Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-24

wheel OF fortune, 40 exchange Of situation Is
among Tossible evenis that il may become pro-
bable by supernatural interference The Al
M ghty has no attribute that can take sides with
H. in such contest 20
The contest has at last CONT hat not exactly
ns the Democratic prophet iuretoll IT, The con-
sc.rnce Of slavery, always i'll ut ease and mn
Wiling to Ieform was stung to IN ldness by the
repront- that poured in upon it from the adVan-
cel civilization and Chrstaaiiy ol the century
lhr increasing cotton interest bee ime lOrmid-
allie element in Tie strife against iruth and
tighteuisnes4, INT men who uiinr lamcnted sl
very, and apolog2ed for it by the necessities of
circumstances, at last, struck with i,diclal blind
ness, began boldly To defend il ~ an institution
at divine sanction. Aud then thty sought to
perpetuste it, and augment its profits by extend
Ing IT, claiming as its rghtlul domain all the
territories Of The United States ; for the yiyht to
establish it everywhere. Then tue people chose
Abraham Lincoln, pledged 10 say to slavery,
Thus far, and no further and here shall thy
proud waves he stayed fhen the South de-
clared the Government broken aud the Uuion
dissolved. Hut seven hunlied thousand men Of
the North and West said May, bnt We are one
uation, and have one Government - and 10
Southern commerce is at an end fiO Om the Chesa
peake to the Rio Giande, her people are bank
rupt. her chivhry bites the dust, her plantations
become deserts, her negroes are freed by thou
sands. She trembles through all her shores
While SHE was dulGul 10 tue Government. there
was indeed an abolition party in the North, blt
when she reheiled the North became an abolition
party. Aud 1.-The almighty has no attribute that
can side with her (weakntss) in the contest -
The end is not yet. Tue sersile iusuirectiou
predicted hy Jefferson has not yet come, though
good men have stood aghnst at the thought st.
II. a
Potomac to the Gulf But let not the obstinate
Rebellion tempt the patience of the most patient
Of all governments, mud the wrath of m afengng
Providence. much longer. lest Jefferson. whtn.
ng become fulfilled prophecy, at which the
wotll will turn pale. - BEWARE" snvs tie
Spanish prOverb, "of the wrath Of patient
man -
"But il is impossible, continues Mr. jefferson
" 10 he temperate and to pursue this subjec,
through the various considerations of policy, Of
morals, of history, natural and civil. We must
be conented to hop, that they will force their
way into every ones mind"
" iapossiGis 10 be temperate" on the policy
morals, and history of slavery 1t was Thomas
Jefferson whu wrote IT, A greater than lie said
that oppression maGeth a wise man mad I" and
ii lesser ntelects have been less discreet in as
sailing this most mOnstrous of all nutrages. we
hai rather hear the teproaeh Of their indiscre
ton. than say the ghte-t word in favor Of a
system that merits the indignant scnrn of all
mankind
" thiuk, cuds the chapter. "a change nl-
ready percepiihle since the origin ui the present
Revolution the words were written in 1881
The spirit 0f the master Is nhating, that Og The
slave rising from the dust, his condition molli
tying, the way hope preparing under the aus
pices Of heaven for a total emancipation und
that this is sposed in the order OF events to he
with the consent of the masters rather by their
s1firYatlg -
The Revolution softtned the rigofs of slavery
While the master struck for liberty he wls
shamed by the very word into better Treatment
Of his slaves Thousands were set free by the
operation of the bare idea Of freedom that filled
the minds OF all our Revolutionary fathers ,Ief-
fetson was not content with any mere amtliora-
tion of the case. Nothing less than "totli rmaa.
ciDatioa" could satisfy the sense Of justice that
belonged to the author of the Declaration of In
hependcuce llc did not stop 10 ask the question
that no man ever asks whose heart beats right
earnostly against slavery WAat sidN ,rs 10
pih tsea ellen my tre Jrtt9'-a question that
troubled the brains Of Egypt's poiticaus, in The
days Of Pharaoh quite as much as il puzzles the
lnkvwarm conservative Of the present hour. JET
lerson knew that God governs the world, and he
woull not Libel his justice by supposing that he
would allow - nation TO suller tor doing au act
most lust. The ten plaques fell upon the king
dom OF Pharaoh not because he did, but because
he did not let the people go.
The author Of this remarkable chapter lived
nearly long enough to sec the old anti slavery
sentiment of Virginia give way to the greed OF
gam which grew more intense as American cot
ton rose in the markets Of the world. Not long
after his death the price of slaves rose from five
to fifteen hundred dollars head, and the Virgi.
uia of Washington, Jetiersou and Patrick Henry
became the Virginia of John Tyler, James NJ.
Mason, and Henry A. Mise--a breeder OF slaves
tor the cotton iiel Is Of the further South Pre-.
cisely eighty years from the time when Jefferson
wrote this chapter, another revolution was at
tempted, of which this same Virginia is now the
principal battle ground-a revolution for the
purpose of belying the Declaration OF lndepen
dehce and securing the eternity of slavery Tine
masters " coHseni" not to freedom. Jefferson
saw no other alternative but "iheir eXtirpation"
The prophets il is said scarcely comprehended
their own predictions Events march on, and
lay bare the hidden meaning. The armies Of
the North have already extirpatsl M my a mas
ter aud liberated many n slave. What next? al
do not argue says Abraham Lincoln in his last
proclamation " baseech you to make the ar
gumeut for yourselves. You caunot il you would
be blind to the signs Of the times" The end
cometh