Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-16
Wasbiugtan Sentinel.
REMARKABLE-

most noisy, unscrupuous and habitual falsi6ers
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 nculcate
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 Mounts no longer heard in their churches /?
Bnt in their stead fierce and unrelenting hate
towards unofending brethren is daily preached
by those "dogs in foreheads but deer in heart, .
the Beechers, Sillimans, Parkers, Phillips's,
and ct i'd omne genus. For, Bibles, Sharpe's
rifles are substituted, and for psalms and
hymns, doggerel instigating sedition and dscord
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,
elentless malignity, villifying and sandering
he South, IFS 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
tility from the North; of the propriety of the
North passing sentence of unmitgated con.
demnation, and of wreaking its utmost ven-
geance regardless even of the egis of the Con-
stitution.
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 ,ohole
stigma Of african slarery IN Mis country rest
The South as aoholly exempt from reducing
.treemen TO slavery.
The North IS stepped to the eyes, crimson
dyed Nth 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
slavery-having packed them, like herring in
holds of ships, where nearly one-fourth died
from suffering, and having brought them to
this country, offered them for sale to the South
slaves for life, they aud their posterity, until
he will Of their owners should emancipate
hem. They furnished bills of sale guaran.
teeing all this, and each northern man, with his
wn sign manual, gave receipt for the con-
liberation. Tie 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-
petual 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 enslaved and
then sold into slavery, but also do this in de-
Ganca nf colamn onn nacf ado hv avarv
northern State, pledging its sacred honor to
its fulfment.
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
tanly 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-
hbit 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-
cipation? No. They did not pass laws eman-
cpating all who we're their slaves, but they did
pass laws to the effect that, if the owners of
slaves did not by certain time sell their slaves
out Of the State, that then H. + should be free.
Under this law, Of course all we're sold except