Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-07-16


time the debtor does not find means to pay
him, he that detains him shall bring him out
before the people three market days, and pro-
claim the sum of which he has been defrauded.
Sirth Law.-If the debtor be insolvent to
several creditors, let his body be cut in pieces
on the third market day. 1t may be cut into
more or fewer pieces with inpunity or II ms
creditors consent to it, let him be SOLD 10 1or-
eigners beyond the Tiber.
In later day we find the same barbarism
darkening the world. Prisoners of war, the
poverty stricken, the unfortunate, the imbe'
Gle, 1.-THE spoil of the kidnapper, were alike
made slaves the greed of parents often ei-
fected the same result In France beautiful
native women were constantly sold as slaves.
The Venetians bought Saxons, Arabs, Franks;
Christians and Pagans. "What though the
trade" says an historian, "was exposed to
the censure of the church, and prohibited by
the laws of Venice 1t could not be effect
ually checked, till by the Venetian law, no
slave might enter Venetian ship, and to tread
the deck of an argesy of Venice became the
privilege and the evidence of freedom"
Age by age an advancing civilization re-
moved portion by portion of the evil. First,
slavery consequent upon poverty ceased;
next slavery consequent upon war; next
slavery inflicted upon the white race; until
at length civilized mankind can only be indu-
ced to tolerate local slavery where the vic
Tins are the unfortunate children of differ
ent race
But is the wrong the less or is the spirit
changed? Not at all. Let us recollect how
lately slavery of our own race was recognized.
Let us recollect that 1T was not until the
twelfth year of Charles II, not until after the
settlement of our country, not until long after
the time of English Shakespeare and English
Milton, until after the Great Revolution, until
after the Restoration, that the system of rills-
mage was abolished in England. In the time
of Elizabeth the law recognized the, right of
the British master to his serf. In 1914 we
find Henry VIII manumitting Henry Knight
Tailor, and John Hile, Husbandman, in the
following form: "Whereas God created all
men free; but afterwards the laws and GUS
toms of nations subjected some under the
yoke, We think it pious to manumit these men,
our natives, being born within the manor of
Stoke Clymmysland in our County of Corn
wall"
Think of it, we who, boast of your Anglo
Saxon blood, who can watch the blue veins
under the white skin, think of it, that in the
year of our Lord 1914; nay later, late even
into the 7th century,a little over two hundred
years ago, your own kind, flesh, and race, it
may be your ancestors, where the victims of this
detestable iniquity. Reflect, that what is now
the portion of the poor black, was then the
lot Of your own hardy race. That the time
is not long passed away since the price of a
sturdy English slave, perchance the pro-
genitor of Pitt or Brougham, of Wash
ington or a Franklin, was just four times
that of an OK. Remember, thatlong after the
conquest English slaves were common ar
ticle of commerce on the continent, and that
one half of the whole people of England were,
at that time in a state of slavery. And
do our foreign born citizens doubt that if no
hand is extended to arrest the spread of
Southern influence, if the protection of Free
dom is left to the shutting, pandering hesitat-
ing Democracy, that the time will arrive when
Slavery, which as we have shown, is no re-
pecter of color or race, overruning the whole
land will consign again to its yoke the poor,
the unfortunate and the unprotected of the
white race ? Here alone on all the broad sur
face of the earth, does the institution thrive and
grow, and while it spreads with all the vigor
of the ancient time, will it not reasume the feal
lures of the ancient time ? What rights
have white poverty and misery at its hands
Have not it's leaders already proclaimed that
the natural condition of the poor of every
race, is slavery That the white laborers
were " the mud sills of society,"" that the
curse of the north was it's love of free insti
tutions. Hear it:
1--WE have to say that so valuable is South
ern Slavery, in itself, so wholesome and salu
tary in an industrial and social point of view
and so conservative of rational, true anC
sound Democracy, that we believe its defence
its propagation and extension, should be re
quired as an essential part of the Democratic
creed in all sections. Wespurn the idea tina
it is sectional" Orleans Delta, 1857.
Andrew johnson of Tennessee lately spok,
as follows in the United States Senate:
"When you form a community out of in
dividuals, they commence at once production
intellectual ard physical; and as society mo e
on through time we find some occupying tn
lower places and some occupying the highe
places. | do not care whether you call
slavery or servitude; the man ohO has me
NAL offices to perform, is the slaUe or til
servant, Icare not achetler he Is aohite or Jlacl
Servitude or slavery grows out of tie organi
structure of man. All the talk we hear il
depreciation of slavery is idle, and a grea
portion of it mere twaddle. Slavery exists
it is an ingredient of society, growing out {
mans mental and physical organization; an
the only question for us to discuss is, wha
kind of slavery shall we have. |VW you ha,
aohite or black slauery? Shall it be voluntar
or Involuntary"
Take next the following extract from til
speech of Governor Hammond of South Ca,
DINA in the United States Senate on the At
March 1858.
ain all social systems there must be "a clas
to do the mental duties, to perform the drudI
cries of life; that is, a class requiring but
low order of intellect, and but little skill,
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class you must haze, or yOu could not ha
that other class, achieh leafs progress cioiliz
tion and refinement. 1t constitutes the Gen
naudsM Of society and Of political gouernmen
And you might as well attempt to build
house in the air, as to build either the one
) the other except on this mudsiW.
, The Senator from New York said the 9th
: day, that the whole world had abolished SLAYER
Ay, the name, but not the thing. All Il
powers of the earth cannot abolish that G.
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