The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-10
From the South Size Demacrst, August 81 g..
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The earnestness or our desire Tor an honor.
able, peaceful, and satisfactory determination
of the question of Slavery may Sncline us to
place an undue estiaate upon aA,y indication
of the approach of such tonsu, imation, and
we may be deceived by un oundrj prophecies
in the keenness of our anxiety tc witness their
ful6lment We think, however, there is rea.
son for the opinion that this p,.rblem is fast
| approaching a solution, whichS whether peace
full or bloody, will determine 10; all time the
controversy between the NORTH cid the South
on this most important topic. tt adventitious
aid which Southern Slavery aas. hitherto re-
ceived from circumstances is fist crumbling
away, and the naked question II soon stand
upon its merits at the bar of pull jic opinion
1t was formerly sustained an guarded by
the numerical infosnce Of an overwhelming
majority in both of the great p, :itical parties
of the country, By the powerful arms of united
religious associations, and the cheerfully. &C.
corded support of al; branches {: the Federal
| Government; but all these haze failed its
| adversarises claim e popular minority to the
national vote; they have arrayfd the larger
portion of all the great Protest ,nt churches,
with one exception, against it, AID dispute the
| control of the Federal Legislative with those
who are disposed to do justice o the institu-
ton. In this state of things It Is evident that
the end cannot be far off; in effs t. party lead
ers are preparing for the final Jack, and the
people are awakening to just estimate of their
position, as they begin to appreciate the great.
ness of the interests involved in ,aeir decision.
In such a condition of affairs, we naturally
cast about for the data On wb;ch to base a
prediction as to the result, and few of these
we propose to notice.
1. There is marked altArat On in the tone
of Abolition presses and poll icians, when
speaking of the subject.
We published few day since Z, very striking
letter from member of the Car ,dian Legisla.
ture, on the relative status of the African race.
in which their mental and moral fnferiority was
asserted in the most uneq1ipocal terms. A
more striking instance of this CD snge of senti-
ment is to be found in the following extracts
from an article in the Mattiton (Illinois) Ga.
zette. For far milder and l4ss Objectionable
sentiment than this, Mitchell 'sas forced to fy
from New York, three years ago. and turn his
pen into plough-sAare on the sill of a South
ern State:
With the growing tendency {, negro equal
lty IN our State, it Is now ssi'bi Get of serious
| consideration to the people of Isinois, whether
they will extend to negroes political and social
equality, and continue to let tier, pour into the
State, or whether they will st o, ce declare. as
measure of selfdefence anl solicy. in favor
OF the re-establishment of Savei in this State.
1t may be to some Of you sta, yling question,
but 1t Is always matter of DISC elton to deter.
mine between two propositions. You have be-
fore you negro equality il sll its forms and
bearings, and the mildest po sibEs form of negro
slavery. Which will you tekeP You have
seen how poweress your black laws have
| proven to be. Some other cflurse must be IA
ken. tCe are TO hare the <1feican race an,on0
as let as haze them sldUe.', fseu fed, sceI clad
| but kept IN their proper sphere and allow ali
] the privileges consistent vita the real wants
and the safety and well being of our own race.
As philanthropist, and friend to the whole
human family, We greatly prefer the latter.
The question comes up squarely to every
business man il, Illinois: Which would YOU
rather do - make slaves of your family, or
provide comfor able home FOE some of the en-
shaved African race? 1t is clear case that,
when Illinois votsd slave laboe out of her linn
its, she voluntarily voted upon tie white females
of Illinois life of unmitigatA1 drudgery, I'M
suited to the tastes and physicsi capacity of a
large majority of them and drove from our
midst people peculiarly sdspted to such SER
vices, without beneftting thesa in the slightest
degree. When will the day oS practical benevo-
lence arrive, when we shall have done with
eternal empty profession of mock philanthropy,
when 1t will not be called emancipation to offer
inducements to the slavetraders of the South
to buy the negroes of Miasousi, and send them
South in chain-gangs2"