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justice, or the policy of African slavery. but shall
only state propositions the truth of which has been
abundantly proved any time these thirty years
past and which is being still more abundantly
proved with every day. Human slavery is a ne
cessity incidental to the fall OF man from bis per-
feet original estate. Its cause and origin will be
found in the fret Sin of the race, and the conse-
quent fall and it has existed in all ages Of the
world. II exists to-day, in some form or other in
every land inhabited by the children of Adam
In milder or stronger form, it is everywhere.
In one country iE is the enslavemeut of individual
by individual, all Of the same race-in another it
is the ensavement Of different, and possibly
captured race-and in a third it is the legitimate
and God sanctioned enslavement of the negro or
Hametic race. Even in the Northern United States
it is not the fact, but only the degree which is
question. They contend that their slavery is of a
type so mild not to merit the name-we. that
slavery exists there in its and most degraded
form. Slavery in the Northern States is the still
cinging incident of the first sin of manknd-is
the incident of sin ;-in the Southern States it il
the slavery of peculiar race set apart by God in
consequence of peculiar sin, and cursed with in
ferOrity and servtude; and hence the Institution
exists here by Divine authority. After the food
and the second grand starting point of the human
race, for an offence very grcvious in His sight
God cursed Ham and all his descendants with in
ferority and servitude, and gave them as servants
to his brothers and their descendants forever
Throughout all the existence of Gods chosen Deo-
pie as a nation. He commanded them to epslsv,
this race that He had cursed Its enslavemeptis
noticed and not condemned, by Christ and by His
Apostles; and the condition of bondage, undoubt-
eddy the bondage OF the same doomed race. is no.
tced in Revelations as existing still at the last
great day of the wrath of God. Every where in
the Bible, we see unmistakable signs that God in
tends this curse of inferortY and servitude which
He certainly pronounced, shall be maintained and
carried out. His enmty to all amalgamstion. and
cons' quent destruction of the curse in the loss of
idenity has been exhibited in all ages: and ANAL
gamAtion is as impossible to-day as it was three
thousand years ago. The designs of Providence
to continue Hametic servtude, and christianse the
race only in Its serVile state plain and cannot
be thWarted, even by "hgher law" philanthropy
African slavery in the United States is a bless
ing to both races-to the man and to the MASTER
and we have every reason to believe is sanctioned
and approved by God. At the formation of the
present system of Federal Government, under the
influence of late desperate though successful
struggle to throw off the somewhat tyrannica woke
of England, disposition sprung up in the slave.
holding States (hen all but one free their own
slaves. This disposition to general emancipation
gradually increased up to about thirty years sgo
when it had become prevalent that had this ma
tional emancipation movement been inaugurated at |
that time instead of the wild and anatical aptsla
very crusade, it is probable it might have succeed
ed. But such was not the design of God. At the
very point when the Southern emancipation septi- /
nent was beginning to act the Northern abolition
crusade begun. The result is before US. Under
he pressure of northern insult and aggression,
wrong and injustice, southern men have been driy
IN to examine the su6ject-and, as necessary con
sequence of that examination, the conviction of the
Divine sanction the right justice and policy of ne
gro slavery has become universal. Abolitonism |
las rendered slavery in the Southern States as per-
nanent as time. 1t has been but an instrument in /
he hand of the Almighty to check and turn the !
southern tendency TO emancipation into the more
legitimate channel-the importation of more slaves,
md the extension of the institution. We are now
convinced that some system Of slavery necessity
los only to mankind in general but to the very ex-
stence OF free government. 1t is the great con-
sentative element which preserves, and has always
preserved, every republican government and as |
bur system is the best-God sanctioned and bless
ng both to the slave and master-we will maintain
t. and extend it, at least, until better is offered
Aud as no better be devised than that which
God himself has devised for US, we will maintain it
while time lasts. With this view of the subject,
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the anti-slavery element, having accomplished this
great involuntary work, was 'on the retrograde.-
This National Emancipation Convention" has con-
Fiheed me that t was right. Having utterly failed
oy their crusade to drive the South to abolition,
hey are retreating now to the gentler method of
TO AID to eniGneipate But it is too
late and must fail as of course. Where Southern
'mancipatonists might one have been counted by
he thousand, not single once can now be found
few aboltionsts may be found in the border
countirs of the border Southern States-but in al
most every instance they of Northern importa-
ion. In st. Louis county, Mo-, which contains
more antslavery than all the rest OF the South
ogether, there is probably not a single one who is
! SOutheFn-born man. With the failure of this
National Emancipation" scheme, the activity of
The anti-savery element will most probably cease
IltogelheF-Or be confined to so few, as to be uei-
her formidable nor dangerous. If such be the case
here will be no dissolution OF the Unioa-and in
UGH result cannot say that rejoice The
southern States are now really prepared for disso-
utOn, and grand, magnificent destiny awaits them
Then dissolved. The old idea that we are depend-
ne upon the North has been completely exploded
y the examination which We have been compelIed 1
0 make Of the subject. The North is dependent
pom US but We are entirely independent of them.
We would have nothing to lose in a dissolution. and
verifying TO gain. The North would have evsry-
hing TO lose aud nothing to gain. Il is the knowl-
dge OF THE, gradually daWning upon them, which
) causing them to pause before they have quite
Fiven US to the point of disunion. Il may be tbas
am wrong in my reading of this CHARACTERIZATION
Convention" and that the system Of wrong. MUS
Ice, and insult WiIl be attempted TO be pursued.
So 1t will then be oar duty TO separate, and the
ooDeF the better. Aud thea, hurrah for the great
outheFn Republcl AZ
Darn OF EDwARD KISe, Eso.-we are panied