The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-04

of few days. left this city yesterday morning for his
dence at Wheatand.
SIX NUMBERS ON ABOITIoN.-No. 5.
AS stated in preceding number, addressing
ourselves the rabid aboionsts nor to those political
incendiares who under pretence of philanthropy have
affiliated with them for purposes of ambition and of whom
ii may be said it is doubtful whether they their tools
their leaders is useless with anatcs and
missionary sangune believe he could
convert hypocrite But hope and trust there are
many well-meaning, rejecting citizens who have been
swept away in the deluge Of nacsm beyond their depth
who yet not so far from the shore but that If You
stretch forth helping hand they may yet be saved from
drowning To such address ourselves and instead Of
dealing in dogmas and defamation propose calmly to
place before them practical view of the question in its
BEARINGS human happiness for this after all, is the
great point involved in the discussion. ..a.
For this purpose we shall now be somewhat more
thodca We shall, in the first place. endeavor to ascer-
tain whether the abolition of slavery in the United States
aud the amalgamaon of the white and black
tcable impossible and in the second whether
compshed it would conduce to the happiness of either
The emancipation of the slaves of the United States must
be the voluntary of the owners it must be forced
by conspiracy instruction and ervile With regard
the first point would ask If is within the widest
limits OF probability that millions of men, constituting f
teen States, perfectly independent far at least
CARDS this question: likely be wrought upon by such
of insulting irritating caumnies has been
heaped upon them, voluntarily and all at to dvest
themselves of twelve fifteen hundred millions Of
property which gives value to oil the rest the ground
of abstract dogma which they acknowledged?
Does the history of the world present single instance of
whole people submitting to such sacrifice through the
insrumentay of such and such instruments? Let
those who demand this sacrifice bring the question home
to themselves Suppose the people of the South should all
turn Bramns Buddhiss-the thing is not impossible,
for if like the aboonsts they discard the Bible, there is
no knowing what unknown coast they may land-sup-
pose they should all turn Buddhists and worship mon
key instead of negro and suppose they should become s
GENTLY enlightened believe that cannot hold proper
y in horse sheep and oxen and that the people Of the
South being thus enlightened should demand that those
the North should turn adrit all their horses sheep and
oxen to perish the wilds or be buried in the SHOWS Of
winter or be fed and sheltered at the expense of their
former owners? 1t scarcely necessary to ask them how
they would receive such reasonable proposition 1t may
may be. But fanacism is in itself extreme and ex-
tremes have neither boundaries limitations The hui
man mind when cut adrt from the sheetanchor of Iea
son, floats at random the wide sea- without rudder
compass or pilot 1t is sufficient to sayand appeal
the innate conviction Of readersthat there is no
example in the records Of ages of whole people vounta
ry submitting to such sacrifice is demanded of the
southern States will there be until human ma
ture undergoes radical and complete revolution
The emancipation of slaves in the northern States was
gradual and progressive They possessed but few and
these few had become rather burdens than benefits They
had become indispensable ingredient in their social
organization and the sacrifice demanded of their masters
if it be called, nothing compared with that
required from the people Of the South 1t tacity
submitted 10 simply because it not thought worth
while to organize opposition. Few possessed slaves
and these few overawed by the cant Of dawnng alb
clifton. 1t submitted to rather than approved by
those who held slaves in the North and the people of the
South though presented perous example recognising
the right of every State to regulate its internal ns
tutons, did not interfere.
1t may be urged example of that dsnterested phi
anthropy of which have said the world affords
ample that African slavery has been everywhere abolished
in the new brood of so-caed free States of Mexico and
South America But this revolutionary act A
large portion of the Of slaves Of the class which
opposed the revolution who only sought independence
not liberty whose persons exiled outlawed and
whose property conscated The sacrifice not volun-
ary the part of the Of slaves demanded
of the enemies of the Stateof those who could make
no resstanceby those who could resort to peonage,
and substitute the Indian for the negro, did the
benevolent Las Casas whose sympahies like those of
British cousins all monopolized by color
The example of these States is therefore, in point Their
abolition ofpocy vengeance rather than hui
manity.
The example of England is also relied proof of the
is required of the South This was in fact little better
than robbery committed under color of humanity and