Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-09

ever pesS-
cd which any s1cn of either of the States Of this
Union. shall be excluded from the enjoyment Of
any CT the sritEsges and communities of which
such citizea II entitled uRdcr the Constitution of
the United Sta 81 and the Legislature Of said State,
shall declare Fps ascent Of the said State to the
said fundameri.l condition to the President, and
therefore, the Fsdent shall announce the fact that
| the admission zog said State shall be complete"
The Legislature Of Missouri sssented to the said
fundamental c9sxltion, and James Monroe, Presi-
dent, issued his PROCLAMATION on the 10th Of August
1921, annorne' e the fact thatthe admission of
Missouri int ~ Union was complete. 1t thus
appeared that g sh was the impacabs hostility Of
the Anti-sla- erts party, to the admission of this
State into III Fs1ion. that after slavery pro-
hibited Noref = thirty-ssx thirty, and the State
compelled TO ~ sit free negroes residents Of the
State, the aGg5ssion vas carried by the united
vote of the fith, against the almost united vote of
the North. fheH1 is in all this very little indication
of frank, rSly, and epenhanded compromise,
between tvs 10 lions, but much Of Cancellation and
surrender # lights on the part Of the SOUTH and
much Of s. egSission the part Of the North. 1t
is difficult |. receive how any weight could be ra-
tioRally g,. to the Sth section as congressional
! PRECEDENT SSssd as 1t was under moral duress
| John Q eSEms. then a member Of the Cabinet of
Mr.. MonroaeSnd in daily association with Monroe,
Crawford ,Eehoun and Wir., all Shareholders, dis
plays the eN deep-seated hostility TO the Southern
| people, by@S entries in his diary at the time. He
says, "thG<Attempt to introduce that restriction
produced ,st violent agitation among the mem
/ bers from slaveholding States. and it has been
communic;E to the States and to the Territory of
Missouri. XAe slave drivers az usual, whenever
the topic 3tsought up, buster and bully, talk of
the white es Of the Eastern States and of oceans
of blood, a the Northern members pocket all this
hectoring a sit down in quiet and submit to the
slave scouting republicanism Of the planters.
They (the .e Ststes) had no men to contend with
| Clay and ksndolph Pinckney and Bsrburn, ex-
| cept Rufus HSng. When his spoke the great slave
holders en- led their bps and clenched their fists as
they heard Pm; they not hear him without be-
ing seized ks.b the cramps
- life devoted TO emancipation
would be n2ly spent or sacrifced-emancipation
terrible in ts means, but glorious in its results x
A bill perpeuating slavery in Mis-
| souri,, per Ups in America, has been smugged
through thS House by two as unprincpled articles
as dishonesty ever devised by coupling it as an
appendage9o the bill admitting Maine, the other by
! an outrage perpetrated by Speaker Clay on the
House Perhaps it would have been best to have
persisted in the restriction, until it would have
suited in call Of Convention of States to revise
Constitution This would have produced new
Union unpoluted with slavery. II it must be dis
solved slavery is the very question on which ought
| to break. The fual decision of
the Missouri question was carried at last against
the interest and wishes OF the free Statss If he
| had been member of the Legislature of Massaehu-
setts, he would have moved for declaratory ae.,
that go long as the article in the Constitution of
Missouri, deprived the colored citizens of Msssa-
chusetts of their rights in Missouri long should
the white citizens of Missouri, be held as aliens in
Massachusetts, and net entitled 20 claim any right
privilege of citizen of the United States, and
he would prohibit by law, the delivery of any fu-
gitge on the demand of his MASTER ''This," he
said ''would net be to violate the Constitution but
| to redeem 1t from violation. This prohibition of
the rights Of colored citizens was dissolution of
| the Union II the dissolution of the Union must
| come, let it come from no other cause but this.
| He said the members from the free States had
been threatened, bullied and wheedled, until half
| coWed. they had been frightened into surrender
| Of their promises"
These extracts from the diary Of Mr.. Adams, aud
the course Of the Northern States upon this ques-
| ton, It seems to me, exhibit general, blind and
unreasonable hostility to the Southern people, and
determination to restrict the institution Of slave
ry By every means direct and indirect, fair foul
which could be brought to bear upon it. This Mis-
souri, question was the great laboratory in which
was worked out from the original mint of the Hart
ford convention all the arguEsnts since found in
the mouths of Lincoln, Seward and others We
here find set forth the injustice and impolicY Of
savery-the cruelty of the fugitive slave law, With
their answer to the Bible argument; the wrong
done to the North by slave representation the con-
demnation of slavery by the Declaration Of IRde
pendence; the right Of negroes to citizenship and
political equality. These arguments were ali
stored away in the public mind and in the debates,
ready for future campaigns.
ABOLITION IN BRITISH WEST INDIES.
1t would seem from the connection Of events that
the two years. controversy in the United States Gu
the Missouri question, acted upon the British Par
lament, for that body in 1922 adopted resolution
declaring that slaves in the British West Indies
SheEld not be whipped except by order Of qlagis-
trate; that they should have the right to hold and
own property; to testify in courts Of justice; that
free negroes should have the right to vote, hold Of
fee and the other rights of q British West Indian
subject The part of this decarstory resolution
lating to fsgging was carried into eject, and
slave protector appointed aE sspatched to tkSt
West Indies. There were then SCaVo>% slavesxsSSe
British colonies. The slave protector testihtdSh az
they were satisfied with their condition, and had
reason t. be so. Lord Rodney testified before the
British 'rivy Council that their situation in regard
to phyFn comfort was better than that OF the
British antry.
Sir A. j aid Allison, in his history, states that
whilst Eiiz ton could not be carried 10 The nogrs
ia Africs dsd been brought to civilizalior that
the tesiIs 'E Gndoubted and concurTiRg that
he was l.: tpsrably in advance of his ancestors
in the juf 81 of Africa, and his situation for
fort and assress was in many respects more favor
able thanIsSat Of the British peasant. Notwith-
standing ~ this. further efforts were made to
amelioratki cir condition Missionary preachers
were sent 1s0ug them, and the British Paramen;
was infoIS9SF that free labor more productive
than slav 1or; slaves were told by the preachers
that they XAse eBtitled TO their freedom. The
number ~ unishmelts under the slave protector
were dout =. An instruction broke out, ana the
unohainecA tiean Gays Allison, marked, as he had
done in 4, omingo his first steps towards free
dom, by Rsler, confsgration and every crime at
which hu - ity shudders. The whole Island Of
Jamaica u illuminated in the night by the light Of
the burnil IA Offices, and the sky darxened in the
day 5y tn snoke issuing from the confsgration.
TIE insur ton was finally suppressed By the mil
itsry, afte nc destruction of 100000 worth of
property. &he planters complained that this arbi-
trary late ence, with rights Of property had pro-
duced the IL direction, and the Government paid
them for FL property destroyed This prOducedno
stay in tb rogress offsnaticism in England AlN
though IT, had before them in the French West
Indies the Set that the emancipated slave idle,
prcaigatc be naked, wss rapidly returning to his
original Ljarisn, the measure of abolitionism IN
der the Il = Of Lord Brougham was carried in the
rural dist & 8, in opposition TO the voice of the
commerce. 5Acities in 1884.
The CO, lists protested against this measure as
most unh of violation of the rights Of property,
but Lord Bingham justified the act by the higher
law that nan could not become the subject Of pro-
peFty, anaa:ce condition Of the planters, sad the
colonies s.ld be advanced by their improved sys-
TEN of frta labor. The British Parliament paid
about one 2adred GDd twelve dollars each for $780,,
900 slavesf @ad discharged them. After lapse Of
nearly twt by years, Allison ssys, it is difficult to
say whethft Re West India proprietors, the aman
cipaed ss's the sable inhsbitants en- the coast Of
| Africa, or 81 manufacturers of the mother coun-
try have ssSs: red the most.
| The efTeSssss been to ruin own planters stop
the cvil4%iSn Of the negroes, double the slave
trade in eTt[t and eu&drupe it in honor through
out the gl6t7s Vast estates throughout the island
have been ssndoued, and covered by jungle IN the
midst of whSa the negro squsts resuming the life
| of his bsrbAogS ancestors in Africa. For years
| more than a 3ndrsd THOUSAND Africans were
ally tran Ned acIoss the Atlantic to other colo
| MES 10 suppk$ the falling eff in British Colonial
! labor and tr ical produce, and four hundred mil
IOp dollsrY worth Of British property was des-
troyed, u
ORGANIzATIN or ABOLITION SOCIETIES IN THE
| 4 UNITED STATES.
During gts lime that Lord BrOugham was urging
his higher IfE doctrines in reference to the West
| India sla~essSJo ohm Q Adams made his appearance