Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-11

whole Injustice There is no offence against religion
against morals, against humanity which may not, IN tn
license of this institution stalk unwhpt Of Justice
For the husband and wife there is no marriage; 70
the mother there is no that her infant chill
win not be ravshed from her breast for all who bear tn
name of slave there is nothing that they can call thei
own Without father without mother, almost withou
God the slave has nothing but a master. 1t would b
contrary to that rule of right which is ordained by God
if such system though mtigated often by patrarcha
kindness and by plausible physical comfort could b
otherwise than perncious in its influences II is confess
ed that the master suffers less than the slave. AnC
this is not all The whole social fabric is disorganzed
labor loses its dignity industry sckens; education nd
no schools and all the land Of slavery is impoverished
And now sir when the conscience of mankind is at las
aroused to these things when throughout the civilized
world savedeaer is byword and reproach, we, al
nation, about to open new market to the tratck
in flesh that haunt the shambes Of the South Such
an this time is removed from all reach of that pal
lation often youchsafed Slavery. This wrong are
specousy told by those who seek to defend It, Is not
original SIM 1t was entaied upon us we are instruct
ed by our ancestors and the responsibility often with
exuation thrown upon the mother country Now, with
out stopping to inquire into the value of this apology
which is adduced in behalf of other abuses, and
which avaled nothing against that kingy power imposed
by the mother country and which our fathers overtime
it is sufficient for the present purpose to know that 1t is
now proposed to make slavery our own original act
Here is fresh of actual transgresson which
upon the shoulders Of any progenitors
any mother country, distant in time place. The Con-
gess of the United States the people of the United States
at this day, in this yaunted period of light will be
sponsble for it. SO that it shall be said hereafter so long
the dismal history of slavery read that in the
of Christ 1854 and deliberate act passed by
which a vast Territory was opened to its inroads.
Alone in the company of nations does country
sumo this hateful championship. In despotc Russia the
serfdom which constitutes the peculiar institution of
that great empire is allowed to travel with the i'm
peyal flag according to the American pretension into
provinces newly acquired by the blood and trea
sure but carefully restricted by positive prohibition
in harmony with the general conscience within it's
ancient confines; and this prohibitionthe Wimot pro-
vso OF Russiais vigorously enforced on every side in
all the provinces in Besaraba on the south and Po
land on the west; that in fact Russian nobeman
has been able to into these important territories
with his slaves Thus Russia speaks for freedom and dis
owns the slayeholdng dogma Of country Far away
in the East the gateways Of the day in eeminate In
da, slavery has been condemned In Constantnope the
queeny seat of the most powerful Mohammedan empire
where barbarsm still minges with civilization the Otto
man Sultan has fastened upon the stigma Of dsappro
baton The Barbary States of Africa occupying the
same parallels of latitude with the slave States Of our
Unon and resembling them in the nature of their boun
diaries, their productions their climate and the peculiar
institution which sought shelter in BOTH have been
changed into abolitioniss Agiers seated on the line
Of 36o SO has been dedicated to freedom Morocco by
its untuored ruler has expressed its desire STAMPED in
the formal terms of treaty. that the very name of slavery
may perish from the minds of men and only recently
from the Dy Of Tuns has proceeded that noble act by
WINCH, III uouor VI uOu, anu 10 distinguish from
the brute creation II quote his own wordshe decreed
its total abolition throughout his dominons Let chris
tian America be willing to be taught by these examples
God forbid that Republic" heir Of all the ages fore
most in the files Of time should adopt anew the borba
rism which they have renounced! Y.
AS the effort now making is extraordinary in character
SO no assumption too extraordinary to be welded
in its support The primal truth of the equality Of man
as proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence has
been assaed and this great charter of our country dis
credited Sir you and will soon pass away but that
will continue to stand above impeachment or question
The Declaration Of Independence was declaration Of
rights and the language employed though general in its
character obviously be restrained within the design
and sphere OF declaration of rights involving no such
absurdy attributed to it yesterday by the Senator
from Indiana, r PETTIT Sir is palpable fact that
men are not born equal in physical strength or in mental
capacites IN beauty OF form or health Of body. These
mortal coaks OF flesh differ do these worldly garments
Diversity or inequality in these respects is the law of
creation But God is respecter of persons and as
all are equal in his sight, whether Dives or Lazarus
ter or slave so are all equal in natural Unborn rights and
pardon me If say it is vain sophism to adduce in ar
gument against this vital axiom Of liberty the physical
mental inequalities by which are characterized or
the unhappy degradation to which, in violation Of com.
mon brotherhood, they doomed To deny the Deca-
ramon OF independence is to rush the bosses
shield OF the Almighty, which, In .espects the supper
tiers OF this measure seem to do
To the delusye suggestion Of the Senator from North
Carolina Slr BADGER, that by the overthrow of this
prohibition the number of slaves will not be increased
that there will be simply benefcent diffusion of slavery
and not its extension reply at once that this
if Of any vaue-if not words and nothing else
would equally justify and require the overthrow of the
prohibition OF slavery in the free States and indeed
where throughout the world All the dikes which in DIFF
ferent countries from time to tme with the march of cy
zaton have been painfully set up against the nroad Of
evil must be removed and every land opened anew
to its destructive food 1t clear beyond dispute that
by the overthrow of this prohibition slavery will be
quckened and slaves themselves will be multiped while
new room and verge" will be secured for the gloomy
operations of slave law under which free labor will droor
and vast territory be smtten with sterlity Sir blade
Of grass would not grow where the horse of Attia hat
rod nor can any true prosperity spring up in the foot
prints Of the slave.
/ But it is argued that slaves will not be carried int
In large numbers and that therefore the
ton is of small practical moment My distinguished col
league Mr. EVERETT in his eloquent speech, hearken
ed to this apology and allowed himself while upholdn,
the prohibition to disparage its Importance in name
from which feel obliged kindly but most strenuousy
to dissent Sir the census shows that it is OF vital con
sequence There is Missouri at this moment with Hi
nois the east and Nebraska on the west all GOVERNS
nearly the same spaces of latitude and resembling eac
other in soil, climate, and productions Mark now tn
By the potent efficacy of the ordinance of tn
Northwestern Territory Illinois is now free State Will
Missouri has 87,422 slaves; and the simple question
which challenges is whether Nebraska shall
be preserved in the condition of Illinois or surrendere
to that Of Missouri Surely this be treated light
| ly. But, for myself am unwilling to measure the ext
gency Of the prohibition by the number of whe
Their many or few, whom it may protect Human rights
whether in vast multitude solitary individual ar
entitled to On equal and unhestatng support In thi
spirit the flag Of country only recently became tn
impenetrabe panoply Of homeless wanderer who claim
ed its protection in distant sea and in this spirit an
constrained to declare that there is place accessible
human avarice, human lust or human force whethe
in the lowest valley or on the loest mountan-top wbe
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