The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-08-30


and cause Of Slavery in all the countries
where it exists, and is the polluted foun-
tain out Of which hassprung our blessed
institution In this instance then eUil
produces good. But the existence of
slave-holding communities, which open
market for slaves, aud pay for and en-
courage the prosecution Of the trade, is
the cause of the African slave-trade.-
You must know If there were no slave
holding communitios-no places where
Africans could be bought or sold after
they we're brought over from Africa in
slave.ships, there would be no slave
trade. It is the existence of communi-
tics that hold slaves, and protect and de-
iend the institution, which supports and
fosters and keeps alive the slave-trado.
Here you see that good produces eUH-
Now, l ask you, fellow citizens, is this
the language Of truth2 On the contra.
ry, does it not commend itself to your
judgment even though it had not been
written by the finger of God:
"That every tree is known by its own
fruit. For Of thorns men do not gather
figs, nor Of a bramble- bush gather they
grapes, for a good tree bringeth not
froth corrupt fruit, neither doth a cor
rupt tree bring forth good fruit"
1t is in the logical process that if
slavery is a blessing, then the African
slave-trade cannot be an evil. And if
the African slave-trade be a good insti-
tuition, then it should be thrown wide
open, and this great and good instru-
mentality turned to the best account
Perhaps Great Britain might be induced
by our Democratic philanthropists to
substitute slaves in the place Of her in
geniOus husbandmen and operatives;
may be the French nation would be in
tellgent enough to gil all their depart
ments with negroes. The Germans and
SazOns are supposed to be tolerably as
tute in finding out their interest, and
would seize at once upon such solid ad-
vantages. Would it not be we'll to dis
pense pretty much with white men, ex-
cept so far as they might be found es.
sential to slavery, as owners Of a race
more fortunate and more blessed than
their own2
No man can deny that the teachings
of the Democrats on the negro question
lead this way. Those who inculcato
false ideas must not be surprised when
others press them on their natural re.
suits.
The propagandism of the Democracy
has already begun to develop itself D
two of its horrid features-the revival
Of the African slave to our shores
and that other not less iniqutous and
piratical movement on our own soil, and
within the slaveholding States, the sale
into slavery, without a crime on their
part, Of our free negro population
Governor Stewart vetoed the free negro
bill, and I honor him for it; but I re.
mark that in doing so he departed from
his party doctrines lie denied the
goodness of the institution. If slavery
be an evil, then the veto was right; if il
is a blessing, then the veto was wrong
and there was no occasion for the Gov.
enOr's quotation from Burns:
"Wan's inhumauity TO man
Makes countless thousands mourn!'
FelloW-citizens, political economist,
tell us, and they tell us truly, that the
grandeur of a State depends in a greaI
degree upon the number Of its inhabit
ants. A few men can never constitute
a powerful or even a respectable State
numbers are requisite. For it is by
numbers that you multiply the virtue
intelligence, and value of individuals
All this implies that these numbers
must not be paupers -must not be in,
valids-must not be slaves. For how
was any State ever made more confident
in the management of its domestic az
fuirs-or how could any State ever
strike terror into the hearts Of its foes
because a large portion Of its people
were slaves2 Slavery is one Of those
blessings of which it is not we'll to en-
joy too much. Nations with hostile
and powerful neighbors have often re
allied this truth No enemy is so dul
as not to understand this During out
Revolutionary war, DR.. Samuel John,
son, the British essayist, wrote a pamph
let suggesting an infamous scheme fol
the destruction Of the Virginia patriots
lie advised Lord Dunmore to arm the
slaves and turn them against their mas
ters. There was no period Of the wa.
when the Southern States were not EN-
barrassed by this class Of their popula
ton. 1t is in time Of war when thD
nation strains her strength-when hel
salvation depends upon the soldiers she
can rally to her standard, upon thei
number, upon their devotion-that thi
part Of tho subject is best understood
Then the question is foarfully asked
"What constitutes the Sate?" aud ther
the answer is given in the noble line
of Sir William Jones:
"Not high-raisod battlemeut, nor luborod mound,
Thick wall, nor moated gate;
Not cities vast, with spires aud turrgtG crowned,
But men, high minded men,
Who know their rights and knowing dare maintain
Those constitute a State"
My friends, Slavery does not contribute
like Freedom, to the wealth of a coun
try 1t does not contribute, like Free
dom, to its delenses against eXterna
foes, and it does not, l think, contribute
60 the internal quiet and peace Of
country. If it does, our people viii
doubtless be grateful for the informa
ton If it has done anything TO insti
into the minds Of our people sentiment
of harmony If il has tended 10 cherisI
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