The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-28
that right we hold

that moveth upon the earth:
THAT right we hold
By His donation ; but man ovdr men
He made not lord, such title TO Himself
deserving, human left from litman free.
Slavery tyrannically assumes a power
which Heaven denied, while, under its
barbarous necromancy. borrowed from the
Source of Evil, man is changed into a
chattel-a person is withered into thing
"a soul is sl.ruuk into merchandise.-
Say, sir, in your madness, that you own
the sun, the stars, the moon, but do not
say that you own man, endowed with a
soul that shall live immortal, when sun
aud moon and stars have passed away.
Secondly. Slavery paints itself again
in its complete ubrogat'on Of marriage,
recognized as sacrament by the church,
and recognized as a contract wherever
civilization prevails. Under the law of
Slavery, no such sacrament is respected,
and no such contract can exist. The ties
that may be formed between slaves are
all subject to the selfish lust of the mas
ter, whose license knows no check. Nat
ural affections which have come together
are rudely torn asunder; nor is this all.
Stripped of every defence, the chastity OF
whole race is exposed to violence, while
the result is recorded in the tell-tale faces
of children, glowing with their master S
blood, but doomed for their mothers skin
to Slavery, through all descending gene
rations. The Senator from Mississippi
! Mr.. Brown] is CALLED by the comparison
between Slavery and Polygamy, and
winces. | hail this sensibiity as the
sign OF virtue. Let him reflect; and he
will confess. that there are many disgust
ing elements in Slavery, which me not
present in PoIygamy, while the single
disgusting element of Polygamy is more
than present in Slavery. BY the license
of Polygaluy, one man may have many
wives, all bound to him by the marriage
tie; and in other respects protected by
law. BY the license Of Slavery, a whole
race is delivered over to prostitution and
concubinage, without the protection ot
any law. Sir, is not Slavery barbarous
Thirdly Slavery paints itself again in
its complete aJroqatiom Of Tie parenta'
relation, which God in his beneyolence
has provided for the nurture and educa
tion of the human family, and which con.
stitutes an essential part of Civilization
itself And yet, by the law of Slavery
happily beginning to be modified in
some places-this relation is set al
taught, and in its place is substituted the
arbitrary control of the master, at whose
mere command little children, such as
the Savior called unto him, though clasp
ed by mothers arms, may be swept un-
der the hammer Of the auctioneer. | do
not dwell on this exhibition. Sir, is not
Slavery barbarous
Fourtty. Slavery paints itself again
in closing the gates Of hnorlct2ge, which
are also the shining gates of civilization.
Under its plain, unequivocal law, the
bondmah may, at the tnrestrained viii
of his master, be shut out from all in.
structions, while IN many places, incrcdl.
ble to relate the law itself. by cumula-
tive provisions, positively forbids that he
shall be taught to read, for his soul would
theE expand in larger air, while he saw
the glory of the North Star, and also the
helping truth, that Gcd, who made iron,
never made slave; for he would then
become familiar with the Scriptures, with
the Dcealogue still speaking in the thun-
ders of Sinai with that ancient tent,
lie that stealeth man and selleth
him, or if he be found in his hands, he
shall! surely be put to death > with that
other text, {" Masters give unto your SER
wants that which is Just and equal ;" with
that great story of redemption, when the
Lord raised the slave born Moses to de-
liver his chosen people from the house OF
bondage ; and with that sublimer story,
where the Savior died cruel death, that
all men, without distinction of race,
might be saved-!caving to mankind
commandments, which, even without his
example, make Slavery impossible.-
Thus, in order to ia ten your manac es up
on the slave, you fasten other manacles up
on his soul. Sir, is not Slavery b rbarous ?
FythLy. Slavery paints itself again IN
the appropriation Of all tie toll Of its
victims, excluding them from that prop
erty in their own earnings, which the law
Of natgre allows, and civilization secures.
The painful injustice of this pretonsion
IL lost in its meanneSs IT Is rohhprV and
petty larceny under the garb of law
Aud even It's meanness is lest in the alb
surdity of its associate pretension, that
the African, thus despoilcd of all his
earnings, is saved from poverty, and that
for his own good he must work for his
master, and not for himself Alas by
such fallacy, is whole race Pauperizcd !!
And yet this transaction is not without
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