The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-07-11

welfare. On this account we shall have no foreign war
civil war they think is much safer mode Of dsposing
of us.
Let us examine this subject of slavery with honest
hearts and with disposition arrive at the truth You
know that free institutions like be enjoyed by
every people II strange fact that France Mexico and
south America in modern times have each tried the
pertinent and though in many instances they have copied
our laws aad institutions yet they have made gnomnous
failures.
II these people, civilized they are with Christianity
ana the knowledge Of history at their command have been
unable to uphold democratic republic let ask you
consider whether it possible for expect the A
can negro, barbarian he and is to add strength to
our institutions by taking part in modelling enfor-
cng themf To have given the Afcan.the rights of cit
aenshp at the formation Of would have
been but weakening our prospects of Anything
that weakened this was but jeopardng interests and
those OF our black population too The elevation of the
negro Is absolutely dependant onward course in
civil progress As we advance, his condition is ameora
ted 1t Is impossible but that the fate of the negro bound
up IN our fate See what he has become in San Do
mingo and jamaica and wherever the bond that unes
him TO the white severed and you may easily conjecture
his fate had our government been failure Extermina-
ton or debased barbarsm would surely have followed
On this account it neither wise proper that
oreathers should have eoparded the interests of them
selves their poseriy the oppressed people of Europe
the negro himself by giving the African the rights of c
zenship Selpreservation forbade it humanity forbade
IT. Slavery was the only law that proper and
able for by it the whites made interested and answer
able for the saekeepng, education and of the
savage Experience has justified the wisdom of
tors The negro under the guidance of intelligence has
been made an element of progress and prosperity of which
he has been abera partaker Had ancestors been red
republicans they would have declared for bcrty equal
iy and maternity saturnalia of freedom would have
been followed by licensc license by civil strife civil strife
by usurpaton of the rens of power by successful
cheftaiu, and despotsm the result Ours is rational
and limited democracy. crecognse every law proper
that is useful for progress.
What is liberty In its most extensive sense it is
the privilege and power to do whatsoever will. God
is free because he is wisdom itself and love angels
free because they live in God the entirely regenerae
free because his win is governed by Gods will But
murderers and thieves free Should they be permitted to
do whatsoever they WILL if that will be murder and
rob Are children free madmen Free idiots free
should ignorance and maligny be free Society gays
that seEprotecon and the good Of ALL whether he be
criminal savage should be restrained by laws made
with view to meet the mixed condition in which find
mankind The very existence of restraints shows that we
have liberty in its extended sense-namely do what
will We are free 10 do right, but not
free to do wrong To this inheritance of freedom we are
all horn by right and ne IS rant VINO would debar us
from such freedom. In this alone we under
stand the words All born free and equa Free
do right and equal before the laws that enacted to
restrain whatever works wrong 10 feow-czens
society.
Liberty with us is limited by such laws as are
for the security of society find iequaity is that
the when made shall be executed without favor shown
to any particular class subject TO those laws Fraternity
s-that mutual affection among States and individuals
which grows up by the loyal obedience to- and defence of
laws by which safety prosperity and progress
assured.
Now the laws that liberty to the white would
excite to cenousness in the blacks hence the necessity
for distinction in his government and the law Of slavery
for this class Of population is actually the law of lib
erty for him. by this law he is preserved from njurng
the existence of government by which his life, liberty
lin high degree he safely have t) and his pur
suit Of happiness secured have thus endeavored to
show why the founders Of free institutions acu
ally providing for we-beng when they countenanced
slavery Had they faered in applying rigid philosophy
we should have been lost and the model republic could
never have risen to cheer the world by its progress and
light Had they been Utopan and dealists fate would
have been like that Of France through Its many trials n
republicanm The present government Of France is the
proper for it. just slavery is the proper for
the negro Because the French idealis and cnthus
asts they must have melodramac or theatrical govern
ment II is the peculiar genius Of that people Our phi
osophy leads us to this conclusion that those the best
laws for any people which best their happiness
and Of this leave the people themselves to be the best
judges. Propagandsm should be no part Of American
policy for laws that t society totally unfit for
another.
Having thus satisfactorily shown, hope why slavery
was not abrogaed by ancestors and why il pro-
vided for in our constitution would next inquire how
was 1t established among us2 Was it by statute by
common law
You are aware that the formation Of government
every State had slaves also that the maritime powers
all engaged in transporting the negro saVe in bis
country to fortunate bondage in Christian lands
am not aware that any statute provisions be found
in the laws Of any Of Commonwealthsthe original
hirteOnpositvely enhcng slavery We find laws for its
protection but none for its establishment II to
have been adopted by consent hence slavery has
the force Of common law over the whole United States
and would seem by consent TO have been estab-
lished everywhere, without question or hindrance and
that il requires the provision Of statute to prohibit II
anywhere We nd accordingly that several Of The States
prohibited II by statute in these It has ceased to exist
Now my friends by looking into the constitution, you
will find that especially provided for that the slave
trade might continue till lsOs after which Congress nigh,
pass laws to prohibit IT, q do not say that the word
saverade is used but that is the import Of the Provs
ion refer to- and trying to speak the commonsense
meaning of the constituon II the constitution provides
for the permission Of the slave trade with Africa and h'
uction Of slaves into the United States IL meant O
course that tho people who should them should alec
be guaranteed in their possession II accordingly provided
for the rendition Of ugiyes escaping from one State and
fleeing into another.
In those times before England bad commenced this ISSUE
among us, do you suppose that any American ctzer
would have been prevented from carrying his slaves into