Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-09-08

/ meree, our Influence with other nations. an
. lmpoyerish and degrade ourselves, and viii
draw from The world the benefit OF our prei
enl exports, and send four million of negroe
tfFom serylude in which they are contented
happy themselves and seryieeable 10 mankind
either 10 the grave or 10 starvation aud barbal
ism, And this Is called philanthropy. An,
il is 10 accomplish this that Aboliiionisis hay
agliaied and harnssed US until their associa
lion has become almos, insupporlnble. This |
The boon 10 humanity for which they woul'
dissolve this great aud gorirus Union, o
wrong US until we must dissolve il.
| will not now detam you with the histor,
OF this agitation, or show the various and pro
gTessivc stages Of its success, foi these are ia
miliar 10 most OF you. But our own want o
llnowledgeas us 10 the true character o. the ne
Igro. and OF his condition in his native baIbar
ism, and Of his improved condition in his stat,
OF serviiudc among us, has done much TO en-
courage abolitonsm. And then the fact tina
we have some wicked masters, who abuse ihci
authority by cruelty TO their negroes, has
caused much complaint against slavery. And
while the institution Of slavery is not charge
able with this wickedness, where it occurs i,
cannot be TOO severely condemned in the indi.
viduals who are guilty of it, and in our State,
as suppose in all the other slave States, It is
visited by the law with severe penalties. But
the institution OF slavery is not singular in be.
ing liable TO occasional abuse. The institution
OF marriage, and the relations of parent and
child, and Of guardian and ward are often
abused by the most outrageous crueltc.; and
yet no one thinks that the remedies for these
wrongs are 10 be found in the abolition of the
institution OF marriage, and the destruction of
the relations of parent and child, and of guard.
ian and ward, for upon these and the other re-.
lation OF master and servant, all governments
are reared, and upon them all order and pro.
gress and happiness rests.
But the great error with US has been the as
sumption that negro slavery was, in the alb
stract, wrong, and that the evil was only to!e-
rated because it could not be got rid of. And
these opinions prevailed in the South as gen.
orally. until late years, as in the North And
all our legislation heretofore has been based
upon this idea. II these opinions are true,
then we ought TO abolish slavery us soon as
possible, but II they are not true, il is our high
est duty to expose their falacy,and let the leg
islation of the country rest upon its true
ground, that negro slavery is right because it
benefits bo;h the white and the black races
And that whatever sin is connected with it re.
suits from the abuse Of slavery and not from
its existence.
But the public opinion of enlightened men
and nations seems to be undergoing great
change upon this subject. Spain has all the
time continued the slave trade, and France has
virtually revived it In her African apprentice
system; while England, still continuing to
preach her homlies against slavery and the
slave trade, has substantially revived the trade,
not indeed in Africans but in the more nume-
rous people of India and China. And while
ler Lord Brougham and her Bishop of Oxford
ike our Seward and Hale, are exhausting their
powers in sentimental speeches about the /
wrongs Of the inferior races, her more practi- |
al men like ours. are looking to the nccessi- |
les of the world, and think they can serve I
10Th God and man better by relieving the me-
,ro from the horrors Of savage barbnrism,
where he is curse to his race, and placing
lin liz serviude, where he can enjoy peace,
ecurty, plenty and happiness. And indeed it
S not astonishing that the woyld, should at last
onclude thatsit is more humane and relg-
Gus employment! for negroes to be engaged in
making Cotton, Rice. Coffee, Tobacco, Hemp,
&C., and in developing the vastfclds of wealth
n the tropics, than to be engaged in killing
nd eating or selling each other in Africa.
But have not time to pursue this subject
urther. Nor can now tax you to go through
II the Legislation Of Congress bearing on the
lavery question. 1t is enough for me to say
hat Legislation, until the passage of the Com
romise measures of 1857, and the Kansas.
Nebraska bill in 1854. looked to the restriction
{ slavery in this country within its present
mits, or in other words, by violating the fed
raj constitution, to cut its expansion by refus-
1g to let it enter our territories. But by the
litter measures the Constitution was vindicat-
d, and by them, and the decision of the Sn-
RENE Court in the Dred Scott case, restored
} its original purity and meaning.
Last winter Kansas applied for admission as
State, under her Lecompton Constitution.-
When the Territory of Kansas was organized
fierce struggle took place between the pro-
lavery and free State men. The pro-slavery
nen triumphed, and elected most Of the men,
ers fthe Territorial Legislature. Afterward
vhen the election for members of the Conven-
ion to form the Constitution for the new State
anne on, the pro-slavery men again triumphed
lecting a majority of the members of the
Convention. This Convention formed Con.
titution recognizing slavery, and submitted
ne question Of slavery or no slavery to vote
t the people of the Territory And by that
ote the slavery clause was incorporated in the
and, it was under this Cons,itu.
ion the application for admission was made.
The President, MIR. Buchanan. recommended
hat it be admitted: and the great masss of the
Democratic and portion Of the American
Members CT Congress were in favor of its ad.
Mission. But the Republican members with.
ut exception, and portion Of the Democrat
and portion of the American members op-
osed to its admission. And they placed their
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