Washington sentinel., 1856-08-07


have been substituted.
What crimes or sins has the South CON-
mitted, and Of which the North is innocent,
that warfare should be carried on by the
North against the South with such unsparing,
relentless malignity, vllifying and slandering
the South, its people and oil their institutions
We place truthful picture before our readers,
and leave them to Judge how far the South is
Justly subject to censure and such virulent hos
tlity from the North; of the propriety Of the
Nnrlh passing sentence of nnmitisaled con.
demna'on, and Of wreaking its utmost ven-
geance regardless even Of the egs of the Con-
stitution.
THE CASE STATED.
Dusrg or Subjecton to Great Britain as
colonies, the South thcu as now, we're without
shipping. Then. as subsequently, up to the
period OF the abolition of the slave trade with
Africa, the importation Of slaves from Africa
was made by the English and the North
Upon these, and these alone, does the phole
stigma Of African slarery IN tbs country rest.
The South is ~holy exempt from reducing
.treemea 10 slarery.
Tie North is stepped to the eyes, crimson.
dyed ,ciM this enormous gull.
The North has received profits from this
guilty trade, which, being invested as received,
now exceeds the enormous sum of two thou
sand millions of dollars
With this enormous fruit Of its guilt in its
pocket, the North sits in Judgment on the
South making itself accuser, witness, Judge,
aud executioner
The offence charged upon the South is this
that the North having violently and wickedly
reduced many hundred thousand freemen to
slavery-haying packed them, like herring, in
holds of ships, where nearly one fourth died
from suffering, and having brought them to
this country, offered them for sale to the South
as slaves for life, they and their posterity until
the will Of their owners should emaucpate
them. They furnished bills OF sale guaran.
teeing all this, and each northern man, with his
own sign manual, gave receipt for the con-
sideration. Tie South, finding the negroes in
acknowledged, perpetual slavery to these north.
ern men, who gave guarantee that the right to
hold the negroes and their posterity in per-
petual bondage was indisputable, purchased
and paid the price for the guarantee.
With this admitted state Of the case the
North not only refuses to restore these slaves
thus purchased when they escape to them, but
seek by every thieying, sneaking and dishonor.
able means to steal and to entice away the
people who they themselves first enslaved and
then sold into slavery, but also do this in de.
6ance Of solemn compact made by every
northern State, pledging its sacred honor to
its ful6lment
Not only this, but they protest against one
Of these slaves going into any portion of the
common and immense federal domain, belong.
ing equally to the holders Of the slaves as to
the northern men.
The South is condemned by the North 1.-THE
Black Republican North,) to lose their slaves
when they escape to the North, to have every
slave Kidnapped seduced, or stolen by the
North without reserve, hesitation or limit
To have the slaves in the District OF Columbia
forcibly manumitted; in addition TO the full
price paid the North for these slaves the
North now requires, in addition, the abandon.
nent by the South, with their slaves, of all
right or pretension to any portion Of their own
domain, domain in which they are with the
North joint and equal tenants. This was Ger.
tainly no part of the original contract when
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there any trace Of any such subsequent pro.
vision. The North would also prohibit the
inter State slave trade or commerce, and pro.
hibit the passage Of slaves from one State to
another.
The North itself held in slavery as many
negroes as it found profitable. How did the
Northern States get rid Of slavery By eman.
cipation? No. They did not pass laws eman.
cipating all who were their slaves, but they did
pass laws to the effect that, If the owners Of
out Of the State, that then they should be free.
Under this law, Of course, all we're sold except
those whose owners were willing to set them
free, and needed no law to DO so. Thus IL
clearly appears no Northern State ecer emanci-
pated ITS slares.
Having thus imported slaves and sold them
to the South as long as the law allowed; bav.
ing worked as many Of them at the North as
were profitable, and as long as they we're pro-
ftable, they then emancipate them into sIarcry
at Tie South for a fill consideration.
The lars were lars for cmancipating the
Ncrthern States from negroes, and nothing
else; they we're laws to relieve themselves from
burdens, not for the freedom or welfare Of the
negro; from no motive Of philanthropyor mercy,
but cold calculation of their own interests
and convenience; it was an emancipation for
which fuH value for the slaves was received,
and BY which the negroes were consigned into