New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-29
srAyE-CATCUING.

An intelligent. capable powerful " forehanded
man claims 10 be the owner Of one ignorant humble
fierdless penniless. The latter isfgn0rant because
he never was taught permitted to learn; power
Isss bac.nse the powerful have ever been arrsyed
in a conspiracy TO deny him all nights and trsmple
him down; poor because all his earnings, beyond the
COS, of the eoarsest subsistence, have been sppro
priated to the use Of his owner Aforesaid That
owner claims BY virtue Of his ownership and OF the
laws enacted BY such he is to enforce IT, right to
all the future as well the past services OF his slave
to marry or divorce him at peasure-to sell his
wife into distant land whence she VIII never return
and TO sell their children, one after another, even
from the mothers breast into everlasting bondage in
artansas Louisiana or Texas where they will never
,oain zee their parents nor each other and where
masters unchecked will. enforced " drivers whip,
shall evermore be their law.
On what basis is this enormous, fearful power OF
some men over others upheld and justified How
came those TO be the slaves of these BY what right
does A. claim TO be the owner and master Of B. so
long as he shall live
Will any man pretend that there is any basis for
this monstrous, unnatural relation but force Some
ancestor of b. was knocked down with club or
pinned to the earth with spear, or surrounded in
tured as he escaped from his burning hut. Such
is the substantial origin of all the Slavery thar is'
ever was, or ever will be. Take away the elements
of Force, of Violence and Menace on the one slae'
Of Terror and Constraint on the other, and there Is
no Slavery though one man should serve and i've
for another all his days. 1t is not the service but
the compulsion to render it, which is Slavery
But at length the poor, weak, ignorant man says to
himself II am weary Of serving A. for nothing but
harsh words and worse fare. / want to work
"henceforth for myself and my poor kindred. And
since the power in league with my master is much
too strong for me here will escape and avoid
sobservation until work my way to some region
where Slavery is unknown" Does any man ques
ton the reasOnabeness and moral rectitude of this
determination Where is the white man who, if
ensaved would not form similar resolution and act
upon it as soon as possible
Well: the slave escapes, as slave ought to, and
the master follows him, as masters WILL or hires such
souless wretches to do it will do anything whereby
money can be made. The master wants his slave
back and the slave wants to keep clear OF his master
ever more. Which of these parties do you, reader
wish to see prevail Ifyou were to die helping either,
which do you prefer it should be
"A
ence of Abotioniss in melting people to aid the es-
cape of fugitves from Sayery-wherein we think the
Abolitionists get more credit than they deserve.
There never was a time since knew right from
wrong that we did not ympahize with the slave, and
wish him success in every effort to escape from his
master. Tgenty-seven years ago. we first witnessed
an ATTEMPT TO recapture fugitive from Slavery.
This was in Vermont and the slave was owned in
New-York; for, though Abolition had already been
decreed in our State, there still persons under
twenty eight years of age who were held subject to
Slavery. There were special Abolltlonsts IN that
day. and here was no question of North or South. Yet
the whole adult people of the town in which the at
,mpt was made were instinctively the slaves
side. snd aided him to escape bis hunters. His owner
lived bur few miles away-for this was near the
State ne-and he repeatedly tried to regain his slave,
but could not because the people were all against him.
And we do not believe that to this hour, fugitive
slave was ever taken out OF Vermont or ever will be,
except by stealth and lying which is the latest fashion
of prosecuting this business.
Reader we will presume you are honest, just and
humane-that you have not sold your soul for Office
that YOU would not barter it for bale OF cotton
Then we know you are, you must be- against any and
every attempt to return TO bondage man who has
once escaped from it-that you will go to prls-
on rather than bear any part in stealing man from
himself Men can make law that would Justify
such stealing and Gods law commands us to - Break
..every yoke and let the oppressed go free" Look
you that it be not on your part dsobeyed