Washington sentinel., 1854-03-07

| because Sne not only rtceiVtu INC pricc Vi ne
groes, but had the furnishing of their supplies;
her shipping found employment by the trans
portation of the produce raised by the negroes,
which otherwise would have been without
employ.
"True it is, that whenever funds were wanting
for the general use, the south, besides her full
share of taxation in common with the north,
paid an additional tax upon the entire value
of her slaves; had their slaves in arms, and
fighting against common foe, and even thus
in the ranks taxed to pay the expenses of the
war.
"True it is, that at the formation Of the Con-
being property-because we originally owned
and held them as property, and transferred them
to the south, as such, under legal bill of sale
duly recognised at the north and at the south
were therefore not entitled to any representa-
ton in the federal Union. The south contend
ing that to all intents and purposes they were
no more nor less than equal to the disfran-
chised laborers at the north, who then greatly
abounded in all the States. The laborers at the
north, then, having no more right to vote than
the slaves Of the south, the actual voters of the
north, (not the laborers,) as Of the south repre-
sented the labor of both sections. In addition
to which, whenever funds were to be raised
by leyies on the States, the labor of the south
alone was always to be taxed; that of the north
always to be free from taxation. The compare.
tive desire for union was represented by the
south, yielding two-ffths of clear right, and
the north yielding three-ffths of that which it
had no right to refusethe whole. Thus the
States entered into union, since which time,
and until 1903, the north was busy in bringing
in cargoes of slaves. Not to speak of the re-
sponsbility thus assumed by the north, nor of
the profits to it of this trade, we will only say
| that figures can scarcely enumerate the amount
of money received by the north for transporta-
ton of produce raised by slaves, of the value
of supplies furnished to the south for slaves,
nor have we any objection now to continue this
profitable business with the south, any more
than we have to deal with Cuba, Russia, and
with all the African tribes, who continue to en-
slave, and sell into slavery every tribe they can
respectively conquer. We are willing to have
all the. profits Of slavery, but not its presence,
its evils, or its blame. 1t is sin, damning,
polluting sin, and conscience tells us to op-
pose its introduction into the Territories to the
bitter end, and regardless of consequences The
repeal Of the Missouri compromise is such an
offence in the eye Of Heaven and of the norther
States, as TO call for the last resort to defeat its
| infraction.
"This Missouri compromise is a compact be-
tween the north and the south, by which sla-
very was allowed in the Territories south of
latitude 36o 30>, and forbidden north of that
line. The sin Of slavery had become such
stencil in northern nostrils, that it was abolished
from the several States as fast as it became un.
profitable. The sympathies of the north for
the suferings of the slave are Of the most lively
character, and they pray Heaven night and
day for it's amelioration and extinction, and
they are resolute to exclude it from the national
| domain"
Having thus spoken with truth and frank
| seat. The stranger, turning to him of the
south, looks an inquiry as to what is urged on
the other side. Rising he stands forth to plead'
the cause. Conticuere omnes intentique ora
| tenebant.
~ have but little to add to the statement
made by those opposing common enjoyment
Of common inheritance, belonging as fully
| and entirely to the one section as to the other.
AS to the iniquity of slavery, after the narrative
| furnished, will say little; but supposing it to
be all that it is represented, one would suppose
| that he who engendered the disease was not SO
wholly guiltless that all the blame should rest
| on him who alone endures the disease. How,
indeed, would be the fate of the seduced, when
arraigned by the seducer alone, who, with her
stolen heart and honor, exempts himself from
blame by condemning her; for this is the very
aspect of the case presented by the aboltionists
and freesoilers themselves; and to cap the eli
max, it has only to add beggary to its victim
The north having seduced the south into sla-
very, proposes, as the sequitur of this guilt
/ which it charges, a con6scation Of the common
patrimony to the exclusive benefit of the north.
aThe adage ehithertohas been, that the receiver
was as bad as the thief; but by the new ethics
Of the opponents Of this bill, it is the receiver
exclusively who is bad. For they were the
stealers of men in Africa, it was they who held
them as property, it was they who sold them
as property, it was they who sold them into
l-
bondage, while the south were the mere re-
ceivers Of men, upon whom already the extreme
of wrong had been inflicted yet these stealers
of the negro, with the price Of their guilt in
their pocket, are the prosecutors, judge, jury,
and executoners of the receivers. 0h rare
i justicel Oh conscience immaculate!
"Does this guilt, if guilt It'll be, render the sons
OF the south IN the common territory, unfit asso-
Il o;oto, for Tho cnpo &c tho north 10 tho naonla