Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-02-19

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IA 4. therefore, as II seems TO me, wise and
jast 10 pursue the principles indicated IN, and
out of which sprang the Legislation OF 1907. IL
Is unjustto no section ofthe country. NO mortar
man can show that u will do an injury 70 any
human being that treads Gods eartn, wne'her
NJ he fsee or slave. The poor slave will be bene-
e,ea ~ IA The master, with large number
al slaves. cramped COR land in a country perhaps
where land i dear, who desires TO do good
part by these slaves who have been perhaps |
lransmit,ed down 10 him for three genera
lions 10 the same family, and between whom
aud himself there are mutual feelings OIL pro
lection ON the one hand, and OF aliectonate
Submission and reverence on the other, wants
10 break ap from the place where he Is Obliged
20 stint himself OF stint his people, and TO re-
move With his little family, like patriarch,
and settle upon better land, where he can live
IN Inc failesl enjoyment Of the necessarles
aud cumGorss ~ lie, and you say, no. Why
aaoy" lou do not want the land yourself;
Won do NOT want 10 grow cotton YOU do not
wan, 10 grow tobacco or rice. Why say that
this songhern planter shall not grow them with
his slaves Il II from hatred OF the MASTER
/ T. ID beeaase the removal, while IL benefits the
slave, will benefit the master also? J cannon
believe that anybody can cherish a wish TO DO
i "a injury Cor the sake OF IL, yet II II benefits
| the slave while il benefits the master, and m
/ iaFes nobody else, in the name OF common
sense aud our common Christianity, what mo-
tive can dictate such policy II must be the
rrsult either of frenzy and iansiicism, or OF an
angry and embi,tercd feeling against popula,
lion Who do not wish TO injure, and are not
conscious Of having ever injured you. That We
il i mot our fault Ihsy SerfUfta 400 sfe Ii,
the times Of your fathers and Of our fathers.
Your fathers brought them, and ours became
the purchasers; IL YOU saw in an evil hour, be
il so: bat what are we 10 doy Here is this
burden, Assume il 10 be rs great as you please;
the grealer il Is, the more powerful is my ar.
gument. Here Is this burden upon US, not By
any fault Of our own !; We have inherited it; it
has been transmitted 20 MS; il was created here
by the Joint action of your foreiathers and ours,
and, In the name Of God, will you step forward
and put heavier weights on this very burden
thus innocently inherited by us?
, / think, Mr.. President. il is in the highest
/ degree probable that. with regard to these Ter
rtories Of Nebraska and Kansas, there will
| never be any slaves in them. have no more
idea Of seeing a slave population in either OF
them than have in seeing it in Massachu-
sets: not whit II is possible some gentle
| man may 90 there and take a few domestic
servants with them; and would say that il
those domestic servants were faithful and good
| ones, and the masters did not take them with
, them, the masters would deserve the reproba-
, ton Of all good men. What would you have
them do? Would you have me to take the SER
wants who wait upon me, and live with me,
and to whom have as strong attachments as
, to any human beings on this earth out of my
, own Immediate relatives and connexions, and
J because want to move to Kansas, put them
: in the slave market and sell them? Sir,
| would suffer my right arm to be cut off before
, Il would do il. Why, therefore, If some south.
ern gentleman wishes to take the nurse that
| takes charge of his little baby, or the old wo-
man that uursed him in childhood, and whom
, he called " nanny until he returned from
, college, and perhaps afterwards, too, and whom
he wishes to take with him in her old age,
, when he is moving into one OF these new Ter
ritories for the betterment Of the fortunes of
his whole family, why, in the name of God,
should anybody prevent it? Do you wish to
force us to become hard-hearted slavedealers?
Do you wish to aggravate the evils, if there
are evils existing in this relation? Do you
i, wish that we shall no longer have a mutual
feudal feeling between our dependents and
ourselves? Do you want to make us mercena-
!. ~ and hard hearted? Or will you allow US,
i
t mainly, and some Of the beneficial and love
breathing spirit of christianity. to let these be-
7 ings 90 forth as they are accustomed to do
e and us to rejoice when we look out and see
J. 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
Q clothes and going to attend their churches or
r Sunday, and realizing, as they look at US, thai
). we are the best friends they have upon earth
i Mr.. President, perhaps l manifest too much
: feeling about this matter. II seems TO me sc
j clear that no interest or advantage of human
/. ty can possibly be promoted by the spirit which
/, dictates this incessant opposition TO every
) measure which will allow us to improve oul
own condition and that of our slaves together
d it is so impossible to perceive that any good
) can arise from it--that cannot speak Of j
f without excitement / have no bitterness
/. about it. God knows have none. ! blame
t not those at distance from US who take up
/ false and mistaken impressions respecting us
!, know that efforts, the most wicked and per
severing, have been made to produce these i'm
pressions, and to present us to the minds o.
[ our northern fellowcitzens as monsters OF cru
) elty and oppression. ] blame them not. They
), have been trained to entertain these sentiments
/ and feelings. They are unfortunate in having
G such false estimates placed in their bosoms re
i speeding their friends and fellow-citizens, de-
r scendants OF common revolutionary ancestry
would to God that could obliterate those
! feelings would to God that they would be
disposed to enfold me and mine, as am the
} whole of my northern brethren, IL they would
| permit it, in the arms of fraternal and per
, petual concord. Sir, there can be no difficulty
: about this matter, il we suffer ourselves TO be
E Influenced by those considerations which spring
: necessarily and naturally out Of the facts o.
/ the case, and realize that after oil, abolition
e movement ever yet accomplished good Tor a
slave. The whole movements of the abolition
e lists Of the north, as all my southern friends
S around me know, so far as they have had any
influence with us, have tended TO restrict rather
o than to relax the bondage under which these
a people live. They have, in a great measure,
u stricken from the capacity TO be useful in
, various directions towards them those philan-
q thropic and honorable people who should lead,
e and otherwise would lead, our society upon
1 these topics. They expose every one to sus-
? picion. They have a tendency to close up the
+ avenue TO the otherwise opening and expand