The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-08

take with him IN her old age when be
i moving into one u these new Ter
ritofies for the betterment &c the fur
tunes Of his whsle family. shy. In the
name cf Ged, shsnld anybody prevent
it, Do son wish 10 force rs 20 be-
come hard hearted slave-dealerss Do
You wish to aggrasaie the evils. IL there
are evils existing in ibis relation: Do
ron wish that We shall no longer have
a mutual feudal feeling between our
dependents and onrselyess DO yea
want 10 make as nercenary and hard
hearteds Or will you allow us. hav-
ang. as I trust we have. some touch of
humanity. and some Of the beneficial
and breathing spirit Of Christianity. to
let these beings 20 forth as they are
accustomed 20 DO. and 20 rejoice when
We look out and see our slaves happy
and cheerful around Us. when We hear
the song arising from their dwellings
at night. or see them dressed in their
neat clothes and going TO attend their
churches on Sunday, and realizing. as
thew look al rs. that we are the best
friends they have upon earth.
Mr.. President. perhaps manifest
too much feeling about this matter.
Ii seems 20 me so clear that no inte-
rest or advantage Of humanity can pos
sibly be promoted BY the spirit which
dictates this incessant opposition toeve.
.ry measure which will allow Us 10 inn
prove our own condition and that Of our
slaves together. IL is so impossible to
perceive that any good can arise from
IL that. ] cannot speak Of IL without
excitement. have NO bitterness about
il. God knows have none. blame
not those at distance from US who
take up false and mistaken impressions
respecting us. know that efforts, the
most wicked and persevering. have
been made TO produce those impress
sions, and TO present. US 10 the minds
Of our northern fellow citizens as mi
nisters of cruelty and oppression.
blame them not. They have been
trained 20 entertain these sentiments
and feelings. They are unfor tunate in
having slch false estimates placed in
their bosons respecting their friends
and fellow citizens. descendants of a
common revolutionary ancestry. l
would to God that could obliterate
those feelings. | would to God that
they would be disposed to enfoId me
and mine, as | am the whole Of NV
northern brethren. il they would per-
nit it, ia the arms Of a fraternai and
perpetual concord. Sir, there can be
no difficulty about this matter il we
suffer ourselves to be Influenced by
those considerations which spring ne
cessarily and naturally out of the facts
Of the case, and realize that, after all,
no abolition movement ever vet ac-
complished good fora slave. The whole
movements OF the Abolitionists of the
North, rs all nv southern friends a.
round me know, so FAR as they have
had any influence with us, have tended
to restrict, rather than to relax the bon.
dage under which these people live.
They have, in great measure, strick-
en- from the capacity to be useful in
various directions towards them, those
philanthropic and honorable people WIN
should lead, and otherwise would lead,
our society upon these topics. They
expose every one To suspicion. They
have tendency To close up the ave,
nue. to the otherwise opening and ex>
panding heart. They do no good "a
the slave. They do no good to the
Abolitionist. They are but fruitful
source Of evils among them and evils
among US, without one single compen. 4
sating advantage ON earth, present or
future.
oh. MIR. President. if we could M
" agree to take up this subject as a
matter Of fact, and agree to deal with
il in the best way we can, believe me,
sir, the day will come, as indicated by
my friend from Massachusetts, Mr..
Everett, when the WAYS Of Providence,
in permitting this large exodus Of the
natives of Africa to this country, will
be vindicated to man. Why, sir, the
light is already dawning upon Us in
which we can begin TO see how ulti-
mate and incalculablc a good is to be
wrought out Of the temporary absence
OIL this population fran their native
and. The successful commencement
Dt the colonization scheme shows us
now the emancipated slaves may carry
back to the native Africa of their FORE
athers the civilization, the Christian |
t,y, and the freedom which they never !
'ad enjoyed. and, so far as We can see, |
nut tor this instrumentaiitv, never 1
'ould enjoy, in their own country. /
The veriest slaves on earth !,
ire the native Africans in their own
'ountry. The frecst of them is MT "a /,
rec as the hardest bonded slave IN
outhern lands. They have ever been
o-the property of their princes; as