Worcester daily spy., 1860-06-06

paradox, 1t is natural that cherished practice
should blind those that are under its influence;
nor Is there any end to these exaggerations
According to Thucydides, piracy in the early
ages Of Greece was alike widespread and hon
orable so much so, that Telemachus and
Mentor, on landing at Mycena, were asked by
Nestor If they were "pirates precisely as
stranger in South Carolina might be asked II
he were a slave-master. Kidnapping, too,
which was kindred indulgence, was openly
avowed, and | doubt not held to be ''enno-
bling" Next to the Inconsistencies which is
noted Ill childhood is the unconscl0usness OF
barbarism. The real barbarlsm Is as I'M
conscious as an infant; and the slave
master shows much of the same char
acter. No New Zealander eXults IN his tat
too no savage of the northwest coast eXuits IN
his flat head, more than the slave-naster IN
these latter days-and always, OF course with
honorable exccptons-eXults III his untortu-
nate condition, winch of itself is worse than
any tattoo or flat head. The slavemaster hugs
his disgusting practice as the Carib of the Gulf
hugged cannibalism and as Brigam Young
now hugs poygamy. The delusion OF the
"Goitre" is repeated This prodigious swell
ling of the neck, constituting "a hideous wal
let of flesh" pendulous upon the breast, is
common to the population on the slopes OF me
Alps, but, accustomed to this deermlty, the
sufferer comes to regard IL with pride, as slave
masters with us regard slavery, and 1t is SAID
that those who have no swelling are laughed
at and called "goose-necked."
With knowledge comes distrust and the
modest consciousness of impertecuon; but
| the pride of barbarism has no such limitations.
! 1t dilates in the thin air OF ignorance, and
makes boasts Surely if these illustrations are
not entirely inappIicable, then must we find IN
the boasts of slave-masters new occasion to
regret the influence oil slavery.
1t is this same influence which renders slave
masters insensbe to those characters, which
are among the true glories of the republic
which makes them forget that Jefferson. who
wrote the Declaration of independence, and
Washington, who commanded its armies, were
abolitiOnists; which renders them insensible
to the inspiring words OF the one, and to the
commanding example of the other or these
great men, it is the praise, well deserving per-
petual MENTION and only grudged by magn
influence, that reared amidst slavery, they did
nos hesitate to condemn it, To the present
debate, Jefferson in repeated utterances, alive
with the fire Of genius and truth, has contrib
nted the most important testimony for freedom
ever pronounced i'll this hemisphere, i'll words
equal to the cause, and Washington often
quoted as slave master, in the solemn diSpo
stlons OF his last will and testament has con-
tributed an example which is beyond even the
words of Jefferson. Do not, sir, call him
Slave-master who entered into the presence of
his Maker only as the emancipation of his
slaves. The difference between such men and
the slave masters whom l expose to-day, is so
precise that it can not be mistaken. The first
looked doo0n upon slavery the second looked up
to slavery. The first, recognizing its wrong,
were at once liberated from its pernicious in
fluences, while the latter, upholding it as right
and "ennobling," must naturally draw from it
motives of conduct. The first, conscious of
the character of slavery, were not misled
by it; the second, dwelling in Inconsistencies
OF its true character, surrender blindy to its
barbarous tendencies, and, verifying the words
of the poet,
$50 perfect is their misery,
Not once perceive their foul disagreement,
But boast themselves more cOmely than before"