Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-02-09
posed TO he familiar with the history Of his
own church. hence he must have seen IT,

endured by W treated slave, 1t would ovshen every com
broher7 aud SISTERS and children, husbands and
wives are torn aSunde and Permitted TO see each other 20
shriets and the agony often prooa atA tups toHgue the
iuiguiy sAd ,rpsay u ou 'ysism"
The ST. Louis Obserrer of May 7th,
1885, says:
ain our State many CRriaHs no more think Of instruct
ing their sarc' than they do their horses This may
strong expression, aud ills but contains the simple truth
and nothing mole"
The Kentucky circular to ministers in
1884, says After making all reasonable
allowance, our colored population can be
considered, at the best, but seniiheathen'
Hon. G. G. Pinckney, in m address be.
fore the S. G.. Agricultural Society, speak.
ing of the slaves, says "Tbere needs no
stronger illustration of the doctrine of de-
pravity, than the state of human nature on
plantations in geueral' Again Their ad.
vance in years is but progression to the
higher grades of niqnity.' Yet we arc told
of the effects of the gospel on plantations
The American Colonization Society 10
its seventh report, says:
awe have heard Of Slavery as Il exists IN Asia and Africa
Turkey have heard Of the eudal slavery which
until now but excepting only the hord system Of the West
India Islands have heard of slavery any country
|
rbe In Its character the slavery which exists in thete Uni
ted States"
Said John Randolph on the floor of Con-
gress, 'Avarice alone can drive, as it does
drive, this Internal traffic, and the wretched
victims it, like so many post-horses l0hip
ped to death in a mail coach, sc.
| offer the following from the Rev. n.
H. Harding, pastor of the Presby yterian
church, Oxford, n. Carolina, as an appro-
pirate tribute to the Rev. Henry j Van
Dyke, for his recent vindication of slavery.
Mr.. Harding says:
am greatly surprised that you should in any form have
been the apoOg Of system SO full Of deadly poison to alt
oness and bsHscOnc slavery the coucoced o.
parent OF unnumbered evils both the oppresso aud the
pressed the thoHsGHdh part Of Vheh has been
brought fo.hght"
With such system to describe, no wond-
er that Mr.. Rice of Kentucky, should have
said long since, that The slave is consigned
to a bottomless pit of wretchedness I nor
is it singular that the MoryvilIe Intdligen-
Ger, Tenn. Of Oct. 1855, should declare that
The condition Of slaves in the southwest.
ern states is second only to that Of the
wretched creatures in hell , But for an
Abolitionst, North, to repeat it, is mSre-
presentation and abuse, although the thou
sandth part is never brought to light.
add another from the report of the
Southern Commercial Convention at Vicks.
burg, Miss, May 10th, 1852 which Ger.
tainly is quite equal to any representations
given by Northern fanatics. The report
says:
ain the slave sysien lAborer himself is property The
him'e is negotiable chael His soul Is ignored. HC
is brute He c,n be sheared like Sheep branded like
hog and MANNED like he be butehered like beef
skinned like buck or scaded like shoat he be hurled
into fish pond to faen and flavor ampreys smeAred will
tar and set on fire to light ungodly dances"
But cease to multiply quotations and
extracts, they might be increased to many
hundreds of similar character, and from the
same source. To deny their existence only
betrays ignorance of passing events, as they
are published in southern journals and cop
led at the north. Statesmen saw the enor
nifty of slavery and its legitimate tendency
when the foundation Of our government
, was laid, and forewarned the nation of com
, ing consequences, unless measures were ear
, ly adopted to check its growth and finally
remove it from the land. Thomas Jeffer
son, one of the most prominent in the frame
work Of our government, foresaw the dan
; ger of fostering this monster vice in a nomi
nally free government, and expressed hi
, fears in the following emphatic words:
"when the Of their tears is FULL when their grOar
have involved heaven itself in Darkness doubtless God
justice will awake TO their distress"
Again Mr.. Jefferson says
81 trembe for my country when remember, that God
erng nnmbers nature and natural means only revolution
the wheel Of frune, exchange Of situation is among
| oh has rhiC
side toith us in such a contest"
Such were Jefferson's views Of slavery, AM
such his apprehensiOns relative to its fata
influence and the dark shadow that nov
falls upon our country, may be the coming
night that follows the setting sun Of ou
national prosperity and glory The viper
sIarery so long nourshed in our government
, may have already struck his poisonous fang
-, so deep into the national heart and infnse
: : the deadly virus so generally, that the cher
shed republican system of our fathers, bar
> tizcd in patriotic blood at its birth, may e1
pire in anarchy, or revolution
If such shall be the hard destiny of ou
> nation, the sin will lie at the door Of mer
. who have disregarded the admonitions {
= our patriotic fathers, and by misrepresentl
= llOu VI NlCll ltdl cCbblluCuNo anu plAuNl plO
= on the subject of slavery, and by abuse {
a the men who have sought to perpetual
!. those opinions, and secure the end cOnteu
r plated by a Free Government; have peryer
A ed the national mind and calloused the ni
v tional heart, until oppression, once abhol
4 red, has come to be cherished, as a 'Diri1
, Institution and the corner stone of our n
a publican edfce
a With such reasons and facts as / hay
now presented, l submit the question
whether it is 'AJOlitiOnisa,' or slavery tbs
= has been promulgated, chiefly by msrepr
: sentation and abuse while briefly ca
attention to the
a THIRD Position, viz. Slavery by logict
. process leads to utter infdelity. The FRI
h nsrs of the declaration of independence
n were generally religious men, and recogni
% ed God and his moral government in tn
!. very opening of that eminent masterpieC
q of human genius, the declaration of right
n Did they believe that their Bible sanction
ed slavery Would they have declared th
q doctrine Of human equality, and mans I'M
n lienable right to liberty, if they believe
+ that the Bible taught the right of one ma
= to enslave another The way to make il
fidels of men, is to refer them to slavery
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