Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN:
Thursday Morning, February IL, 1887
Proposition for Strengthening Slave
~ at the South,

City Fact, published at Columbus,
Ohio, has an article which presents
some Of the best arguments in favor
Of the exemption of a certoin num-
Der of slaves TO each holder from
execution, that we have seen; though
given under the pretenca that they
arc hashed from other sources, as
they DO not suit the public taste in
that latitude. We ask for the ar.
ticle careful reading:
Protestant Christian societies have
regarded as noble effort for the
spread of the gospel, the project Of
furnishing every family in the Uni
ted States with the Bible. The
editor Of a New Orleans paper now
before US, proposes as an efficient
means for strengthening the institn-
ton of Slavery in the Sonthern
States, and for diffdsing the blessings
Of this divine patriarcbal establish
ment, to make every family slave
holder.
1t is Of course presupposed that
Slavery is beneficial to both masters
and slaves. la fact, it is argued that
a State having free men and slaves,
realize the true and normal condi-
ton of human society. Slavery in
its origin had the divine sanction; it
can be traced back to the earliest
ages of human society; aud it has
existed under the civil authority of
all ages and degrees Of civilization.
1t is destined to work out its most
beneficial results in the freest country
on the globe. This may seem to
unsophisticated Northern minds, a
strange contradiction. But such
such seeming contradictions and 10
congruities abonnd everywhere in
the system Of Nature which the
Divinity has established. Men, in
civilized life, grow rich by the indus
try Of others; and wealth and leisure
cannot be had unless somebody is
deprived Of the privileges and vir.
tually made, directly or Indirectly
the slaves of those who monopolize
the proceeds of his time, toll and ia.
genuity.
Not to be prOlix, we may perhaps
sum up in nutshell, this Southern
argument in favor of slavery as 8
necessary element in a progressive
state of society. 1t is the old argu
ment for an aristOcracy. No prog
ress can BE- made BY the mass Of mer
without laeder These duces, duke!
or laeders these e,TStoi or best mer
must have wealth, leisure and learn
ing which they cannot have unless
the rest Of the community are in re
atty if not in name, their slaves
The latter may not be called
slaves; it is not necessary that
they should be; they may be called
hired meu and women, servants
or any other name, if but the con.
dition of seryitude remains. In fine
the very nature Of man is such that
amutual dependence is natural and
unavoidable, and as this dependence
in one view produces the choicest
and dearest family ties; 10 another
aspect, it originates the most abject
slavery; and 10 every family both
extremes meet, though they may not
nomiDally be in possession of sim
gle slave. Nothing can be more in
innate and more affectionate than
the relation between husband and
wife, parent and child, and yet n
synic might easily demonstrated that
no slavery is SO misunderstanding
as that to which these family re-
lations give rise.
The ancient Greek Republics had
their aristocracy and democracy;
the Romans, their patricians and
rlebians; the Jews, their rabbis and
common people; the modern Europe
ans, their nobility and commonality;
and in the American Republic, the
Northern States have their Upper
Ten and Lower Million, and the
Southern, their masters and slaves.
All but the latter made, or do now
make distinction between persons
of the same race: but our Southern
brethren propose to make, as far as
psssible, distinction between races.
Since it is obvious that distinctions
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