The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-08-26
lc0MMU NIcATED,
SLAVERY.

tho Goth July, Abolitionists agree viii
ga true Souhcrncr" in denying to Con
gress the exercise or powers clearly con
fered by tho Constitution, The aboli
tionisls deny the validity Of thu Fugitive
Slave Law. Tha, is one extreme "a lruc
Soulhcrncr", denies tho validity of the
law prohibiting the African Slave Trade
and says, it is a restriction upon the free
dom OF state soverci gnly, that Congress
had no RICH, 10 p ace upon u.s. and that
!, must bv thrown off, That is the other
extreme. .....-.. ......
7 Now the bighes, judicial authority in
the United States, has constantly held,
,ho, both these laws are constitutional
and no doubt, njne,y.nne hundreths Of
these United States also, entertain that
opinion. And not only constitutional
hui, just, wise and polite,
In truth, neither proposition. as held
by true Soulherner' or BY an abolition.
ist, admits Of debate. The man of the
plainest understanding, who reads the
constitution, will decide again>, ,bem
both.
Here then "e7,rcmcs meet" A "a.
matte North, and fanatic South arc
alike Incapable Of rcrcejvng The force,
Of facts or reasoning, "he0 opposed to
their one idea.
But Of the law 10 prohiaj, thu slave
trade, and the fugitive slave law, arc TO
be hcld valid, and Of bindin! authority
whA, then is TO be done?
Here again ",xlremos meet" The
aboiitionst would dissolve the Union to
get rid Of Slavery; and the ultra South
er would also dissolve the Union, TO make
way for re opening the slave trade.
| thank God, the great mass Of the
people, both North and South, are against
each Of these extreme opinions, and will
oppose lhe CONSERVATION Of the mnd pur,
pose these extremes may Unite to effect.
"A true Sou'hrfncr' thinks il iMposs.
bic to distinguish between Tie morality
OF Kidnapping negroes on the coas's Of
Africa, AMI bringing them here into slave
ry---an the holding in slavery, ,iescen
dant OF an African, born among us, IN
state o. slav ~. Here again "cxtremns
meet" Tho whole slten.lh Of the abo.
!llon argument is iIe,e stated by ga true
Sou,herner," The Abollionists say,
IMAM stealing is iorb idea in Cots law,
and the penalty Of death is affixed, that
i: i. shocking 10 humanity, ana is in.
sS,nscalIy unjust, and that 10 hold ne.
gro in slavery now, is TO incur all the
guilt OF The kidnnpper Of his ancestor, no
matter how remote the period oflhal FIRST
wrong.
This fnlacy is so completely mcs and
exposed BY Dr.. Ross, OF Huntsville, that
refer ca true Sonthcrner" TO the third
letter to Barnes See SLAVERY ordained
food" PIP. 40. lquote one paragraph.
"Thus," says DR.. Ross, the master does
NOT assume the same relation which the
original man .s,ealer or buyer held to the
African. The masters relation to God
md to his slaves is now wholly changed
from tina, Of the man S,ealer, and those |
engaged in the trade; and his obligation /,
IS wholly different, What is his relation?
and what is his obligatisn? They are as
'ollows:
Tho master finds himself, with no
amt Of personal concern in the African
rads in christian community OF white
Anglo Americans, holding control over
lis black fellow man, who is so unlike
limsclfin complexion, in form, in other
,eculiariies, and so unequal to himself
n attributes OF body and mind that il is
impossible, in every sense, to place him
N a level with himself in the community.
his is relation TO the negro What,
hen, does God command him to do?-
)oes God require him to send the negro
ack to his heather home from whence he
,as stolen! That home no longer ex.
IS. But, if it did not remain, does God
ommand the master TO send his chris.
anized slave into the horrors oil his for.
,er African heathenism. No. God has
laced the master under law, entirely .
ifferent from his command to the slave
adler. God said to the trader, let the
egro alone. But he says TO the present
,..,., do ,n,o tho pegro all the good |