The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-07
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That ths abotionists look forward 10 Conspiracy in
surrection and serve war as means for bringing about
the emancipation Of tie seathern sIavesand that poo
with compacency il not downright applosa and coop
uois but too evident They send their secret agents
to the South in the disguise or and teachers
male and female whose chief if not only object Is to SOW
disasction fmong the slaves entce them to away
from their masters and shed their blood If they attempt to
reclaim them they insl into th5m Settan dogmao which
only justify but render meritorious violation Of all
law, divine and human and convert the most arocous
crimes into acts of hcroism; and they gloat every
of conspiracy OF insurrection among the slaves
with zest that must be evident to all who read their
speeches. sermons, Lectures and public declarations We
could cite of examples where they have invoked the
British bayone to aid the slaves in the Of their
masters
1t of the least painful consequences of the pro-
ceedings of the aboonsts that they almost necessarily
lead to investigation Of subject faught with every
ingredient that render it revolving to the feelings Of
every not maddened by the venom Of fanaticism
That gang of slaves employed in mahufactory may,
in the in Tennessee be stimulated by some secret
ncendary plot the destruction Of their masters expe
rience has shown to be possible but that they will
succeed in attaining their freedom either by their own
erons or the aid of British bay onets beyond the reach
Of all rational anticipation. To do this general combine
ton of southern slaves is Indispensable and this combna
tion through all its preliminary stages must be kept
profound secret 1t scarcely possible that such
sve conspiracy, necessarily known TO many thousand
could be formed and brought TO maturity without discov-
cry. And if it possible by what means could they
provide themselves with arms assemble in sufficient force
to cope with their masters? They might consume their
dwellings, desolate their fields, and sacrifice by mid
night snation perhaps hundreds of and chill
dren but they could 60 further The white would
soon assemble and the instinct of safety, if
higher motive would band them brothers resolved to
live die together That of neriory which makes
every slave coward in the presence Of his master would
in aid of his superiority in all other respects The
terrible retrbution would be exaced of the
diaries and murderers No abstract dogma would protect
them from utter annihation. There would be safety
but in destroying them The of the black, like that
of the red man. would become extinct and modern phi
lanthropy be compelled to seek new victims.
But let suppose however horrible and revolving may
be the bare anticipation to all but British philanhropsts
and American aboonists, that the slaves should triumph
in this servle Let imagine nation of free
groes rising among the ruins Of States lords Of the soil
smoking with the blood of their cxermnatcd masters and
their wives and children would the of human happi-
be increased by such result Would tho suerngs
of one be counterbaanced the prosperity hap
piness Of the other Would the pangs of murdered
exiled millions of white men, women, and children,
and the destruction of all the landmarks of social
Improvement be repaid by the refreshing spectacle OF
an Industrious enlightened, and happy nation of blacks,
living in the enjoyment of rational Freedom sharing the
of salutary labor and the high qualifications
moral and intellectual Improvement Where is there to
be found where there found, such example
among the African racer . N e5
Look at ST. Domingo where the early and latest fruits
Of emancipation purchased by the massacre poverty and
exile of tens of thousands of white men, women and chill
dren e1empfed in the most degrading despotism
corrupt and brutal RIGHTEOUSNESS coupled with the
most abject slavery, and the rapdyapproaching ruin
that island of the fruitful regions embosomed in
the We behold there apt exemplifcaton of the
blessings Of emancipation Ideness and slavery combined
the innate lazy apathy of the African quickened by
stripes to a shorvcd exertion, and iron desposm Of
semi-barbarous tyrant ten times than they
suffered under their ancient masters wE
any other examples required turn toward Jamaica
Martinique and Guadalupe where the benevolent expert
Of emancipation has been fairly tried The former is
fast relapsing into African Kraal and in all probability
the of the white will be extinguished in
that island every day" writes late visiter "he
groes becoming licenous and corrupt Singing
psalms church is made and cloak by the APP
prentces for ideness and centions revey The streets
OF Kingston once famed for their orderly quiet
nightly scenes of drunkenness and debauchery negro
drumming and dancing under the mask of preaching and
singing at the evening conventiclcs Jamaica promises
soon to become peserous sink of vice and corrup
ton as the most lberne enthusiast DESIRE In Mar
Unique and Guadalupe, understand these similar e1
and the obstinate propensity TO idenes have been
military discipline aud thus the mild patrarcha supen
eneuce of the master has been replaced by the bayonet
If any examples required let the reader if he
wishes to be disguised with pictures of human vice and
degradation visit those quarters in great northern
cities where those wechsd beings who have been seduced
from comfortable home and the protection of
whose interest 10 treat them kindly, by the OF
the aboli,ionsts, crowded together. IT. in cone-
plating the scenes Of dleness filth and most abandoned
deprayy that will stare him in the face at every step
il his ear does shrink from the oaths and basphey
that will assa him every hand and if he does there
receive practical Lesson of the blessings of
be of the saunchest disciples of the abolition
school, II it should be objected, has often been the
case that ali this may be traced 10 the Of slavery
let him contemplate the Africans in their native land dives
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