The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-10-13

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ton to The principles of Liberty incul-
Gated by the founders OF the government ?
How has it been possible to bring men
to that state Of moral obliviousness as TO
boast TO The civilized world thst they
desire and intend to establish a state
founded in the woes and miseres of its
laboring millions a.? How has it been
possible to bring party Of men at the
North TO uphold such doctrines even
when they have no direct interest in the
system sought o be advanced ? Can
any one tell how it is that such infamous
views of mans obligation to man has been
labelled Divinity and pass current with
Sd many as such
1t is the Just penalty Of a compromi Sc
with wrong. We have paid the usual
price ofexpedicnts to avoid moral obliga-
ton :
Vice is n monster of such frightful mien
That TO be hated needs but to be seen,
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
First we were shocked at slavery, but
we endured, and now We embrace. Sub
hitting 10 our prejudices against the
negro, rather than clinging firmly to the
great moral principle of the right Of all
men to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit Of
Happiness, we find ourselves equal at
last 10 the work. of substituting the
corner stone Of Slavery for that of Liber-
ty in our national edifice. Winking at
the system of Human Bondage for the
sake Of temporary advantage, we find at
last that it has corrupted all the streams
of our National Life. Love Of country,
love Of tie old flag, respect for the owly,
desire for human elevation-al, Lave
given way before the influences of slave
ry. We have even come to talk of the
right to enslave Labor, whether White
or Black. The Richmond Examiner
says:
!" The South now uaiptains that slavery,
white or black. is fit for the laborng man."
The New York Day Book stoutIy con-
tends for The same principle, and so do
numberless writer's of the South. And
even the Cincinnati Enquirer, but short
time ago Insisted that the enslaving the
white laborer was moi a question Of
principle, but simply mat of power. The
only reason white men were not enslav-
ed was because they could not be.
Principle, the Enquirer, logically con
tends, NO more forbids the ensaving of the
the white race than it does the enslayine
OF the black, and the enslaying of the
black il strenuously upholds.
And thus each day marks the progress
ofslavery in Whaling and corrupting the
moral sensibilities Of its votaries. Doc
trlnes that but short time since seemed
too monstrous ever to be greeted with
anything but adherence, are now ap
plauded, and become the avowed princi-
pies of action of religious and political
bodies. Here, in government framed
10 elevate the masses-in a country
whose boast it has been that it is the
Asylum for the oppressed, the home of
the poor and the lowly where the aven
ues TO intelligence, TO honor, were open
! ed to the humblest-whele manhood and
the means OF elevation were granted to
the meanest-here in this country, men
are arguing that the laborer should be a
chaitel personal, TO be owned and trad
ed and sold We have adopted it, SO far as
the Black is concerned, and now we are
even asked to carry out the principle in its
application to the White Give Slavery the
power and SHE would force us TO do il.
Only her own destruciion-now happily,
well assured can release us from the at
tempt Every laboring man is slayery's
natural foe. To rid the country Of
sIavery's heresies, 10 promote love of our
old Union, OF our OLD flag, Of the princi-
pies upon which our government was
founded, let slavery now be DESTROYED |!
| The time has arrived. IT must be done
now or never. No man loving the prin
ciples Of Justice-wth heart warm for
the interests Of humanity-will interpose
an objection.