Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-14
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From the Philadelphia Inquirer Of Saturday,
Parsons Brownlow and Prynne on the
Slavery Question.
FOURTH DAYS DISCUSSION.

Hail. last evening, as before, by ten. Small read
ing Mr.. Brownow's speech, that gentleman still
continuing unwell.
Mr.. Brownlow opened by the rc-asserton that
tho Bible sanctioned slavery and christians held
slaves in all agcs Down to tho reign of Elizabeth
the common lawof England sanctioned slavery.
Judge Story has endorsed slavery. II has existed
in France aud Spain. Slavery il protected by tho
constitution of tho United States See Judge Me
Leans language of tho minority in the
bred Scott case Slavery is thc creature of the
common law of England. which We adopted but
| am aware tho difficulty Of driving facts into the
heads of anti slavery clorgymon; they
"Stick it out. with stomach stout,
unless facts to suit thcmurc found in the Bible,
Washington aud Franklin put tho Fugitive
Slave provision into tho Constitution. Washington
aud John Adams signed acts admitting slave
States Washington, Franklin aud othors refused
to abolish the slave trade by putting clause to
that effect in the CONSTITUTIONS; Washington Fran
kiln aud Albums put into tho Constitution the
principle of thrceftths representation OF slave
property by which the South gains 30 roprcscn-
iatl,cs Washington; jefferson Madison and Mon
roe. all slavrhoding Presidents. were elected by
Northern votes.
Slavery s ancient. hundreds Of millions Of
slaves were sold in the marts of PhTnoria, Greece
Rome Britain, &c, &c. Slaves by millions were
owned in Grccco and other countries in ancicnt
times. These fncts show that slavery found its
basis in primitive society, ust such slavery M
American slavery; none better. some worse. Vol
reS from awful Sinai from every nation. kindred
nni tongue proclaim the existence of slavery
10 the descendants orjarhct the cold north was
wns given, Shcm WINS above the Equator; but tho
burning South wns given to Ham. who got his
wife from the of Cain. his sons we're NIL born
alier the llool and tho name 'd'nin.' 'taannn,
Be-. can be traced for hundreds {" years The
fate of this rnre, cursed hy God, to be bought
and sold; Hams wife was n black wcnch and her
race hnvca been black.
Abolitonists take tho ground that the slave
trade is against the Bible, and evil only, but | do
not think ~. The speaker here went into mn ar
,,uncut to show that the slave trade had had good
effects nnd he traced the jews in captivity for
generations. these captvitics were predicted IN
the Bible and tho teachings oi the Bible on this
point 20 to snuctinn slavery, lic quoted from
report to the London African Association, in 1880
showing that since tho abrogntion of the slave
trade. interior Africa had gone luck To harbarlsu,
and Cnnnihnlisu.
Mr. l,rownlow then came fack ngan to tho BIZ
bic referring To several hooks oi tho New Testa
mcnt He said tho legitimate ancestors Of tho
Yankees were the Gnosties. who were free lovers
prohihitory law mon, compulsatory church gocrs,
and hvppcritcs in general. Just as tho Yankees
arc. The word servant il never applied to free
man in slave holding country, and in tho New
Testament. the word servant means slave. SEQ
Innl and John, passim: when Paul and John call
their utter devotion to the cause of their
Mascr-as good slaves nre devoted to their mas
tcrs, Paul in his Epistc to Timothy. condemns
and villnlnous free so and irce-loyc doctrines
which had sprung up. Paul dcnounrcs the two
freedom shriekcrs Ifymencus and Alexander he
delivers them over to the devil. nv he would my
opponent if he were 10 listen to him
After good deal uf argument, Mr.. brownlow
went on to show the inicriority of negroes from
the shape Of thor skulls and from their color
llack was II sign of nieriority always.
Mr.. Brownow then discussed Mr.. Pryncs
speech of last night saying that the press, tho
reporters for the press, and tho audience, tcom
posed Of fugitive slaves, al ii omnt genns,) were
IN favor OF Mr. Pryne and ngninst him.
H. said he would accept Mr. rryn"'s challenge
to repeat the debate if II could be done in both
Northern and Sonthern cities; Pryne selecting
and place ut the South Mr. ryrnc says he won't
answer 'rihallry." hut repeat: Would little
Ahram Prynr marry his daughter To u buck mig
ger such n. Snn Ward or Fred Douglass? APP
plausc and Kisses No, hc would not.
Prnceoling, MIR, Brownlow wound up by dccla-
ring that slavery never, would he abolishad till
Gabriel blew his trumpet.
Mr.. Prync then took the door amid II burst of
applause lie -nid he did not stoop to answer
the coarse and brutal alusiun tohis inmlly t'rent
applause, and cries Of right, good" DC, But
will say. my daughter would answer any haugh-
ty slave driving Southern stripping in the scornful
and dsduining words Of Whittier in the poem OF
"Thc Yankee Girl" Applause.
Mr.. Pryne then referred to the gradual bleach
ing white Of the Southern slaves and made II con-
lecture TO how long it would be before tho
slaves would all he white.
II" proceeded to culogise pcnns yvanin and tho
North and attacked the Parsons criminal statis-
tics He said there was two kinds of infdclity-
a kind that sings psalms and steals negroes; full
ofthcplogy and robbery of cradles. He would rn-
thcr have the other type ofntdelity. tApplausc)
He also put in n good word for the Northern Me
thol,t Church, and said that in that Church. par
tiruarly in New York, the spirit of abolition
So rising that the Church would soon be entirely
purified nf slavery
Mr.. Prync defended the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States az Ani-Slavery, quoting the clause
mo person should be deprived of life, Liberty or
property, without due process of law" This Con-
stitution will sweep slavery from the land IIe
maintained that iudge would be justified in set
ting every slave free by hdJcas cor1us under
this clause Of the Constitution. As to the bred
scott decision the Supreme Court had been
trolled like political caucus, and our only hope
was i'll getting better men on the bench, some day
and then Slavery would be abolished. Applause
and hsscs.
In regard to State sovereignty, il had its limits
and when State tramres on the rights Of man,
it is State vlany | deny the right of State
to do wrong while | am ready to pay all reverence
to State sovereignty--and State sovereignty de-
mands the freedom of every slave.--Congress
must guarantee a Republican form of govern
ment, and that very guarantee will drive slavery
from the land. 1t may be said that this will
drive the South out ofthe Union Well, what
lift doesg feeble applause and tremendous
storm of hisscs don't care. (Renewed hiss
es)
But, gentlemen, I am not afraid Of the South 60
ing out of the Union. Lately, saw some county
paupers eating their comfortable dinners, and if