Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-08
COLUMBUS, o. SATURDAY Y MORNING.
trile which you'd consignu ieyeeaS washing
ton himself him to the region OF the damned

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4 trine which would consien even Wasbi no.
Il ton himself to the region Of the DAMNED
j - 80 So fe. N
i of the Christian world, has had q contin,ieS3
lexfstence Since their day, in almost everv
s Zlciyilized nation upon eafth- passing down
\ through the whole of them from the patri-
j archai age to the present time 80
HOW sLAyERY WAS 1NrRonrcrn,n - 1,,ro 10. TT, IN,
i -. :, UNITED sTIrRs
A. the f,;soovo,y, ,f 80, 80 a. = ~
were no slaves In America. but the s stiuene i,e
tur,,e R,,ro,eea,, n d-s ,i -, au
seif here heSare sesl;.l. p,anseI Hill
Il above the no tive nd;an = 1nhah,.s p
oan tho ,solic1,' of- s,,h; ;sts-s sas re ps-
soesa Tbe HSnanisrcls' IN n,,th ~ xu,o. ooIu,
made sIaves Of ifho,,sands .s tna,,a aneraca
forced them to labor ~ acainsf their he % will Rnt pn
there were ,rr.,srSt sss,a IA: %
dav y some M mann ,vsa baI 1 oPaaianassoa. a .hst
tion as nhiIantbron;sts whn tt.os,oSt
saw fact tbav ,,,st no v s,.
the indian was entitled r. .h;0ha. ,,,st;,s,.
than, that of servitufIe Gtba At 'no 70 bo =,
dowed him win s,,ner;ar tannp.;es ..,;.t,l
1.-The highest COURAGE and the, mnst emo
Iblings Qualities. lnLm Casas vas u the most,
distinguishef AMONGST tbesa ,sd H., ;.is;ts
ed thecourtof Ferdinand. to o,sers,,ss3n 'tS
i great soyereign to Consent 10 the infro,i,csl
4 tion into SpanishT America IF sia vas trs,,,,
/ Africa, so shat they, might take the nlace of
the, Indian slaves, and thus release that, no.
llble,race from bondage lFerdinanfjT lin, tha
end, consented. and thus the sIa,e trode he
gun. -, : 0ne nv ote0o = Iae I'd I; r.
was pursued as a source of profit not onlv
Hby the Spaniar1ss but by= the Dutch and
i English. By the latter it was nrosecnted
with the greatest possible industrv and
Iperseyerence, under The snecial nrotsotion
Of the Government Of Greaf Rrite;n 4
/ F1a .
| traffic.. They Denounced 1T In aiioost ausyy
form and mode of Recommendations Yet tbey
could not avert it. Great Rritoin
| considered the Colonies, as oneninu a. onew
field for the enlargement of the slave trade
/ aud that as the supplying them with slaves
would be "a continued source Of wealth.,
todall engaged in it. the profits were se-r
cured by chartered grants to ssthe mer-
chants Of London, Liyerpool and Bristol D,
80 = The traffic was Continued Until
lslavery was introduced and hecatne3 a. no r.
of the political institutions of ali of the
Colonies The first slave shin that ever
LANDED cargo of slaves within what are
now the United States, was owned. saws
Mr.. Bancroft, by Wa member of the church
of Bostof.'' The next was owned Nv tha
Dutch of Holland.I and landed in I. .Isn,asz
river, in Virginia The, NauJ EnaIanS Coi9
onies were unsuited To slavery The ci;-
mate was too cold and the conntrr- TOO ex
posed. The soil was NOT snfiicient,v Serti1o
or the country snftic;entiv evtandsd toYi,,s
tify its cultivation by slave labor. and the.
slaves that were owned there were carried
to the South and sold to those who ,1ara-
engaged in the cnltivat;on of tobacco r;ra
sugar and cotton The cIimats Of tba Sai,tb
was more conpeniai m the neoro-N;t was
like tnat of his native country fo which he
reasons why slavery -found its Wa wav to the
South and was confined there. II was To
the interest of the South to have siayes.
and TO the interest of the Nortb to
get rid of them. Therefore, the North soiS
them and the South bougbt them q 7Tbat
was the weTl,understood and avou,as nc
tive on 'both sides. If was nia;n hnsinoSs
affair-tbat involved no question of s,ora1s
and did not excite the horror of onr nIain
and honest old fathers. Did tbey live IN
this, dav thew yxonid ahudder at the curses
bestowed upon them. and would wonder at
their utter ipnorance of the nrincinles Of
right aud Justice. But the !" old fo1fes,'
have long since paid the debt of naYfIre
and have not been permitted, except from
scendants calumniate their memory.0 -
And thus Introduced, slavery existed
here, when our National undergraduates was
declared in 1776-odr fathers being COM
PEELED to deal with it as they found it. To
suppose that they intended, by saying that
'.all men are born free and equal" to declare
that slavery was Immoral and could not,
therefore legally exist in this country, is
to suppose that. they intended to stuItify
themselves before the very nations to
whom they submitted the Justice of their
revolt. In that sentiments they spoke only
of freedom and equality by the natural
law; but at the same time, by the art OF
forming their government as they did, they
enunc1ated the political truth that a repub-
ng0VGrnmenf
crate the institution sofslayery. p *9uThey
dealt with the world and with society as they,
Iound u, ana Wnen they found our Infant
government with slavery covering half its
territory, were not ashamed TO leave the
justice OF their discrimination to Almighty
God and submit the issue of their struggle
TO dis direction. The North had no slaves
and the South had-yet they mingled their
blood upon the common battle fields Of
both North and South. Slavery turnishedt
no argument TO the North against
union with the South. and
thus in the Convention that formed the |
present Constitution OF the United States,
upon grounds of equalityI to act for each
and all. And it is well for US to obs. rye
their action, that by worshiping at all
shrine SO pure and uncontamihated, ourt
own patriotism may be refreshed. For. it |
is true, disguise it as you may, that we
have sfaSt men" amongst the politicians of
these DAYS; men who set at bold defiance /
all that the wisdom of the past has conse9
Grated. and who seem resolved that tthey
will not be hammered in their progress. by
even the recollection of our common an
cestrv. II NAV moi he amiss 10 lei snch I
men knoIg.at that there ia a mesmeric chord /
still nassinu from the "A merican bea rt back
To the davs of the American Reyolntion
and that the nnlsation of that heart still |
heats in EARNEST and notr;otjc reanonse to
the i ad dn3nnitions of o,ir fathers e.
7 told Won tbetoT 5;a mot consider tbe
oneStion of slavery a moral onestion in this
country. % and an here / repeat p it. i have shown