Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-02-16
Hunter ON Slavery,

IF there be any good thing under the sun for
which the human race is not Immediately or re-
motely indebted to the institution of African
Slavery, that particular thing, has not yet been
discovered, or is not acknowledged to be good by
the Sham Democracy According to the creed
of these Shams, the highest type of civilization,
the purest forms of Christianity, the greatest
achievements of science, the most perfect sys-
TENS of Education, the most sublime efforts Of
art, the most benign relations of industry, the
sereneSt domestic bliss, in short, every thing
that adorns, ornaments, embellishes, glorifes
progressive humanity, is briefly comprehend
ed in this: Cursed be Canaan" Slavery,
the submission Of one man to the imperious will
and command of his brother, in body, intellect,
and estate, the institution by which one person
is held as the property of another person, and
subjected to his whims, his capricos, his pas
slons and his lusts, the relation of master and
slave, The absolute dominion of one man over
his fellow man, has become in the gospel ac-
cording to the Sham Democracy, the rock on
which the true Church is founded, the corner
stone of all rational liberty, the only secure
foundation of free government, he alone con.
dition of civilization and order, the only rela-
ton in which man can attain the end of his
creation, and make himself fit for this world,
and the world to come.
Lest any one should think we overstate this,
we shall proceed at once to give chapter and
verse from this new slave gospel.
X. M. Hunter, Democratic Senator from that
" benign Mother of Presidents" sometimes
called Virginia, is one of the high priests of this
religion, and his gorgeous utterances are Of
course to be received without question as the
veritable words of the god of Slavery who is
within the vail. In Il recentspeech in the Sen
ate he says:
The Union of the States and of these different
interests Is now perfect, under the Constitution,
and might be compared to mighty arch by
whose concentrated strength we are enabled to
sustain such social superstructure as is per-
haps unparalleled in the history Of man; and is
it not apparent that the very keystone of this
arch consists in the black marble cap-stone, of
African Slavery; and were it taken away the
whole fabric would fall to pieces. "
We had hitherto, in our blindness supposed
that the keystone of the arch by which the lib
erty of America was supported, was the inalien-
able rights Of man but we bow in wonder love
and praise, as we learn from this sublime apos-
tie of the new gospel, that we have been hith-
erto all wrong F." that they very keystone Of
this arch consists in the black marble cap-stone
of African Slavery" Slavery tho key stone of
the arch of Liberty Wonderful, glorious,
Gospel
But we read on, and learn that industry and
commerce exist only in the existence of this
wonderful system of African Slavery. Hunter
cries out, in view of tho abolition of Slavery;
"What would be the consequences Industry
would decay. Ships would rot on the stocks
when the great staples of the South were no
longer produced. Our manufactures would
stop, and how many looms would be idle, and
how many OF their own people be forced to
starve 20
Yes, ships would absolutely rot on the stocks,
the manufactures of iron in Pennsylvania, and
of cottons and woolens in Massachusetts, would
stop" looms would be idle " q universal
paralysis would strike every type of industry,
and starvation would at once stare the nation
in the face.
But Hunter knows that there could be no So
ciety and no government, without Slavery
| Hear the argument