Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-06-20

despoiled of all his earnings, is saved from
poverty, and that for his own good he
must work for his master, and not for him
self. Alas! by such fallacy is whole
race paupcriscd. And yet this transaction
is not without illustrative example. A
solemn poet, ,Iwhosc verse has found wide Ia
vor, pictures creature who
With one hand put
A penny in the urn OF poverty.
And with the other took q shilling out.
ToHock's Course Of Time: Book VIII, 60
And a celebrated traveller through Russia,
more than a generation ago, describes a
kindred spirit, who, while on his knees be-
fore an altar Of the Greek Church, devOut-
cdly told his beads with one hand, and
with the other deliberately picked the
pocket of a fellow-sinner by his side. Not
admiring these instances, cannot cease to
deplorc system which has much of both.
while. under an afFectation of charity, 1t
sordidly takes from the slave all the fruits
of his bitter sweat, and thus takes from
him the handspring to cxertiOn. Tell me-
Sir, is not Slavery barbarOus?
ASSASSINATION, \ SLAVERY FINE ART.
1t is in the character of Slavery itself
that We arc to find the character of Slave
masters; l need not 60 back to the golden
lips of Chrysostom to learn that Slavery
/ is the fruit of covetousness, ofextravagancc,
of Unsuitable grccdiness," for We have al
ready seen that this fve-fold cnormity is
inspired by the single idea of compelling
men to work without wages. This spirit
must naturally appear in the Slave mas
ter. But the eloquent Christian saint did
not disclose the whole truth. Slavery is
/ founded on violence, as We have already
/ too clearly seen; of course it can only be
sustained by kindred violence, sometimes
against the dcfcnceless slave, sometimes
against the freeman, whose Indignation Is
aroused at the outrage. 1t is founded Oh
brutal and vulgar pretensiOns, as VIC have
already too clearly seen; of course it car
only be sustained by kindred brutality and
vulgarity. The denial of all rights in the
slave can be sustained only by disregard
of other rights, common to the whole COM
munity. whether of the person, of the Press
or of speech. Where this exists, there
can be but one supreme law, to which al
other laws, legislative or social, are subOr
dinate, and this is the pretended law o
Slavery. All these things must be mani
fest in slave masters, and yet, unconsciou.
of their true condition, they make boast.
which reveal stiH further the unhappy in
fuence. The swagger of a bully is callet
chivalry; swiftncss to quarrel is callc'
courage; the bludgcon is adopted as a sub
stitute for argumet, and assassination i
lifted to be one Of the fine arts. Long az
it was fixed certain that the day whicl
made a man a slave "took half his wort
away"-words from the ancient harp @
Homer, rcsounding through long genera
tons Nothing here is said of the humal
being at the other end of the chain. I
, aver that on this same day all his worth
taken away might seem inconsistent wit
l exceptions which We gladly recognize; bu
= alas! it is too clear, both from reason an
, frsm evidence, that, bad as Slavery IS 10
, the slave, it is worse for the master.