Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-05-28

Ihe American Nntl-SlaNcry society II the
oldest National organization in America which
makes the extinction Of Human Bondage its
exclusive aim, and has for twenty years num-
hered many able and eloquent men among its
MEMOIRS. Its strength in io ability anu Ca
orgy of its master spirits is out of all proper
tion to its numbers its journals and speakers
are eminent in power and interest while tho
moral character and deyoiednGss of its leaders
are such as to command general admiration
Why is it, then, that this Society gains no
hold apon the masses and cannot claim MI
inerical ascendancy in any township or ward
throughout tho Unionl Bad as tho world is,
It is not a desert without cases and, if tho
Garrisonians were wholly right, it is hardly
possible that they should be everywhere out
numbered.
In our Judgment the radical defect of this
Society inheres in its stubborn refusal to per-
ceiye vital and palpable distinctions, to recoS-
nize manifest and essential limitations, and to
regard inevitable facts. It's general policy re-
srmbles that of a pedestrian who, being in
New York, bound for Pittsburg, should draw
II bee-line from his starting-pOint to his desti-
nation, and insist on following IL Throughout,
regardless of whatever rivers, mountains or
morasses might oppose his progress. Take,
for illustration, the following resolve adopted
| at their late Anniversary:
Rcsolred, That while tho North gives its
sanction and support to Slavery in fifteen
| States of the Union, it can make no consistent
moral resistance to its extension in the Terri
tories that we tell tho Republican party that
| if it would be curse and crime to plant it in
| Kansas it is no less criminal aud disastrous to
pcrpetuatc it in Carolina that it is equally alb
| surd and immoral to make 1t question Ofs0il
and climate, of latitude and longitude, or of
bargain and compromise that il it be compat.
| ible with Christianity and Republicanism to
| hold four millions CT slaves rs property, 1t
| is no loss so to hold four hundred millions in
the same condition that to license oppression
| is to lose tho power to limit il; and that any
other issue with Slavery in this country, ex-
cept that of its Immediate and total abolition,
is wild and delusive"
The mistaken assumptions In this resolve are
as follows: l. That the North, by its Union
| with the South TO attain certain eHds in which
they are mutually Interested does necessarily
"give its sanction and support TO Slavery
| We hold, in opposition Ia this view, that the
North, as represented in Congress by Seward
and Sumner and Giddings, and in the State
Governments by Chase aud Iiamiin and Holley,
does not give its sanction and support to
Slavery" but does all it may rightfully do 10
limit and cure that dreadful evil. There arc
Northern statesmen vino give their sanctiou
and support to Slavery, but the North rs such
does not, and the Union does not require such
sanction and support a. our hands. We are
morally bound by the spirit aud genius of tie
Union not to make that Union lever for thu
overthrow OF tho domestic institutions ofsistel
States and they are morally bound, on tho
$ other hand, not 10 require us, In virtue OF the
l Union, to implicate ourselves in tho guilt and
shame Of Slavery. Tho Union no more in
wolves us necessarily in the crime ofsllvehold
| ing than our treaties with Russia and France
+, implicate us in the seridom OF tho former OIL
! the imperial despotism of the latter,
The Garrison resolve proceeds TO say that
under the Union, the North can make no con
sistent moral resistance to Slavery in the Ter
ritories because 90 IL it would be a curse and
crime to plant it in " Kansas, it is no less Grim
: inal and disastrous TO perpetuate il in Carroll
: ma" Yes; but the Republican party, which
opposes the planting in Kansas, docs not per
, petuate in Carolinn. 1t has power over thI
: question OF planting Slavery III Kansas it ha
{ no power over, cousequ ntlY no responsibility!
, for, its perpetuation IN Carolina. Why is no
il this distinction plain one BY what charter
n constitution or compact, wero the People Off
q York or New-England ever authorized to mod
ify the laws of South Carolina We know O
q none. Bat If any one asks what rightiul pow
G or they have to legislate on Slavery in Kansas
a We answer, That is portion of the great Tel
a ritory belonging, not specially to Ncw-Eng
!. land or Carolina, but TO the whole America
n People consequently to be governed, so Ion
as il shall remain their territory, according I
their collective Judgment and conscience as I
e what is right or wrong, expedient or unfit.
IS Carolinian in Congress, who Conscientious
% believes in Slavery, properly votes that SLAYER
(, shall 20 thither a New \ orker or pennsylyi
is nian, believing Slavery unjust and perniclou
Of has an equally clear right to vote against it.
re The resolve proceeds to ring several chang
Is on tho same idca closing with the assertit
he that " any other issue with Slavery in tn
let country, &c save that OF its immediate and tot
rts abolition, is 's wild and delusive." To this Y
or reply that Slavery III the old Statos has in
ZEN generation been kept vital and aggressive