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

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not all experience shown that when the white
and black races are thrown together, and the
relation between master and slave established.
society is developed into higher civilization, and
the social and political state is the best for the
happiness of both races ? And if you destroy
that relation, both races decline and industry
decays. By what right does any man under
take to say that political institution which
can be shown to be the normal condition of So
cety, which existed as long ago as we have any
human history, is wrong? There is not re-
spectacle State in the world that has not prac-
ticed upon it, and no nation known to history
that has not built up its foundation on this sys-
tenn of Slavery. All the European nations have
built up their prosperity upon it, and we, our
derful extension of this country, to Slavery.
which was introduced in the Atlantic States
1t is obvious to all, if we had not used this fore
ed labor, probably we should not have settled
the country fast enough to maintain the Revo
lutionary struggle, and if we had sailed then
how much of our subsequent history would have
been untold On this continent the Indians,
who had not Slavery, were mere nomada, while
in the case of the Aztees and Pervuians, who
did establish Slavery, their monuments remain
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south of our boundary all who abolished Slave
ry deteriorated In the earliest history of soeie
! ty Slavery seemed to be necessary, for the NOR
al impulse to labor was not sufficiently strong,
and force had to be used. F"
How blind, how cruel was Jefferson, when he
charged upon the " Christian King of Great
Britain - 6 the piratical warfare" " the exc
cradle commerce when according to Hunter,
it is perfectly plain that it was only through
1thatvery =" warfare and commerce " we were
enabled g to maintain the Revolutionary strug-
GLE
But we must go with Hunter still further
He has discovered that free labor is an expert
ment, while slave labor is the normal condition
of man. He says
"We have no right to call this system of Sla-
very wrong, when all experience has shown it to
be right. 1t is the normal condition of all So
ciety, and the same evils which are denounced
in Slavery are to be found in the system of vol
untary servitude in the old world, where the
population is SO numerous that it presses on the
means of subsistence. Why is it that the Ter
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and are to be shut against this system which
we know is not an experiment, but which has
sustained all stable Governments and free lnsti-
buttons, SO far as whites are concerned? There
is no system of society where all white men are
so equally free as under this one. "
We repeat the inquiry, why is it that under
government where " the keystone is the black
marble cap-stone of African Slavery" where
free labor is only an experiment, and Slave la
Dor the settled rule, should slavery be excluded
from the Territories? We confess we don't
know, though if we belonged to such govern
ment perhaps we could then give them salts
factory answer
But when the imagination of the Senator
comes to paint the great future of this Country,
with its g black marble cap-stone of Slavery"
the keystone of the magnificent arch of our
Liberties, he rises to the sublmest strains of
prophecy
Who could assign any limits to our future
growth? We know they exist somewhere, but
they would be far away beyond our political
horizon, when we came to see what we might
be- We might be the master spirit of the
universe, if the Government were properly ad.
ministered, according to the princip of JUS
tice The imagination halls at the mighty
conception, and the mind is wrapt in con-
temptation of the giant shadows our future
as they sweep across the perspective, and it
sinks under the effort to realize the glorious con-
ception Of human grandeur that we might pos
seSs. -
Nimrod--and we believe he was one of the
descendants of the" Cursed Canaan, was a
"mighty hunter before the Lord but he was as
the dust in the balance in comparison with this
mighty son OF the Old Dominion who believes
that African Slavery is the stability and glory,
the " black marble cap-stone " in the arch of
our free Republic.