The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-13

social benefits is the right to perform the highest duties
But all persons not by the constitution OF their being
equally capable OF attaining to the enjoyment OF these right
The grades of mankind of personal capacities and illnesses
for enjoyment Of rights clearly taught in the Christ
ian doctrines the law OF salvation itself The natural
that is the socia-relaon of slavery was undoubtedly
recognised by Christ and His apostles and were
enjoned to be obedient TO their masters according the
law of the flesh. Now the law here allows my slave To
assert his liberty he mode wheh yresorits Here and
in every slave State the slave may, any time and as
often as the right is undetermined IN forma pa
| peris0 to obtain his freedom But he may not run
aVay to obtain it. 1t is against the law of his So
cal for him to do If be flies from my service to
another State the constitution of the United States guar
antics TO his reclamation and exradition. | only
lawfully may but ought morally to his services il
can The confederacy binds every man. woman and child
in the United States, when lawfully called do So to
aid me in his recapture; and whether called not
not to oppose the exercise of my right to capture in law
fu way If this be not true in respect to slave aws
the ant-reners in New York, the "ss whose
! legion, anywhere may substitute lower as well as
higher law for the invasion of any and every description
of property He the slave has natural right to escape
for his social bis natural rights and the law of his So
ca being forbds his choice escape This requires much
more elaboration than beslow upon it, But Boston
needs lesson obedience to the laws mob has blot
ted her fair escutcheon Please leave this question of
science where the responsibility lieswh the Shareholders
and preach to the people of Boston the absolute necessity
of discharging their duty FOX which they responsible
to the laws which govern this great community of States
on whose union and harmony the hopes of suffering hu
manty throughout the world rest have abstract
right to acquire any amount of property in my power
may of right become if can, of your land and
independent of the social law, may have much right to
it YOU but that don't authorize to take your land
Ichoo No has the slave any authority to take his
services from his master If he chooses The social law fixes
r.,
the case in either instance No Babebuders of them all
nsulngly tower towards Heaven those who set upa
higher lac
4th AS to the treatment of slaves, am well informed
and do hesitate say that there is not better pro-
vided body of aboers earth than the negro slaves
the United States In reply TO your question" Does
slavery of Georgia and in the Southwest differ much
TO severity from that in the and central southern
States 2I say you that slavery nowhere in the United
States at this day. is severe. The slaves universally
fed and clothed WE'LL and happy and contented Look
at the tables of their increase and their ages of longevity
Look at their religious privileges and listen to them
preach and pray and them dance and seat fat meat and
lie by dc fire their masters love for Them and their
love for their masters With white officers, would fight
regiment of them against any foreign troops which could
land shores. They faithful and they are brave
and more dsnterested than the white They joy
GUS in temperament and patient their coarse
and strong The love their and its qualities
better than their pseudo friends the aboonsts do Ey-
cry adult slave around has half pound of cured bacon
per day. meal without stint of allowance
scale fish in season. shell fish nearly all the year. every
vegetable and fruit of the seaSon, and abundance Of
such as they prefer planted and for them Besides
this, they have crops of their which they sell for their
own use. Not of them who is industrious can fail to
have two or three dollars month to spend. They have
occasion to buy anything but fine clothes They have
their atons weekly Of molasses coffee and tobacco They
allowed to work and carefully who e;ck
and when well don't average ten hours of labor per day
They have their feast days and holidays and enjoy them
more than the whites do. Here they have Easter and
Whitsuntide two days, week after harvest day at Au
gust court three and four days each during the camp
meeting of the Methodist Church. to which they
mostly belong and week at Christmas, besides the half
days of Saturdays in going to their wives. believe
that they fare better in the restern and southeastern States
than they do in Virginia
5t. Is emancipation desirable or possible in any view
Oft if the blacks to remain here % answer no-em-
phaticay no. desire every of them, for their
sakes well AS for the whites, to remain slaves whilst
they remain here have emancpacd one, and win meyer
emancpae another They present fit only for the
patrarcha state of southern plantation They are capa
bic at present of state only of pupags. They
amagamate with the whites in this country The cross
hybrid and against nature Nature loahes mulatto as
much nearly she does mule 1t is wicked encourage
mixture of the races Contact with the whites and free
faster, than they Be colonized land Of better
promise 10 them.
Do good there sir by setting Boston philanthropy to
work in other directions than aid runaway sayes ui
them at removing the beam out of New Engands eye of
furnishing vessels and crgoes to the Brazilian African
slave trade. Teach them charity to masters well
slavesto men of their and blood Teach them
fall in with Gods providence in restoring civilization
Africa by aiding the colonization of tho free blacks from
the United States at Liberia elsewhere Teach them %
obey the laws and not to teach slaves not TO obey
their masters Teach them to put down mobs and the I'M
pey of higher laws than those of constitution and the
Union Teach them peace and to live in harmony with
brethren of common country, who have given to il and
to them political faith whereby they free and fathers
whose abors and sacrifices gave Them institutions of lib
erty OF which they prove themselves unworthy whenever
they abuse them to brothers wrong
know nothing of the fate of Mr. Pandolphs alayes
That was one only Of nnmDcr of instances could ef
of the folly Of emancipation to remain among the whites
They melt away like the Indian tribes the moment they
migrate to the northern States
trust, sir, that whilst have given you candid have
made decent and respectful reply My pen has run
right on, repeat and am astonishcd to how much
have written, and yet how much have left unsad.
Yours, respectfully,
HENRY A. WISE
Rev. ~ ADAMS, d. D. Boston,
From Nashville Union, 5,h
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