Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-05-27


rS' AS was most richly deServed-on the
\ villain who dared to traffic in human flesh.
!. contrary both to the laws both of God
te and man; for "the man-stealer shall sure
'r. ly be put to DEATH" Applause.
spoke of prophesy at the commence
m ment. Rut. instead OF Prophesving my
we self. ! prefer giving you the prophetical
,rS announcements of Count Gasperin-one
81 of the ablest and most enlightened of
"a French statesmen. and one of its wermest
= hearted Christians. He says: IF a South
er ern Confederacy should ever take rank
of among nations, it will represent Slavery
Nv and nothing mOre-l am wrong it will
- also represent TIE African slave trade and
as the fillIbustering system. In any case,
as the. Southern Coniederacy will be so far
le D. entitled with Slavery-with its progress,
q with the measures designed to propagate
IG IL here belOv-that chain and whip
re seem to be the only devices to be en-
O. broidered on her flag. One cannot with
to impunity give full scope to his imagina-
" tion, and in this year of our Lord 1861.
y set 10 work to contrive the plan of a Con-
s federacy designed TO protect and propa-
10 gate Slavery" Nothing could be more
= imposing, ip fact, if they had the least
b chance of success. The fifteen Southern
: lStates-already immense-joined to Mex
s leo, Cuba. and Central America-what a
power this would be. And, doubtless !
y this power would not stop at the Isthmus
E of Panama. 1t would be no more diff |
cult TO re-establish Slavery in Bolivia, on /
/ the Equator, and i'm Peru, than in Mex
leo. True, the patriarchial institution
: would advance to rejoin Brazil, and the
dismayed eye would not find single free
spot upon which to rest between Delaware
Bay and the banks of Uruguay. Further
more, this colossal negro Jail would be
stocked by no less a colossal slave trade.
BaracoOns would be reftted in Africa.
slave expeditions would be reiitted in Af-
rica, slave expeditions would be organ
lied ON a scale hitherto unknown, and {
whole squadrons of slave ships Those ;
floating hellsl would transport their car '
goes under Southern colors, proudly un-
furled. Patriotic Indignation would be I
aroused at the mere name of the right of (
search, and the whole world would be /
challenged to defend the liberty of the G
seas. This, then, IS the system that our e
great capitalists are al this moment sub ;
scribing to support. 10y taking shares in I
the Confederate loan. and our great or a
gans of public opinion at the press are "
laboring to write up into favor in this n
land of freedom. heard a talented friend Il
the other day state that the Times news b
paper was understood to represent the a
mean opinion of the people of great Britain. V
trust the opinion of that great journal on s
the American question and Slavery are "
not held by any considerable proporAon W
of the thinking people of this country K
But there is another and far more appro- Jl
priote sense in which it NAV be said to ci
represent the mean opinion of the people d'
essentially mean, for it is an opinion h;
moulded by self-interest-is an opinion
formed under the influence of the cotton tn
trade, Has the Manchester interest IN
guided the pen, blinded the mind. and Vi
blinded the conscience, when the writer TO
dared before a British public 10 become liza
the apologist for Slavery? Has the shad- er
ow upon the dial of time gone backward Go
ten degrees, when, in this land of Wiber- Eel
force, and Clarkson, and Brougham, our on
leading journal ventures to experiment on
upon the interested Southern sympathy din
in Great Britain, to see whether it NAV
not be pushed up to the point of approv- OF
ng Southern slaveholding? Do Pro-Sla- the
'ery men in this country know or think tiv
VI the nature of that thing on which they of
ook so Indignantly? We are frequently thr
eierred to Roman, Grecian, and Hebrew the
slavery, as being quite compatible with exc
he highest civilization, and even the most in
xhalted piety But | am prepared to can
rove that American Slavery is quite a tina
Iifferent thing, and worse than all that ner
rent before it. do not approve of SIa- sub
cry in the abstract, but let us view il in tut
he concrete. as it is found at this mo- the
nent in the South, and then ask agBin. mis-
o pro-Slavery Englishmen know what riot
hey are approving? 1t is 4 system which Con
inctions or connives at concubinage and tior
smporary marriages, celebrated, | am to 4
rald. by men calling themselves minis matt
rs OF the Gospel. 1t is a system identi- vatl
ed with the handcuff and the cow-hide tion
is system which breaks up families nect
ld separates husband from wife and par in 5:
ut from child, and renders the perform mer
ice of the relative moral duties oi life Uni
lpossible 10y slave. don't care whose the
'inion is in favor of such system. | INN
all venture to pronounce it the meanest, Al
And then it is no slight ag- expl
AVIATION of the otfense committed by the mad
ess, from the Jupiter toHdHS down through ticie
the ranks of the dizaajOreS and iain0res term
Southern sympathizers, that their tone port
criticism on Northern proceedings is was
lculated To eXasperate a noble people Il
nggiing 10 free themselves from an in conn
cradle incubus Applause. Every of q
ing is taken by the wrong handle cept
eir greatest achievements are dispar- of dU
ed, their motives misrepresented. and utivt
their mistakes trumpeted and ieered from
tell you that, should this country upon
embroiled with America and blood be calle,
I'd, the Times and It's satellites will be Burn
uredly guilty of stirring up the strife. Depa
t 1t IS pleasing to know that We have trans
yer at the press which we trust may be arrest
hcient to counteract and neutralize the ory {
ichlef, and that power Is well repre- there
ted in this town of Belfast. Applause warra
TILL my great hope is not so much from cause
press as from a higher Power. | look the a
he Gospel of Christ as the true regen- think
tor and emancipator of mankind, both as ocC
m physical and spiritual bondage Burn:
are, L think, on the eve of better days. has b
r united and emancipated Italy but take
stronghold of superstition and des- ment
ism remains, and we trust the truth States
speedily follow to make that noble nois a
pie free indeed. Austria has relaxed of his
grasp on Hungary. France is learn is not
fast IN the school of freedom Po- ever,
IS on her feet, and battling strongly sumpt
the true and right. And all these him W
ements among the nations are, we ethclel
and believe, but the precursors of station
glorious era when this whole earth is the
be brought into the glorious liberty Presid
lie children of God. Methinks | see ment.
strong angel of the Apocalypse, hav- not ab
the everlasting Gospel to convey to his POI
ends of the earth spreading his wings of thi
ath the light of the A1illennial morn shall
and, as he moves majestically OH his my ant
Sc, all earth is glad, all Heaven is gay. not sp'
re he hovers over that sulphurous exercis
l which hides the flushed and furi- defined
combatants on the battlefield: the howeve
ons drop from their hands, and they acter, i
into one another's arms. And then which