The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-07-31

1T his feet to learn OF hun! w 1at else eau
we say, but that all sucn pretexts, whether
for public wrong or for private iniquity, are
neither true nor real!
1t was my purpose, Sir, to have said some
thing on the remaining topics of your dis 7
practicabity and dignity OF the
anti-Si; verg Enterprise, together with your
v e~ o. tn. special duty of the North Wi b.
regard to it. In your first topic, however,
the necessity of that enterprise, the founda-
tim OF all lies; and having discussed, in some
cegree, your fundamental principles. pass
by what, when | was younger man,
should have been more prompt to utter,
touching some other portions Of your dis
course F n the rest, | will venture 10 add a
few words which. if YOU cared to do SO, it
would be your right TO demand of me, in
explanp tion ofrmy own views, after having
spoken so freely of yours
Slavery, Mr.. Summer, is not modern in
stituiiun; it is as ancient as human society,"
And yet it is not permanent institution, in
the sense of being perpeiuated in one Partic-
ular race or country. We have the sad adj
vantage of being able TO contemplate it in
every age of the world, in every condition of
everiiy, and in contact with eyeryform CT
civilization. We ought, by this time, to be
able to comprehend it. From this point of
which fear may appear TO you Inaccurate
The first is, that nothing concerning the
structure of human society is more clearly
established by the entire career Of man on
this earth, than thu; in some form or other,
the social subjugaton of one part OF every
highly developed community to another part
Of it-Ihat is, servitude in some form or other
is absolutely inevitable; just as much 80 as
the existence of crime, or want. or sorrow.-
Let US bewail this badge OF our fallen
condition; let us seek its constant amellora-
ton, as one of our clearest duties; but let US
respect truth, and justice, and honor, and.
good faith, in all our attempts. The second
statement have to make is, that the general
condition of negro slavery in America, 80 Tar
from being particularly diretu and loaIh-
some, as you represent it to. bel really and
indeed of necessity, in all respects mit,gated
and regulated alter the pervading spirit OF
our Protestant civilization, and is gradually
acquiring more endurable position, as the
power OF the Gospel gradually extends its in
huence, and as the Slave States gradually
| ettle into the conviction that their duty
oblIges them to accept this institution as a
permanent part of their social system. | do
| not myself believe that servitu0e in this par
ticuIar form is, as an orig nal question, either
| necessary or desirable; and | am well con-
WINGED that in many OF our Slave States i.
might be gradually abolished, with great ad-
vantage; while in all of them it might be still
further amelorated, without regard to the
IquestiOn of S Ultimate solution. Nor is II
ny opinion, that the permanent continuance
Of this servitUde, in IFS present form, is posi-
ble-thuugh It's endurance may be protracted
and the methods of its termination extremely
diversified, over the immense area covered
by it. Your duty and mine, Sir, as Ameri-
can philantrhropists. each in his own sphere
is to accept this great problem we find it,
and By, all The n ans in OR power, assist It's
bic with the interests of humanity, with tile
true progress and glory of our country, and
with ihuse internal principles of nature and
OF Providence which our puny efforts may IN
some degree assist, bot are wholly impotent
to control.
4 There is an aspect of this Whole questioh
of Negro Slavery in America, extremely
broad, and which you do not Sc m to have
examined. 1t is not merely Question of
Slavery and The negro population on this
continent; Tor yet merely i question Of blood
shed and conquest of your North against our
South. 1t is question affecting all of the
black race throughout the earth, and all those
vast interests of the whole earth, which the
final destiny OF that immense race involves.
As vet, the black race has never had a ma
! uonality. As yet, there has never been u
| civilized State within re tropics. A hun
dred millions of the human race, and nearly
a fourth part of the earth's habitable surface
! around its very centre, await the issue OF
this question of Negro Slavery in A merica,
and must be Influenced greatly, if not con-
trollingy, by it. Rest assured, Mr.. Sum
ner, whatever dignity you may persuade your
self 10 ascribe to your Anti-Savery Enter
prise, and to your stirring speech at Nibl1's
Theatre--nay, even TO your Faneui Hall ell
oquence, and your Massachusetts agitations
over some fugitive slave-ihere is an eternal
logic IN events, and there is an awful majes-
ty in the sublime course Of Providence, in
the face of which posterity will say that IN
endowed like you ought to have been asham ed
to participate in such insa ne, fantastic, and
/ ignoble reVels $50
However difficult the question of hum a n
servtude may be to solve, after Slavery
has Been fully established in the bosom of
Commonwealth, or however men may
differ to the moral aspect of the actual
questions now agitating the minds of our
cOuntrymen SO deeply; it seems TO me that
as mere TOPIC OF Rational politics and
national Legislation, the whole question of
American Slavery is one environed by no
other difficulties, but such as have been
c'eated by our own evil passions. So far as
the powers Of the N irthern Governments
are concerned, has not Massachusetts the
unquestohsble right TO create Slavery in
her bos Mi she sees it to do--and Lou.
isiana TO abolish it in hers, if she thinks
proper! md is not this true OF every
State! What need thet is there, in all So
berness, for frantic cor tentions ABOUT Ter