The daily union., 1854-07-22

other Roman slavery and American slavery that
condition of things existing many centuries ago in Italy
and condition of society existing in the southern
States of this Union But nevertheless in the teeth of his
torcal fact and daily experience these conditions
unmisakably the and-ypes of each other almost
universally confounded and not only the abotonis but
the ant-aboonist them be the same and both
alike call them by the name and both base their
sonings f such absurd conclusions which both alike
rive at may be called reasoning) this assumption OF
identity.
The condition of things existing several centuries ago ia
Italy that system of society expressed by the term ko-
slavery may be summed up or defined thus When
Of the race created equal and therefore de-
signed by the Creator for equal rights the Roman law
the human law interviewed and gave absolute con-
troll the life of the other it took from the latter so far
human power could do so, all the rights that Nature
gave him thus he became property, thing slave and
the system condition OF society through which this was
accomplished, slavery"
The starng-point the basis the essential fact of Roman
slavery absolute control over the existence OF the
slave.
This covered everything and left the slave nothing the
right the fruits of his industry control of his
volitions, the rights of marriage, OF offspring, ALL
every thing swallowed up in the right Of the master
the e of the slave lie was therefore legally un-
Manned legally transformed into the category of things,
and whatever subordinate rifng ndugences permitted
granted him by the master always and instantly
annhlaed and swallowed up in the right of the latter
his life Such repeat was the essential feature,
the foundation fact the fundamental law of Roman sla
very of that condition of society historically known
slavery
That condition of things that organism of society
isng the South popuary called slavery may be summed
up defined thus When two exist in uxtapostion
one created inferior and therefore designed by the Creator
for subordinate purposes the human law instead in
Italy, intervening to nuy the higher law" Of Nature in
to confirm it. in other words, when giving the
superior white control the will Of the inferior
gro it legally confirms the natural subordinaon of the
latter and thus far, takes from him right rights
whatever and the condition system of society that
complshes this evidently slavery ALL but simply
an imbodment of the aaural relations of the races.
Wholly unlike the Roman SYSTEM whose essential feature
or foundation fact was absolute control the life of the
slave the main essential feature of the system of the
South control the service labor of the socaled
slave
The life of the negro under the safeguard of the law
and the right existence sacedy recognised is that
of the master.
To secue the right of service to extent necessary
to complete the right of the master the service of the
negro he has control the latter but further This
is the limit of his power the boundary of his rights and
beyond it outside of it, exist the legal well natural
rights of the negro
If therefore there existed but single race at the South
that impossible monstrosity which ignorance deems him
to be- and mposture and fraud represent him to be- if in
short he of the his MASTER with the
organization the endowments the capabilities,
and thus possessed the inherent natural rights as
the master himself there would yet be correspondence
and but faint resemblance between these conditions so
absurdly and so extensively confounded.
Between such wdely-separaed things, between that
condition of society existing in Italy, where
had absolute control the life of another and thus
left him nothing, and condition of things existing
the South where the right to existence is sacredly
guarded and q man has control only the labor or
service of anoherbetween such palpably different
ditions there could be mistake; would there
be any confusion misconception in regard to them
had not political and commercial interests British and
monarchca influences, been brought to bear upon the
popular understanding to pervert and mislead IT,
Instead of this supposition however which, if it
ally existed should not excuse intelligent mind for
founding it with Roman slavery it is tact actual indie
sructbe unmistakabe that widely separated races
exist at the South in juxaposton where the superior
holds the inferior to legal subordnaton God and
has already placed it In natural subordinaon
where the superior intelligence of the white directs
the physical forces the industrial capabilities of the ne-
ror negro for their mutual benet-where in short the
human law is external adaptation of the natural
law there is correspondence resemblance whatever
Roman slavery but the contrary such condition
brutal system which, violating every natural inherent
right whatever that of existence ITSELF turned the
to his fellow the property or slave of being
naturally his equal, to a created like himself
Roman slavery the complete imbodment of slavery
in fact 1t is the idea, the model, the thing from which
originates our modern idea Of slavery and is remarka
BILE that with all our national and political independence
of Europe should continue to cling TO its dogmas and
mental habitudes though they involve safety and
even contradced by the daily evidence of senses
The ideas and mental habitudes of European writer's
springng from the actual condition of European soce-
ties and modelled on the European social and political
ganismthe interests nvolvedthc preservation of the
existing ordcrthe permanence Of royas of erarches
of oligarchesa thousand things may explain if they do
excuse these writers their perversons of facts and
abuse of terms, and misconceptions of things but nothing
nothing should excuse American writer who,
dead the ennoblng influences that surround him con-
nues to tread in the seps Of these foreigners repeat
their pcrversions ana to propagate their asehoods
Adopting foreign IDEAS foreign standards foreign modes
Of thought mbued with the false notions the maxns the
traditions the lies of the corrupt and societies of
Europe and conoundng the dead past with the living
ent extinct barbarsm with vital systom an ancient
form of European oppression with normal organization
of American society," Roman slavery with the rela
ons of whites and negroes, such writer's conradicting
the facts of history and shutting their eyes the facts
that surround them that press upon them in every drec
ton that appeal to their well gs 10 their reason
sultify themselves and commit outrage upon common
and the relations and fitness of things that poserty
if the present generation will pronounce criminal
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