New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-09

egcept for crime can Justly TAKE away. Inc nght ths
glimners In ile dimnes. sardast and burns 10 thu
feivent midsummer sGn, is the ssme sweet smile Of
God, and you may hear Its beams everywhere,
| "Eorsrer singing a. they shine.
TIE hand t6ss made us Is Divine
The equality Of rights therefore, which the Fathers
ssssrted to be sslf-eydent no man except POLITICIAN
But ia said, in the second place, that Il this prin-
cple lie true the Fathers condemned tber own prac-
tice BY asserting 1t. Certainly they did, and they con
ftssed H. Ihey never, Tor moment. attempted TO
reconcile the principle OF Liberty which they pro-
claimed and the system Of Slavery which prevailed 10
tie country. They never shrkei the question they
never qnibbled about it, and they neyer justified IT,
In bis lannon's speech against the WTits of Assistance
in I762 which John Adams said " breathed into this
nation the breath Of Life, james OTIS in asserting the
nslienabe rights of men. thai there might he no mis-
take as to what he meant, takes care to include black
men as well white and III his pamphlet ylndioating
the Legislature be laws down as one Of the da'a from
which bis argument proceeds, IN strain OF deep
yentd sarcasm: "a Government has no right 70 make
hobby horses ssses and slaves OF the subject nature
having made ssfcient OF the two former tor al tue
awful purposes of man from the harmless peas ant 10
be field 20 the most refined politician Ii the Cabinet
but rene of the Iss., which nfiby proves that they
are unnecessary" and in another pampest, IN 100
he says 1.-The coIoDists are mem the ooonisis ara
therefore, free-born for by the law Of nature, all men
are freeborn, white or black No gosd reason can be
given for fDslaviDg tlFose OF any color
James O,is was not only the tongue but the BRAN,
Of the early Revolution. He did wish independence
Of Engsno. He held that the English constitution
was perfect and for the that Justly interpreted
II protected the rights Of This was thefvlew thai
Lord Mansfield confirmed when he decidsd IN IVA,
that there could be no slave IN England The effect
of this decision upon the Colonies says Arneid in his
History Of Rhode Island, "wss to confirm the views
ali eady expressed by many writer's, TO smulats egs
atiOD ga At the system and to hasten the emsGeps-
ton Of slaves in New-England." James Ots knew
perfectly what he was saying. John Adams who
heard bim-then young man-said lha; be himself
shuddeIed a. the doctrine he taught Bat il was only
difference OF method, not Of principle, between them
for John Adams, in speaking Of tire speech OF Otis
marks: adore the idea of gradual abolition. but
vito shall decide how fast or how slowly thess aboli
tions ehal he made p In H66, DR. May hew, In his
sermon upon the repeal Of the Stamp act, having de-
fined slaves TO be those the fruit of whose labor al
industry may be lawfully taken from them without
their consent and they Justly punished they refuse to
sulTerdeT il on demand adds, for what ia there ia
the world wreiched than for those born free and
who have rigf to continue to be made slaves tnem
selyes and 10 think OF e&ying Of slaves behind
them. even though it Ia to masters confessedy the
ms st humane aud generous N the world. And all the
coIoniss cried Amen" This primary truth of human
rights, announced by James OTIS, in the Nsw-E Hgand
forum and by Mayhew in the pulpit, was echoed from
South Carolina by Christopher Gsdsden, noblest Of
Carolinisns, who wrote in February, 1855: I'VE are
q very weak province, yet r1ch growing one, and OF
as much importance 10 Great Britain any upon the
Continents and great part Of our weakness, though
at he tine is part OF our riches, consists 10
having such a number Of slaves among Us and we find
in our case, according 70 the general perceptibe
workings CT Providence, where the crime moss COM
mOnly, though slowly yet surely draws down snni-
lar punishment, that Slavery begss Slavery Jamaica
ard the West India Islands demonstrate the ob.erya-
tor which hope wall not be case now Whatever
gt have been the consequence had the fatal attempt
been delayed a few years longer, when we had drank
deeper of the Circean draught and the measures OF
oux iniouit; e. were filed up
I That yss good South Carolina Revolutionary doe
,riLe and that Of Virginia wss Ike unto It. An ad-
dress in The Virginia Gazette in 1857 says g Now,
az Freedom ia the birthright of all mankind Africans
az vel % Europeans to keep the former state Of
slavery is constant violation Of that right, and there
fore Of Justice" 1t the shining honor Of the
great Colony Of Virginia, WI here Slavery was drst
pantsS thst its Legislature bad constantly denounced
terest Of the Colony maDesty requires the total ex-
pnlsion Of them" "The system greatly retards the
settlement Of the Colonies with more useful nhseit-
ants and may in time bave the mos; destructive intu
epce." In IVA, George Washington presided at q
meeting Of bis County OF Fairfax, which Denounced
the trade not only impoliiie, but inbuuan; and IN
the same year Thomas Jefferson, IA his address TO
the AsreDby, ssys distinctly, The abolition Of do
nestle Slavery is the greatest object OF desire 10 these
Colonies, where it unhhappy introduced in thei
infant state. But previous TO the eufranchsement Of
the slaves have it lie necessary exclude all fur
Their importations from Africa" Peyton Randolph
presented these words to the Assembly, and they
solved to import slaves from any quarter. 80
when in November, l775, Lord Dunmore the last Co
promise Of freedom, Virginia proudly reminded the
xOrd that it hsd repeatedly tried to stop the horrid
tIac in slaves and had been frustrated by the English
merchants and the Royal veto, and ADDED truly that
sthe rresent masters Of negroes in Virginia ped their
conoton wi.bed ir general to AXE easy and coz
Portable and would willingly not only prevent aoy
nore goes from losing heir freedom, but restore It
10 such as had already anhappily lost it, In like
arner the rs: Continental Congress, 10 IVA agreed
neither 10 import nor 70 buy any slave import led aer
lie frs: OF December. The popular Convention of
Penn prepared the way for law to prohibit the i'm
por.ation. Rhode Island, he Town Of Providence,
had already expressed wish to stop the trade, and to
emanciI ate OF the ground that becouDg the
character Of esmen 70 enslsve the said negroes the
negroes born in the colony The Darien Committee OF
the CoOEy Of Georgia, in January, H75, To show
the world that not influenced by any nracted
or interested motives bat general philanthropy for
all mankind Of whatever climate. language o. com
ne xoD we hereby declare dsapprobat Cd aid alb
borrencs Of tie unnatural practice Of Slavery IN Amer
ies" And they resolved to ter utmost endeasors
70 cbtair the m81unsion Of tire sayes 10 the country
Many of the most hOnored Georgia names are signed to
rha: declaration In April l776 three months before
the great event which brings here to-day, the Con
tipeal Congress absolutely forbade the sayetradei
"nct" Gays Bancroft, from political reasons merely,
but frur conviction Of its uniighteousness and cru
e!,y;" "aad. be adds "it was then the prevailing
opDiou that the total prohibition Of the save-trsde
would at very Distant day BE- followed by universal
emancipation
honest friends Of Slavery to-day do not deny ii. The
sie Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, confessed
il; Mr. Alex, III. Stephens, Of Georgia, one OF the
most ssgacious Of our public said, year ago,
"1he leading pubic men, Of the South 10 our early
history, were slmos: all against il Jefferson was
eganst Il Madison against il. Nearly all OF them
ere agsirs IT, This freely sdmit when the authority
Ct their names il cited" And Mr. Edward Everett,
in bis discourse upon Daniel Webster, SAYS: Iu
moe with ALL or nearly all the statesmen Of the last
generation, be believed that Free Labor would ulti-
nately prevail throughout the continent"
And now who ia il that dares presumilg upon
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