The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-25

the whites instructive feeling of superiority among the
latter which will not call prejudice has prevented tbs
ntermixue Of They have been destroyed by the
nexorabe law Of free competition in labor with superior
race and the few that remain at the North and in Cam
ada far less in number than the slaves that have
been eniced away from plantations within the last
thirty years Your ancestors took from their slaves tho
protection and support without which they could not live
and gave them in exchange liberty without social CIVIL
or political equality They abolished the to which
the blacks belonged without admitting them into their own
and the blacks haveed since among you the life which
oucasts lead everywhere. They fill your jails, poor
houses and penitenares and the occasional labor they
perform is not sufficient TO support them and deray the
expenses of keeping them in order.
The people of the nonsaveholdng States would be
terally benefited by the emigration OF the whole race
from the country and nj all times willing to transfer
them to their Canada friends free Of charge do not
mean to say that may not be found who are in
dusous and respectable but those exceptions prove
the rule and the chances are ten to one that their
children viii be idle and worthless There is such thing
continuous voluntary progress in the race Now mark
tue contrast South of Mason and Dixons line the ela
ton of master and slave has been preserved and under Its
bene6cent operation the number Of slaves has increased
from few thousand TO about three millions and half and
those who have been emancpaed as reward for good
conduct form, with their descendants class more nnme
and respectable than the free blacks of the North
and Northwest although they far from being pro-
gressve and only keep up their numbers by the daily
emancpaons which take place, while tho aggregate nau
raj increase of the slave population s about large that
of the whites From South Carolina to Texas that popula
ton has made region rucy where white field labor
did and succeed The gross annual product of
It's labor and Its natural increase cannot be valued AT mue
less than three hundred millions of dollas the greet sta
pies which produces build up your great commercial
cities and your nnumerable manufactures, Keep your
vessels and employed furnish the cocnry with the
means of paying for the goods imported from abroad and
detray nearly twohrds of the expenses of the federal
government The internal Commerce resulting from a
of things in which the raw material is on one side
and the manufacturing industry and skill the other is
to you an inexhausble of wealth. 1t is tho
product OF the lands upon which you dwell that makes
you rich. No make much more than wages upon
them 1t is the cotton fields Of Mississippi the sugar fields
ofLousana the rice fields OF Carons and the tobacco
fields OF Virginia and Kentucky, which open you in
hundred different ways, pursuits worthy of your nte-
gence andin your untring industry meets with
adequate reward. @E 1......
While these great material results are obtained he
slave population is, general rule well carcdor from
infancy to old as Its rapid natural increase fully DEM
onstraes. ..
1t is orderly population as the statistics Of crime
will attest Few slaves found in prisons or pen-
tenaries and the magseria authority Of the for
minor offences exercised as il generally is in mercy pre-
serves order at all times without expense the State
The blacks have like other men, the instinct of their pres
eryatoI and are bappies in the condition in which they
most prosper; with their physical wants amply supplied
their family relations respected and nothing than
reasonable amount of labor required from them they
know that change better their condition and the
proof that they know it, is, that since the introduction of
slavery in the country there have been but three insurreo
tons among thena having their origin in local causes
In spite OF the efforts made by many at this time to
create among them spirit OF nsubordinaton they remain
as faithful and true In that part of the country
where live the slaves TO the whites in the ratio of
ten to onei there is not in the whole neghborhood
dweling-house that is locked at night Mine has
lock, and may be entered by half dozen doors
BUTT not enough that the majority of the slaves
satisfied with their condition That condition is uu-
quesuonaby the highest type of civilization and morality
which equal number of the has ever attained
In ancient or modern times. #.
Judging, then, from economical results the system
works we'll and the country has till the presct time been
united and prosperous with It But il seems the discovery
has of late years been made that it is sin and crime
which must be eradcaed from the country even If every
slave in the land desired its maintenance
am no casutst you understand. am working man,
as your ia'hers were They, too read the Bible and
understood 1t quite well their descendants do 1t Is
their Interpretation off which the South still follows and
to which the entire Christian world adhered until of
your olergymen assumed the awful responsibility to teach
that there is absolute regoR beyond and above the
written laws Of God that the precepts Of the Bible are not
the type Of perfection towards which the progress of hu
maniy tends, but work Of human contriyance to
be corrected, improved, and continued by them.
Unable TO answer the authorities and arg,rnents ad-
duoe by Fletcher Bedsoe and Others that slavery
was from the beginning one Of the mems employed
accomplishment of Proyidential designs those men and
their conederates have said Let the old Bible slide
aud let US have an ntslavery Bible and antslavery
Coo. 70 all such blasphemy have to make ;
but cannot refrain from entering my protest against
other heresy taught by OF different character Over
the constitution Of the United States aud the laws made
thereof which the solemn expression Of the
public conscience Of the country ministers Of the God OF
Peace have Of their usurped authority, proclaimed
higher law, the law Of individual conscience Disregard
ing the injunction 10 render unto Caesar what Is Csar
they have substituted for the morality enoned by the Bible
what is called in the schools the morality Of sentiments
the law Of individual conscience which, when held 10 Be
supreme snnihates all moral distinctions Hear what
the greatest Christian philosopher OF the nge says in ea
tion 10 it, "Le morality be all in individual sentiment
and nothing is either right wrong in itself good and
evil are relatives the quality Of human actions precisely
such every feels them TO be- change the sentiment
and you change everyhing the act good bsd
Indifferent according TO the affection Of the behoder and
human actions nothing than physical phenomena
obligations resolve themselves into inclnatons virtue
into pleasure the honest into the useful II is the morality
Of Epicurus'
This higher law Is no thing you perceive In
vented by Epcurns revived to extent Ia England by
Lord Shaftesbury and Dr. Read IL had cen long since dis
csrded ant-Christian and immoral but obtained cur
rency in these States when Dr. Charming taught In his
writings and in tho pulpit "that we have no higher law
than our conviction Of duty that conscience Is the su-
preme power within ps and that its and its grand
Characteristic ts Sovereignty One would wonder that
man so pure in his private life aud well informed
Dr. Charming, should have given to that
the support OF bis great name be that in all
that related to slavery and the black the Doctors
mind bad lost the power Of discrimination is sufficient
shown by his statement that he found the blacks of the
West Indies superior in many respects TO the people Of
New England. ! have no desire 10 speak or him
kindly but cannot forget that be went in the
grave because the Union had been dissolved on ac
count Of the annexation OF Texas But we connus
10 differ upon those passages Of the Bible which refer to
slavery there is another passage Of Scripture asuceut
Tor the purposes OF my argument upon which cannot
differ II Is the command of God after his fall
"n the sweat OF thy face shalt thou bread till thou re-
turn unto the groundthe injunction to labor obedience
TO which alone enables man TO preserve the virtues per-
tanning TO his divine origin IL ia not before such an AN
cpla aly..