Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-21

shut out Of the organizations with which
they have acted, and the newspapers they have
been accustomed to read. While the South
has been filed with dissertations on the intrin-
sc good of Slavery, and Of its vital Importance
to all it's interests while Southern men have
been preparing themselves with the whole ar
gument in favor Of maintaining and pcrpetu-
ating the system, the majority Of Northern
men have either taken no interest in the snD-
ject, or used their efforts to suppress the ag'ta-
ton Of it in the free States.
The only class of persons in these States
that can furnish writer's and speakers fully
qualified to meet on this ground and reiate
the champions of Slavery, is the class 30 often
stgmatized as lanatical bigoted Abolitionists
But, their field Of labor has been limited-their
publications read by comparatively few OF the
citizens of the-free States by still fewer OF
their politicians Hence, the imperfect vindi-
cation Of Freedom md Free Institutions, by
members and representatives Of the free States
in Congress On Slavery, as it regards the
Law Of Nations the Constitution, Federal re-
lations and Party politics, they betray no lack
Of strength or information-here they can
maintain themselves triumphantly;> but, on
Slavery, viewed in the light Of humanity, mo-
rality, or political economy, in its effects on
Labor, Capital, and the great interests Of So
ciety generally, they are utterly at fault, I'M
prepared by reflection, and without tho neces
sary information, to confront and refute the
Shareholders.
The time has come when members Of Con
gress from the free States cannot excuse them
selves to their constituents, for ignorance on
their part Of the great argument between Sla
very and Freedom. Not day passes in which
they arc not challenged to tho discussion, and
yet they are silent. The sophisms Of the
Shareholder, his deceptive tables Of statistics,
his bold paradoxes, go out to all parts OF the
country, to mystify and pervert public opinion;
and who steps forth to present facts as they
are, and the argument rs it really isa Error
makes its way by audacity and importantly J;
while the inactive friends Of truth fold their
hands in silence, and have no doubt that "Trnth
is mighty, and will prevail" We must have
something in Congress besides elegant plati-
tudes about the blessings of Liberty and tho
curses Of Slavery, learned dissertations on
Law and Constitution, cunning attempts to
manufacture party capital out Of the ques-
ton, vehement denunciation and invective.
Let the Shareholders sophisms about the
relations of capital and labor be exposed; let
his deceptive statistics be unmasked; let his
appeal to the comparative effects Of free labor
and slave labor on morals, industry, education,
commerce, wealth, and power, be boldly 40
cepted, and carefully tried by facts. Let
members of Congress from tho free States
bestow as much time and labor on the stndy
of free and slave-labor institutions, as they
arc accustomed to give to party politics, or the
questions of currency and protection, and they
will DO able to do what they never have yet
done-triumphantly vindicate the workings of
their own institutions, and demonstrate not
only the wrong of suffering Slavery to get foot
hold in United States Territory, but its incom-
patibility with the true growth and civilization
of the States in which it now exists.