery, it is the whites.
Hasten the happy day, we say, when sla-
very shall be abolished from this country:
for that will be the signal tor our national
government to make provisions for the
emancipation Of all the colored people in
our midst. They cannot live with the,
whites they must be separated. Give
them freedom without elevating them to al
civil condition equal with the whites, andI
q revolt is inevitable. IH some of thc|
southern states they out number the whites
in population, and what would be the effect
OF bestowing upon them such POLITICALLY
right? There could be but one result, and
the world knows what that is.
Once more, and lastly, we ask what ha,
done? Our contributor tells
US it has abolished slavery in all places
where it once existed, but where it is not
now found. We think we have shown con-
that as a party, 1t has not done
any such thing All who pretend to be ad-
herents to that ism, will answer it is grad
ually unloosening the letters that ha ye for
long years bound the poor slave. Per-
haps this may be true, but let us examine
few facts. Abolitionists by harping about
the s'blessed fruits Of libertv,' raised by
some means s'hue and cry'' in the ears of
the slaves of the South, and they were pre-
vailed upon to fee from bondage. Such
occurrences in time became so freouent in
the South, that with ono universal voice
the south cried out to the national goy,r
inent for protection, and by the constitu-
tion 1t was bound to protect each stats in
the rights which had been granted them
when they entered into compact with the
Federal Government. The result was that
Congress passed the famous Fugitive Slave
Law, (Which by the way we hate and con-
denim with an unuterable hatred and a hel.
lish condemnation) which was tho direct