The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-03-07

Indian Is the most obstinate IN his resolution
against manual labor. The result Is, that he
has fed before the aivancs of civilization as
though it were pestileac and bis wild race
must soon become extinct. When the COM
mand was given that man should "earn his
bread by the sweat Of his brow" the idle races
were doomed, whenever coming in contact with
the working races SO it has been in all times
past-so it will be in all ages to come-ignor
ance fanaticism, babelsm to the contrary not
withstanding.
But the black man. unlike the red man, was
found patient Of labor, and suited TO the climate
Of his new home. Ignorant, debased, the slave
of petty tyrants in his native land, he was in
capable of taking care of himself and if left
alone in his career would have been brief; but
him the use of implements of civilization, he
became useful and greatly benefited by the
change. Whatever may be said Of the inhu.
manity ot bringing him to our shores, his rela-
tive condition to the white man was inevitable.
Hence commenced what is termed negro slavery
in this country. 1t was not condition brought
about by one nation subecting another to the
condition Of slavery, Of equal birth, education
and moral and social advancement with them
selves-it had nothing Of this whatever
in its character or origin, so far as the people
of the colonies were concerned. They were
brought to our shores by the old England and
New England merchantmen, as a matter of
commercial speculation--as the Coolie trade is
new carried on in the face ofthe enlightenment
of the nineteenth century, and within the very
echoes Of the bowling Of Abolition rage on both
shores Of the Atlantic. But as there is no po.
litical capiA to be made out of this by the Abo-
litionists to rend asunder these States they sit
as mute under these Coolie speculations tho
transpiring under their eyes, as though they
did not exist, showing the hypocrisy Of their
morals and the baSeness of their politics.
Two things are worthy OF remark here; First,
Such was the extent the old and New En-
gland merchants imported Africans into south
ern plantations; that the public mind was first
aroused the e in hostility 10 it, and many of the
steadfast opponents of what was then, as now,
called the slave trade, were southern planters;
and they never ceased their opposition until the
trade was terminated. Second, 1t is the de-
scendants Of these very merchant negro traders
and importers OF old and New England who
are now rousing the sectional animosites Of our
people and are ready to drench the country in
blood and human carnage, because of that rela-
tive condition of the African, inour country, O.
which they are the authors and projectors.
Their fathers in the beginning made Their
wealth by stealing negroes from Africa, and i'm
porting them into the Southern plantations
their descendants fully imbued with the phi
lanthropic enterprise, are now stealing them
from these Southern plantations, and at sixty
dollars head, very nearly the old price, are
running them into Canada, with the Offices o
the country in reserve for those who foot the
bills and give brains and character to this sec.
ond great negro enterprise.
During the War of the Revolution, negro sla.
very pervaded the whole of the colonies. Gen
Washington carried with him his negro servants
wherever he went In that era Of patriotism
and love of freedom, there were no political
abolitonsts to entice away negroes from their
masters. In that Gay the isms of the present
hour had no existance---no free -loveism to de.
moraIize the white population, nor abolitionisn
to disturb the harmony Of the relations ex st
ing between the white and black races. The
stars and stripes foated in proud triumph from
one extreme of the late revolving colonies tt
the other around which the brave hearts of ou
: country rallied as one in soul, one in purpose
By this union of sound hearts and enlarged un
dcrstandings, the revolt from the British crown
vas successtul-and by the same spirit ofunior
harmony and concession, the Government 0
, the "Cnited States' of America was establish
ed--a Government, which for its liberal prin
cpes, the freedom of man, its generous ant
: humane laws, its enlightened march in the rae
of nations its power and its glory in the affair
OF tho world, has no equal no competitor, NJ
J. rival in the pages of history. The Great Rule
of all things seems to have furnished men anC
g minds equal to the occasion. Every obstacI
$ was fairly and boldly met, every difficult,
t manfully surmounted. The States or colonies
L when free from British bondage, were each in
e dependent ofthe other-nations OF themselves
Z unrestricted and sovereign. Hence, in provi
ding general government for the whole, 70
wise and economical purposes-where all cou
n, ranrauanted on an eoNal footinr nc sovareip
States, and not as independent colonies, wa
: the work of great caution, of hours and day
!; of the most solemn delberation. The pulse c
) the embryo nation beat high and qnick with al
> ternate hopes and fears. The patriot just ou
! of the heat and blood of battle, with power
:. ful and obstinate foe--the weather beaten sol
II dier, whose wounds were still pleading, still un
healed LAY restless, in their fitfnl dreams
the terrible but glorious past, to learn tding
= of the labors of the convention of these State,
t The prophecies of Kings, of Emperors an
i their paid followers that on this rock we wer
to be wrecked, rung in the ears of our states
men and political philosophers, (for we had phi
d osophers in those days,) and prognostics {
It failure by the Tories in our midst, who hate
1t Washington and his rebels as intensely durin
i the war of the Revolution as some men profes
% to hate the Democrats Of the present day, an,
IS it is feared for the same reason, were met
.. every street, corner and cross road.
n What made the scene more trying, was tha
the Convention had not only to agree anon