Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-26

ol THESE, our NieSarS, destroys the fragrance oil
every virtue and curdles into hate all their
kndlier feelings?
Is not the whole length and breadth Of this
henous crime, not that they hold slaves, but
horrible dictte! claim The right to change the
residence Of STARE. On this hangs all the
law and the prophets This simple fact-that
men Of the South claim the right to change the
residence of slave, is doing more to shatter
this Union than could the combined force Of
all the allies. DO southern men claim the right
to change the residence of slave into Massa-
chusetts? Not at all--but only to that common
heritage OF the South as well as the North. and
even there subject TO and liable to have every
slave set free, if Massachusetts and other free
soil States send more residents than the South.
If the people of Massachusetts have a right to
introduce or abolish slavery in Massachusetts,
what worse is it for these very men, transplanted
TO Territory, to have the same right to abolish
and To establish it? Massachusetts men have
a right to remove to South Carolina and to
abolish slavery there; to take away from
their owners every slave though they hold not
one themselves. Is this not 500 Men from
| the north have the right 10 remove to South
Carolina; 10 elect, if lney have the number,
the assembly and governor, and to abolish
slavery. What more do they want?
Are the effects of slavery Of so dreadful a
character as TO justify the disregard Of all ties,
compacts, courteses and discretion
We ask few questions, and will the h.telIi-
gencer, or any one, answer them, demonstrating
the interiority Of the South?
|. Name the State or country where the health
of the laboring classes is better or as good, as
that of slaves?
2. Name the State or country in which the
laboring classes are more sober, or as much So
as slaves?
3. Or any community among whom there
are so few lunatics as among slaves?
4. Or in which so many children are born
and safely live TO maturity?
). Or in which there are so few riots, muir
ders, assaults, or burglaries as among the slave
population?
8. Where is the laboriug community which
is so cared for in sickness and old age as
| among slaves?
| Z. Where is the community that can APP
I proach comparison between the mutual at
| tachment Of master and slave?
| s. Are there not hundred. ay, thousand
instances Of devotion Of slave to master and
master to slave, where one can be shown of
servant to his hiring master or Of master to his
hired servant?
3. Is there aboring class in the world so
well fed and doing 50 little work as the slaves
| of the South
To- And, finally, is there any community on
earth, of equal numbers, i'll which there is so
! little vice and crime as among slaves?
If all these questions be answered, favoring
the condition Of the slaves, as we apprehend
will be the reply of the Inteligencer and of oil
who will consider them, can slavery, as it ex-
lists here, be such an unmitigated evil, such a
Pandora's box, as to justify, to call for the
furious conduct of Massachusetts,, and render
it an essential virtue to seek to dsioint the
Union, to undermine the pillars Of our safety
and prosperity, that, in the general ruin, the
South may suffer the aggravation Of revolt,
| # that would be one Of the consequences when
slavery would be abolished? The evils of dis.
union, as depicted by the Inteligencer, are not
over colored; they cannot be exaggerated ; nor
does the Intelligencer overrate the high value
4 Of q common history, common triumphs, OF
the common struggles Of our ancestors, Of the
honor due to achievements already accom-.
plished, Of the still brighter and more glorious
promise Of the future, if the Demon Disunion
should not accomplish his purpose. All these
/ things said by the lntelligencer in its discourse
are true, but not half the truth for pen can.
not tell the glogies Of our destiny if reason,
justice truth prevail among u.s. If we and our
posterity be guided by these stirling virtues, .
general intelligence will pervade the n.rti6n.
which will raise to dignity every employment.
rendering every man companionable, and
bring into the common stock the efforts and Ia.
bors Of every brain.
If the Intelligencer would adopt the means
likely to secure the object Of its fervently ex.
pressed desire, can it notcounse in season and
out of season those who endanger the Union ?
Can i not say to the fanatic free-soilers that
if everything claimed By the South be allowed
as Justly their due, no era can 5efal them IN,
Free-Soilers,) no man in Massachusetts, or in
any other State will have his person, property
or estate in any manner damaged-no response
bility, physical, moral, legal, or pecuuary, at
taches to him. But that, on the contrary, to
deny these rights does afflict loss and damage
to southern men-and to aggravate to the last
degree the injustice, perpetual streams Of foul.
mouthed denunciations flow from the thousand
presses of Freesoilism, wheextensivc consp
racies are at work to seduce, and steal the pro
perry Of the South-the thefts avowed and gloried
ina legislature with some ffty-six reverend
| members, in clear, unmistakeabe, deliberate
Intentional and avowed terms, enact law Civ