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pact, of agreement, is alien utterly. ID has no
place in the slave code, and fearlessy assert
that we Of the free States, cannot without dis
| honor without GuILT, claim 10 ourselves any kind
of profit or advantage, as the consideration OF nm
agreement our part, that the people OF the
slave States, may either make or hold slaves on
n certain designated portion OF the national terri
tory; whether that profit oS advantage consist in
the MORAL, SOCIAL and ECONOMICAL benefits derived
from the exclusion of Slavery from certain other
designated portion OF the national territory; or
whether we receive from the shareholders a
compensation in MONEY, in lieu Of such moral,
social, and economical advantages. In either
case, il sayehoding he CRIME, then we Of the
free States by such compact, become pariicipa-
tors in the CRIME. III any gentleman is startled
by the inevitable result Of this argument, but
still doubts then let him substitute PIRACY, or
any other universally admitted crime, for Slavery
and he will see at glance that he must either
cease TO declaim against slavehoding as wyong,
or else must relinquish his demand for the obser-
vance OF compacts based on concessions 10 The right
Of siaoeh0iding
Blythe slave code, the master can make no agree
ment with his slave; and for gentlemen Of the
free States who haggle about the sacredness of
this compromise, to make agreements with their
| horses, would be no more ridiculous, as q legal
bargain, in the eyes of Southern gentlemen.
This was different even under the ancient COM
mon law, uHrlliS midnight OF IHe dark ages,
when Slavery was allowed in England Even in
that dark night of superstition and violence, if a
master made contract with his slave, no matter
how trting the subject, the contract was valid
beyond its own provisions II amounted to an
absolute emancipation Of the slave. Even in
that age, every presumption of law was in favor
Of liberty. But not so with the guilty, sneaking
contemplate slave codes of our own times and
country. BY these, not only the presumptions OF
ar EIerju but in n MAR ty afth a
slave States, perhaps all of them, emancipation
i of slaves is absolutely forbidden, excepting on
condition of removal from the State. This con-
/ trast shows the difference between our own times
and those of ancient days. 1t shows that ancient
common law Slavery was the offspring of igno-
rance and barbarsm, but that as the light Of
/ Christianity with its gentle, humanizing inhu-
ences, dawned upon that darkness, it set the ma
tons in motion forward, progressing towards
emancipation and civilization. 1t shows too,
| that modern Slavery is the whelp of avarice;
| and that its continuance is impossible except by
| reversing the onward movements of civilization,
and turning us back to the barbarism Of Africa,
| with the beauties Of which, modern sham Democ-
/ racy seems absolutely enamored; and determined
to force that barbarism as dowry, under the
catching title of popular sovereignty the
people of Kansas and Nebraska But would
say to gentlemen from the free States that those
who make agreements and compromises with
others, that those OTHERS may enslave their fell
low-men, anywhere or for any purpose but for
punishment Of crime, have no just reason to ex-
pect such compromises will be observed, when
| either the INTERESTS or the POWER of the ensla-
| vers come in conflict with the terms or the OBJ
| jects of such compromise. Such compacts on
both Sides are violations of faith with mankind;
| our complaints therefore, that the shareholders
do not keep within the bounds limited by the
Missouri compromise, but endeavor to break over
| them without our consent are not well founded.
True, of the free States took the thirty pieces
of silver, and in consideration thereof consented
TO the limits within which all the cruelties and
loathsome denominations of Slavery might be
| practiced and did not perhaps, anticipate that
| the shareholders would treat THEIR concessions
| to freedom Indian gift Ia GIFT to be re-
sumed when desired by the donor) So neither
| did lscARIoT probably when he bargained merely
| 10 shoW the chief priests and Pharsees where the
SAVIOUR might be found, anticipate dread a
consequence of the mercenary act, as the cRUcl-
1 FIxIoS the verdict of mankind has nevertheless
consigned the BETRAyER to Immortality of in
| fanny. Let US therefore profit by this example
and bargain no more for the transfer of the
RIGHTS and LIBERTIES OF OTHER MEN
Sir, when the people of the free States sell the
black mans freedom to the Shareholder, it is not
strange that the latter insist guaranty of title;
and when this guarantee is most easily effected
| by breach of the contract of guaranty this in
| fraction becomes the natural and characteristic
| remedy; and herein gentlemen Of the free States
have practical illustration of the proverb, |
+" What is got over the Devils back goes under
| his belly And sir this naming of the PRINCE
or KSAvEs and rascaity eompromisers, wildly re-
calls TO mind, that celebrated compact of his, so
closely analogous in principle, with these "truck
and decker compromises by free State poll
ticans, of the black mans 6adienabh right to
| liberty, whereby the ARCH OPPREssoR, for an i'm
pioHs consideration, offered 10 transfer call the
kingdoms of the EARTH" of which, he opned not a |
| foot, to the GREAT EaANcPAToR.
| Sir, will Northern statesmen never learn even |
by experience, that Slavery is an incurable ulcer
on the bod -poitic wearing out the very life of
| freedom THAT il Is ceaseless aggression upon
justice and, from its very nature, eternally OPP
| posed to law and order2-that il and Freedom |
never, never can be 80 fraternized TO dwell |
| together in unity2--that in its nature, il is the |
Reputation of Justice, which Is the foundation Of
| law Why not look this mere surface truth in
the face, and cease these vain attempts at tinker
| ing up alliances and compacts between interests
| in their deepest nature, cternally and rrecon- |
cilably hoste2 Why talk Of "compacts,' when
we know that Slavery lives and has its being in
breach Of faith that its fell and hateful spirit is
| aggression, violence and the qualification OF its
| own unbridled will2 Hence the seizure of Tex
as, the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Mexico, the eager COW
citing OF Cuba, and now, lastly, this attempt to
thrust its execrable self upon Kansas and Ne
braska. Sir, the spirit Of Slavery is the deadly
enemy of human rights, the enemy Of the human
race. Compromises with it, are as impious as
they are foolish and vain.
The spread Of this spirit like the march of the
pestilence that walketh in darkness" is the
terror Of mankind. The spirit Of Liberty and
the spirit of Slavery cannot co-exist in harmony.
| Attempts to unite angels of light with "goblins
damned would be no more audaciousy mpi-
GUS, Sow many pillows under the armholes
of oppression and injustice, daub them with the
untempered mortar of "compacts and compro-
misses as much rs you will, still your attempts
to join together what God Almighty has put
asunder, ought and must and viii, fall to pieces
as q miserable botch Of pseudo craftsmanship,
tit only for the scorn and derision of mankind.