Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-11-21
THE TRUE SEAT OF INTELLECT.

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table. Ittakes the stand that African slave
rv is about to be revived, and that it will
soon be as popular as it was an hundred
years ago. The whole Buchanan press of
the North will in less than twelve month
echo the same unholy sentiment, and preach,
print and declare, as their great leader, the
Enquirer, does that Slavery is right, and
should be made universal and nationwide.
Such abhorent sentiments as are found in
the article below, will find no favor among
the Republicans of the Northern States
We ask Democrats, who say they are OPP
posed to Slauery, to read the article, and
see if it does not correspond with what we
have been telling them all through the cam
paign:
For fifty years past arguments and facts
and authorities have in vain been addressed
to the brains of Englishmen, Frenchmen
and Yankees, to prove the rightfulness and
expediency of negro slavery. But at last,
quite of sudden, the products of slave la
Dor become scarce, and rise in price, in con-
sequence of negro emancipation. The ar
guments, facts and authorities, address
themselves to the sensitive and sensible
pocket and carry conviction along with
them. The Jamaica negroes won't work
nor the St. Domingo, nor Mexican, nor
South American free negroes. Just as SUI
gar and coffee, and rice and tobacco and cot
ton, have come into universal use, and be-
come necessaries, even with the poor, Just
as the demand for them increase, the sup
ply diminishes, and their prices rise. Ruin
and hunger stare France, Great Britain and
New England in the face. The supply Of
food must increase as their populations in
crease, or continual famine will be the con-
sequence. Already their lands are incapa-
bic of producing substitutes for the products
of negro slave labor, which they consume,
and also of raising other necessary articles
of food and clothing. But the pocket, the
true seat of English and Yankee intellect,
sees, feels and understands all this, and
promptly applies the remedy. Slavery
must be extended. The heather must be
caught, tanned, set to work and christian.
lied. Walker must be encouraged. New
York must send him thousands of gallant
volunteers. And Boston and New York
must vie with each other in fitting out slave
ships for Asia and Africa.
The African slave trade is about to be.
come as popular as it was century ago
The New England clergy and the Catholic
priesthood will again engage in it with pi
Gus zeal, as the only sure and efectua
means of converting the Pagan, Under it
revivifying influence, Central America, Mex
leo and South America, now lying torpiC
and barbarous, will start into new life
Cotton and sugar, and coffee and rice, and
molases, and cigars and tobacco, and pine
apples and oranges and lemons, and al
tropical fruits will be cheap as dirt. An il
limitable market will be opened to the com
merce, and manufactures, and mechanical
skill of the North and of Western EUROPE
The free white laborer will have constan
, employment, high wages, plenty of money
and the necesSaries and luxuries of life dir
cheap.
But we have conscience and poke
too. This slave trade, in lowering the price
of negroes, will beget ill-treatmeut of then
,, it will tempt men to neglect and over
work, and wear out slaves, because it vii
be cheaper to buy fresh Africans than Il
rear negroes here. This view of the cas-
i affects and pains our conscience. The di
minished price of slave products will lessol
! by halt, the value of our present slaves, an,
diminish that of our lands. Our sensitiv
sensible pocket, grumbles and hesitates a
> this. We are in a quandary. We know
! the slave trade would perpetuate the Union
and quiet the eonseiences of Yankees, b
filling their pockets. We know the Mort
would swap off ten Missouri Compromise:
for compromise that would permit he
, saints to re-engage in the slave trade. Bu
wo are not yet satisfied, either in our tendc
conscience or sensible pocket that we ca
grant the boon. Yet we love the Unior
and will sacrifice much to preserve it. w
take the proposition under consideration.
We have wandered little from our sui
lect, which was the attempt to prove 18Th
pocket to be the true seat of the intellect
We have given the affirmative proof, we wi
now give the negative
= The African slave trade, beginning wit
d the first of the 10th century, had surcharge
o the West Indies and North and Sout
> America with slaves about the time of ii
American revolution the product of slaN
J. labor exceeded the demand for them. s.
n oar, cotton, coffee, tobacco rice and 9TH
1- slave and tropical products, had not con
At into general use with all classes in Uurop
h Watts had not invented the steam cottc
e. mill, nor was the cotton gin in operation
&c Negro men fell to two hundred dollars
,e head; and negroes in families became e
Mt pensiye. The pocket felt it, told it to Il
n. conscience, and conscience smote the slav
ct holder. Clarkson and Wilberforce ar
s. French Jacobins, were listened to and a
o mircd, because they promised to save mel
le souls, and better their fortunes, by riddiI
II. them of troublesome and expensive negroc
is But it was the sensible and sagacious poe
" ct not Wilberforce and Clarkson, that {
lis lrested the slave trade and begat abolitio
n. Whenever negro men fall to two hundr
in dollars around, and negroes become in t
of mass, rather burdensome than prohtab
lg whenever the supply of slaves exceeds I
C. demand, the pocket will find it out, and
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