The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-02-05

productions, how any other state Of soci.
ETY. could possibly answer their purposes.
The fact also that the existence OF sla-
very has been secured to them by gov
ornamental compact, must Of necessity
also have its influence 10 begettiDg In
them sense of right or lawfulness In
the exercise of it. These things they
maintain, are to be made due allowance
for.
These views lead large class of the
people of this country to believe that the
simple relation of master and slave, or
slavery per Sc, is not in all cases sinfu!
and wicked, but that there are many
good people among them, who will prob
ably come out much better in the end
than thousands of those who condemn
them here without mercy. Whether
those who hold to this per Sc theory are
right, and all others wrong, we DO not
pretend to say They may be wrong IN
their views, and show themselves very
stupid 10 arriving at them; but this is no
reason why they should be misrepresent'
ed OF Suspecteu VI INV Oo'uS e1""J "
honest as other people.
We have no desire to accuse the Editor
of disingenuousness or wrong intentions
in his structures on this subject, but are
disposed to attribute it to an oversight
consequent upon his mode of thinking
and the excitement of the times. In
speaking of the views of others, we should
always give their own explanation of
them, and not our differences or logic, by
which we may arrive at very different
results. There remaipeth therefore,
faith, hope and charity, but charity is
the greatest" FAIRNESS.
REMARKS The above was handed to
US by gentleman accompanied with the
remark that ''be had q little controversy
with u.s., However that may be, we
had none with him, but if he chooses to
put the coat on, and it fits him, that is
his matter and not ours. Weproposc to
reply shortly and plainly, not to the man
but to the principle. To show what dis
turbed the gentleman's combativenes, We
republish what he terms "strictures'
upon a class of men whose princi Piles he
defends Here it is, all of it:
The time was, aud that not long ago,
that no northern man could be found to
defend the system Of American slavery,
but of late, both in this country and in
England, men can be found, in the church
and out of the church, who say that
"slavcry per Sc is not wrong and that
the "black man was made to be the slave
of the white man." We submit the fol
lowing circumstance as one of the beau
ties Of that system these men pretend t
admire.
If we understand the gentleman, h
, complains of US that we attribute tic b.
, lief that 1.-The black man was made to /
: the slave of the white man." and an a,
d miration o: "the SYSTEM" to those WI
believe that "slavery per Sc is wrong.
We were speaking of "American 81
very" and American "slavery per Sc"
) e. "by ITSELF" includes all those thing
that are inseperably connected with tn
relation Of "master and slave" uGde
tie laws of those States in which tina
relation Is permitted to exist.
. One Of two things must be truce
Their American slavery per Sc is wrong
or it is right. We hold that it is wron!
t and as our correspondent controver
r that position, he must hold that SLAYER
), per Sc is right If it is right, then it
. right for one man to own another,
q subject him to his every desire, to bre;
. up families, to separate husband and wifi
S SO far as that relation is permitted
} exist. to part parents and children, al
: refuse TO part of mankind the privile
II Of reading Gods holy word, for all Tho
re things and more, are part Of the syst
or as built up by the laws of the slave Stat
:, and this it is that "Fairness" is ready
es uphold.
at Again, if American slavery is rig
ey or, if it is "not wrong" then the bl
J. man must have been "made to be
Is slave Of the white man. for not mi
ly to be such, it would be wrong to m;
* him SO. This conclusion is so plain ;
= just that we need say more on the $
nd ject.
,m Don't these "slavery per- Sc lists"
DO mire what is right? OF course they
&c, Then, as they claim that slavery pei
- is right, it is fair for US to infer t
We they "admire" the "system" of slave
t Mind you; We did not say that they
an mire everything that was connected "
~ slavery, but that they "pretend to