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

diminish has hardshIps. III yOa sur
round poPulatian situated like ours
with a Chinese vail or barrier. bey ohd
which IL cannot spread itsslf-if YOU
compress it-whaf do yoa dos why
you expose the master 70 serisas in
convenience and discomfort, and YOU
destroy the whole happiness IL the
slave. No man proposes 10 add 20 this
papulation. There is not a man in the
New England States who moald more
thoroughly and absolutely resist any
sttemPtto bsing-a slave from Africa 20
this country than We Of the South
would. n
4 Here. then. IA the great fact We have
TO deal with. Why not let il adjust
itselfs Why not pursue the wise po-
liey indicated in the measures Of 1850,
Cease to quarrel and wrangle with
each other. Live in your free States.
Rejoice in the possession of the many
advantages you have. But IL there i
strip Of land belonging 60 the United
States. upon which southern planter
can make cotton OF sugar. why grudge
IL Ia himi lie reduces no man from
freedom 10 slavery TO make il. He
transfers his slaves from the banks of
the Mississippi. or the Cooper. or the
Cape Fear. ar any Of our southern RI.
yers, TO another place and he certain.
~ will not do il unless the lands are
better. the crops larger. and he and his
slaves can live more comfortably, and
have more abundant supply If the
necessaries of life; and | will ask. in
the name Of Heaven, whom does il
hurt? You love freedom. We do not
ask YOU to make freemen slaves. You
profess TO have regard for the black
man; can you resist the only measure
which can enable Us to make progress
siye improvement Of his condition as
the amount Of black population increas-
esq
IL is. therefore. as il seems to me,
wise and just to pursue the principles
indicated in. aud nut of which sprang
the legislation Of 1850. II is unjust to
NO section of the country. No mortal
man can show that il will do an injury
to any human being that. treads Gods
earth, whether he be free or slave.
The poor slave will be benefited by il.
The master, with a large number of
slaves. cramped for land in country,
perhaps where land il dear, who de-
sires TO do good part by these slaves.
who have been perhaps transmitted
down to him for three generations in
the same family, and between whom
and himself there are mutual feelings
OF protection on the one hand, and 81
afiec tionate submission and reverence
on the other-wants to break up from
the place where he is obliged 70 stint
himself or stint his people, and to re-
move with his little family like patri.
arch, and settle upon better land,
where he can live in the fullest enjoy
ment Of the necessaries and comforts
OF life; and you say, nos Why "no:"
You do not want the land Yourself !;
You 10 not want TO grow cotton; you
do not want To grow tobacco or rice.
Why say that this southern planter
shall not grow them witt, his slaves
IL it from hatred of the master: Is il
because the removal, while it benefits
the slave, will benefit the master also.
! cannot believe that anybody can che.
IRISH wish to do US injury for the sake
Of II; vet il il benefits the slave while
II benefits the master, and Injuries no.
body else, in the name of common
sense, and our common Christianity,
what motive can dictate such poicys
1t must be the resu. either of irenzy
and fanaticism, or an embittered feel.
ing against population who do moi
wish to injure, am, are not conscious Of
ever having injured YOU. That we
have slaves among us, il it be a fault,
God knows il is not our fault. They
were brought here in the times Of your
fathers, and oi our fathers. Your ia
Tiers brought them, aud ours became
the purchasers-it YOU say in an evil |
hour, be 1T so; but what are we to do.
Here is this burden; assume it to be
As great as YOU please; the greater it
is, the more powerful is my argument
here is this burden upon us, not BY
any FAULT Of our own we have Inherit
ed It; it has been transmitted to Us
It was created here by the joint action
nf your forelathers and ours, and in the I
name Of God, will YOU step forward 1
md put heavier weights on this very
thus innocently inherited by 1
Us.
! think, Mr.. President, it is in the
highest degree probable that with re-
,ard TO these Territories Of Nebraska
md Kansas. there will never be any
laves in them. have no more idea
# seeing slave population in either ],
It them than | have Of seeing il in [
Massachusetts, not whit. tits pos |
ible some gentlemen may 60 there |
nI fatu fam AZ !.