The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-03
American Slavery. aGE its
Remedy,

American Slavery. anI its
Remedy.
We fea: very few people appreciate the
hideousness of Southern Slavery. We
cannot understand how any one who re-
aiizes what it is to be chattel can apol-
ogise for the system, or sneer at those
who are trying to bring it to an end.
Look at this picture of Slavery as
drawn by the Rev. DR.. Cheover, of New
York, on the 18th Of May, and then ask
yourself what you are doing to sustain
the slave-holdor and his laws
"By our laws providing that the slave
and It's increase shall be deeAcd and
doomed our personal chatteis forever, We
constitute for them millennium Of sin
and misery. We convert them into a
community, in which it is impossible that
the fundamental laws Of Christianity
should be recognized and obeyed, or the
most commonly acknowledged and most
sacred institutions Of the Christian state
be regarded. The laws of God for hus-
bands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons,
daughters, children, cannot be applied,
cannot be obeyed, in such community.
Husbands, love your wives is divine
injunction. But for those most misera-
Bile outcasts of humanity, the American
slaves, there can be no such law, bat an
admonition against it. Gods claims, so
expressed, interfere with mans property
in man. Husbands, blwre Of imagining
that you have any rights, any authority,
in regard to the ohattels you are permit
tod to live with; beware Of ever 50 loving
them as to BE- unwilling to sacrifice them
at moments warning, to the avarice ,he
need or the passions Of your owners, Ye
are not permitted to love, but only in sub
lection to the price Of the market. the
necessities Of your master, and the grand
rule Of your domestic institution, the
slave and IL increase.
~, " ives oa ooe0.en' 10 our 'uspaLl'S }
Wiyag va are none and thus
divine law belongs not to you, but for the
ptoft of your masters. Your obedience
and yonr increase belong 70 them, and to
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.I,uo. ha,.o - n';r1ir.,, dmd tba;r ali
,4..an bora No raron+s cycort onIy 90 ,bo
bales Of cotton hav. q parent in the Gin
and the factory, whay- thew were sbaned
and bonI,d for the market, These com
mards and precepts are all aud only for
the masters. not the slaves. Slaves have
no ties, ng affections. no duties, no obli-
cations. no belongings. but for their own
ers, whose nropsrty thew are, and for
whom and at their bidding every faculty,
capqoitv. emotion. must be devoted, occu
Died tasted. improved, sold at the h;vh-
est premium to the highest bidder when
ever. however and wherever the owner,
interest requires it."
E.u. - 'iJ!;ans &C b,,,oo, bo;no,. o~o
, 1,,. 49, rT...1 c..., -
'nuS He'o ~ Ine oN''0o '9''''0'' auo lhS
number IS increasing every year. W
is the remedy? Let every man who secs
the sin set his face against it and exert
al bis inauonoo f,. is rtbrow IF
,1.l ol !,
you ask What mas slavery 10 % with the
people here in Potter County, we answer
III another extract from Dr.. Cheevcr:
The indulgence, maintenance, protec-
ton and defence of this sin, is the one
great obstacle against the missionary in
Auence and work. 1t cnpples us, i man
acIes our energies, it palsies our efforts.
We are in the condition of a man whose
whole left side is paraIvzed, 50 that all
the strength and life of the RIGHT side are
occupied and tasI,cd with keeping the sal
sled half Of the bodv from fallino, We
are like a man indu}ginc in the use Of
ardent snirits to a degree lust bordering
continually en- intoxioation, 50 that all the