Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-12-19

rhent OF the joU,UUU slave
l esly. Their State Gov.
organized. nor are thsil
la mustered with any view To the
interests OF the majority. the Africans, but
with an exclusive regard TO the interests o
the governing class. For If / except the
right 10 life. partially only guarded. there
Is no right common to humanity which the
ta,os of the Slave States preserve to tn e
slave They ignore his right to wages, to
edscation, TO the Bible, TO the Sabbath; ;
the right Of husband to wife. aud Of wife
to husband, Of pareuuto child. and Of child
TO parent. Notice, speak of the ia,os.
For | enter into no TRADE against nv
Southern brethren. Men, often Of a
large hearted nobility and generosity, a
great proportion OF them are governed ia
their relations to their slaves by the law
OF love quite as much, often (perhaps even
generality more, than are Northeru men TO-
ward their employees. They build church
es for them. they extend to them often
times considerable education. they pro-
vide often generously for their religious cul
ture, they in effect often pay them wages and
in so far as they can, to large extent, they
protect their family aud domestic right
intact. But all this is dee u the kLdnsss
of individual men. The slave may seek
these things of his masters charity, and
with reasonable hope of securing them;
but he cannot demand one Of them under
the protection Of the Law as right.
speak not of the actual hardships of the
slave. L say simply this, the laws Of sla-
very are instituted for tho benefit of the
small governing class-the slaveholders--
not for the benefit Of the large governed
class-the slaves. No man car doubt
that. nj
ington, "who wishes more sincerely than
do to see plan adopted for the abolition
of I'll. e. slavery. "The abolition of
domestic slavery is the greatest object Of
desire in these colonies, where it was
unhappily introduced in their infant state" Z"
says Jefferson. at would rejoice my very
one Of my fellow beings was emancipa-
ted" So long as such were the sentiments
universally entertained by men of all
parties, North and Sou,h.-so long as all
men waited in the hope that time and pa
tience would gradual y eradicate that evil
which the avarice of Great Britain had
fastened upon us, in spite Of our most
earnest protestations-so long the ex-
istence of slavery constituted no serious
cause of disturbance in the Union. But,
alasi there were men at the North who
failed 10 possess patience, and time
instead of eradicating the disease,
strengthened and confirmed it. Until
now there has arisen a party at the South
who preach it from the pulpit as a divine
institution; who declare it from the ros.
trurn to be the corner stone of the Temple
of Liberty, and the chief glory of America.
They are not merely It's apologists; they do
not merely declare, what is uuquestionably
true, that the subject Of its removal 10
hedged about by the most serious obstacles;
obstacles well nigh insuperable. They are
ITS apostles and missionaries. They avow
be Just. wise and benefcent" They
Hail a.l. \ qnote their own words.) "ttat
1ht, natural, and necessary,
oeoi upon differe ice or aom
ster and slave isa rela.
t. ecessary ms that of parent
and mat the Northern States will
yet have to introduce it; !" "that their [the
Northernl theory of free government is a
delusion;" that "free society, in the long
run, is an impracticable form of society"
and "that policy and humanity alike for
bid the extension Of its evils to new people
and coming generations" Some OF them
even, Il still quote their own words,)
Justify the holding of white men in bond
age," avowing that "slavery is the natural
and normal condition Of the laboring man,
whe ther white or black"
These are not imputations of mine, cast
upon them. They are their own statements
Of their own principles. in their own
words.
Nor are these extracts the idle rafting
Of irresponsible demagogues upon the
stump, 10 the excitement Of political
campaign. Rev. DR.. Palmer, OF New Or
leans, preached last Thanksgiving Day q
sermon upon the crisis. He 10 a man o
national reputation, and his utterances car
not for a moment be regarded as those Of I
6rebrand or fanatic. Though confess
they have filled me with amaxement ane
sorrow, coming from such source, il i
very certain that they we're not uttered il
the excitement Of the moment, but are tn
cool and dispassionate declarations ofwel
considered principles. He declares tha
the trust reposed by God iu the South, il
the present juncture Of affairs, is "to cos
serve and perpetuats the institution Of do
|, nestle slavery" He enters into an elab
orate argument to prove that it is dat
, which the South ewes to itself. its slave
the world and Almighty God. to preserve
q quote his language) "and transmit OF
Q existing system Of domestic servitud
with the right, unchanged by man. to q
y aud root itself wherever Providence an
u nature may carry it," And he states u
present controversy between the North al
8 South In very few words; and, allowir
o for a little natural Southern exaggeratio
in a very fair aud candid manner. Let n
read his statement 10 you.
e at can not be disguised that almost
u a man. they Chat is the North) are ant
81 slavery where they are not abolition" :"
Is That abolition fling would have been b
r ter omitted, but PASS on. "a whele &c
Ve GRAFTON has been educated TO look up
or the system with abhorrence--as a nation
O. blot. They hope, and look. and pray
ss its extinction within a reasonable tin
70, and can not be satisfied unless things .
rn seen drawing toward that conclusion"
IL You will observe that there is no char
it here that the North propose to make
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