Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-31
> THE INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY. .
 In his late lecture MT. Motley spoke oi the influence offs lavery as follows:

xA In his late lecture MT. Motley spoke of
 the influence offs lavery as follows:
 But to the birthday of, the infant Amer ica, around whose cradle, obscure as it was 1 So many good spirits had invisibly cluster ed, one malignant fairy had not been bid den, and her name was Privilge. And, ev-
 en as in the story-book, she sent curse to
 avenge the slight. Almost on that natal day--we knowth tale too we'll, and have had cause to ponder it bitterly -came1 the l accursed bark with its freight of victims 1 from unhappy Africa, and Privilege had si-
 iently planted in this virgin soil the seeds
 of her future sway. It was an accident
 if anything can be called accidental in the
 grand scheme of creation-yet ont of that
 grain of mustard seed was one day to sprout
 an evil to overshadow this land; to poison with its deadly exhalations the vigorous at
 mosphere of freedom. Oligarchy grew up and held it's own side by side with den1oc-
 racy-untiI the time came for deciding
 whether the one principle or the other was
 In conformity with the eternal law. Chem
 lstry resolves the universe. into few in-
 gredients. What, for example, is man?
 Take little hydrogen and oxygen, nitro
 gen and carbon, potash, lime and sulphur
 with pinch or two of salt, and there is
 your hero or your prize-fghter. your Plato
 or your Washington. And political chem
 lstry IS no less subtle and rapid in it's anal ysls. Oligarchy is resolved into the same gaseous vapors on one side the ocean, ,as on the other. So soon as it was demonstrated that the slave power rested on divine right: ! soss soon. as lt was aScertained on authority that the Bible ordained not negro slavery.
 merely, but human slavery withoub dis.
 tlnctfon of color, as a. divine institution. so ESQ soon as it had been proclaimed that the
 Bible argument in favor of slavery was its sheet anchor;' so soon as it had been cate gorlcally stated at the South sthat slavery IS just, natural, and necessary, and that it
 does not depend on difference of color, so soon as the new evangel had announced that experiments ofuniversat liberty had failed, that the evils of free society are in- sutferable, and that policy, and humanity alike forbade the extension of it's evils to new people and coming generations and that there was no solution of the great problem of remitting the interests of capi- tal and labor, so simple and effective as to make the laborer himself capitar--inT all
 which statements am only quoting Gter- ally from eminent slave power authority- 1t became obvious that the identity of priv llege. Whether cis or trans.Atlantic. was perfect. Grace of God, Right Divine property in mank ind claimed by human creatures superior to mankind, military do- minien, political priesthood what are all
 these but the nitrogen, hydrogen. carbon.
 lime and potash, out of which privilege is always compounded? Yet this great inno- cent, ingenious American Demos rubbed its eyes with .astonishment--as its great ngnt With ollgarchy began-to lind no tears running down the iron cheek of priv !lege. Why, Privilege would have been an idlot II It had wept in sympathy with the l nemos. li.o Slavery and serfdom have been aoollshed ons nai throughout Europe, but so long as the soil of many great empires belon9 to an exquisite small minority of the in bahe ltants, are not Wamba, the witless. and Gurth, the swineherd, almost as much horn tnralls to their master as if his collar was stlll upon their necks? Patriotism said Samuel Johnson at the epochsof our war of independence,I is the last refuge of a Scoundrel: s3! Ills parents, you remember. beileVed In the divine right of d royal queen s finger to cure the scrofula. I And there nave been series of pr. Johnsons from hls day to ours, all over Enrope. to denounce patriots and republicans. esna- clally when they are causing interruptions to trade. ~So close an electric chain unites Amerlca ana Europe, so instan eous are thelr action and retroaetion,s that the Amer ican civil war, at least in Western Europe. became as much an affair of passionate party feeling as if it were raging on that side the Atlantic had no idea said very eminent statesman to John Bright on two different occasions, how much infin- ence the example of that republic was hay ing upon pubic opinion in Eugland, until 1 discovered the universal congratulation that the republic was likely to be broken up. Aud yet, strange to say, in spite of the breathless interest with which the re- suit and the details were watched for, it would be difficult to exaggerate the ieno- rance enwrapping the. general mind of Eu- rope as to the merits and meaning of the conflict