Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-30

and the womb ofthe bond-womar can deliver
I only a slave.
From its home in Africa where It Is sus-
tanned by immemorial usage, this Barbarism
thus derived and thus developed, traversed
the ocean to American soil 1t entered on
board that fatal slaye-ship "built in the
eclipse, and rugged with curses dark which
/ In 1920 landed its cruel cargo at jamestown,
in Virginia and II has boldly taken its place
/ in every succeeding slave-ship from that early
day till now-helping to pack the human
/ freight regardless Of human agony; suryi-
wing the horrors Of the middle passage; sur
viving its countless victims plunged beneath
the waves; and It has left the slaye-ship only
/ to travel inseparable from the slave in his
various doom, sanctioning by its barbar-
Gus code every outrage, whether Of mayhem
or robbery, Of lash or lust, and fastening it.
| self upon his offspring TO the remOtest gen
Grafton Thus are the barbarous prerSga-
| tives Of barbarous African chiefs perpemated
/ in American Slave-masters, while the Sena-
tor from Virginia, Mr. Mason, perhaps un-
conscious Of their origin-perhaps desirous
| to secure for them the appearance of less
barbarous pedigree-tricks them out with a
| phrase OF the Roman law, discarded by the
common law, partAs sequlttr UeRtrem, which
| simply renders into ancient Latin an existing
rule Of African Bsrbarism, recognized as an
existing rule of American Slavery.
Such is the plain judicial origin Of the
American slave code, which is now vaunted
as badge of Civilization. But all law,
whatever may be its juridical origin, whether
English, or Mahomedan, Roman, or African,
may be traced to other and ampler influences
in nature, sometimes OF Right and some
times Wrong Surely the law which blasted
the slave trade as piracy punishable with
death, had a different inspiration from that
other law, which secured immunity for the
slave trade throughout an immense territory,
and invested its supporters with political
power As there is a higher law above, so
there is a lower law below, and each is felt in
human affairs.
Thus far, we have seen Slavery only in its
pretended law, aud in the origin of that law.
And here l mi ght stop, without proceeding in
this argument for, on the letter of the law
alone Slavery must be condemned. But the
tree is known by its fruits, and these / now
shall exhibit; and this brings me to the sec
ond stage of the argument.
(2.) In considering the practical results Of
Slavery the materials are so obvious and di-
versifed, that my chief care will be to abridge
and reject; and here shall put the Slave
States and Free States face to face, showing
at each point the blasting influence of Sla-
very.
The States where this Barbarism now ex-
lists excel the Free States in all natural adyan-
tages. Their territory is more extensive,
stretching over s5l, AS square miles, while
the Free States, including California, embrace
only 6l2, ,5s7 square miles. Here is differ
ence of more than 23s,O00 square miles in
favor of the Slave States, showing that Free
dom starts in this great controversy with a
field more than n quarter less than that Of
slavery. In happiness OF climate, adapted
to productions Of special value; in exhaust
less motive power distributed throughout its
space in natural highways by more than
fifty naVigable rivers, never closed by the
rigors of winter, and in stretch of coast
along ocean and gulf, indented by hospitable
harbors-the whole presenting incompatible
advantages for that true civilization where
agriculture, manufactures and commerce.
both domestic and foreign, blend-in all these
respects the Slave States excel the Free States
whose climate is often churlish, whose mo
tive power is less various, whose nayigable
rivers are fewer and often sealed by ice, and
whose coast, while less in extent and with
fewer harbOrs, is often perilous from storm
and cold
ButSlayery plays the part of a Harpy, and
defles the choicest banquet See what il
does with this territory, thus spacious and
fair
An important indication Of prosperity is
to be found in the growth of population In |
thisrespect the two regions started equal In
1890, at the first census under the COnstitu- |
ton, the population of the present slave states
was 1851, ,372, OF the present Free States l. /
Gee tfC li,a.-;s.-s l;fr-----.-
in favor of the free states. This difference, /
at first merely nominal has been constantly /
increasing since, showing itself more strong /
~ in each decennial census until, in 1850 /
the population of the slave states, swollen BY 4
the annexation of three foreign Territories
Louisiana, Florida, and Texas-Was only /
9,6l2, 769, while that of the Free states, with /
out any such anneXatiOns, reached l3, ,434,- 4
922, showing difference of 1922, l53 in ia I
vor of Freedom. But this difference becomes /
still more remarkable, if we cou6ne our in
quiries to the white population, which, at I
this period, was only 6,ls4,477 in the slave
states, while it was l3, 23S, go in the Free .
States, showinga difference of more Than
I, 1854, 1913 in favor of Freedom; and show
ing that the white population of the Free
states had not only doubled but commenced
to triple thatof the slave states, although oe-
cupying a smaller territory. The compare
tive spareness Of the two populations fur
nishes another illustration. In the slave
states the average number OF inhabitants to
square mile was 1928, while in the Free
states it was l.s3, or almost two to one in
favor of Freedom.
These results are general; but if we take
any particular slave state, and compare it
with free state, we shall find the same con-
stant evidence for Freedom. Take Virginia,
with a territory of 81, 352 miles, and New
y York with territory of $4,000, or over IA
90 square miles less than her sister state
New York has one seaport, Virginia some
three or four; New York has one noble river,
Virginia has several; New York for 400
miles runs along the frozen line of Canada,
Virginia basks in a climate of constant fe-
licity. But Freedom is better than climate,
rivers, or seaport
In 1880 the population of Virginia was
748, ,3Os, and in 1850 it was !, ,42l ,66l. In
1890, the population of New York was 340,-
100, and in 1850 it was 3,O97 7,394; that of
Virginia has not doubled in sixty years,
while that Of New York has multiplied more
than nine fold. A similar comparison may
be made between Kentucky, With 1850
square miles admitted into the Union as long
ago as 1880, and Ohio with 39,964 square
miles, admitted into the Union in 1902. In
1850, that slave state had population of
only 9s2, ,4O5, while Ohio had a population Of
!, $50, ,329, showing a difference of nearly a
million in favor of Freedom
As in population, so also is the Ualas Of
property, real and personal, do the free states
excel the slave states, According TO the CEN
sus of 1885, the value of property in the free
states was S4, lO7, 1862, 1913, while in the slave
states it was S2,s36, ,O9O, 737; or, if we de-
duct the asserted property in human flesh,
only 81, ,655, 945, l37-showing an enormous
difference Of billions in favor Of Freedom
In the free states the valuation per acre was