Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-19

must have made q pr0-slayory Constitution
because the opinion Of the Innocence and
rightfulness of slavery and the trade by
which It was supplied, ,wds at that time ok
ed and uniyersal" Gan axiom in morals
and politics, which no one thought Of dis
putting or supposed to be open to dispute.
Hence they deny to Congress the power to
dedicate 10 free labor one foot of the nation
al domain, or to forbid its pollution by the
footsteps of Slavery. But If in fact all the
best and mightiest spirits of the eighteenth
century abhOrred slavery and the slave
trade as much as the same class do in the
nineteenth, the premises of those learned
judges being false, their conclusions will
be unreliable. We proceed with our wit
nesses Adam Smith was professor Of
moral philosophy, in the University Of
Glasgow, from 1852 to 1765, and during
that period of thirteen years, delivered
from that chair the substance Of his "The-
ory of Moral Sentiments" In speaking of
contempt of hardships, torture and death,
exhibited by uncivilized nations, he says;
"There is not negro from the coast Of
Africa who does not in this respect, possess
a degree of magnanimity, which the soul
of his sordid master is too often scarcely
capable of conceiving. Fortune never ex-
erted more cruelty her empire over man
kind, than when she subjected those ma
tions of heroes to the refuse Of the jails Of
n l. H. hkav
neither of the countries from which they
come nor of those to which they go, and
whose levity, brutality and baseness, so
Justly expose them to the contempt OF the
vanouished." - Theory Of Moral Sentiments,
pp 299-8OO, Bohn's Library Edition.
A Swedish prime minister formerly sent
his son on hisItravels with the injunction to
go to the capitals of Europe, and "see how
little wisdom sufices to govern mankind"
Had that Swedish hopeful, few years ago,
extended his tour across the Atlantic to the
capital of the great Republic, how would
his youthful astonishment been excited by
seeing the grave judges Of our Supreme
/ Court derive an argument for momentous
change in the construction Of our national
| Constitution from the sentiments, the opln-
ions, and the literature of our grandfathers,
without manifesting the slightest acquaint-
with the subjectl Having brought into
| Court the illustrious author Of the "Wealth
of Nations" book which, as Sir James
Macintosh remarks, produced a greater
and more immediate effect on the condition
of mankind, than any book of any author
ancient or modern, living or dead, the
reader will pardon DEPRESSION concern
ing an economical question suggested
by his name. A few weeks ago, upon what
authority I know not, tale was inserted
in some Of the pro-slavery newspapers, Of
some darkey working for some old Cleves
on the Susquehanna, for ten cents day.
Soon the papers Of that class were teeming
with similar fables, but laid at such dis
tance from the inventor and so contrived, as
to defy immediate or speedy contradiction.
Soon the whole pack were teeming with
appeals to the darkest and worst feelings
Of human nature. Every engine Of fraud
| and MISREPRESENTATION was put in requi
4 sition, to stir up allJths selfish and uneasy
passions of the white population. "Black
vs. White, " "Nigger against the white man,
| 'sTaking the bread from the mouths Of the
laboring people" "Starving the children
of the laboring men" 1.-TWO greasy mig
! gers working for the wages Of one white
man" 1.-TWO niggers working for the wages
| that one white man found it impossible to
support family on, ''Nigger worshipers
love the nigger SO well, they don't care
what becomes Of the white man;
and other flowers Of rhetoric Of the
same kind were freely strewed around
This policy was but too successful. Fear
full riots commenced in our cities and towns,
in one instance at least, accompanied by
murder. In Cincinnati, on the 10th Of
July, thousand rufhans were assembled,
armed with boulders and bludgeons, emit
ting the horrid cry "Kin the damned mig
ers, clean them out, and proceeded to put
that resolution into practice to the best of
their ability. The men whose sinister arts
had produced these outrages, looked on
and approved, and evidently promised
themselves rich harvest of political capi-
tai Meanwhile the lprice Of labor rose
to a figure unprecedented, even in the
great North-Westl To murder unfortunate
laborers by day, or to sack and aemolisb
their dwellings by night, because of their
efforts to earn ar honest subsistence be-
came too gross for the public taste. Then
our knowing ones resorted to prediction
and prophecy. 1.-THE soldiers viii come
home from the war at last, and find their
places usurped by negroes" "Our war
worn veterans will come home at last
to find every means of employment cut
off; every place filed, and every job
of work done by niggers.n A writer in
the grim old conservative National Intel
ligencer gives an account of the riot and
murder at Toledo, as a specimen Of the
'sirrepressibls conflicts, which he says
will inevitably take place between black and
white laborers. Then after a good deal
more, he proceeds: "This affair at Toledo
is but a skirmish between the pickets and
out-posts of approaching hostile armies
Wait till the Irishmen come home from the
war, having conquered the rebels and
wiped out slavery-wait till two or three
millions of black laborers come North with
their white captors, and then we shall see
the fight fought out on a grand scale, the
initiative of which took place the other
telligencer, of the 26th Of July last We
do not doubt the unfeeling severity Of this
writer we do not doubt the harshness of
, of his temper, or the hardness Of his heart
we only doubt his wisdom. Whenever
slavery shall be "wiped out7 from the
Southern States, we shall see no more ne
: groes in Ohio; we shall hardly be able to
find one in days journey. As children
: Of the South, they love the Sun, and moth
: ing but the terrors Of the scourge and the
! chain could drive them to Ohio, to endure
z the rigor Of our winters. 1t is to be hoped
that this man is.a slanderer of Ithe brave
generous, impulsiTe Irish. They have
reused the sympathies Of mankind against
their own oppressors. 1t i'll becomes then
to attempt the part of ruf6an oppressOr'
: themselves.
It's in vain to mistake the signs Of The
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