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ABOLITION DELUsIONS-No. s.
The ,Slare Porsr.p

ABOLITION DELusIoNs-No, 5.
The {" Slape Poasr'
All the nations OF antiquity practsed slavery, rather
all capves of supposed TO have forfeited their
lives and the captor liberty TO do with them he
pleased them to work. to sell them to Others TO tor
ture cruelty them, to feed his fshponds with them
just his cupdity caprice brutality might prompt
The Romans, above all Others carried this barbarc
and cruel custom They conquered nearly the whole OF
tho then known world and of course made slaves of
large portion Of the populations and reduced the
custom to System which, passing through numerous
phases, has down to times and furnishes US
with the "idea" il not the term word ITSELF These
slayesh Caucasians-whte of the same
race and often vastly superior to their in learning
and cultivation. And though such thing negro,
Monaghan Malay, Indian, may have been
sionaly in the streets Of the Imperial City when vic
torous consul returned to it to claim triumph, the "sys
tenn" or the condition. was applied entirely and alone to
those of their race to those whom the Almighty had
given the structure endowed with the facul
ties, and impressed with the instincts and there
fore designed for the sane purpose for the exercise of the
same rights and tuflment Of the duties,
| traveller entering the mighty city at the time of
Cicero would find homogeneous population ill naturally
alike, but orliciaiiy and legally divided into
classes OF patrcans and pebeans peasants and slaves The
child Of the Roman patrcan exchanged in its cradle with
That Of the pebeian, peasant slave would grow up
Ike the class among which It THROWN and that of the
slave bred in the parcian circle would of be
equally noble with Others of the privileged order Now
modern traveller entering the city Of London, would
find almost counterpart of this Roman society Of
two thousand years ago. He would find purely homo
geneous population, arfcialy divided into numerous
classes of pacians and pebeians, and peasants and
if he found class that called slaves in name
he certainly would find nutitudes of those who We're
slaves" in reality But this traveller visiting
+ or would
an entirely different condition of things Instead of
homogeneous population he would find two distinct and
races divided from each other not by
tfcal legal distinctions by human contrivances Of
any kind but by the hand Of the Almighty. He would
find the white population not in Rome forcbly divided
into patricans and pebeans peasants and slaves but
all standing where Nature had placed themon the
Illegal and political level and if wiser richer
exercised greater social influence, than Others Why
this the result Of corresponding exerton free and
open alike ALL and which gave artificial legal priv
iege over the most ignorant or humble
Turning them his attention to the other race he would
find it complete accord with the laws of Nature and
therefore the will of the Almighty the former lie
would that 1t Inferior had inferior structure
inferior faculties that it had different wants and different
and inferior adaptations and this indviduazed into the
relation Of master and servant OF protector and protected
would be TO the utmost harmony and webe-
ing of both races; in short he would the natural
and the natural inequality and subordnaton of the nfe
rior also carried out practically Now, what would
he find in this social condition of Virginia to correspond
with that of Romeo Is there single fact feature
sembling each other, any approximation whatever in
these conditions On the contrary, they not complete
or almost complete, antpodes?
London with its homogeneous popuation--its white
divided by oppression and fraud its privileged classes
its proud and rotten astocrac its serve shopocacy, its
overworked artisans and its hideou crowds of dcormed
and attered and brutazed GLOVER ordera this London
population thus transformed by human contrivances has
certainly close resemblance to the ancient Roman but
neither of them any whatever to that of Virginia. and yet
the latter i, called slave State from its assumed identity
with the condition of Rome.
Is it not very evident that supendous fraud prac-
tised somewhere that misconceptions widespread and
dangerous mi,conceptions universal among us2 Is it
not plain enough that subject to mental dication
rs creditabe the intellect dangerous to the peace
of the nation2
British writer's assure us that our social life so resembles
tho Roman that the word expresses BOTH though
Rome aside from her artificial and debasng distinctions
among white men, had negroes at ALL
But accept this absurd assumption, and base all
reasonngs it and party among US labors night aud
day to assmiate the British SYSTEM with the belief,
the protested belief that that is system of eedom
This great foundation fasehood blinds to multitude
of things that equally false but by constant reitea
"slave power the notion of slave power" or
slave interest" is the universal and the most mis-
chievous There is such power" rs slave power"
"in,erest slave interest" 1t is illusion, mscon-
cepon an absurdity. What is assumed 10 be q slave
power is democratic power and what is supposed to
be slave interest," the great agricultural interest Of
tho nation There no conflict contradiction of inter
whatever the planter of the South and farmer
the North STAKEHOLDER and northern PRODUCER they
both producers both aborers representatives of la
bor both have perfect identity of interest both have the
same interest The planter STAKEHOLDER who owns two
thousand acres of land and 800 negroes raises certain
amount and cotton he keeps what is for
his own household and sells the surplus. The northern
farmer however humble who has but fifty of land
and pair of horses raises certain amount of wheat and
corn he keeps what ia necessary for his family, and sells
the surplus Thus their interests perfectly identical
in the instruments of laborone works negroes and
the other horses Now abolition philosophers and other
northern opponents of imaginary slave interest may
figure away for century, and split their heads with Brit
ish logic and free labor statistics and they must come
back to this simple and fixed fact-there is national
agricultural interest which is of necessity the came thing
oil overn Carolina in 0hoin Texas as in New Hamp-
shire; and to call slavery in the former and freedom
the latter don't alter the thing itself atom And this
interest Of labor Of produoonthis great planting or ag-