Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-08-21
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want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and mar
ry with negroes! lie will have it that
| they can not else be consistent Now |
protest against that counterfeit logic which
concludes that, because do not want a
black woman for slave, must Deeessa-
rily want her for a WIFE I need not have
her for either; can just leave her alone.
In some respects she is certainly not my
equal, but in her natural right to eat the
bread she earns with her own hands, with
out asking leave Of any one else, she is ny
equal, and the equal Of all others.
WHAT TnArcLAUsE MEANs-ITs OBJECTS.
Chief Justice fancy, in his opinion in
the Dred Scott case, admits that the Ian
guage of the Declaration is broad enough
to include the whole human family, but
he and Judge Douglas argue that the au.
thors of that instrument did not intend to
include negroes, BY the fact that they did
not at once actually place them on an
equality with the whites. Now this grave
argument comes to just nothing at all by
the other fact, that they did not once or
ecer afterDard, actually place all irhite
people on an equality nth one another
And this is the staple argumeu. of both
the Chief Justice and the Senator, for do
| ing this obvious violence to the plain, un-
mistakable language Of the Declaration.
think the authors of that notable instru-
ment intended to declare all men equal in
all respects. They did not mean to say all
were equal in color, size, intellect, moral
development, or social capacity. They de-
fined, with tolerable distinctness, in what
respects they did consider all men created
equal-equai IN "eertain iaoilenaJje rights,
among uhiich are lte, liberty, and the Pur.
suit Of happiness" This they said, aud
this they meant. They did not mean to
assert the obvious un,ruth, that all men
were then actually enjoying that equality,
nor yet, that they were about to confer it
Immediately upon them. In fact they
had no power to confer such q boon.
They meant simply to declare the right so
that the enforcement Of it might follow as
fast as circumstances should permit. They
meant to set up standard maxim for free
society, which should be familiar to all
constantly labored for, aud even though
never perfectly attained, constantly ap.
proximated, and thereby constantly spread
ing and deepening its influence, and aug
menting the happiness and value of life
to all people, Of all eolors, everywhere.
The assertion that "all men are created
equaP was Of no practical use in affecting
our separation from Great Britain and it
was placed in the Declaration, not for
tL.s oas lte DU0rg GSc- Tvs autnorS
meant it to be, thank God, as it is now
proving itself, a stumbling block to those
who, in after times, might seek to turn a
free people back into the hateful paths of
despotism. They knew the proneness of
prosperity to breed tyrants, and they
meant, when such should re-appear in
this fair land and commence their vocation,
they should find left for them at least one
hard nut to crack
I have now briefly expressed my view
of the meaning and Objects of that part Of
the Declaration Of Independence which
declares that call men are created equal"
THE OTHER VIEW.
Now let US hear Judge Douglas view of
the same subject. Here it is:
"No man can vindicate the character, mo-
tives, and conduct of the signers of the Dec
laration OF Independence except upon the hy-
po,hesis that they referred 10 the white race
alone, and not 10 the African, when they de-
clared all men to have been created equal
that they were speaking of BRUSH subjects.
born and residing in Great Brltain-that they
tl,I Al, L. ~
and among them were enumerated life, liber-
iy and the pursuit of happiness. The Dec
laration was adopted for the purpose OF justi-
fying the coionists in the ewes of the civilized
world in Withdrawing their allegiance from
the British crown and disSolving their con
neciion with the mother country
TIp.Top KNOW -NoTHINGIsN.
My good friends, read that carefully
over, some leisure hour, and ponder well
upon it-see what a mere wreek-mang-
led ruin-it makes of our once glorious
Declaration: " They gere speaking Of
British subjects on dis continent being equal
10 British subjects born and residing in
Great Britain p Why, according to this,
not only negroes but sehite people outside
IF Great Britain and America are not
spoken of in that instrument. The Eng
ish, Irish and Scotch, along with white
A americans, were included, to be sure, but
he French, and tie Germans, and other
caite people Of the acorld are all gone to
pot along nth the Judye's "nterior races"
NOTHING But OLD wADDING.
l had thought the Declaration promised
better than the condition Of
British subjects; but no, it only meant
hat we should be equal to them in their
'wn oppressed and unequal condition.
According to that, it gave no promise,
hat, having kicked off the King and
lords of Great Britain, We should not at
nee be saddled with King and Lords
4 our own.
| had thought the Declaration contem-
lated the progressive improvement in the
ondition of all men everywhere but 10,
merely was adopted for the purpose Of
ustifying the colonies in the eyes Of the
ivilized world in Withdrawing their ale
lance from the British crown, and dissol-
ing their connection with the mother
ountry." Why, that object having been
ffected some eighty years ago, the Dec