New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-11
DO TEuE SLAVES WANT TETETB
FREEDOMe

Let shareholders themselves answer this question
In the light they have themselves given us, We
can learn how much importance is to be attached
to their present Dragging, when the combined
promises aud threats of 80, 600 or 10000 armed
white men induce few hundred wretched un'
armed slaves TO fight on their subsequently,,
without doubt, with no prospect but that OF being
immediately shot, if they refuse.
Judge 81. George Tucker of Virginia, Professor
OF Law in the University of William and Mary,
published letter to member of the Virginia
Legislature, in 1901. In the course of it, he says:
The love OF freedom Sir, is Unborn sentiment At the
frat favorable it springs forth defes al check
Hhenerer inrored in enemies hold out ne
THye Of Freedom they eH haze in epoy negro decdei
f,ieH5"
In debate in the Virginia Legislature, in the
Winter of 1872 Mr.. Moore said
~ lay down maxim to be disputed that slaves
are now and ever viii be- actuated by desire for liberty
They CH 0lways be disposed 0pad hem'eses Of favorable
Opportunity for asserting neutral rights 1t may safely
be assumed that wherever the slaves the
whites it viii require half Of the effective force Of the
whites to keep them quiet"
On the same occasion, Mr.. Mcdowell since
GOVERNOR of Virginia said:
Sir you usy place the slave where you please you may
oppess hun as please you may dry up you uttermost
The fountains Of his feeling and the springs Of his thoughts oat
ne idea thar he as Born free tr oH 1t is allied to
biz hope Of Immortality is the ethereal part Of his nature.
<hioh oppression cannot reach"
In the same debate, Mir. Preston said:
Ny old friend Blr Bruce) has told that the Virginia
savs was h1ppy aud cortented. Nj Speaker tia; Is
impossible Happiness is incompatible with Slavery The
love Liberty the ruling passion in and he cannot be
happy if deprived Of it,"
In the same debate, Mr. Gholson of Virginia
said:
The love Of freedom and the prospect Of Obtalirs it,
would nfsme their hearts and inspire revolution"
Mccall, in his History Of Georgia, alluding to
the slaves, says:
This cla Of people, who be supposed to be con-
tented Slavery o1d creep Wti ardy at the most de'Ps-
rq, a,eapts that 4rosised Freedom"
The Rev. j. d. Paxton Of Virginia, who was
reared in the midst OF Slavery, and had himself
been a STAKEHOLDER, published volume of Letters
on Slavery, in which he thus states the result OF
his observation:
The slaves-nau woman and chid-sTe longing for free
dom"
William +. Allen, son of Presbyterian clergy
man in Huntsville, Alabama, published state.
ment in 1899 in which be says:
It is Slorery itself and ereites merely, that make
unhappy. Even those that the kindly treated
generally far rom happy The slaves in my aheefamy
kindly treated sapestan be- but they pant
Liberty"
The editor of The Maryrilte InteHgeneer, Ten.
nessce, in paper published October, 1885, says:
ave Of S South surrounded by dangerous class Of
beings IL is the consciousness that teniod force would
gac from the Of the United States and slaughter
them that keeps them in subecon. To the nonslayehodg
Stes indebted for permanent safeguard against in
Withou, their assistance, the white population Of
The Southern States would he weak TO quiet that innate
love Of Liberty which Ia ready to itself out"
From the above statements it is evident that
there is an immense latent force at the South
ready to welcome Liberty. Which side, in this
great struggle, viii have practical wisdom enough
% avail themselves of this ineradicabe human
instinct