Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-01
Gbe Ilallp Spg.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY l, 1856,
The slavery Principle.

government, and of the statesmen and polltI-
clans who figure under it at the present day,
from the position maintained by the fathers at
the formation of the Union, and during the
early period of our existence as a eonfederat-
ed republic, we might give extracts from the
speeches and writings of Washington, Jeffer
son, Franklin, Madison, and others of, the
psst, and compare them with the sentiments
ayowed by the present race of statesmen, high
in tie councils of the nation, from the Presi-
dent down.
But it is not till within few yenrs that the
bold stride has been attempted of defending
slavery from principle, an extreme in that
direction which John Randolph, in his time,
although himself Shareholder, looked upon
with such unutterable contempt. Yet we
cannot, after all, see why this is not the only
tenable ground on which the apologists for
) he institution can really stand, with any con-
sistency.
Three successive steps are conspicuous in
he downward tendency of political opinion
in this country, on the slavery question, since
the organization of the government The
FIRST step was, the change from open opposi-
ton to slavery, and a general expectation of its
gradual Disappearance, to the position that its
continued existence, although an evil, was
necessary, from the impossibility of getting
rid of it, arising more from the sudden in
crease in the cultivation Of cotton than from
any Other cause. The second stage comes up to
he time of Calhoun and McDufie, who were
noted as valiant champions Of the institution
of NEGRO slavery from principle, they claiming
that ss model state of society in which the
whites should Re the lords and owners of the
soil, and all other property, and the blacks. or
the q descendants of Ham," the producers,
the ss hewers of wood and drawers of water
This, they claimed, was the " patriarchal sys-
tenn" and no condition of society was perfect
without it..
Butt seems it was reserved for the present
particular era to develop still more perfect
theory of the " peculiar institution" to dive
still deeper, if possible, into the depths of hui
man infamy and deprayity, in support of the
horrible system. 1t is now urged, with inf.
mite GOODNESS, that the system will apply as
well to the white race as to the black-that
distinction on account of color in the appl-
cation Of the institution is uncalled form
fact, that in every well regulated system. of
society, whether North or South, the capital
lists should own the laborers. This is fairly
.o,ol;,, bottoro ON tho ,oottor The follr,,,.
e
ing from the Richmond CVa.) Examiner, IS
fair exposition of this third, and ESQ far) final
phase of argument. used in defence of the
s,aveho,d;no rr;nc;nla
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= Until recently, the defence OF slavery has
labored under great difficulties, because its
apoiogists, qor they We're mere apologists,)
took halfway grounds. They confined the
defence OF slavery to mere negro slavery;
thereby giving up the slavery principle, admit
ting other forms OF slavery to be wrong and
yieidmg up the authonty OF the hlnie, ana OF
the history, pracuces, aua experience OF man
KIND. human experiences, showing. .He az
teersas success q sSGce Socsety, anu we "n i
peTsasJGetare 81 Jfee Sofsetg, was uAaNallaole
to them, because they We're preeludeo from
employing It, oy admitting slavery ih-the ao-
gro slavery involved them in a still greater
QlmcOlly. Inc ldWb OF iii lu0 DOuJucIu
States justified the holding OF ohlste men IN
slasery' pros1usu sntousn sne lnJsiel, ~
negra slave The bright mulattoes. according
to their theory, were wrongfully held in
slavery.
ohan5 ,'He "a .te 'S MI =; 49, .o,'Tloto,'
cornered. and dumb. as an oyster. The South
now maintains that slaUerg is right, natural,
1sid accessory. 1t shows that au dlVine' . ana
S.s g.. ah ho. 1So E.t3a -.
mani .ofS fres soc;eig in Western Europe has
been, from the beginning, a cruel failure, and
that symptoms Of failure are abundant IN our
NOrsNi Whlie lsls lar more l. obvious ,na' ne
sro onlv &. - iahor nnt 70 d;rect 80 ,,et ~,
pricigls of slavery is itsslf rsq4t, and does not
depend on difference of complication. Difference
Of race, lineage OF language, OF naoits, ana
move natural a durabls. and aitbouob slaves
have been generally sOhites, still the masters
and slaves have generally been of different
na.1onai descent MOSES ana AIisto.ae, inc
of this difference Of race. but not Of color"
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