The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-06-21

paints itself In its own chosen definition
as he shows by citation from the civil
code and statutes of the slave States.
In it's details its essential elements are
five in number, foremost of which is
the impossible pretension, where Bar
barism is lost in impiety, by which man
claims property IN man. Secondly, he
shows how Slavery paints itself in its
complete abrogation of marriage, rec
ognized as sacrament by the church,
and as contract wherever civilization
prevails. Thirdly, in its complete alb
rogation of the parental relation
Fourthly, in closing the gates ofknowl-
edge. Filthy, in the appropriation of
all the toll of its victims, excluding
them from that property in their own
earnings, which the law of nature allows
and civilization secures.
Of its origin, Mr.. Sumner saws it is
not derived from the common law, that
fountain of Liberty, nor from the Ro-
man law, that fountain of tyranny, nor
rom the Mohammedan law, nor from
the Spanish law, or from English or
American Statutes-and he adds -
mo, sir; not from any land of civil
ization is this Barbarism derived. 1t
comes from Africa, ancient nurse of
monsters; from Guinea, Dahomey, and
Congo. There is its origin and fount-
am. This benighted region, we are
told by Chief Justice Marshall,in a me.
morable judgment, (ZHe antelope, 1C
Wheaton r., 66) still asserts a right
discarded by Christendom, to enslave
men taken i'll war; this African Barbar,
ism is the beginning of American Sla-
very.
From its home in Africa, where it is
sustained by immemorial usage, this
barbarism, thus derived and thus devel.
oped, traversed the ocean to American
soil. 1t entered on board that fatal
slave-ship, "built in the eclipse, and
rugged with curses dark" which in Is.
20 landed its crnel cargo at jamestown
in Virginia, and it has boldly taken its
place in every succeeding slave ship
from that early day until now-helpino
to pack the human freight, regardless
ofhuman agony; surviving the torments
Of the middle passage surviving It's
countless victims plunged beneath the
waves: and it has left the slave ship on
ly to travel inseperable from the Slave
in his various doom, sanctioning by its
barbarous code every outrage, whether
of mayhem or robbery, of lash or lust.
and fastening itself upon his offspring
to the remotest generation. Thus are
the barbarous perogatives of barbarous
African chiefs perpetuated in American
slave masters, while the Senator from
Virginia, Mr.. Mason] perhaps uncon-
scious of their origin-perhaps DESTROYS
to secure for them the appearance of a
less barbarous pedigree-tricks them
out with phrase Of the Roman law.
discarded by the common law, portus
Seqwitatr Ueaatre''a, which simply rendered
into ancient Latin an existing rule of
African barbarism, recognized as an
existing rule of American Slavery
In considering the practical results
of Slavery, he puts the Free and Slave
States face to face, showing at each
point the blasting influence of Slavery.
Starting with a statement Of the advan-
tages of the slave States in respect to
extent of territory, happiness of climate
exhaustless motive power, natural high
ways, and stretch of coast along ocean
and gulf, indented by hospitable har-
bors, he proves by statistics what sla-
very does with this territory thus spa
cious and fair,-exhibiting it as playing
the part of a HAPPY and defiling the
choicest banquet. The comparison is
minute and significant, extending to
growth in population value of proper
ty, real and personal; agriculture; man.
features commerce; railroads and ca
nails; post office receipts and expenses;
value of churches; voluntary charity;
colleges, professional schools, acade-
mics and private and public schools !;
libraries the periodical press, printers
publishers and authors; patents; the
influence of Slavery and Freedom on
emigration; the character of the region
on the border line, and the geographic
al character of the slave States. which
he calls the Barbary States of North
America, following the designation of
Jefferson, who described Virginia as
fast sinking to be "the Barbary of the
Union"
From the consideration of Slavery,
in its practical results he proceeded to
exhibit it in its influence on the charac
ter of slave masters. This part of his
subject WAS treated with the same bold
ness, minuteness and abundance of au-
thorities as the other. He maintained
the following points -
''Slavery is founded on violence, as
we have already too clearly seen; of
course it can be sustained only by kim
dred violence, sometimes against the
defenseless slave, sometimes against the
freeman whose indignation is aroused
at the outrage. 1t is founded on bru-
tai and vulgar etensions, as we have
already too clearly seen; of course it
can be sustained only by kindred bru-
tally and vulgarity. The denial of all
rights in the slave can be sustained on
ly by disregard of other rights, com.
mon to the whole community, whether
of the person, of the press, or ofspeech.
Where this exists there can be but one
supreme law, to which all other laws,
legislative or social, are subordinate, and
this the pretended law of slavery. All
these things must be manifest in slave
masters, and yet, unconscious of their
true condition, they make boasts which
reveal still further the unhappy infu-
ence. Barbarous standards of conduct
are unblushingly avowed. The swag-
ger of bully is called chivalry; swift
ness to quarrel is called courage the
bludgeon is adopted as the substitute for
argument and assassination is lifted
to be of the fine arts
( He fortifes himself in this exposure
by two classes Of authorities-the first
American, and founded on personal ex-