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

Protestant ministers and even Protestant bishops occa
sonay shock the moral OF the country by such
hibuons OF vlany towards females under their guidance
but southern planters thank God yield such temp
atons and their character in that respect is well
tabshed that II had to-day situation 10 offer to gov
erness in my family the family OF friend there is
OF you who has daughter or sister disposed 10
oep such situation who would hesitate TO let her go with
me- although you know nothing Of me beyond the fact
that planter So that while branded in the
sermons Of your ministers and the speeches OF your poll
eans corrupt immoral and outrageous wretehes you
are ready ut all times oinrus US in preference TO all Others
with the honor of your daughters and your sisters See
them and grossly mSrepresent TO each other Cease
beg you to see through their eyes TO the South
as we come TO the North, and judge for yourselves;
nothing but familiar intercourse between is wanting TO
make US friendly TO and satisfied with each other.
Much has been said and written the evils which attend
coerciye labor Turn your minds now pray you 10 the
evils resulting from the coerciye ideness which eompe
ton in labor engenders all times in Europe and sometimes
even in these States Under form of society the
cion 10 labor harsh as II may SEEM only practically felt
by the idle and evil disposed but the coercve ideness
the freelabor system and its train of physical suffering
and moral degradation bear upon all alike the industrious
well the idle Those evils yet felt in this
try their full extent because is new and sparsey popu-
lated But the freelabOr system must be tested under
the circumstances TO which this country is tending when
the density of the population will equal that of England
France The abuse which the aboloniss have layished
upon the southern people and irritating enough
but il has not the merit Of originality They have said
nothing against which had already been said against
them by the chartst socialist and communist reormers
Theodore Parker and Proudhon do not materially dit
fer in their reigion or principles The first says that
property in slaves is continuous robbery Of inaena-
bic rights rejects the authority OF the Bible to the
contrary, and attempts demonstration pyori which
he pretends to believe unanswerable The last lays
down the broad proposition "td pTopries ceSt lrOl
property is robbery, and proves il in the same way Ii
socialists have accomplished nothing else, they have
disclosed TO the world extent of wretchedness immo
ay, and crime in Europe totally impossible in slave
holding community and compelled all welliniomcd men
there To admit that free competition in labor failure
and 10 consider the question of social reform which that
failure presents the great problem of the age The only
change thus far suggested Swallowed forth in the
mances OF one OF EDglands greatest statesmen, Mr..
Dlsrae His idea is 10 abandon the principle of free
petition longer enabe, and TO the pnc
pie OF the euda system under which labor and obedience
given by the aborer in exchange for the protection
and support of himself and his amlythe very principle
upon which African slavery rests Mr. DIsrae not having
worked ont his idea and suggested the by which
the obedience of the white aborer could this day be
cured the scheme remains incomplete but it is enough
for the purposes of my argument to have shown that the
only change proposed utterly visionary is identical in
principle with the organization OF labor in the slavehod
ing States.
Its often urged as m argument against the extern
sion OF slavery that the leading of the revolution at
the South opposed TO IT, and considered it national
evil What does that prove Is it equally that
the leading men and people of the North at that time
in favor of the continuation of the slave trade and there
fore Of slavery for the southern States All that be
said is, that the opinions of both have changed and
have already stated the economical and political consider
atoms which superinduced the change It the South
Having in the midst of US three millions and half Of
human beings who will work without compulson and
belonging to an inferior and relation being estab-
shed between them and ourselves under which internal
peace maintained the Of the country de-
veoped and the subject itself is well cared for and
rapidly increasing in numbers, what change ask, do
propose as improvement upon that relation for
surely you cannot expect us to pull down the present fab
ric until you show how erect better one for
the blacks at least if not for ourselves. You have sug
gesed nothing and IL is not in power TO do better for
them than do under the pressure Of the agitation
which threatens If you will take into considera-
ton our humanity and our duty Christian men, our
paramount interest pride the good opinion Of
neghbor which retain without proper
Of Dependents and the affection natural TO all
of for those born under protection offer safe and
sufficient guarantees that the power OF the master shall not
be abused Instances OF slave dying under the lash,
like Uncle Tom may have occurred at the South private
Loup died under the lash in the army last year and we
hear of wives murdered In cold blood by their husbands
at the North but the outrage upon truth committed by the
author Of that novel is represent that crime commit
ted in the legal exercise OF the masters power, and
incident In the enforcement Of plantation discipline
while in the only instance Of the kind known in Louis
lana the guilty party had 10 fly for his life the house 10
Fhiob be dye was demolished apd he aed an exile in
quesonAby have suffered the penalty Of the law for It
fact which the records Of courts will attest that
tried for numbering cruelty treating slave has
ever been acquitted by Louisiana jury,
Allow me- In ali good humor TO observe TO you that
many here subject themselves to the penalties Of laws
r kidnapping slaves and that funds wanting TO
enable them accomplish thAt Ot1ecti WhCn II
oompshed and the blacks have reached this land Of lib
erty they be object interest you and
become burden When | asked barber at Brattebo-
rough If there were any colored BARRIERS in the place bis
answer was that several had attempted settle there but
that he and another In town soon starved them out
This answer applies the whole rann t ynas take
them at al k2zsss from homes where abundance rcgRs
and when they get them here they starved out Do
pot understand me isinuating that you char
liable people nothing Is further from my thoughts have
doubt thai the voluntary contributions paid yearly In
hee States for the benefit Of the blacks large but a.
ter using portion OF the fund in keeping up the anti
slavery agitation and supplying the Of kidnapping
slaves from their masters the remainder s expended In at
tempting Chrislisnize Africa and fear that thus far
little has been gained with the funds thus expended The
Protestant missions commenced there hundred and
twenty years ago and by the statements Of the mission
arie which other travellers do confirm their converts
At the present day only few thousand In number.
Compare that result the silent operation Of slavery
the blacks OF the United States. We have now here near
four millions OF them, bond and free TO the
debasing supefsons Of their forefathers and far as
simple faith IS concerned truly Christian other labor
ing populations Near hundred thousand OF the slaves
communicates Has their subsection 10 the whites
effected that mighty resut2 and what H there that At all
approaches II in the missionary labors Of the world
Does no: this show that slavery Is now II under
the Jewish dispsnsaou the purifying ordeal BY means Of
which the heather best be converted TO the true faith
and cvilized7
H. after what have said some or you still persist in
viewing slavery sim will ask you, did European
sovereign In Circumstance somewhat analogous 70 bear
with IL until you give virtue put In its place
that will add annually three hundred millions Of dollars
the wealth Of the country and under which the black
will increase In numbers and advance in civilization
more rapidly than Il does now
cannot close my remarks without contrasting the char
and merits OF the candidates for popular vor-Fre
mont and Buchanan. We know what the Fremont party
not By its principles for Ii nOnenot by the record