Randolph County journal., 1858-06-10

ly Impressed with the belief that
American slavery is the greatest pres
ent obstacle to that triumph. This
will appear extravagant until you re-
member and appreciate the true mis-
sion and destiny of America. II
seems apparent that upon America
was conferred all the local and mate
rial resources. and the moral and re-
ligious bias necessary to qualify her to
become the moral empire OF the world.
Here. on the wild shores of a remote
continent, the wcaried sons and daugh-
ters Of oppressed liberty and persecu-
ted christianity. took refuge from the
tolls and conflicts of ages. Here they
unfurled the banner Of liberty and true
christianity. They baptised the virgin
soil with their blood. and consecrated
it TO the rights Of man. Thus was
plainly indicated the true destiny of
this nation.
But for the intrusion Of the alien
and antagonist principle of slavery,
we might now have given law to the
civilized world. Were we animated
with bcnevolence and armed with JUS
tice, the distracted and oppressed na-
tions of the earth would gladly look
to us as the true example Of freedom
and the consistent defender Of human
rights. BY their spontaneous consent,
we might now have become the arbiter
Of tho worlds political destinies.
The proposition recently introduced
into the American Senate. of declaring
and maintaining a protectorate over
Mexico and the States of Central
America by the United States, was
not SO wide from our legitimate des-
tiny. l have no sort of sympathy
with the doctrine of non-intervention
1t is too selfish to be manly. But in
our present political degeneracy we
are unfit for the protectorate of our
own country. Millions of our own
people need to-day the strong inter-
vention of the civilized world. The
proposition, therefore, is absurd,
while a bondman groans on our soil.
But relieved from slavery, the
serious drawback upon our national
prosperity. and the only cause of Sec
tional conflict, the nation would be one
in interest. one in spirit, and one in
her peerless destiny. Under the
spreading wings of her natural in
huence and power, all lands and peo-
pie. of whatever color or opinion.
would find refuge and protection
From this exhaustless and increasing
fountain of influence would issue the
overwhelming streams of pure chris
tianity. The smiles of God and the
benedictions of grateful race, to-
gether with all the internal and domes-
tic felicities which result from virtue,
would be our invaluable inheritance.
Such is the legitimate destiny of our
country, all defeated and blasted by
slavery. Instead of this glorious
spectacle, we present the most stu
pendous combination of gross national
Inconsistencies that can be found on
earth. We are a nation before all
others in intelligence. wealth and
natural resources of soil, climate and
race, and yet on the verge of hostile
dissolution. Processing the most per-
feet national liberty. we practise the
grossest despotism upon every seventh
of our people. Advocating principles
one year, We trample upon them the
next. Jealous of foreign infringement
of the least right. we tear down, by q
progressive series of conspiracies, one
after another of the great pillars in the
temple of our own freedom. By our
gross expressions at home, we bear
false testimony against Christianity
abroad. The banner of our national
religion is the banner of unmitigated
despotism. What influence can such
conduct exert upon the political regen
Grafton of other nations?
What" says another. "can Amer
lea dare to say to Italy, when the
clank of the chain in the Italion dun
gen is answered by the echoing shriel
J in the Southern slave plantations?-
, What can America dare to say tt
Poland or Hungary, when the knou
sounds the keynote of brutality, anC
the slavewhip takes up the inferna
theme. and draws blood from th'
: American born as tiercely and as fiend
like"
! What rational people under a con
| stitutional monarch could desire
republic which enslaved every seventh
, of its inhabitants. and that lived in
: state Of endless civil conflict? Whs
system of decent hcathenism o
natural religion is not preferable to
slaveholding Christianity?