Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-02-15
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When cOmprODtoC was st'"
Protestant fanatics preached the -, w
doctrine: "that the aim Jnst'hes the
means" With the gospel OF brother
hood. reconciliation and forbcarance De-
forc them.-with the history aud exam
nlc of a Divine Master and his disciples,
appearing in a province Of the Roman
empire, then called the lIoman wor'o'
filled with slaves, estimated al one
fourth OF the whole population, and AZ
number OF forty millions; in county
where one freed man, who had h'mseI'
been slave, died the possessor OF 4'ouo
men in bondage; whore among single
individuals some kept $4,000 slaves
where the rights OF the legitimate own
era over this multitude was that OF lie
and death, without protection from law
or mitigation from public sentiment
where "the scourge, the cross, the ilsh'
pond the den Of the wild beasts. ana tue
arena Of the gladiator, was the lot OF the
slaves, upon the slightest expression OF
the masters will where law OF To-
credible atrocity made all slaves respoh,
chile with their own lives for the hfe OF
their mastcr-a law under when as MA
ny as 400 have been executed az
time :" in a country where the slascs
were owned by the white people OF Eu.
rome and of Asia Minor, the creeks ana
other nations. from whom the world DE
lives the most valuable productions OF
the human mind; in a country where
Jesus Christ saw all this-the large num-
her of the slaves their useless condi'
tion-worth hundred times more than
=, present in tho southern States OF
America where he saw millions OF men
ia bondage of the white Caucasian
race, and yet did not rebuke-did not
-ay anything against slavery; he d'd
not preach doctrines which must lead to
massacre and insurrection, nor utter
single word which, in its application to
American bondage, would anthoHze an
inferior race Of blacks to exterminate
that superior race of whites, in whose
ranks and color the Divine Prophet
himself appeared upon earth. Christ
and his apostles preached never such
doctrines, but on the contrary, those
which inculcated the duty OF fidelity and
obedience on the part Of the slave, and
humanity, forbearance and kindness on
the part of the master. st. Paul was
not the man to harbor or to steal run
away slave by means OF a political com,
binat on, much less to entice him from
his LEGITIMATE master, and least Of all, to
excite him 10 instruction ; with let
ter of supplication and apology he sent
the runaway slave Onesimus back to
his owner, and SO like his Divine Mas
ter. performed himself the doctrine he
taught to Others.
Long since the population Of Canada
has duplicated the English Parliament
to be allowed to return the runaway
rowdies and rascals which make their
life and property continually unsafe ;
but England's policy wanted Canada to
shelter those slaves, in order to keep in
Amcric ca the slavery agitation alive, and
ike a hawk who fixes her piercing
glance upon the prey she will grasp in
her talons, to use it in weakening, if not
III utterly running powerful rival,
whose gigantic growth and unparalleled
prosperity were becoming source Of
alarm to England's supremacy.
Ii mpelied by terrible hate, an un.
limited egotism or false philanthropy,
the realization Of these awful horrors
shall assist English diplomacy to cur
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ruin Democracy and to see forever this
prosperous and blessed land disappear
amidst the commissions of anarchy
when it will give her a pretext to in
terfere in the South in behalf OF man
kind, though knowing ;hat the triumph
of secession is the triumph Of slavery,
Great Britain shall have the opinion
and sympathy of all Europe on her side
when American abolitionists, too COW.
ardly to fight and too maleyolent to be
gratified by the results Of civilized war
fare to call up the foul spirit of servile
insurrection, in order to make an indi-
scriminate and miscontrolled war upon
men, women and children, upon the sup
port OF old age, widowhood and orphans,
amid scenes too horrible to be described
and too wicked to bring blessing
when they long for the enjoyment Of a
carnival of blood by q repetition ct St.
Domingo's horrible scenes, Of the cxter-
mination of their own Caucasian race by
the change of the fertile and magnificent
regions INTO desolstion and wilderness
when the North outnumbering the
South nearly as three to one, falters and
must call the inferior negro to the rescue,
not only universal indignation and scorn
will be loaded on the miscreants Who
entertained SO base al opinion Of north
ern strength and northern Courage, but
the civilized nations Of the globe shall
rejoice when England, stained as she il.
with the employment of the Indian tom.
ahawk and scalping knife in the Ameri-
can revolution war, with the lombard.
ment of Copenhagen, in time Of peace,
with the burning Of the Danish feet,
with the sacrifice Of the lives of 1000
subjects Of q neutral and friendly power,
who persisted by these exploits with
the ramming into mortars and firing in.
to the air OF Hindoo's, with a war
waged only to compel poor Cinnamon
to be poisoned with her opium. with
preventing Indians from making peace
with the Americans-when, say, tina,
same England, that has so many inhu.
man acts recorded in her annals. will
blot ont those crimes, or at least aleyi
ate them, by compelling America to end