Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-10-01
Opinions Of Great Men on Slavery.

81 hope it will not be conceived from
these observations, that it is my wish to
hold the unhappy people who are the sub
ject of this letter in slavery. | can only
say that there is not a man living, who
wishes more sincerely than | do to see a
plan adopted for the abolition of it
Washington's Letter to Ro6t. Morris.
"Upon the decease of my wife, it is
my will and desire that all my slaves,
which hold in my own right, shall re-
ceive their freedom Washington's WW.
'' The whole commerce between mas
ter and slave is perpetual exercise OF
the most boisterous passions; the most
unremitting despotism on the one part,
and degrading submission on the other.
Our children see this and learn to initiate
it. \ The parent storms, the
child looks on, catches the lineaments OF
wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle
of the smaller slaves, gives loose to his
worst passions, and thus nursed, educa-
ted, and daily exercised in tyranny, can
not but be stamped by it with odious pc
culiarties. The man must be prodigy
who can retain his manners and morals
undep"aved by such circumstances. -
Jefersom's Letter to WarciUe (France)
1898.
"While l am indulging in my views
of American prospects and American
liberty, it is mortifying to be told that in
that very country a large portion of the
people are slaves 1t is dark spot on
the face of the nation. Such a state of
things cannot always exist.-Lqtayette.
4" We have found that this evil (slav-
cry has preyed upon the very vitals OF
the Union, and has been prejudicial to all
the States in which it has existed. Non
roe's Speech IN tie Virginia Conyention.
:" l have said that considered negro
slavery as a political misfortune. The
phrase was too mild. 1t is a cancer--;
slow, consuming cancer-a whitening
pcsIilence-an unmitigated curse. |
speak not in the spirit of Il pulling and
false philanthropy. | was born in slave
state-I was nursed by slave. To me,
custom has made the relation familiar,
and see nothing horrible in it. | am a
Virginian by descent. Every cross in
my blood, so far as [ can trace it, in the
paternal or maternal line is Virginian.-
IHos. Il. KarshaV.
"Another thing will contribute to
bring general emancipation about. Slav-
cry is detested. We feel its fatal effects.
We deplore it with all the pity of hui
manity. | repeat it again. that it would
EsRse sR5sse 59y H HerX WAS s0q ha agy one @ &
ought with gratitude to admire the decree
of Heaven which has numbered us among
the free, we ought to lament and deplore
the necessity of holding our fellow men
in bondage. "-Patrick Henry.
9 consider slavery as Il curse-a curse
10 the mastcr-a wrong, grievous wrong
TO the slave in the abstract it is all
wrong, and no possible contingency can
make it right. ."-Henry Clay IN a Coloni-
cation Speech IN 1886.
"Slayery is contrary to the laws ofna-
ture. and of nations. That slavery is an
evil, it would be more than idle for any
human being to doubt or deny William
Wia
" Avarice alone could have produced
the slave trade. Avarice alone can drive,
as it does drive, this internal traffic, and
the wretched victims, like SO many post
horses whipped to death in a mailcoach.
john Randolph.
"Sir, neither envy the head nor the
heart of that man from the north, who
rises here to defend slavery upon princi-
ple.-Randolph IN Congress.
9 | give to my slaves their freedom, to
which my conscience tells me they are
justly entitled. ."-Randolph's WI.
when Texas was annexed, proposed
to limit the western extension of slavery
by a longitudinal line. In my vote upon
the Oregon bill, opposed the introduc-
ton of slavery there; my personal sen.i-
ments, then, was against the institution
OF slavery, and against its introduction
into places in which it does not exist
Z. III. Benton's Missouri Speech, Nay,
/ l849.
"Those who acknowledge, when in
private communion with their God, that
slavery is wrong, are to all intents and
purposes abolitionists, for those who
DelleNe III wrong, must, 10 De consist
ent, use all lawful efforts to have the same
Observation-Disclosures they are abolition
lists Galveston (1eras) Neus, March
1857.
:. warn the bolitionists-ignorant,
infatuated barbarians as they are-that il
chance shall throw any of them in oul
hands, they may expect a felon's death
-Hammond Of iSoaah Carolina.
The cry of the whole South should
be death, instant death to the abolitionist,
wherever he is caught.-Aagasta Ga. J
Chronicle.
After reading the above extracts, who
can say that an honorable and free spoken
man can live in the South in safety at this
day The foregoing speaks for itself
Such men as Washington, Jefferson, La
fayettc, Marshall, Henry, Writ, Randolph
.Sc., do not now reside in the South, OF
if they do they are every day in danger
of meeting with a.telon's death, accord
ing to the last extracts.
ODD FELLOWS AFFAIRs.-At the ses