American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-10-06

giaphicatanq fhysiologicai argument 10
seIhrence to AAvery;=+ahdstrY lOgull fools
Nth your Iso,hsrmGt insS--Jcur dititudes
Aad your ss4t-ituass;--aua with some show
% learned wordssnd Sistortsd facts d.
luds ignorsmuses into the belIsf that you
are talking sense.
Better try to demonstrate. as you did
with pompous plalitude-hOw God has made
this earlb-here bot, there cold-hers
suited for the wants ofIbe black race, there
Tor the white; and has show. most learned
Judge. that the great Creator has settled
this slavery question, and how vain and
presumptious is all our agitation now
Yet il is true. (and ybe some excuse
for US 'bsardlsss srpoESdsrs" ofthe present
day that our reyered Revolutionary Fa-
theirs. aud the great statesman and the
great political parties Of our country
even IRE Immaculate Democratic parry up
to few years ago--Were ignorant Of. or at
least did not or could not see the bearing Of
your lsOtkermal facts, upon the important
question Of slavery and its extension.
For the history and acts Of all these per-
sonages and parties, show cOnclusivslY
that they regarded slavery as moral evil
Of The 6rst magntude--as abbot and blem-
ish and dark spot upon the fair face Of
our uation--and 10 the words Of the Eem-
ocratic resolutions Of ls4s--thsy "i06orsd
to prevent its increase and TO mitigate and
finally to eradicate lhe.svI.
So thought WAsHISeroE, when be wrote
to his near friend Lafayette.
| "Ths benevolence Of your heart. my
dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all
occasions, that l never wonder at any
fresh proofs OF it; but your late purchase
Of an estate 10 the Colony Of Cayenne.
with view Of emancipatipg the slaves on
liz, is q generous and noble proof Of your
humanity. Would to God like spirit
might diffuse itself generally into the
minds OF the reople Of this country
To set the slaves a6oat
at once would. really believe, be pro-
ductive of much Inconvenience and mis-
chief: but by degrees it certainly might
and assuredly ought to be effected; and
that TOO by legislative authority" {Pagt
1863.
What! praising Lafayette for emaucipa'
ting his slaves and calling it generous
and noble proof of his humauity y!'--ant
even going SO far as TO wish Legislative
authority to accomplish the same purpose
in his own countryl Why. he would b
classed among the disunionisis now! Ever
old Josh Giddings but asked Congressiona
authority 10 prevent its increase over fer
ritory now free! -
And what dear old simple hearted, 70
gy Saint, Lafayette must have been, TO Q
mancipate slaves in that hot, scorching
climate Of Cayennel Surely he had no
heard Of the ''Isothermal theory" or b
would not have acted contrary to the AL
I mighty and to the climatic laws. Cay
enne! why the very name makes us burr
Just the beau ideal and perfection, Of
D place for negroes. according to Judg
i Thurman,s theory, and the very spot d.
signed by the Crestor for them. Thel
q they could luxuriate. multiply and r
crease. .---for their mortality would be but
s and fraction per cent.,--vhile their ma,
d ters would die at the rate Of 8 percent.
: By The way, Judge. did 4 never stril
]. you in calculating that 'morlality" arg'
) mem. t.---that il was a two edged one, an
70 that q priori, one might infer--that
o God intended the hot low lands for negroe
]. because there. their mortality was but 1 p
d cent, land not the high cold latitudes,b
cause there their mortality was at the ra
v Of per cent; that the converse Of 'h
], proposition might also b, true, ,--that viii
IT men should not at all live in hot low land
.. their mortality there being 5per cent, al
Of but per cent.in the cold high latitude
ar Blu. pardon--we would net for
90 world call in question the profound a
ly original Calhoun theory Of our learn
As Judge; nor question his deep insight il
the workings and designs Of Provident
We or else he might burl upon us with Bit
s, sneer those terrible epithets "beardless 6
at pounders," and "Oberlin Saints"
nd And YET. memory will recall the acts
al another Of our Revolutionary Fathers
o. venerable FRANKL1N--who long after he B
he a beard--and really had obtained some
nd tIe reputation as Philosopher and obsel
.p. er Of nature--was so simple (not havi
,ur the "Isothermal theory" be at into his d
la brains) as to draw up with his own har
At and send to Congress- the following meu
not rial:
ID To thsSsnote and House ofRsprsssaiati
10 of fhs United States: From q persuas
-. that equal liberty was originally
=" portion, and 10 still the birthright Of
ta- men. and influenced by the strong ties
humanity and the principles OF their in
to. tution, yoar memorialists conceive the
-. selves bound TO use all just6able ende
ors 10 loosen the bands OF slavery I
Wo Drorrnta n f,anaral ansovunanf of fraadf