Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-06-11

Z OF frenzy ana Mhaucl6n, OF y an EAu8ry ussSA
embittered feeling against population who do
not wish 20 injure and are not conscious of having
ever injured you. That we have slaves among u.s.
if it be fault God knows it is not our fault They
were brought here in the times of your fathers and
of our fathers. Your fathers brought them, and
ours became the purchasers-if you say in an evil
hour, be it so; but what are we to dor Here is this
burden assume it to be as great as you please the
greater it is, the more powerful is my argument
here is this burden upon u.s. not by any fault of our
own we have inherited it; it has been transmitted
to us created here by the joint action
forefathers and ours, and in the Kane of God, will
you step forward and put heavier weights on this
very burden thus innocently inherited by usP
think, Mr.. President, it is in the highest degree
probable that with regard to these Territories of Ne
braska and Kansas, there will never be any slaves
in them have no more idea of seeing slave pop.
ulation in either of them than have Of seeing it in
Massachusetts; not whit. 1t is possible some gen.
tleman may go there and take few domestic SER
wants with them; and would say that if those do
nestle servants faithful and good ones, and the
masters did not take them with them, the masters
would deserve the reprobation of all good men,
What would you have them do? Would you have
me to take the servants who wait upon me, and live
with me, and to whom have strong attachments
as to any human beings on this earth out of my own
immediate relations and connexions and because l
want to move to Kansas put them in the slave mar
ket and sell them? Sir, would suffer my right
arm to he cut off before would do it. Why, there
FORE if some southern gentleman wishes to take the
that takes charge of his little baby, or the old
woman that nursed him in childhood, and whom he
called I" nanny until he returned from college,
and perhaps afterwards, too, and whom he wishes
to take with him in her old age when he is moving
into one of these Territories for the betterment
Of the fortunes of his whole family, why, in the
name of God, should any body prevent it? do you
wish to force to become hardhearted slave-deal-
ersP Do you wish to aggravato the evils, if there
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that shall no longer have q mutual feudal feeling
between our dependents and ourselves? DO you
want to make US mercenary and hard-hearted? Or
will you allow US, having as trust we have, some
touch of humanity, and some of the beneficial and
lovebreathng spirit of Christianity to let these be-
to rejoice when look out and see our slaves hap
by and cheerful around us, when We hear the song
arising from their dwellings at night, see them
dressed in their neat clothes and going to attend
their churches on Sunday, and realizing, as they
look at US, that are the best friends they have
upon earth?
MIR. President, perhaps manifest too much feel.
ing about this matter. 1t seems to me so clear that
no interest or advantage of humanity can possibly
be promoted by the spirit which dictates this inces-
SAINT opposition to every measure which will allow
US to improve our own condition and that OF our
slaves together. Il is impossible to perceive that
any good can arise from it that cannot speak Of
it without excitement. l have no bitterness about
it. God knows have mono. l blame not those at
distance from US who take up false and mistaken
impressions respecting know that efforts, the
most wicked and persevering have been made to
produce those Impressions and to present us to the
minds of northern fellow-ctizens as monsters of
cruelty and oppression. blame them not. They
have been trained to entertain these sentiments and
feelings. They unfortunate in having such false
estimates placed in their bosoms respecting their
friends and fcllow-ctzcns, descendants of common
o1,,kso To Cod hat
obterate those feelings would to God that they
would be disposed to enfold me and mine, as l am
the whole of my northern brethren, if they would
permit it, in the of fraternal and perpetual
concord Sir, there can be no difficulty about this
matter if We suffer ourselves to be influenced by
those considerations which spring necessarily and
naturally out OF the facts of the case and realize
that, after all no abolition movement ever yet ac-
complished good for q slave. The whole movements
of the Abolitionists of the North, as all my south
ern friends around me know, SO far they have
had any influence with us, have tended to restrict
rather than to relax the bondage under which these
people live They have, in great measure, strick-
en- from the capacity to be useful in various direc
tons towards them, those philanthropic and honor
able people who should lead, and otherwise would
would lead our society upon these topics. They
expose every one to suspicion. They have ten
dency to close up the avenue to the otherwise
opening and expanding heart They do no
good to the slave. They do no good to the abol
zionist. They are but fruitful source Of evils
among them and evils among us, without one sim
gle compromising advantage earth, present or
future.
Oh! Mr.. President, if we could only agree to take
up this subject matter of fact, and agree to deal
with it in the best way can, believe me, sir, the
day will come as indicated by my friend from Mas
sachusetts, Mr.. Everett,] when the ways of Provi
dence, in permitting this large exodus of the ma
tives Of Africa to this country will be indicated to
man. Why sir the light is alreaGv dawninp unon
us in which we can begin to see how ultimate and
incalculable good is to be wrought out of the tenn
porary absence of this population from their native
land. The successful commencement of the colon-
cation scheme shows US how the emancipated slaves
may carry back to the native Africa of their fore.
fathers the civilization, the Christianity and the
freedom which they never had enjoyed, and, so
far can see but for this instrumentalty never
could enjoy, in their own country. Slaves! The
veriest slaves on earth are the native Africans in
their own country. The freest of them is not as
free the hardest bonded slave in southern lands
They have ever been so-the property of their
princes; as an English traveller says, having
nothing as their own, except their skins. In the
course Of Providence, they were permitted to be
brought here. They have been, and their descend
ants are great deal better off than they were in
Africa and if only be content to struggle
on with the difficulties of our position in faith and
patience doing own duty under the present cir
cumstances in which we stand, attempting no wild
schemes by which folly may be misled and by which
wrong and misery may be produced but pursuing
that steady course in which God himself, in all his
ministrations, brings about by gradual means and
tion we may be assured that ultimately all this will
work out great and lasting good.
Mr.. President, desire to say, that though hold
none of my southern friends on this floor RESPONSE
BILE for the course Of argument which have offered
or any Of the intermediate views have expressed
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