The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-04-18
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
From the ST. CIairsville Gazette.
Slavery i'm the United States.
By J. 8. W.
ABOLITIoNISTS SELF DECEIVED.

ihat tho Su'Ject Vi slavery IN general, ana
especially as it exists id the United States, is
the most important subject at this time agita.
ted between contending parties no one can pos.
sibly deny who views it in its religious, moral
social, political and individual bearings. Little
| else is now made the basis OF antagonistica
rancor, threatening to uproot the very tree of
liberty, and scatter its leaves and fruit to the
winds. All patriotic feelings and !ove Of coun.
try, are levt lied before this monsoon of wind
and dust. All that our fathers fought and bled
for, is levelled in the dust; and if there is not
timely checking of the Juror, step will be ia
ken that ages cannot retrace, and our unsuc-
cessful failure of popular government, with all
our boasted repuhlic.nism, will become spec.
tire for tyran,cal despots to point the finger Of
rldicule at, in mocking scorn! and our children,
instead Of feeling proud of the names and do
ings Of their ancestry, will be strongly tempted
to deny their ancestral lineage as having con-
nected them with US.
And why is it that all this is about TO hap
pen? 1t is because party has got the ascenden-
cy over patriotism. caprice over justice, false
hood over truth rnd twaddle over stubborn facts.
1t is mournfully true that parties deceive them
selves BY giving currency and yielding belief to
that which favors the party theories of party
leaders. No party at the present day is more
completely in error by these causes. than the
Abolitonsts Of the North, in respect to The
condition of the slave population Of the South
as in the course Of these briefessays shall en-
deavor to show.
1t is known and generally recognized prin-
cipe Of animal economy, that all things else
being equal, the rate Of animal increase is in
the exact proportion to the facilities of wing,
the amount of subsistence beng one Of the prin-
cipal items among the facilities upon which the
amount Of increase is predicated. Whoever
then wishes to be truly informed OF the cond,-
ton OF the southern slave population, has only
to consult the statistical increase Of these three
classes Of population viz: the free white popu-
laton Of the Southern States, the slave popu-
lation Of tho United States, and Of the free
black population Of the United States, when
they will find these significant results: That
since the aboishment of the slave trade in 1e1O
the slave population has increased faster than
the free whites Of the slave States and very
much faster than the free blacks of the United
States, notwithstanding the hundreds of slaves
that have been freed and the thousands that
hav. migrated from the Slave States to Canada
and Liberia.
These significant facts prove more in respect
to the real condition OF the southern slaves than
all the Uncle Toms Cabins in the world can
tell you about it. This very fact, together with
a prayeriul desire to know the real truth, and
Gods design in permitting and continuing sla
very, fully opened my eyes to the true state OF
the case, out OF that state OF sectarian blind
ness in which was reared in Friends Society
in Belmont county, and for long time held in
by the battling and unjust influences of party
strife, which stops at naught,- how grossly un-
just and one sided soever it might be. I am
fully aware that the great body of the abolition
party have no conception Of how unjustly they
are self deceived, and perhaps no abolitionist
has any idea how false and unfounded the asser-
tions on that side are. Even William Lloyd
Garrison or Wendell Phillips, may have no sus-
picions Of the baselessness OF what they think
stubborn facts and sound deduction. But all
that is blown to the winds. by the actual in
crease Of slave population by procreation alone.