New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-01-03
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That able periodical devoted to poll
ties, literature. and art. the Atlantic
Monthly, furnishes an article in its Jan
uarv number under the above caption.
that deserves more than passing no
.tice.
The whole tenor and scope Of tho
article is to show with what opposition
the whole system in all it's parts was
viewed by this Statesman and rhilan-
thropist. Among the items from the
pcn of this illuStrious Statesman quoted
by the Atlantic is the following:
He has wareA cruel war against hr-
man nature itsnir. violatinc its most
sacred rights Of life and hherrv IN the
pcrsons of distant people who never
offended him. captivating and CARRYING
them into slavery in another hemis-
rhere, or to incur miserable death in
their transportation thiher, this Nira-
teal warfare, the opprolrinm Of inflcl
towers, is the warfare of the Christian
king of Great Britain determined to
keep open a market where MEN should
he bought and sold he has prostituted
his negative for surprcssinr every leg
islativc attempt to prohibit Oh to re-
strain this sxecrah}e commerce: and
that this assemhlacc Of horrors might
want no fact Of distinguished die. he is
now exiting those very people to rise
in arms among us. and to purchase that
liberty Of which he has deprived them.
~ numbering the people upon whom he
also obtrudei them: thus paving off
former crimes committed against the
liberties OF one people. with crimes
which he urges them to commit against
the lives of another"
Thomas Jefferson was a true philan-
thropist and Statesman instead Of being
possessed of the spurious patriotism
that actuatcs the school Of New Eng
land politicians, and Wa fear greatly
that our friends of the Atlantic are un-
fortunately among the latter class.
One of the serious charges of Mr..
Jefferson against the King of old Eng
land was that he had wacel a war
fare against human nature itself by
capturing and carrying into bondage
those who had never offended him.
May We not ask in what better light
NeD England stands before the civil
;zel world in reference to this terrible
indictment than did OH England. 1t
is matter of history as..indelbly written
upon the ample pages of the past, as
any other occurrence in our eventful eX
istence as nation. that Article 9th,
Section 1st Of the Z. S. Constitution
prohibiting Congress from interdicting
the importation Of such persons as any
Of the States then existing should thinl;
proper to admit prior to 1908. was in
acorporatel on the suggestion and with
rhe vote of the New England delegation
inthe Constitutional Convention. 1t is
further true that New England then had
almost the entire shippin: Of the coun-
try. and that her vessels we're largely
engaged III the commerce. Of import
ing slaves from the western coast OF
Africa, continuing the 'piratical war
fare Of the Christian King Of Great
Britain,:' her Statesmen like Geo. the
III. were determined to keep open this
';exccrahe market' where "nen should
lie bought and sold'' fox the express
benefit Of New Els gland.
Another count in this terrible in
i;ctment against the "Ciristian King
Of Great Brittain,' was that 'hc is row
exciting these very people to rise in
arms among us, and to purchase that
liberty of which he has deprived them,
by numbering the people upon whom he
also obtruded them.' With what ter
rible and unevsins certainty does this
count apply to the crimes Of New Eng
land. The ancestors CT Chas. Sumner
the Prince of aboIitionists in the Z. S.
Senate anassed an independent fortune
in this ''inhuman traffic in human be-
ings' which is inherited, retained and
enjoyed by this Pharisaical hypocrite.
1t is not only true that the Immense
wealth of New England has been accu-
INFLATED through the profits of the Slave
trade with the South, but for the last