The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-01-24

void Pupishing their slaves before stro"g
! erS,"
Miss Matte Griffith, of Kentucky,
whose eu,irc property consisted in slaves
cmancipated them ail. The noblcheart
cd girl wrote 10 me: "l shall go forth
into tho world rcnnlcss; hut shall work
with light heat, and, best Of all, shall
live with an easy conscience" Previous
to This generous resolution, she hid never
read any aholit on document, and enter.
tanned the common Southern prejudice n
eainst them. But her own observation so
deeply impressed her with tho enormitics
of Slavery, that she was impellcd to pub.
lish book, called "The Autography Of n
Female Slave read it with thrilling in.
nerves culver so painfully, that | told her
/ | hoped they were too highly coorcd.-
She shook her head sadly. and replied: II
am sorry to say that every incident in the
book has come within my knowledge
st. George Tucker, Judge and Professor
of Law in Virginia, speaking of tho legal
lied murder of runaways, said: "Such
are the cructics to which state of Slave.
~ gives birth-such the horrors to which
the human mind is capable Of being recon.
ciled bv its adoption. Abiding to our
struggle in rs, he said: "Whilc we pro.
claimed our resolution to live free or die,
we imposed on our fellow mon OF different
complexion. Il Slavery ten thousand times
worse than the utmost extremity Of the op.
prcssions Of which we complained
Gov. Giles, in Message to tho Legis.
laturo Of Virginia, referring to tho custom
of selling free coorcd people into Slavery,
rs a punishment for offtnses not capital,
said "Slavery must he admitted to be a
punishment of tie highest ORDER and &C
cor!ing to the just rule for the apportion
ment for the punishment of crimes, it
ought only to be applied to crimes cfAa
highest order. The most distressing re.
Election in the application of this punish
mcnt to female offenders, is that it extends
to their offspring; and the innocent are
thus punished with tho guilty" Yet ono
hundred and twenty thousand innocent
babes in this country arc annually sutjcc.
tod TO punishment which your Governor
declared ought to be applied to crimes Of
tho highest order.
j, lfsrson said: "Onc dag of American
Slavery is worse than a thousand gears of
that which We rose in arms to oppose"
Abiding to iusurrectionists he said "The
Almighty has no attribute that can take
sides with us in such a contest"
John Randolph declared: Every plan
ter is n sentinel at his own door. Every
Southern mother. when she hears an alarm
of fire in the night, iu>iinctively presses
her infant closer to her bosom"
Looking at the system Of Slavery in the
light Of al this evidence, do yon candidIy
think We deserve "twofoll damnation" for
detesting it? Can YOU not believe that
we may hate the system, and yet he t:uly
your friends? | make allowances for tho
excited state of your mind, and for the
preiudices induced by education. l DO not
care to change your opinion of me; but l
DO wish YOU could be persuaded to exam
inc this subject dispassioratcy, for the
sake cfthc prosperity Of Virginia, and the
welfare of unborn generations, both whto
and colored. For thirty years, Abolition.
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