Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-03-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr.. Jarvis Letter, No. 2.

tions Of Divine appointment il inevitable
And instead Of the Negro being justly
punished for the lack Of intellect, the white
man Is justly the subject Of punishment, Tor
wicked and Remembering use Of his.
The wron-s Of Slavery are the more heinous
because they are committed in the boasted
supremacy Of the psychological constitution,
and because thew are inflicted on intellectual
beings made in the image Of God And for
the white man with his boasted knowledgc,
and superior mental faculties. and the Bible
in his hand. to pounce upon the peaceful
hamlets Of the Negr9. aud wnet from him
all his natural. inherent ,iHalienable, and
ought to tc inyiolable. rights, and place him
in abect and PAINFUL slavery. and then say
to him that God fixed his rank. or that he is
justly punished for his neglect. is adding the
worst Of insult t. the worst Of crime. The
institution Of slavery involves the clements
and instrumentalities Of punishment to those
who enslayc the innoocnt-that punishment
in It's secular character exists unler different
forms-those clements are injustice, inhu-
mainly and lust for wealth and forbidden
struction upon their own agents. The in
strumentalities, are naughty aristocracv.
a hostility to freedom. and an infatuated
prejudice. these instrumentalities excite de-
stroving agencies outside Of the limits Of the
institution. As well a. inside Of it-as a case
Of coelual barring. witness the doctrine.
practice. and punishment Of Charles l. Of
Engand-witncss also the destruction Of
Empires ana republics Of former ages.-
Sometimes the destroying clements rising in
their hideJus form. work with these instru
mcntalitics. a devastating power upon the
institutions Of the nation. and II crumhe-
into ruin-and sometimes foreign powers,
invited by this condition Of thing. or inhu-
enccd by the same clements, and maily ur.-
81 ~ those ins,rumentalitie4. destroy 9TH
crs who claim property in the bodies and
souls Of mcn-thcse may Is well denamina-
ted agents Of Divine jusiice-,'the scource
Of tod
Thcsc elements and ins;rlmen:alities arr
the same in their result. whether connected
with slavery or not. but they are always
found with slavery. But We are vide off
from home. and modern, and passing exam
pies are wanted, 10 pour living Influence
upon the present advocates and perpetrators
Of slavery The United States has her cx-
amplcs and forms Of punishment entailrd
upon her as the result Of slavery. In the
first place it has been curse t. her from
her birth Il has darkenci her star of glory
which we hope may never = down. That
star i. Freedom Witness for this the fact
that the Freedom Of the pres, and Of speech
in violation of that instrument which binds
US in one and guarantees thee privileges,
are forbidden in many Of the members Of our
conf.deracy The reason i, slavery is Their.
with it, hostility to freedom, and it must
have darkness because its deeds are evil
Light, enough Of it, would explode the in
stituton-again witness the agitation which
for eight wears, and longer time, has shook
the nation to It's very foundation, and made
it culver ike leaf in the autumn breeze.
domestic peace fleeing from our domicils and
all hearts filled with disquicting anxiety,
time enough spent in meetings, debates, dis
putes, quarrels and common talk, North
and South, if spcn, in profitable labor, to
purchase every slave in the country and
transport them to Africa.
Righteousness cxalteth Nation but
sin is reproach TO any people. - Slavery i
The sin of our nation, and great sin, cali
ing for great punishment and the pre-
vailing signs of the times Portend dark
and fearful retribution written in the fu
turc Well might an eminent statesman
say . fear for my country when | reflect
God is just Again, for the punishment,
Of this wrong, witness the blood that
has stained the fair plains Of Kansas and
Virginia, and the floor Of the national
Senate chamber. 1t matters not whether
that blood has flown from the veins of inno-
cence or guilt. it is alike the result of sla-
very.
Different classes Of men charge upon each
other these results Of slavery with epithe,-
of treason, civil war. violation of constitu-
tional rights, border ruffanism, &c, vet all
are the development Of the elements Of the
institution of slavery, and must always be,
while virtue has advocates and the vice Of
slavery has supporters. These developments,
however, under different circumstances mani
fest themselves in different FIRMS. The le-
gal and mobocratic executions and torturs
in many, if not all the slave States which
are continually going on, disturbing the
peace Of domestic circles, are solely the de-
yelopment of the elementary principles Of
the slavery institution, whether the subjects
are black or white.
An infatuated frenzy growing out of the
nature Of slavery, has long been rising and
spreading in the slave States, like malaria
more tenacious in its purpose, and more
fearful in its results than the Salem witch
craft Of infamous notoriety and well would
ii he for the country and the slave States in
particular, if like the Salem witchcraft, the
infatuation and wickedness Of slavery were
discovered BY its subjects, repented Of, and