Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-14
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nounce the God of the Bible are among the
most noisy, unscrupulous and habitual falsifers
of that party. They are men who suck sub
. stance from dupes all around, but who af-
ford no wholesome nourishment for body or
soul to any one.
These reverends have abandoned the teaching
of their focks, the holy precepts and examples
of the Saviour; they have ceased to inculcate
charity and brotherly kindness, the loving of
our neighbor as ourself; they have ceased to
warn themselves and their people to cast out
the beam from their own eye before railing at
the mote in brothers eye. The sermon on
the Mount is no longer heard in their churches?
Bnt in their stead fierce and unrelenting hate
towards unoffending brethren is daily preached
by those "dogs in foreheads but deer in heart"
and ct id omne genus. For Bibles, Sharpe's
rifles are substituted, and for psalms and
hymns, doggerel instigatng sedtion and discord
have been substituted.
What crimes or sins has the South COM
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, villifying and slandering
the South, its people and all their institutions.
We placea 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
North passing sentence of unmitigated con-
demnation, and of wreaking its utmost ven-
geance regardless even of the agis of the Con-
stituton.
THE CASE STATED.
During our subsection to Great Britain as
colonies, the South then, as now, were 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 achole
stigma Of african slauery IN this country rest.
The South is acholly exempt from reducing
.freemen to slavery
The North is stepped 10 The eyes, crimsoa-
dyed ,cith this enormous guilt
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,
and executioner.
The offence charged upon the South is this:
that the North having violently and wickedly
reduced many hundred thousand freemen to
STRENGTHENING packed them, like herring, in
holds Of ships, where nearly onefourth died
this country, offered them for sale to the South
as slaves for life they and their posterity, until
the will of their owners should emancipate
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. The 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-
petua 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 thieving sneaking and dishonor.
able means to steal and TO entice away the
people who they themselves first ensaved and
then sold into slavery, but also do this in de-
fance 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, (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
ment 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
bills of sale we're given for the slaves, nor is
there any trace Of any such subsequent pro-
vision. The North would also prohibit the
interstate 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-
cipaton2 No. They did not pass laws eman-
cipatng all who were their slaves, but they did
pass laws to the effect that, if the owners of
slaves did not by a certain time sell their slaves
out Of the State, that then they should be free.
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