Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-22

Kentuck y sgepsesenling some Of it's most
able men--bIinisteFs and jurists. The
factwll be recognized that in Kentucky
slavery assumes II nilder aspect than ~
most of the slave States, and hence its
stalemens will be received as fair SAM
pie Of tho law, the judicial decisions of
the actual practice where slavery exists III
its milder aspects, made by men of intelli-
gence, honesty and candor, and addressed
10 those who know the actual condition OF
things. That committee in their, address
say, "A part Of our system Of slavery con
sists IN depriving human beings of tho
right TO acquire and hold property. -
docs an act which is wrong, when done
once aud toward one individual, become
tight because it is prac iced daily and
hourly toward thousands? If the chicn
merry of laws should enable us to escape
the payment of our debts, or if n human
legislature should discharge us from our
obligations to our creditors. could we,
without deep guilt, withhold from our
neighbors that which is their due? No!
The laws of the God of Nature can never
be replaced by a'y Legislature under
| Heaven -
"The deprivation of personal liborly
forms another part Of our system of sa-
very Not only has the slave no right to
his wife and children, but he las no right
To himself. The movement of his limbs
are regulated by The will of II master. lie
may be sold like beast of the field. lie
may be transported in chains like fe!on.
I'Stll further, tho deprivation of per-
sonal lbery is SO complete that it destroys
the rights of conscience. Our system, as
established by lmw, arms the master with
power to prevent his slave from worship
Ii lug God according to tho dictates of his
own conscience. Tho owner of human
beings may legally restrain them from as
lsemblng to hear the instructions Of divine
Itruth, or even from ever uniting thoil
hearts and voices in social prayer and
Ipraisc to Him who created them. God
alone is Lord over the conscience Yet
our system, defending alike our Creator
and our slaves, con(ers upon men this per.
ogaive of Deity. Arguments is umneces-
: saiy to show tho guilt and madness fsuch
u system And do we not participate in
its criminAlity if we uphold it?"
tile deprivetion 0 personal security
IS Me remaining constituent IF our system
Of saoery. The time was, in our own, AS
wclla in other countries, when even the life
of the slave was absolutely in tie hands
of the master 1t is not so now among
us. The life Of Londman cannot be .aker
with impunity. But tho law extends its
protection no further. Cruelty may be car
ried to any extent provided life be spared
Manyling. Imprisonment, starvation, every
species Of torture, may be inflicted upon
him and he has No redress. But no
content with thus laying the Eody Of the
slave defenseless ut tho foot of the master
our system proceeds still further, nnC
rips him IN Il graat measure of all protec
ton against the lnhumanily Of any othel
him. The laws prohibit tie evidence o
Il slave against white man from being re-
ceived in a Court of Justice. SO that wan
tonness and cruelty may be exercised by
any man with impunity, upon these un-
fol tunate people, provided none witness i
but those of their own color"
"Such is the essential character Of ou
slavery. Without any crime ON their par
they are deprived for life, and their pos
terly after them, of the right to property
of the right To liberty and of the right t'
personal security. These odious feature
are not the eXcrescences upon the system
THEY are the system HseJ-they are it'
essential constituent parts. And can an.
man believe chat such thing as this is no
sinful-that it is not hated by God aat
not to bc abhorred and abolished by man?'
To DE Continued.