The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-27
Tho Crittenden Kansas Bill Among the
Anti-Slavery Factions.

Tho Crltfenden Kansas Bill Among tho
Anti-Slavery Factions.
Revolt and Rsyoi.sssn Among sae H,gser
she IndrTeudens, sgainss tho Monxrsa Coa-
lssten Of Cratsenden, De~gaas, GhddiSss q
From the New York Weekly independently
cuEKvEs, DID.
THE LxcoMPToN CoTsrIrU1 ION FOR THE SLAVE AID
ITS INCRRAsE.
There is a text concerning our stewardship which
we should do weal to ponder as natien. in regard
to liberties. "lf We have not been faithful in
that which IL another mans. who shall give you
that which IL your own" The cruelty Of fraud aud
oppression may seem confined to the subjects of IT,
and for while the expressing nation may seem
pros porous and secure. but ut length the appointed
honr and execution OF vengeance comes, and God
pays the nation in its own COIN and chooses its de-
lusions and compes it to drink to the dregs tho cup
of slavery it has ministered to others. Because ye
trust in oppression. therefore this iniquty shall be
your ruin. Because ye have not proclaimed liberty
to others, your own liberties shall be taken from
yourselves and your own hands shall destroy them.
1t ia fearful thing to witness the unmngled and
absorbing sefshness so unconsciously displayed in
the present profesSed conflict for freedom. II is
longer a conflict against enslavng others-a battle
in behalf Of an oppressed and injured race to re-
store to them the rights and blessings long with
held from them, to deliver them from bondagc-but
il is mere self defence against being included with
them under the endurance of . similar injustice,
The battle which have refused to fight for their
negbbors they are compelled to fight for themselves
But the deliberate remuneration Of all obligation
of justice or mercy to the ensaved-the forgetful-
ness and disregard Of principle toward God and
benevoence toward man, and the degradation Of
the warfare to mere strife for political superiori
ty between the slave States and the free, or be-
tween slave labor and free, are indications omnous
Of evil We have some reason to fear lest all the
apparent progress toward a national anti-slavery
sentiment and firmness may turn out TO be sheer
sefshness and that the question OF the actual abo
Of thA 80 10.
may be farther off than ever our whole virtue and
patriotism being active and brave only for ourselves
and not for Others, only for the whites and not the
blacks
of Representatives have been stihened and propped
up to transitory display of steadfastness, was
not the monstrous nquity Of forcing the slavery of
black persons upon State, but that of forcing
the white people. The inhumanity and i'm.
morality of slavery ITSELF the justice and wckedness
of enslaviDg the blacks would not have provoked
conflict. On the naked principle Of opposition
against slavery, or against enslavng the blacks,
majority could not have been rallied.
Yet that iniquity and its perpetual security and
increase made up the great thing that rendered the
proposed constitution, apart from its border rulian
origin and authority, Infamous and the sanction of
that nquity by the constitution was just the quality
coveted; without which none would have dreamed
of enforcing it, That atrocous article and element of
slavery that insurance of its being fastened forever
on the DdCks, LOT the sake oil which
the supporters of slavery were willing to enact con-
stitutonal despotsm over the whites. For the sake
of eternal, undisturbed property in black men, they
were ready to force constitution upon white men,
ready to violate and sacrifice the constitutional
fundamental principles of our own liberty ready to
convert the government Of the United States itself
into tyranny, ready to forbid and destroy the ele
ment Unpopular representative freedom, and to bind
down a State under government. which the people
not only have not chosen, but have rejected and de
nounced; government which was a usurpatiou from
the beginning the miscreation Of wholesale fraud
enforced by villainy and violence; government
founded on violation Of the ballot, in the gross
manufacture of illegal votes and establishing in its
constitution more diabolical article of cruelty and
Injustice than ever was Incorporated or ventured
upon in any Of the most despotic constitutions on
earth.
Now the vital and most detestable iniquity in this
complicated and accumulated monstrosity of wrongs
this series of iniquities and expressions upcoing
and nveteratey convolved is not the thing that has
rOvOked and steaded the unexpected opposition
This show Of bravery has not the honor of a consc
entious conflict against sin, against injustice The
principle of nhumanity and avarice, for the sane
ton, establishment and perpetuty of which the
whole usurpation was undertaken. and every success
sve invasion and outrage perpetrated has not been
the element resisted and abhOrred, but merely the
manner OF enforcing II; not the iniquty ITSELF but Just
only the compusion of on the State without consul
tation Of the people. In proposing aud compelling
the adoption Of such system, the thing that has
excited all this Indignation, wrath, opposition both
in tie Senate and House OF Representatives IL not
al all the making slaves OF human beings without
their consent but the doing Of IL without con.
sent Of the people, without popular sovereignty IL
popular sovereignty ordered It. IL was all right II
was the making men shareholders against their will
not the making of other men slaves, that reused al
this ire and evoked all this patriotism The making
merchandise Of black men Is not the thing opposed
brt the making OF white men, against their will the
merchants Of such merchandise.
But the enforcement Of constitution upon men
N nf nd for ita a1fa nj hat
principle of tyranny over them in everything, and
therefore they oppose il 10 this thing, and become
temporary and halfway abolitionsts. not out of
regard to the rights and interests Of others not out
OF Jealous and benevolent care for others freedom
hut their own. They demand their own but relin.
quish that which j. another mans.
The central iniquity in this scheme, at which the
old prophet would have called upon the heavens to
lie astonishcd and the earth 10 be afraid with hoIr.
bic amazemcnt, Is the deliberate establishment OF
slavery, in the most heaven defying and infamous
terms. The right Of property In human beings il
distinctly affirmed In the constitution proposed 70 be
enforced as befc -e and higher than any constitu-
tiOnal sanction The right Of property ia man Il in
fact assumed as one Of the rights Of man:
and IL is declared that 1.-THE right Of any owner
Of a slave TO such slave aud its increase IL
the came and as inviolsbe as the rqh, OF any
owner Of any property whatsoever" Had the
terms Of this proposition been purposely studied TO
obtain as insulting and daring mode OF affirming
the perpetual and involable right Of slavery a. Ian
Puege could contrive, obviously. no more definite
and compact sign could have heeu bit UpGa, thaa
the or the impersonal pronoun its, IN reference
90 human cbattel, the slave and It's increase.
Ard this is the central article, on which the whole
constitution hangs: the establishment and perpetuy
Of slavery by this article IL the final object OF the
constitution, and OF all the usurpatiop crime aud
fufanism requisite for IT, adoption. How then could
any man, with any living conscience toward God
and man, with any commanding sense o. right and
wrong whatever give consent. even for an instant
10 such an execrable proposition How could any
man vote 20 propose so deliberate an infamy 40
plaring an insult against God aud man, 10 any
people. as possibly admitting their voluntary as.
sumption. a. cling the possible subject Of righteous
popular choice, and 20 lie sanctioned. adopted aud
made the supreme law Of the State, from generation
20 generation, IL the people pleasey
And yet, neither that tatsay sad cri0,e central
zed in the constitution, nor that infamous propo.