The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-01-24
EIihu BurTitt.

| at the Court House on Tuesday evening, wa
listened to By . large and deeply Interest,"
audience. Mr.. B. is fluent and earn
sneaker. and 10th bis manner and antDl
we're such as to enlist the feelings of HIS au
disnce.
His plan for brotherly copartnership,
| &C., for the extinction Of American slavery
was unfolded at length, and supported b.
I facts, figures. and process of arguments
+ ton which, If it did not convince his audi
! eRce, at least won their esteem Tor the mar
as deep feeling and true hearted Christian
philanthropist, whose soul is in his work FOL
his Masters sake.
His plan is, briefly, that Congress- shai
pass law Offering to each OF the slave states
to purchase ali the Slaves within Their Dor
ders at given fair average price, and tha
the proceeds Of the sales of the pubic land:
shall be exclusively hsnceforth devoted t.
defraving the expense Of such purchase
The present actual value Of all the slaves IT
the Union is estimated at $3.50, 900, 900. The
present actual value Of the public lands lex
elusive of California and New Mexico,) he
estimates at $1,000, 900, 600; so that tho
! fund is much more than ample for the pur
pose contemplated. Practically, the plan
. if adopted, he imagines would operate about
! thus. The first state that would accept the
proposition would probably be Delaware
The slaves in that state are worth abou'
/ $500, 900. The next state might be Mary
I land, with slsvez worth $I2, 900, GOO. These
! the proceeds Of public lands for a single
year would enable congress at once to pur'
chase Missouri, Kentucky, &c. would
! Of public lands might DO insufficient to de-
fray the cost Immediately, they would fur
nish a permanent fund<on the strength OF
which temporary loans could DC made and
out Of which principal and interest could be
ultimately paid.
We cannot undertake, in the brief space
allowed us, to cfitOmizc the arguments by
which this plan was Illustrated and support
cd. Some Of them, however, were such as
cur Union destroying, selfconPlacent, self-
righteous abolitionists would do well 10 pom
der lie depicted the value Of DIR Union,
and the madness and wickedncss Of those
wEo speak lightly of It's destruction. He
also showed the completely of Nc~ England
and the north generally in the guilt of the
institution Of slavery and instead of wrap
ping themselves up in their phsr;saical
cloaks and telling the STAKEHOLDER ave are
more holy than thou" it would become
them better to "ropent more and denouncc
less"
! The plan, whatever may be said Of its
practicabiIi;y, (for on this head VIC shall no
now speak, commends itself to our kindly
: consideration as one which may be adress
Ell 10 instead of at the savehoiier whicl
latter is the case with al modern abolition
schemes. Mr.. Burrit. can, without fear 0
molestation or giving offence, 90 to Ii:
South and talk to the people kindly about
his plan to rid themselves OF an institution
which they aad net we, arc most concerned
in rem. nving, If i: b2 Sd great al evil.
And this, Cha: i. to 20 to The s.avehol-e
L...sclf,) is the only way in which the sub
c. can be honestly discuss-d, and or.
/ good accomplished. What good o'ject, "
+ submit, ever has or can be accomplished, b,
brawlins in New England about the wicked
IS Of men living q thousand miles off
I'D Martin Lu:hlr, when he assailcd IL
corruptions of the Church vf Rome, so I
Ta-tury and hurl his thundcrs OF rcbuke 4
-" --=--iI.nnh thousand mile
off: lie went TO ROme-wert 20 tEc 'cT
churei.cs-taIhcd TO not Gt these ne won!
rcluke So, Christ when lac rcJukcd tn
pIzIiseCs. did not go TO Greece where \
could utter his anatheInas with inpunity
but lac wert in TO the synagcgues-into Il!
Temple Itself Our modern pseudo-reiCrn
ers. however, ere wiser in their generations
Their precious lives, their comfort and cas-;
are much too valuable to be risked by bra,
ing public opinion at the South-by graz
ping hand to hand with this great sin, {
they affect to regard it. They rrudentiy r
main at home and exhaust their denunci'
tons where they are never heard, or,
heard, return to them in echoes, doub
, charged Thus bitterness only is engcnde
{ ed, hatred and strife, while, if the sxar
pic of the apostles were adopted, al,houe
at first there might be some martyrs, if Il
csuse was just, vistory in the end wou
DC inevita !e.