Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

awe have been far outstripped BY
States to whom nature has been far less
bountiful. 1t is painful! to consider what
might haze been, under other circumstan-
ces, the amount of general wealth in Vir-
ginia.'
Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
In 1892, Mr.. Randolph, Of Albemarle,
in the Legislature of Virginia, used the
following most graphic aud emphatic Ian
guage:
81 agree with gentlemen in the necessi-
ty of arming the State for internal de-
fence. I will unite with them in any ef-
fort to restore confidence to the public
mind, and to conduce to the sense of the
safety of our wives and cur children. Yet
sir, must ask upon whom is to fall the
burden of this defence? Not upon the
lordly masters of their hundred slaves,
who will never turn out except to retire
with their families when danger threatens
No, Sir; it is to fall upon the less wealthy
class of our citizens, chiefly upon the non
STAKEHOLDER. l have known patrols turn
ed out when there was not STAKEHOLDER
among them; and this is the practice of
the country. have slept in times of
alarm quiet in bed, without having a
thought of care, while these individuals,
owning none of this property themselves,
were patrolling, under compulsory proc.
ess, for pittance of seventy-fve cents per
twelve hours, the very curtilage of my
house, and guarding that property which
was alike dangerous to them and myself
After all, this is lat an expedicnt. As
this population becomes more numerous,
it becomes less productive Your guard
must be increased, until finally its profits
will not pay for the expense of its subjec-
tion. Slavery has the effect of lessening
the free population of country.
"The gentkman has spoken of the in.
crease of the female slaves being part Of
the profit 1t is admitted but no great
evil can be averted, no good attained,
without some inconvenience. 1t may be
questioned how far it is desirable to foster
and encourage this branch of profit. 1t is
practice, and an increasing practice, in
parts of Virginia, to rear slaves for mar
ket How can an honorable mind, pa
triot, and lover of his country, bear to
see this Ancient Dominion, rendered il
lustrious by the noble devotion and patri-
otism Of her sons in the cause of liberty,
converted into one grand menagerie, where
men are to be reared for the market, like
oxen for the shambles? Is it better, is it
not worse, than the slave trade that
trade which enlisted the labor of the good
and wise of every creed, and every cline,
to abolish it? The trader receives the
slave, stranger in language, aspect, and
manners, from the merchant who has
brought him from the interior. The ties
of father, mother, husband, and child,
have all been rent in twain; before be re-
ceives him, his soul has become callous.
But here, Sir, individuals whom the mas.
ter has known from infancy, whom he has
seen sporting in the innocent gambols of
childhood, who have been accustomed to
look to him for protection, he tears from
the mothers arms and sells into strange
country amoug strange people, subject to
cruel taskmasters.
ale has attempted to justify slavery
here, because it exists in Africa, and has
stated that it exists all over the world.
Upon the same principle, he could justify
Mohamedanism, with its plurality of
wives, petty wars for plunder, robbery,
and murder, or any other of the abomina-
tious and enormities of savage tribes.
Does slavery exist in any part of civilized
Europe? No, sir, in no part of it."
Vel done far tie Randolphs! Were
they now living, they would doubtless be
exiled from the soil of Virginia, and de-
nounced as "Black Republicans" "Abo.
litionists," "IuGdels," Disuuionists,"
&c. &c.
Randolphs of the New School.
Among the Bogus Convention, which
Gas one of it's Members confessed) repre-
sented but one-tenth of the people of Kan
sas, were John S. Randolph, always
Democrat, and John ". Randolph, once
styling himself democrat" and low
"Nullifer." The former said little, but
voted steadily for crowding Slavery upon
Kansas against the wishes Of nine tenths
Of the people. John W. Randolph was
talkative, and was styled by the Tribune
correspondent, "the promiueut rhetorical
divinity" We copy some of his positions,
as taken verbatim, to show how the Ran
aolphs have degeuerated on the great ques-
tions Of religious liberty and mans rights:
Oct. p, in the debate on Militia,
Randolph Of Atchison thought that
man of As was too old to be run about over
the prairies at the will of some boy of Is,
who might be captain jist for the sake Of
learning military rudiments in a cornstalk
milesha company. He expected that they
wur goin' to make Slave State, and if
they was, the most of the spectators would |
be children and niggers, an be objected
to making such spectacle of an old man
jist to make laughin' for niggers. And
he was opposed to so young men goin' in
the nlelisha. They hadn't the nerve.
They weren's able to tramp up and down
and eat the hard bread baked in 1776.
Randolph was opposed 10 mixin' in this