The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-06-26
op,u,ors Of Great Men on SLAVERY.

81 hope it will not be conceived FROM
these observations, that il is my wish to
hold the unhappy people who are the
subject Of this letter in slavery I can
only say that there is not man living,
who wishes more sincerely than do 70
see a plan adopted fot the abolition Of
IT, Washington letter TO RoJ't Norris.
"Upon the deccasc Of my wife, IL is my
will and desire that al my slaves, which
| hold id my own right, shall receive
their freedom. - Wastington's wiz.
"Thc whole commerce between mas
ter and slave is perpetual exercise Of
the most boisterous passions; the most
unrcmittiug despotism on the one part,
and degrading submission on the Other.
Our children see this and learn to i.si-
tate il. s
! - The parent storms,
the child looks on, catches the linea-
ments Of wrath, puts on the same airs
IN the circle of the smaller slaves, gives
loose to his worst passions, and thus
nurscd, educated, and daily exercised in
tyranny. cannot but be stamped by it
with odious pcculiarities. The man
must be prodigy who can retain his
manners and morals undepravcd by such
circumstances "--Je6srson's Letter to
WarDiNc, (of France 1898.
"While | am indulging in my views
Of American prospects and American
liberty, it is Notifying to be told that
in that very country large portion of
| tho tyoof,1o o~o e1a,ro. IA - Ill "A
on the face of the nation. Such state
Of things cannot always exist. "--La-
Iayette.
ave have found that this evil (slavc-
ry) has prayed upon the very vitals of
! the Union, and has been prejudicial to
all the States in which it has existed"
-Monroe's Speech in the Viryinia Con-
! rcntion.
81 have said that I considered negro
slavery as a political misfortune. The
phrase was too mild. 1t is a canccr-a
slow, consuming cancer--a withering
pestilence--an unnitigated curse. !
speak not in the spirit Of II pulling and
false philanthropy. I was born in a
slrve State--I was nursed by a slave.
To me, custom has made tho relation
familiar, and | see nothing horrible in
it. am Virginian by descent. Eve
ry cross in my blood so far as I can
trace it, in the paternal or maternal
line is Virginian. ."-Tho. B. Marshall.
"Another thing will contribute to
bring general emancipation about. Sla-
very is detested We feel its fatal ef-
fects. We deplore it with all the pity
of humanity. repeat it again, that it
would rejoice my soul that every one of
my fellow beings was cmancipated, As
we ought with gratitude to admire the
decree of Heaven which has numbered
us among the free, we ought to lament
and deplore the necessity Of holding our
fellow men it bondage. "--Eatrick Hen
'y.
81 consider slavery as a curse-a curse
to the master--a wrong, grieyous wrong
to the slave, in the abstract it is all wrong,
and no possible contingency can make it
right. - Henry Clay in q Colonization
Speech, IN 1886.
"Slavcry is contrary to the laws of ma
turc, and of nations. That slavery is an
evil it would be more than idle for any
human being to doubt or deny WI
liam Wirt
"Avarice alone could have produced
the slave trade Avari,e alone can drive,
as it does drive, this internal traffic, and
the wrctched victims, like SO many post
horses whipped to death in a mail-coach
John Randolph.
"Sir, neither envy the head nor the
heart Of that man from the north, who
rises here to defend slavery upon princi
pie. ."-Randolph an Congress.
81 give my slaves their freedom, tt
| which my conscience tells me they art
, Justly entitled. ."-RandoipRs VIZ
"When Texas was annexed, proposed
to limit the western extension of slavery
by longitudinal line In my vote upor
the Oregon bill, l opposed the introduc
tion of slavery there; my personal senti
ments, then, are against the institution
of slavery, and against the introduction
into places in which it does not exist
IT. H. Benton's Missouri Speech, Nay
t 1S49.
a "Those who acknowledge, when in pri
vate communion with their God, that sla
very is wrong, arc to all intents and pur
:. poses "abolitionists,' for those who be
leye it wrong, must, to be consistent
! use all lawful efforts to have the sam
$ abolished--therefor they are abolition
: lists Galpeston Teras) Ne,cs, Marc
1857.
u 81 warn the abolitionists-ignorant
s infatuated barbarians as they arc---ths
: if chance shall throw any of them in on
. hands, they may expect felon's Death
II --Hammond Of s. Carolina.
l. "The cry of the whole South should b
g death, instant death to the abolitionists
/ wherever he is caught. ."--August
(Ga.) Chronicle.
After reading the above extracts, VIII
can say that an honorable and free-spt
ken man can live in the South in safet
>. at this day? The foregoing speaks ft
= itself Such men as Washington, Jeffe
!. son, Lafayette, Marshall, Henry, Wir
rs Randolph, &C., do not now reside in II
:, South, or if they do, they are every da
- in danger of meeting telon's death, a
4 cording to the last extracts.
80 N.Y. All. Mr.. Simpkins, VIC have n,