Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-01-05

'J5fqht thsy shine?
!, But, back sgain to The poiat. We
! hays no business With slavery, 1t!
out Of our border beyoud Cur ju-
risdic.ion-and Tie States that have
litare the only proper authorities TO
tIesI with ii. There is where the
fathers placed it, aud there the sons
sbould leave it.
i Whenever the laws OF the moral
oil. ply sical world are violated, a ter
lrible yenganse ensues. The pros
Itration Of majestic trees in the forest
/ does not more surely mark the
path of. the tornado than moral
Fprostration marks the footsteps Of
| lAbolitiouism IN the Nerlb. Twenty
six years ago ] heard Gerrit Smith
upon the religions platforms in New
York. He appeared the most ac-
IcompIished Christian gentleman 10
1.-The whole land. He undertook The
impossible : to alter what God had
lfixef,and Omnipoteuce was tooistrong
for him. 2 1t will be too strong for
you. The mark OF bondage is writ
ten upon,the brow of the African BY
the fpger Of OmDipolence-engra-
Iven there by the experience aud
practice of four thousand years--and
lit isin vain that the waves of excite
ment, which are but for a day, can
think to wash out. the everlasting
dlines. Slavery is the paradise of the
black man; be rejoices 10 cIinging TO
the white man as the ivy to the oak,
as ordinary man would welcome the
society Of angels.
/ Well he may. His association
.lwitt white men is Tie only circum.
stance known in his history By which
he has been raised to a condition
7labeve the beasts that perish On
1.-THE fertile Still Of bis own continent,
be rropagates and riots. Not one
path OF civilization, not one temple
fof Christianity illumines the dark
In. SIS of ventures daik in features.
more blaek in the night which ages
.Ihave wrapped around him. The
ship that brought bin to America
Wis star Of anew day. He ebali-
tg.s the bondage Of brutality foi the
isiiyer cords Of civilization aud Chris
.ian kindness. He exalts4iu in the
change. His face !, radiant With
10y; aud irom the lnneIy cn'lsanIl the
Chris'isn temple songs of 'hanksgiv-
: ing 90 upto heaven fem the lirsapd
hearis of slaves redeemed from
/ African heathenism. There is not al,
Intelligent slave in he Souiii but
finds there The hapliest coudi.ien
that his race has found since the
cu,se was written upon the brow OF
, Fl Ham by the finger OF God. There
/, the is delivered from the heathenlsn,
the cannibalism, the amman SACRIFICES
Of his own county; there ne Is free
/. from the repnlsiye greetings that
1tawait him at The NortIi; written Of
. preached about as an equal, constant
ylly treated as an alien and an inferior
1 At the South the theory ant
. :he practice agree. The African j:
! told that he belongs to an iuierlo
! race, which is true, the last court 0
: appeal, as philosophers tell US, 70
! the evidence ofewhat is true, the.
6 { are told that service and alfegianc
!, are the duty of the black man; pro
- tectiop and instruction the obligatio
IfI Of the white man. Sc. perfectis thi
: feeling, SO harmonious the socis
n system, grown up uiaerit that whe
81 Il meteor,.a comet, appeared in thei
!; horizon ID the person Of John Brown
! he fell at once like a star from hea'
"a en-, and did not disturb, except b
: his own murderous arm, the peace I
i single family, or the alle9 9hpce ap
" fidelity of single slave. This OF
ns fact ought to speak volumes to thos
who are clamoring for the 'ffeedol
! Of the slave. The instincts OF II
fv bondman arc wiser than the schema
s. Of theorists. He asks for no. iote
J, J, : veution-imploIes 10 aid. s1 ]
,;s sTo be content s his natural d
Is sire "-to be the approyed serval
,cs Of bis master, accomplishes his big
g. 9. est ambition. Ispeak Of the gre
Ia mass Of them. That there are in'
,an yiduais who crave an impossible 60
Nv something not to be found in I
uBb- B worlds very likely; but, as DO
=. Of people, they are as nearly sal
.wn fed as the same number auywht
Sen upon the face Of the earth. "
tbe lshould We travail ia perpetual pain
low their behalf But you are told 7