Squatter sovereign., 1855-02-03

wilds of Africa. Though it has been
wisely suggested, if this were done, abo-
lsionists would give us no furthertroubles,
they would as did their fathers, become
slave-catchers, and thus being able to make
a profit of slavery, would cease to hate
sIasesowners; wotiid forget their mock
love of the negroin their real lege Of mon
;ey 5 shassgh il may tssily be sllosn that
slavery has done more to cisilize and chris
tianize the African, than all the schemes of
an,the pious missionaries; yet our sy1npa-
tlies for the African are no, sueh as for his
good to induce us TO bring among us a.
horde Of sayages, by bringing them into
our families. We are now reaping the
benefit of our fathers good works; we have
the civilized Christian man, in place of the
rude, vicious, and degraded heathen.
We propose to consider slavery as tex
lists In our country; to test its effects on
the white race and on the negro; to try it
not by bold assertion, but by facts and fg-
ures, about which there can be no dis
pute.
We assert that negro-slavery, as it ex-
lists in the United States, is neither NOR
al nor political evil, but on the contrary,
is blessing to the white race and to the
negro.
This broad proposition viii doubtless
cause the abolitionists, TO sneer-it viii
strike as bold, tile good MEN of the north
who have been SO long deceived; it may
even seem hard of proof to those in the
slaveholding States who have feared to in
yestigate the subject; bat we have the evil
dence at hand. A good lesson has been
taught us, and we have profited by it. So
long and so oft had it been proclaimed from
the pul pit that slavery was n violation ol
Gods law, men begun to doubt whether a
Shareholder could be a christian. Men ol
the world, too little tersed in thetefehangs
! of the Bible, feared to investigate the
question. Our Diyines. Hlisied by -iheil
Textbooks, took for granted the dogmas O
their Doctors, Yet so soon as one mar
Edared approach the Holy Book, dared te
ssearch the scriptures" it was found, tina
instead Of being violation of Gods holy
law, slavery was actually established by
that law.! The truth was proclaimed
discussion followed; the result was, tina
investigation fixed beyond controversy tn,
fact, that by the first law given to man by
his Maker, the law proclaimed from Sinia
slavery was established! Moses, the di
vine law-giyer, was a Shareholder! A
"fugitive slave" instead of being aided il
his escape. was returned TO his master by
Paul the great Apostle, TO the Ge1ailesl
+ So triupphantly, and cenclnsiyely wa
the consistency Of slavery with the, Chris
tian religion established. that abolitionist
were driven to infidelity, to blasphemy
they trampled under foot the Bible, ,spurnet
the God and Saviour of Shareholders.
/ With such lesson, Il is strange our pol
iticians have had less Eoldness than ou
parsons, have not dared to discuss llle bofii
| ical, social and moral effects Of negro-sla
very. The victory ssas as certain an
complete in the one case as in the other
i Though we, but private citizens of Dor
i der county, with neither the leisure nor tn,
means, had we the ability fully to prescn
all the evidences which canbe brought I,
sustain our position, so abundant is the ev
idence, SO accessible the proof. we feel u,
hesitancy In saying, we viii furnish $
/ much that none but those who are willfui
Iy blind, shall fail to see the truth of on
assertion.
Il Slavery is no evil TO the negro. If W
,f look at the condition of the negro in Africa
i the land of his nativity. we find the mos
pitiable victim of a cruel master, the mos
. wretched slave in America, when contrast
, ed with a prince Of his tribe IN the deser,
of Africa, is as man contrasted with
beast! The mightiest of the negro race
!, in his native land, nos only sacrifices hi
, human victims to his Gods of stone, but
I so Ioathsome In his flih and nalsednes.
t that Giddings. CT Gerrit Smith, would q
, from his presence; Mrs. Stowe could n,
: in fancy picture him kinslnan of poe
Topsy; Fred. Douglas would dis0wu I'm
. as country IS not for us to que.
! ton God spurposes, but il is certain shs
: from ouffirsf knowledge of the negro-rac,
3 those only have been rescued from the Low
: ea Stage Of heathen barbarity, who has
: been made slaves 30 the white Inan-thoz
E only have learned to know the God Of td
: Christian, who have been instructed /
E their masters. Ages have rolled on. an
a still the labor Of the pions missionary hs
been IL vain; he African in his s1afis
s al,d Is ssiH an idolators Even row Il
q only Iope Of his eIesaffen In the scale