Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-06
$50 perfect Is their misery,
Not once perceive their foul disngurements
But boast themselves more cOmely than before.

Not once perceive their foul Disagreement.
But boast themselves more eomely than before
Mr. President. it is time TO close this branch Of
the argument. The barbarisn oi slavery has been
exposed, first, in the law Of slavery with It's
i've pretensi0ns, founded the assertion Of proper
~ in man, the denial Of the eonugal relation the
infraction Of the parental relation, the exclusion
from knowledge and the robbery Of the fruits OF an
otnsrs labor all these having the single object Of
compelling mea tsork tst0u iruges, whllo its bar
bari5m still further attested Wy tracing the law
in its origin 70 barbnrons Africa; and secondly 1t
has bean exposed IA careful examination Of the
econOminRl results Of slavery Illustrated BY con-
trasf bstween the free States and sRve starss sus-
tanned by official figures. 500.
from this exposure Of slavery proceeded to con-
slider its influence on Slave masters whose srue
character stands confessed first In the Law Of Sia-
very which is their work. next, in the relations be-
tween them and their slaves, msintatned by three
each other and with society, and here have seen
them al home under the immediate influence Of sia-
Very-elsO in the communities Of which they are a
partpractictng violence and pushing il every here
in street tights and due g. p( Allyrlgng against all
wnO question the preteuzions OF slavery entering
even into the Free States, but not in aWless out
breaks Oulyi also In Official acts, rs OF Georgia and
South CarOlina, with regard 10 Two Aassiichusetts
tn Hail+ -f'~-- 49, where they have ragged as az
h Rs, against an gho set themselves against their
..- ,...4- 20 whole gloomy array OF un-
Questionable facts has been closed BY portrhyng the
melancholy unc0us cious1ess which constitutes ons
Such II ms answer 70 the assumption Of fact In be-
half Of slavery by Senators on the other side But
before passing to rht other assumption Of consttu-
tional law which constitutes tbs second branch Of
his discussion / add testimony 10 the influence q
slavery on slave masters In other cpnntress which
is too Important to be negleetsdl and may properly
AMONG those Who have done most to press forward
In Russia that sublime act ofemancipation By which
the present Emperor is winning lusre not only for
his own country, but our age, y "a LourgasIlen
slaves and residing where slavery prevailed he saw,
With the Instincts O noble character the essential
on Russia Which i nov before me, he exposed il
with rare ability and courage. Thus he speaks oi
''But Il slavery degrades the slave, It degrades
the master. This IS au old hdage, sud loug OBJ
servations have proved to that this adage isnot
! e par39sieE II iAets how can that man respect MS
own dignity Ms e1yn sights who has learned not &c
mant What control can the moral and religious
sentiments hRve over man who sees himself invest
and reliRionl The continual exercise Of an unjust
/ claim oven when II is moderated, finishes BY cor
rngting the character Of the man and spelling hi
Die possession OF slave being the result Of In
justice, 5 relations Of the master with the slav,
cannot bo otherwise than succession Of inustices
Among good masters, (and it is agreed to call 81
those who do not abuse their power much as the,
mightil these relations are clothed with torns les
repugnant than among others but here the diher
enoe stop % could remain sy alEseys RlLsl wnsi @
carried sway BY bis dspos ttioni excited by MS tsn
per, drawn by caprice, he can with tmpuniry op
press, insult, hum llisto his fellows. And let It b
do not avail The enlightened man, thu ciyiliZe
man is none the less man. that he should not op
press it is necessary that It should Be impossible 70
him to oDpress. All men cannot, Ike Louis xiv.
throw their stick from the window, when they feel
desire TO strike" La Riissie si Les Eusss Vot ~
1Eother authority, uninpeaehable at all point
whose fortune It has been; from extensive travel.
to see slavery in the most various forms, and slav
masters under the most various conditions refe
to tie great African traveller DR.. Livingstone-thu
touches the character Of slave masters:
u can never cease 10 be unteignedly thankful tha
Fss not born in land Of slaves 20 one can IN
derstand ths unutterabls meanness Of the slave sys
TEN On the minds Of those who, but for The strange o
LQuity ghiek prepsnfs from feeling ne degradation
would be equal In virtue to ourselves. Fraud bs
comes natural 70 thoih as paying ones way Is
ths rest Of mankind. -LtTihgstoHes IraUes, ehapt
fk1s does the experience Of slavery in other couI
! tries confirm the sad experience among US.
sEcoED AssUNPTloN!- -Disearding now all the pr
sumptuous boasts for slavery, and bearing in min
its essential bsroafsn come 70 consider that -
which IS Of course inspired BY the first even If NJ
IL tnmediate consequence that under ths Gonst
national Territories, and there continue to hOl
them, as At home In the slave States and that tn
would Ae the case IN any territory newly acquires
By purchase or By war, as Of Mexico on the South
1 Canada on the North rr-s ..rtH
. And here begin By the remark, that a. the q
sumption Of constitutional law is inspired by Il
assumption Of fact with regard to the "ennobllng
character Of slavery IL must lose much II not a
Of It's force when the latter assumption Is shown
Z be false, as has been done to-day
/, 4 When slavery i seen to be the barbarian which
IS there are fsw who would not cover IL from sigl
rather than insist upon sending II abroad with Il
flag Of the Republic. II is only because people hal
} tolerated for moment its exOrbitant pretension
Therefore this long exposition where slavery b
been madB 10 atand forth in It's nvefod barbafisn
with the single object Of compelling men to WoF
without wages, naturally prepares the way 70 col
sider the assumption Of constitutional law This a
sumption may 30 described as an attempt 20 N
odHiEs the Constitution, by introducing into II Il
. barbarous law ofslavery, dertyoda as We have see
originally from barbareus Africa; and then throug
y such Afrloanir1fon Of the Constitution, 10 Afcani
the Territories. Auelyze the assumption and
VIII be found 70 stand on two preteusions, either
which falling, the assumption ails also. These ~
are-drst tlhs African pretension Of property 10 ms
and sooond y the pTetenslon that such property
l. recognized in the Constitution, -
With regard TO the first Of these preten6lonss
= might simply refer 70 what have aready said In
earlier part Of this argument But should do Il
= Justice 70 the part L has beun mede 20 pl!
In this controversy, If did not again expose
! Then / sought particularly to show is barbarian
r now shall show something more.
Properly implies An owner and q thing CW1e
Q On the one side Is a human being and on Il
o other side thing. But the very idea Of huml
being necessarily excludes the idea of proper
2 IN that being, Just as the very idea Of thin
C necessarily excludes the idea Of a human bein
IL Is clear that G thing cannot be human bein
1, and Il is equally clear that human being cam
be thing And. .,the law Itself, when L adoU
the phrase, arelatiou Of master and slave /" co
fesses It's reluctance 20 sanction the claim Of pro
= erty II shrfnkE from the pretenaion Of Senator
Z aud satisfies itself with formula which does n
openly degrade human nature. =
II this property does exist, out Of what title
y L deriFedY Under what ordinance Of nature
/ Of natures God & one human being stamped
u owner aud another stamped q thingf God Is
e. reepecter Of persons. Where ia thG sanction