The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-29


msnt and progress Of mining industry Indeed, 70 esny
on that branch OF activity 1t not only requisite to
have men, but necessary also to have men insred 20 i
hardships and experienced in the work But tho iaoore
Ia antiquity not being free could not be induced to hay
labor by the OF slaves hisd or owned
were therefore, ndispensaby necessary TO develop na
with other forms Of Industry. And from II sIoes INC
might Of Athens-from it the wonders Of civtlisAnon
which crow ned her with al the royalties Of genus-from
it the compact power the shield and the lance a. once
which made her the guardian and champion Of d,eeoe-
from the supremacies Of the intellect u her scaoiar
Orators satcsmeu, and philosophers -from the navy
and Che phalanx that bore the freedom Of the cGSen over
every wave Of and crushed the insoience sns
architecture after the perfectons Of which msdern crAh
pants n hopeless attempts at the spec
mems of supefhaoan art with which she gemmed every
rood Of her territory aud perfect In their ruins
than the most compact creations OF recent sR From
tLisfrom the institution Of slavery = an instrument
labor as foserer of the dignity OF tho CITIZEN radcaed
in tho family and in the win no
very machinery Of State and entwined with al ne pnr
cultural Athens proudly placed upon brow that crown
f sovereignty which marks her for the inator OF civil
zation, as che was the mistress Of Intellect LII
The testimonies OF Roman legislation and Roman wr-
ters are equally numerous and conclusive as TO the exist
ence and authority of slavery Without the existence O
slavery primordia fact in the rsnework oI sDcens
society il Is impossible conceive Of tbs system Of ancient
politics Without this ii is impossible to ccgsve now
Of the of millions who were sold ir me savo
Of As Egyp s,sr o.. u
stongh to retaliate on their purchasers without TINS
fact Il were monsrous and incredible that so many &C.
muses. in themselves, the opring OF
slayos that sop one OF the niators Of Greece into
csAizaon that PhGdon, disciple o. Socrates N lnat
very brach ef science which treats Of abstract naman
rights that Teretcs the pride Of the drama and master
Of thought in Italy that Phedrus Horace Pubns Syrus,
aud the whole Of our intellectual 70 whom
antiquity awarded the gift 81 propscy y ,us na si swi.S
ing the energies of reason thonght ana Spcae anu W
nounced,at they should once have opsnea their
lips raised their voices in vndicaton OF their DsoAer
NV lime, Mr. Ohairman will not allow to DO more
than aude to slavery in the organization Of Roman so
cety The Serpu was absolutely slave, and ha origin
was twofod according the definition o. the Insuntes
Of Jastnian, (Liber tis iii lex AZ TO VT Sfrrs amns
niseuner aut unt" Now, one y either porn q maoe
slave Debtors were made slaves Ia Roe by the action o.
law aud the punishment Of death might DO mitigated %
slavery The wful evasion Of the census was also cause
ofsavery for Cicero says As the man wnU s1s
40 he who cludc the census seems abdicato bis freedom
Slavery would be general In sos parts q 'ne coun
try IL the law applied now) Whoever refused or negiec
ei TO have himself enrolled in the Legion or whoever coli
luded With acoompice to have himself sod saoe
then claimed he nuy q the sale n ms % ssy.
citizen and shared in thr Illicit prots was maoe ase
| (Ulpian DigesA Il. tit Kill 80 x-,s
Slaves publicly bought and sold IN hone anu Win
the remarkable Irboa which, among we
equality s mushroom OF recent Growsn Ing woo -
cal system of modern Europe grew oet o. ~
now rests upon it. While the teachings q t9e Aposu
were fresh fugitive slaves were claimed and dNycred up
The Able Greppo says that there in the mnsssu q Tu
notice and rsea,s on papyrus for two Jg'f
il either case for him who shall bring back the fugitive
For him who shs reveal his whereabouts i IN secssd
as wV the d%sus s1en.
the former case, the difficulty OF ms recAptule ~ W.
creased legal process shrnnk before supershons
for the priesthood and thereorea larger
offered The date the year. the reigD are all compiess
in this notcein the twenty fifth year OF the reign o.
Ptolemy Evergetes IT. ia the month Of August the stn a
| in the year lag
Mr. Chairman have said that slavery was primordai
universal ct and have traced u up the stream q
time to those awful mysteries which enshroud the origin
Of society have appealed to long line Of monuments
historical poetca and and human
TO codes and creeds, too, to show B Primuve exaencs
Voices from the East and voices from the sms;
voices from the depths Of darkng antiquity ana rom tn
glare of high civilization voices from the sancsnaes O
God and from the seat OF the Ftor voices from every
tradition Of every nation that lived uron the tide Of time
past proclaim the primitive consistent and uApen1p0
I fact Of original slavery. i.I
Need ask to what extent modera philanthropy and mod
progress have burst the bands of the slave2 Need
how the doctrine of universal equality has been
auguaed7 In Paris has been baptized behind barricade
and with of blood In London it has been pressed
back into the gutter by disciplined steel All over Europe
it has risen in nsurrecon and been crushed benesth tho
tread Of armies How many dynases in Europe would SUR
vve for twenty days the dsbandment OF standing armies
How many social systems there would quickly perish
in nsurecon in the convulsive grasp of which throne
and temple would sink down together2 And have no
this continent been stained with blood, and no
cities through mob violence been wrapped in flames
Does not yonder city New York; pay $loooooo to save
and murder and arson And does yonder other city
Phiadephia) pay 100000 for the vital purposes
And have not both grdled themselves round with
ing of policemen themselves from the viocnce
Of their free white czens2 Are these the howerage
and ruage of free society," The legal bands OF slavery
may be dissolved but necessity imposes still asrncr ono
Capital and muscle facing each other and the anago-
nsm between them in free society seems to be beyond the