Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-11-04

stA46 "a lsyANlttli Ol the southern OLAle-.-
Cheeis. After the Declaration of Ind
pendenca and the adoption OF our Cost
: tuition, slavery began to cease 1t nev,
: had been very aJundsnt institution
: New England, because the habits of Il
, people and their conscientious conviction
: did not make them great friends TO sl
very. II has been said they sold the
} slaves aud pre- ichel cheap enancipatio
J to the South. Slavery ceased III this wis
IN Massachusetts. Suit was brought Il
} service of slave, and the Chief JustiC
declared the declaration of the euualit
OF all men and their righs to life, and Lii
erty, and the pursuit of happiness wa
equivalent to the bill of EInauci, tior
and he refused 10 render buck that slave
services. At later period New Yor
brought an Emancipation Act. 1t hs
been said that she sold her slaves y
slander was ever greater. The most care
tul provision was made. No man tr=ve
ing out of the State of New York afte
the passage of the Emancipation act, Wa
permitted to have any slave with him, ur
less he gave bonds for his reappearanc
with him. As a matter of effect the slave
We're emancipated without compensation
on the spot, to take effect gradually clas
by class. But after trial of half scor
OF years the people found this gradua
emancipation was intolerable. Hear
hear. 1t is like gradual amputatlon.-
They therefore met together, and by an
other act Of legislation they declared i'm
mediate emancipation-Ih hear ana tha
| took effect; and so slavery perished il
in the State of New York. Cheers.
Substantially so ii was in New JERSEY. anC
IN Pennsylvania; substantially so il mai
be said, in respect to the Northern States
that there never was an example of ma
tions that emancipated slaves 80 purely
from moral conviction of the wrong o
Slavery. | know that it is said thai
Northern ships were employed in the
slave-trade. To an extent it was So But
is there any community that lives in which
there are not miScreants who violate the
public feeling? Then and since. the man
who dared to use his capital and his ships
in this infamous traffic, hid himself. ana
did by agents what he was ashamed To be
known TO have done himself No man
in the North who had part or lot in this
infamous traffic in slaves. but would have
been branded with the mark Of CAIN
1t is true that New York port has been
employed in this internal traffic. but il
was because it was unfortunately under
the influence either of that Democratic
party that Is in alliance with the South
ern Slavery-or because it was under the
dark political control of the South itself.
For when the South could appoint our
marshals. when the South appointed,
through the Administration, the Secretary
of the Treasury, and the officers of the
Custom Houses in all parts of the coun-
try, when everything by the political ma
ehinery of the South was fayoriug Slavery,
it could not be that there should be the
of the gauntlet in our ports, and
that the slave-trade should be carried on;
but it was by the immense majority of
the people abhorred. and the men who
did it were detested. There was one Ju-
ias; is Christianity therefore hoax?-
There are kissing men in this audience
are you not respectable? The folly of the
lew Is that light which God casts TO ir-
radiate the wisdom of the many But
when the Constitution itself was formed
here was such a feeling opposed TO sla-
Iery that you are familiar with the fact
hat Mr.. Madison and Mr. r ,ndolph re-
used to permit the word '.servitude'' TO
% into that document, and on this ex-
,ress Eronnd- that the time would come
vhen Slavery was to end, and that they
Eould not have the memorial of such
lisgrace remaining in the great charter
# our liberties. So the word was changed
rom ''servitude" to Service" And let
ne say one word here about the Consti.
ution of America. II recognizes Slavery
S a fact, but it does not recognize the
doctrine of slavery in any way whatever;
was fact; it lay before the ship of
tate as n rock lies in the channel of the
hip as she goes into harbor; and because
ship steers round rock does it follow |
hat that rock is in the ship? And be- /
ause the Constitution of the United I
tates made some circuits to steer round /
hat great fact, does it follow that there.
ore slavery is recognized in the Constitu- !
ion as right or system? See how care
nlly that immortal document worded it I
elf. In the slave laws the slave is de- /
Jared to be-What? expressly. and bv the I
aost repetitious phraseology, he is denu- /
ed OF all the attributes and character
'tlcs OF manhood. and is pronounced a I
chattel." Now. you have just that same
'ord with the h left out-"cattle." And !
he difference between cattle and chattel
J the difference between quadruped and
iped. So far rs animate property is con-
erned, and so far as inanimate property
concerned, it ia Just the difference be-
5een locomotive property and stationary
roperty. Now, all the Slave States stand
n the radical principle that a slave is not
" purposes of law any longer to be rank
in the category of human beings. but
rat IS piece of property. and to be treat
1 TO all intents and purposes as a piece
property; and the law did not blush,
or do the judges blush now-a-d DAYS who
lterpret that law. But how is it that the
of the United States, when
begins TO speak of these very same
aves, names them? Does it call them
slaves!" Does it speak of them as in
service?" 1t lifts itself up as if con-
iously inspired with the grandeur of the
fought and dignity of man, and saws
Persons held to service" Go to South
arolina, and ask what she calls slaves.
I'D 1t SAYS things" and the old Capitol
Washington sullenly reverberates, mo;
srsons!" Go to South Carolina, and her
fundamental article says she looks upon
aves as things" and again the Consti-
iIioh ecnoeS NOs persons. TO 10 the
larter of Louisiana with their Constitu-
on, or to the South Western Slave States,
I'd still that doctrine of devils is enunci-
is "chattel," it is thing" Look
& upon those for whom Christ felt NOR
l anguish in Gethsemane, and stretched
mself in death on Calvary, their laws
ii them still things" and "chattles;"
Id still in suppressed tones of thunder
e Constitution of the United States says 1
What was it, then, when the
'untry had advanced so far toward uni
'rsal Emancipation in the period of our
ltional formation that stopped this on
ard tide? Two things, commercial and
'litical. first, the wonderful demand
r cotton throughout the world. coupled
lth the facility for producing it, arising
om the invention of the cotton gin
at introduced q new element of value.
aves that before had been worth from
OO 20 S4OO, began to be worth $780,
nat knocked away one-third of our ad. |
srence to the moral law. Then after
ard they became worth 500. and half
IN law vant-fhar SQ00 ~ So00 aoI ,ba, ,