The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-06-29


being, "created in the image Of God,"
owned as the property Of another man,
The service TO which he is held is but an
incident Of this ownership. All the Incl
dents Of property attach to the American
slave: the right 10 work without wages, to
buy, sell, let to hire, to feed colthe, chas.
tise, and by any means to subjugate al
the will and for the profit OF the mdste,
alone. In short, to be thus the slave o
another man, implies the legal right in
the owner to do to his slave all that is
comprebended in the most dreaded and
and fearful tyranny 10 which human ma
ture can be exposed or subjeoted; and it
is this state OF slavery which is defended
not only as right by the law Of nature, but
by the Word Of God-the "higher law
OF Divine revelation!
1t is thus seen at glance that, by the
law, The slave-owner exlcts everything in
his own behalf, yet comedies nothing TO
the slave. Even food, clothing and shell.
ter are not conceded as the right of the
horse. These provisions are but OUTLAWS
and expenditures in the nature Of repairs
on machinery,or on a dwelling house
To these plain and truthful exposilons OF
the law Of slavery. and the condition Of
the slave under this law, there are no ex.
ceptions. In its nature, therefore, slavery
is applicable as well to the Caucasian as
TO the African race. Gentlemen on this
floor, as well as the conductors Of leading
southern newspapers and Conventions.
speaking the embodied sentiments Of the
Southern people, seem 10 be agreed in
this great apostacy from the foundation
principles Of the Federal Government,
and OF the great men who were its archi-
tects.
Thus, during the Presidential cam paign
OF 1856, the Richmond Inquirer.
Repeatedly have we asked the North
Has not the experiment Of universal lib
erty failed Are not the evils OF free
society insufferable And do not most
thinking men among you propose to sub.
vert and reconstruct it 2 Still no answer
This gloomy silence is another conclusive
proof, added to many other conclusive ev.
licences we have furnished. that free
society, in the long rum an impracticabe
form Of society; it is ever starving, de.
moralized. and insurrectionary.
"We repeat, then, that policy and hu.
manity alike forbid the extension of the
evils OF free society to new people and
coming generations.
"Two opposite and conflicting forms oi
society cannot, among civilized men, co.
exist and endure. The one must give
way and cease to exist, the other become
universal. II free society be unnatural,
immoral, unchristian, it must fall and give
way to slave society-a system old as
the world, universal as man.
"Until recently tho defense Of slavery
has labored under great difficulties, be-
cause its apologis's { for they were mere
apologists) took halfway grounds. They
confined the defense of slavery to mere
negro slavery thereby giving up the
principle, admitting other forms OF slavery
to be wrong.
"The line Of defense, however, is now
changed. The South now maintains that
slavery is right. natural and necessary,
and does not depend upon the difference
Of complexion. The laws Of the Slave
States justify the holding Of white men in
bondage"
Also the Charleston Mercuyv:
Slavery is the natural and normal con.
dition of the laboring man, whether white
or black. The great evil of Northern free
society is, that it is burdened with ser.
vile class OF mechanics and laborers, un
fit for self-government. and yet clothed
with the attributes and powers Of citizens.
Master and slave is a relation in society as
natural and necessary as that of parent
and child and the Northern States will
yet have TO introduce it,"
Free society failure And how has
this strange haliucination found entrance
into the Southern mind? From what
cause Of decay and final ruin have South
ern people been left to entertain SO strange,
so startling, and 80 baseess a chimera Q
Free society failure ! Sir, defy you to
point TO another instance in the annals OF
the race where so many millions of the
pariahs OF foreign despotism have been
transferred from their native lands beyond
the seas, ignorant, thriftless, poor and de.
graded, and yet, within q period Of less
than quarter OF a century, without en-.
slavement, without oppression, have been
absorbed among the masses of the popu
la,on of the Free States, without causing
even so much as ripple on the calm sur.
face OF our Free State society.
l am aware, sir, that those reflections do
not moot, directly, tho question what is the
character of American slavery when tested
by tho Bible Tho Bible nowhere sane.
tions the doctrine of "doing evil that good
may Gomez" or, In othor words, of obtaining
beneficont ends by unrighteous means; but
on tho contrary pronounces the elimination
OF those who advocate that horcsy 'to be
just" Therefore, if the intont of kidnap.
ping the negroes, instead of being to grind
them with the crushing despotsm cf slavery,
had boen to convert them to Christianity.
and thoroby saye their souls IN Heaven. the
Bible would still have condemned tho fanat.
icisn as an impudent outrage upon tho in
born FREQ ION of tho souls aud bodies of men.
What thon must be the verdict of those sa
cred pagoS against those who kidnnp these
ignorant and inoffsnsive barbarians for the
purpose of destroying both soul and body
in tho Gehenna of remorseloss bondage 4?
In 1920. Sir John Hawkins. an English.
man, brought tho first cargo of kidnapped
Africans to Virginia for sale. A friend OF
slavery, and stakeholder, has given US the
character of this first great patriarch OF
African slavery In Virginia. Hear it:
"ln regard to Hawkins himself, ho was. l