The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-28

creation itself framed by al-powerful al-wise and all
good Being, evil exists. lie permits 1t, and why dc
not understand but He does destroy the works of Hi
creation this account. We know that In any form o
society which could be organized evil exist and
reproach statesman people because in their nstitu
tons they may have attained perfection Is TO demand
o. them more than Is possible Tor human nature All thai
they can be required TO do is what is best under the
circumstances. He who demands more, aud makes war
upon all governments in which is not effected is
enemy OF his race, and dsturber of the peace OF
knda man to be ranked, not with the statesmen, bui
with the madmen OF the world. ..
Now sir ask fboth and experience do prove
that TO retain these two races in that relation
soil the very best thing whichca be done for them
But Mr. President the mischief of the attempt TO
these slaves loose for the not doing Of which thus
eproached both abroad and at home would not be
lined To the two races soil it would extend 10
those very countries which hur these reproaches at us
and TO the whole civilized world There are probably as
many people outside OF the slave States who derive profit
and existence from the proceeds Of slave labor be
found within them On the great staple Of slaycgrow
ceon II is estimated that nearly quite three mil.
iIon Brtsh subjects depend for their subsstene take
this from the recent declaration Of the Manchester Peace
Society, and have Seen similar declaration before.
When come TO add the number who depend on tho
other slayegrown staples, not only In Great Britain but
in all Europe and in the free States of our own conede-
rscy, we should find, believe, that there de
pending for their existence the institution Of slavery
aud its profits outside OF slavehodng States than
within them We should find, probably il we could pur-
sue the inquiry strictly and accurately that Massachusetts,
herself is interested in the profits of saveabor and
suhsists larger number of people upon it than do per-
haps the States of Maryland or Missouri or even some
other slave States which might enumerate.
Not only this but those who thus make slavery profit
able by creating the demand for the products slave la
bor much responsible for the Institution
who the slaves The deadliest blow that could be
dealt to slavery would be TO refuse TO receive the products
OF slave labor DO that and You destroy the demand
which makes il profitable DO that and, far as Old
England New England concerned you would do il at
only pecnniay expense but ii would cost not merely
money but social and political happiness They could
do that at mere pecunnry expense but viii they do IT,
have they done it, Why, Gr il IL a little remarkable
that in this very philippe which Macauay uttered against
the Institution of slavery in Virginia and North Carolina
he was engaged in the work lin which he succeeded OF
pealing the discrimination against sayegrown sugar,
which had been made for the benefit Of their colonies
upon whom they had forced emancipation. He not only
made TO force the repeal Of that discriminating dpty bpt
he sacceeaed and Engand did repeal it, Notwithstanding
the obligations which she owed her colonies whom
she had forced this harh measure to give them at least
that advantage in her own markets.
IL we examine the history OF the G3uton we find as
have just endeayored 10 show from its commencement
to the present period that those who row reacn
as responsible as a " tRe first instance they sold the
siaso nnd we hoaght him Now sell The products Of
hslabot and they buy it, Thecomplwy is the same the
process is reversed II has been said, sig and well said
that tho Judgment Of i,m was TO be commended,
'tWho sent the thief that stole the gold away,
And puashed him who put II ia his way.
Upon that principle submit that IL there be guilt and
II there be wrong in maintaining this relation they
responsible for But in point OF fact there is
guilt either in the in the other. The wrong is
in converting that into matter OF reproach against rs
which is not properly the subject Of repraach and for
which, II were the ar macn responsible as we are
Mr. president IL is said that slaves sold chattels
and property from one to another in the States p Tha
the institution is tolerated. know that this presents
splendid field for decaaatiop; apa, If did not know it
beor sAola have Known il alter following Macauay in
his display upon this aabjeet, know that individual
may be selected Of which real and Of
which imaginary in which harships and misery may
be shown but Notwithstanding all that the practice
of selling them from to another and the slave rsd
itself is the very saietyyalve CT ihs institution rat as
bsth races Concerned, in teSouS II ia owing this
that the slaves have been able make the progress which
they have done II is through this process that they
quire the and facilities for emigrpta Ven ore nf
cessay for tho improvement qf eyeSy race that has ever
made any Improvement IN the history ~ Hag The
stronger satisfy this necessity OF their cOndihn
armed emigration the weaker are '~..ue TO do il by
forced emgraoni ana ssory shows that the African has
performed his share of that process from an age beyond
the date Of the pyramids In the of the
some Of Tue very routes which he then travelled pur
sued by him for the purposes and objects as if
they had been traced out for him by nexoubc law
OF nature,
We know from experience tha in the southern States it
this which has midgated the institution and ameliora
Ted ms condition. because IL Is nnder this that when pop
uaton begins TO press the of subsistence he Is
removed from place where his labor pays but little to
one in which pays more not only TO the master but him
ssG Although may TO be hard that he should be
thus forced to CRATE at the will of another instead Of
his own, yet when to scrutnze closely the pro-
cess we Ind that the line of emigration which be pursue
according TO the laws Of trade is precisely that line which
he would take If he TO follow only his interests
Should not find IL we TO examine IT. in the hsto
ry OF the emigration OF the whites many individual in
stances of misery and suffering many Of sopara
ton between members Of the family do amongst
the slaves who thus sold from State to anotherf
believe that II could trace the matter should find
that the emigration from the Sutherland property In Scot
land hr Macaulay country) involuntary in
its and sad in its consequences those who
made any that took place from Virginia or North
Carolina TO the cotton States south of them Ia the
crowded population Of the Old World believe we could
find instances Of emigration forced by circumstances which
would harrow the heart fully deeply any that could
be referred to in our States
Why Mr. President under the operation OF this trade the
effect has been that the moment the negro labor becomes
cheap in region and he gets smaller share he profits
Of labor he Is transferred to another where the profits Of
his labor are greater and where OF course he gets larger
share and where in the end he receives consdera
ton Stop that trade tomorrow and believe you would
nict the greatest chrse the slave In the Souh that
could be inflicted upon him Pen him up IN the old States
and the consequence be either that he perish
under the Euiengs Of n collision with the stronger race
when population presses hard upon the Of sub
sstence else the whites will abandon the country and
leave II TO the negro and his original barbArism
Under these circumstances IL this process be Of
lief and amelioaton TO the slave ask how Is il that Il
should be the subject OF so much reproach 10 those who
Of this very that they should do 50 IT, in truth it
did deserve the Teproaches which have been upon It,
VI in TRUTH Virginia did deserve the accusations which
have been thus made ask if IL lies in the mouth Of Old
England and New England TO utter them ask if IL
out Of their quivers that she had right expect such
arrow TO be directed at her Have not shown that
they responsible for the circumstances which
make this institution necessary that II we the buy
they the SELLERS and that " we sell the product
Of slave labor they buy H. and contribute their full share