Washington sentinel., 1854-02-03
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doctrines of any party on this occasion) require
no man to submit to oppression and wrong.
The very name Of whig implies resistance to
wrong, destruction to the oppressor, and woe
to such as peryert it to selfish ends. That
mousing politician who supposes that the whig
party is controlled by such selfish motives and
unmanly considerations is greatly deficient in
his understanding of its object, and knows but
| little about its political honesty and indepen-
dence. pass to the consideration Of the sub
ject in its moral, social and political rela-
| tons n 81
Abolitionists complain that we have no laws
| for the protection of slaves. The Almighty
! throws around slaves the same protection as
around his other inferior creatures, subject to
| the will Of man. have no fears of success
full contradiction, when assert that southern
gentlemen and ladies generally have more hu-
manity, and much higher and stronger sense
oftheir responsibility towards their slaves, than
characterizes the conduct Of their northern
tradueers towards their laboring classes. No
jury would acquit rfor the murder of
his slave, if he were found guilty. There now
does, or did recently, languish in the Virginia
penitentiary one of her wealthiest and pre-
yiously most respectable citizens, for causing
the death of his negro by maltreatment; and,
several months since, one of the most popular
citizens of one of the counties of this State
was compelled to fly the country, for causing
unintent.onally, but by his treatment, the death
of slave, notwithstanding the slave lived
several days.
What moral evils prevail among us of the
south, as q consequence of the existence Of
slavery that do not exist without it in the north
Is there less intellectually, virtue, religion, or
morality among us, than the people of the non
slaveholding States possess2 Are we less
charitable, kind, benevolent, compassionate,
just, friendly, and patriotic than they? Is
there greater amount of crime, debauchery,
prostitution, and avarice, in the slaveholding
i States than in the nonslaveholding States
History demonstrates that nearly all the sys-
TENS Of speculative theology, clap-trap philoso-
ply and in6delity, have originated in the north
ern States. have been at some pains to pro.
cure from official and authentic sources a few
statements somewhat illustrative of these ques-
tons, and respectfully submit the following
facts and figures for the purpose of comparing
accounts with our northern neighbors. The
/ United States census shows that
| The population nofMassachusettsis of ISL. 993,499
The population of Tennessee is. .....l ,092,6 2,625
Tennessee excess Of inhabitants, s,l26
i. i. Il PAUPER1SN. .:-
Massachusetts, has. ,54s paupers.
! Iennessee............... 59l
| Excess in Massachusetts. ......'''4,95S
| Massachusetts, with 8,l26 inhabitants less
than Tennessee, has over eight times as many
paupers.
INSANE.
Massachusetts. ,647
Tennessee. ......-...-.............. ATS
/ Excess of Massachusetts, II les
i Thus, this State that boasts of It's moral and
4 religious attanments, its exemption from slave
ry, and the supposed evils attendant upon it.
has three times and half the amount of in
sanity that exists in Tennessee.
CHURCHES
/ Massachusetts. y .4se-l 10 every SOS persons.
Tennessee. i .s3S-i 10 every ST. persons.
l Kentucky has population, including her
slaves, Of 952,405. Connecticut, including her
paupers, 37O,7al. Kentucky has, as you will
perceive, nearly three times the population Of
4 Connecticut.
i PAUPERIsM.-Co Connecticut, l,744-or ! to
every 253 inhabitants. kentucky, III.
4 Kentucky, with three times the population,
has less than half the number of paupers; OF
i only to every 1880 inhabitants
/ INsANE.-Connecticut, 462--or to every
500 inhabitants.
| Kentucky, 501-or not one to every 1887 in
habitants.
CHuRcHEs.-Connectcu 7l9-or to every
5l9 inhabitants.
Kentucky, l,0ls--or to every $40 inhabi
tants including her slaves.
/ THE MANUFACTURES OF ARDENT SpIR1Ts.-
Massachusetts and Connecticut jointly, manu-
facture annually the immense amount OF
4,037, 900 gallons.
Kentucky and Tennessee only 2, las, ,945 gal
Ions.
4 The joint population of Massachusetts and
Connecticut is l,365,290; that of Kentucky
and Tennessee is l,985,03O. Thus, Massachu
sets and Connecticut, with a population of up
wards of half million less than Kentucky and
Tennessee, annually sends forth one million
eight hundred and eighty-six thousand two
hundred and ffty-fve gallons more of liquid
fire to burn up the stomachs, bewider the in
tellects, infame the passions, rob the families
destroy the happiness, and damn the souls o
thousands Of human beings who might other
wise be happy, sober, and useful members o
society. The horrible details Of crime, pau
perism, and want, published in the police re-
ports Of the cities Of Philadelphia, New York
and Boston, alone exhibit degree Of depravity
unparalleled in the records of all the southern
States combined Is it true, then, that the in
i stitntion of domestic slavery tends to demorali
zation among those who tolerate it? Let the
q foregoing facts answer, and mark the tale they
tell
Permit me now to inquire Of the north what
1 is there connected with the present condition
| Of our slaves that demands such an excess O
fanatical sympathy? The condition of oul
/ slaves is better, and they are incomparably
| happier than are the miserable race from
4 whence they sprang, or the poor classes Of any
government on earth. Look at the abiect
want, squalid poverty, and unmitigated misery
prevailing among the laboring poor Of Europe
who toll from day to day and from year te
year, without being able TO supply the actua
wants of life, destitute of all its comforts. And
there is England, proclaiming her fanatical sym
pathies for the negro race, actually sending
missionaries to the United States to plead for
the abolition slavery, when she has within her
own borders millions of the Anglo.Saxon race
who are compelled to be The veriest of slaves,