Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-03

will be to hold him in bondage and to sell
him; while the more he is like an animal. the
edser 1t will be to bold him in thrall and
harness. The more you make Shareholders
feel that when they oppress and sell man
they are oppresSing and selling Gods image
the harder it will be for them to continue
to enslave and traffic in human beings
Therefore, whatever you do to inspire in the
slave high and noble and godike feelings,
tends to loosen his claims; and whatever
shall inspire in him base, low, and cruel feel
ings, tightens them.
Running away is all fair for single cases.
1t is Gods remedy for all cases of special
hardship. 1t is the natural right of any
slave who is of manhood enough TO resent
even tolerate bondage. But we are not
speaking of the remedy for individu,ls-but
the remedy for the whole system Four
million men ranuot run away, until God
sends ten Egyptian plaques to help;them.- -
And those who 90 among the slaves to stir
up such disposition, will help the hundreds
at the expense Of the millions Those left
behind will he demoralized, and becoming
less trustworthy, will grow snllen under in
creased severity and vigilance.
A. Still less wonld We tolerate anything
like lnsnrrection and servie war. 1t would
be the most cruel, hopeless, and desperate
OF all conceivable follies, to seek emancipa-
tion by the sword and by blood. And
though love liberty as my own life; though
| long for it in every human being; though
if God, by unequivocsl providences, should
ordain that it should come again as of old,
irhough terrible plaques on the first born,
and by other terrors of i'll, should submit
to the Divine behest; yet, so far as human
Instrumentation is concerned, with all the
conscience of q man, with all the faith of
Christian, and with all the zeal and warmth
OF phIanthropst. | protest against any
counsels that lead to insurrection and blood
she'd 1t is bad for the master-bad for
the slave-bad for all that are neighbors to
them-bad for the whole land-bad from
beginning to end! An evil so unminded
and malignant, that its origin can scarcely
be doubted
l believe, however, in the right OF q peo-
pie to assert and achieve their liberty. The
right Of race or nation to seize their free
dom is not to be disputed 1t belongs to
all men on the face of the globe, without re-
gard to complexion. A people have the
right to change their rulers, their govern.
ment, their whole political condition. This
right is not either granted, or limited, in the
New Testament. II is left, as is air, water
aud existence itself, as things not recurring
command or legislation But according to
Gods words so long as man remains
servant he must obey his master. The
right of the slave to throw off the control
of his master is not abrOgated. The right
of the subject to do this is neither defined
nor limited.
But the aSe of this right must conform to
reason and to benefit. The leaders of peo
pie have no right to whelm their helpless
followers into terrible disaster by melting
them to rebel, under circumstances that Of
ford not the slightest hope that their rebel
lion will rise to the dignity of a successful
revolution.
The nations of Italy are showing great
wisdom and fitness in their leaders for their
work, in this very thing, that they are quell-
ing tretful irregular outbreaks, L holding
the people steadfast till success shall surely
crown uprising revolution This has been
the eminent wisdom of that Hungarian exile
X KosSUTH.
In spite of all that is written and said
against this noble man, stand to nv first
full faith in him. The uucrowned hero is
the nohlest man, after all in Europe And
his statemanShip has been shown in this:
that his burning sense of the right of his
people to be free, has not led him to ncite
them to premature, partial, and easily over
matched revolt. A man may give his own
life rather than abide in servitude, bur be
has no right to lead whole people to
without the strongest protabiI-
ties of success.
If nations were all armed men, it would
be different. Soldiers can die. But na-
ton is made mp of other materials besides
armed man-it is made up of women, child. |
rem, and youth. These are to be consider
ed-not merely men of muscle, and knuckIe, !
and bone, And a man that leads a people |
has no right 10 incite that people to rise |
unless there is reasonable prospect that
they will conquer
Now, if the Africans in our land were in !
telligent; if they understood themselves; if
they had self-governing power; if they were
able first to throw off the yoke of laws and /
constitutions, and afterwards to defend and |
build themselves up in civil state, then
they would have just the same right to as-
sumo their independence that any nation
has.
But does any man believe that this is the |
case! Does any man believe that this vast
hord of undisciplined Africans, if set free
would have cohesive power enough to Or
ganize themselves into a government, and
maintain their independence If there be
men who believe this am not among them.
certainly think that even slaves would be
made immeasurably better by liberty; but
| do not believe they would be made better
by liberty gained by instruction or rebel
lion. A regulated liberty a liberty possess
ed with the consent of their masters; a lib |
erty under the laws and institutions Of the
country; liberty which should make them |
common beue6ciaries of those institutions
and principles which make us wise aud hap
py-such liberty would be great bless
lug to them. Freedom, with law and GOV
ernment is a good, but without them il is
a mischief. And anything that tends to
incite among men vague insurrectionary
spirit, is great aud cruel wrong to them.