Washington sentinel., 1854-03-29


this society; as an experiment, must say it
has failed and, SO far as it has done anything,
it has done mischief instead Of good
As regards the principles of those who we're
the first promoters of the abolition Of the
slave trade, ! don't say it Of this society, am
borne out by the facts when assert that they
have held, and yet hold, perhaps ought to say
endeavor to hold, language esoteric, and a
language eroteric-one language for the nov
ice and n language for the initiated or, to
speak in terms more familiar to us,a Ian
guage obfcial, and o language confidential
They affected to have nothing in view but the
abolition of the slave-trade. Sir, they had
another obiect-they had an object in view,
which noio they have the courage to declare, for
which they have very lately united themselves
into an anti-savery society. They have given
no small impulse, if not the first impulse, TO
this black " ball of Spanish American revolu.
tion.' 1t is they who have done It.; il is they
who have been the fosterers of Hayti; for
could name illustrious names that are laboring
under deluaon rs strong as that:which led away
the French Convention, when they thought they
were establishing liberty, equality, and frater-
nifty, on foundation slippery and red with
human blood and judicial murder. ] will
name, must name Wilberforce-I will name
master Stephen, the celebrated author of War
in Disguise" and "The Dangers of the Coun-
try"-Macaulay, the principal conductor Of the
{" Christian Observer do not mean to in
clude all of that numerous and respectable
body of men, who generally think and act with
them, as equally Incorporate; because know
that some, and believe that others, of those who
associated with them in religious opinions
who do not see, or seeing do not approve, the
rash ulterior measures Of these well-meaning,
but misled men amongst them would name,
if dared to do it, the venerable president Of
the English Bible Society.
Sir, the same great authority whom before
quoted, lays it down as principle, that, when
men are furiously and fanatically fond Of any
object, of any set of opinions whatever, they
will sacrifice to that fanaHcal attachment their
own property their own peace their own lives,
and (he adds) can there be doubt that they
would prefer it to the peace Of their country?
Win the love, then, Of another country, of
Jamaica, or the southern States, be consid-
Grafton strong enough to induce them to halt
to pause? Fanaticism political or religious,
has no stoppingplace short of Heaven, or of
he'll. All history upholds me in this. What
were the crusades? speak it in sober sadness;
they were, in my opinion, as regarded their OBJ
ject incomparably more worthy, more desirable,
in theobject more wise inthe means taken to at.
tahiti, than this modern blackcrusade. What did
they fight for? For the sepulchre of the Re-
deemer of an otherwise undone world. 1t was
a noble object, however mistaken the principle.
But what we're they fighting for? For hewn
stone, if fyet existed, which had belonged to
a rich and pious Jew Of Arimathea, for they
knew, they belieyed-they said they did, and no
doubt they were sincere--bnt they did not re-
collect that it was not place of human Sc.
pulture, that the body, never subjected to the
animal law, was gone, that the incarnate part
had aseended to its Father in Heaven. They
might as well have got up crusade for the
manger in which the lowly infant had lain in its
swaddling-clothes still here was sentiment,
something elevating and ennobling, that the
heart is better for having felt; and whose blood
did they seek to shed when they poured out their
own like water in this cause? That of the
Saracens, Of infidels, of Mahounds and Terma-
gaunts, who were painted in the same coloIs
by the priesthood and fanatics Of that day that
the Pharisees and fanatics of this day, paint
every man in, whose misfortune, or whose good
fortune it is, to be master Of slaves. Sir,
have no hesitation in saying, that the affec.
tions Of these men, whom ! have named, are
more strongly rivetted upon the French African
descendants Of Hatyi, on the negroes Of Ja-
maica and Sierra Leone, than they are not
only on us unfortunate southrons, than they are
on their own fellow subjects of Jamaica, and
verify believe of Old England also, of Lanca-
shire or Yorkshire. There was once time,
sir, when a ministerial member had the indis-
cretion--no minister can Arrays stop the
mouth of an indiscreet friend--to say, it was
during the Prussian war, which consisted Of
the battle Of Jena, that Hanover ought to be
as dear to England as Hampshire; suppose
for the sake of the ALTERATION. do believe
that should not be far wrong in saying: |
know that to a great portion of these misled
men the black population Of the West Indies
and the Africans of this country are dearer
than their English fellow-subjects; and why
SO? | judge them partly by their language
which have heard, not in private, but in
Freemason's Hall, in London. with an applaud
ing auditory Of thousands, but chiefly by their
acts, which never lie. have heard as pious,
as good q man apparently, as ever lived, /
believe-I don't know it, he had every charac-
teristic of good man, and pious Christian,
except this mania, Z setting this aside, he wa,
all that could be wished and in this he mani.
tested that there was no guile in him he is an
officer in the British army; I could have had
him cashiered-say that, in case of revolt in
the Island Of jamaica lie should feel himself
compelled to take part with the blacks, as the
oppressed party. ] say that is general senti.
ment throughout Old England say Old
England; ! wish it may not extend any where
else. / hope it does not One thing, it behooves
me to say, one act of justice it behooves me to
do, and | trust shall never refuse justice to
any man. Up to this time, the conduct of the
President Of the United States-I mean prior
tohis becoming Presidentof the United States
has been such as no southern man could take
exception to, in this behalf, at least: restrict
my admission to that. will go farther, in
saying, that this body has already shown, that it
possesses the will, as we'll as the power, which
! trust it will exercise on more than that oc-
cason, Of resisting influence within, and clamor
from without; speak in reference to the Trea-
ty on the subject Of the slave.trade and the
right of search? Sir, the Senate have ac-
quilted themselves like men, like senators, like
conscript fathers; hope, as believe, that they
will never acquit themselves othcrwise-"be be
lust and fear not y