Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-11

Each and every section is benefited bY the
other, and neither can do well without the other
1t is the interest of all to leave each State the
regulation of its own internal affairs. Viewing
this question, then, in the light it should be view
ed by statesman and legislator for the whole
country, would not abolish the institution of
slavery in the States where it exists il | could.
FIRST. because / would at one blow destroy two
thousand millions of dollars of taxable property,
making the nation that much poorer and increas-
ing TO that extent the tax upon the slave
holder. Second, by so doing would deprive the
great grain-growing and stock raising West of its
best market, the manufacturing districts of their
greatest source of wealth and their operatives of
the means of support; and thirdly, because l
would destroy the great staple that has given US
our Importance and our wealth as a people
There is still another aspect of this question
| desire to bring to your notice. What wouldfol-
low the turning loose upon society of four mil
lions of uneducated negroes, creatures of in
ferior race, incapable of providing for themsevesl
You would not drive them into the sea. nor would
you compel them to leave the country. To do so
would not be consistent with the freedom you wish
to bestow upon them. What follows? They
would scatter over the different States and be
brought into competitor with. the laboring whites.
The negro must have the means of subsistence,
and he can only acquire subsistence by labor or
by theft and plumber. Most of them, when not
under compulson, will not work. Your aims
houses, prisons and or-houses, would soon in
form you, if you had not known il before, that
the Abolitionists' dream had been realized. In
short, the scenes of Mexico would be re enacted
in the United States. In l776 we had a popula-
ton of less than three millions-Mexico had
eight millions. To day we are thirty millions of
people-Mexico eight millions. The Mexican
Constitution of 1894 is modelled after our own,
but the were not subordinated to each other;
they a mongre people, without stability in
their Government, and are in constant war. Garry
out the policy of these anti-slavery fanatics, and
we make of our once proud land second Mexi-
co, and can read in her history our future. But
to recur to the dogma of the Abolitonist, that
the existence of the institution of slavery as it
exists in the slaveholding States of this Union is
incompatible with the existence of the Union.
Aud, for the sake of the argument, admit it to be
true. How are you to get rid of itl-by openly
violating the Constitution by and through
blood?-Or will you not resort to the mode point
ed out in and provided for by the Constitution for
its amendment? VIII YOU not propose, either
through Congress or in National Convention,
so to amend the Constitution as to confer upon
the Federal Government the power to abolish
slavery in the States. Surely you can not pre-
serve the Constitution by violating it. When
you do this. you may have Union, but it will
not be the Union
Again. the Abolitionionist, clothed sometimes
in the livery of heaven, descants upon the sin of
slavery as if slavery, in the providence of God in
some form or other, has not always existed, and
who does not know that Gods DEGREES will be en-
forced in despite of the puny efforts of man?
But these lghtning-l line travellers, the Abolition
lists, are not content TO wait the time of Him
"who hath measured the waters in the hollow
of His hand and melted out heaven with
the span-who cOmprehendeth the dust of
the earth in a measure, and weigheth the noun
tains in scales, and the hills in balanceY He
accomplishes human ends by human means, and
it is in accordance with his law that man must
first be educated physically before he is intelec
tually
OF the three dispensations OF God when he
came forth to reveal and establish his religion,
the first or patriarchal dspensation was intrOdu-
ced among shareholders. Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, Shareholders, were the heacs of the earli-
est church, and were constituted its chiefs by
God himself, owning many bondmen and bond
women, "born in the house" of their master, or
bought with his money. The second or Jewish
dispensation was introduced among freed peo-
pie, freed slaves, who were all on an equality.
The Israelites went forth out of their house of
bondage, with their kneading -troughs bound up
with their clothes upon their shoulders" Com
ing out free, they constituted what we now call
free State, which God himself took charge Of as
civil ruler. Fifty days after leaving Egypt, this
people stood at the foot of Sinai. and amid the
thunders and lightnings of the Mount, received
the laws that were to govern their State. First,
the ten commandments, which was their COnsti-
tuition or organic law, then code OF laws based
upon their organic law Look into these laws,
and you will find they constitute what our Re-
publican friends call slave code. Slavery is re-
cognized in their organic law and in their stat
utes. We find that the Hebrew servants may be
bought for limited period, and are to be treated
hired servants. Then another class are spoken
of as his, the masters, money. Of these, it is
sand: "Both thy bondmen and bondmaids which
thou shalt have, shall be of the heather that are
round about you. OF them shall We buy bond
men and bondmaids. Moreover, OF the children
of the strangers that do sojorrn among you, of
them shalt We buy and of their families that are
with you, which they begat in your land, and they
shall be your possession, and We shall take them
as an inheritance for your children after you, to
inherit them for possession, they shall be your
bondmeu forever This law was not to take eff
feet for forty years, and by its terms was made
prospective The chapter of laws from which
have just quoted. is prefaced thus:
"And the Lord spake unto Moses OIL Mount 81
mai, saying, speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, when We come into the land
which l shall give you" then such and such laws
shall be observed.
And after forty years. the Hebrew free State of
the wilderness was, by the act of God as civil
ruler, changed into the Hebrew slave State of
Canaan. To whom, among whom, was the
last, or Christian dispensatIon ntroducedl The
apostolic churches were composed of masters and
their slaves, as are the churches in the savehold
ing States of this Union. Why not wait the pur
poses of Him "who stretcheth out the N Orth over
the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon
al i'm fha xVbp py
lists be sin, God in his Providence will in his
own good time liberate the bondmen. IT, as |
believe, the negro is here to be educated physi-
cay and intellectually, until he is fitted to carry
to the inhabitants of Africa civilization and chris
tianity-here he will remain, and in the condition
in which he is placed in the slavehodng S ates,
Tor IN no other condition would the same atten-
ton be paid to his physical and mental culture.
Where, on the green earth, is the negro's wants
so well provided fori Where has his physical
and mental development been so great as in this
country? Where is there in all Europe, labor
ing population so well cared for, so comfortable
and happy, as the slaves in the slaveholdlDg
States of this Union2 The condition of the Eng
fish laborer is better than the laborer anywhere
else in Europe, and the farm laborer of England
is in much better condition than the operatives
I'M their factories and in their mines. would ask
you to indulge me while read from Colman's
European Agriculture few extracts:
The farm laborers are, will not say in degraded
condition. for that would not in any apply to them,
unless where, by their bad habits they may have
degraded themselves; but they in low cosdi
ton and extremely ignorant and servile They arey,
with US live in the house Of their employers but either
in cottages the farm in neghbOrng village They
usually, comfortably clad in this respect contrasting
most favoraby with the mechanics and manufacturers
the cities and large towns but they in general very
poorly fed. Their wages, compared with the wages of
labor in the United States. are very low The cash
WA maid TO sci he cash WA mai