Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-08-24
DR.. LIVINGSTONE, in one of hi,


DR.. LIVINGSTONE, in one of his
letters, says he hopes, by his African
explorations, he is doing something to
cxpel slavery and piracy from the
world. We believe that, without his
aid and even against his wishes, land
piracy, under the lead of Grant, will
be expelled from the United States
For the expulsion of slavery, we have
no such hope Its existence is inscp-
arabic from organized society Such
Is the impcrfection of man, and all his
works, that no government can be de-
viscd that will secure perfect equality
and ont of inequality must grow some
sort Of slavery. In this country, pro-
prietary slavery is abolished; but
there still remains slavery to passion
and prejudice slavery to fashion,
slavery of minortics to majorities
the slavery of the poor to the rich,
and slavery to bad government.
Where two widely distinct races are
brought together under one and the
same Government, the inferior must
succumb, sooner or later, to the supe-
rior. This is natural law, than
which, there can be no higher. And
when abolitionists have ceased their
mischievous efforts to create equality
where nature has decreed marked inc
quality, the higher power will assert
ita authority, and assign its place to
the inferior race, regardless Of the
human laws that are designed to re-
verso the DEGREES of the high court Of
Heaven. Nobody, in the South, wants
chattrl slavery re-establishcd, with all
the evils it cntailcd upon the owners,
but every white man in the South, and
every intelligent man elsewhere, knows
the utter futility Of the efforts of IA =
nltica run mad, either to elevate the
African to the level of the Anglo
Saxon, or to degrade the latter TO the
level Of the former Upon the final
failure Of these efforts, the natural
adjustment of the relation between
the two distinct races must result in
the subordination of the inferior to
the superior; and though proprietary
slavery can never result from that
natural and proper adjustment, a spe-
cica Of slavery, incident everywhere,
to marked inioriority, will follow az
Eject follows cause. For a practical
illustration Of this truth, go to piouS
and Immaculate New England. There
you will find little of the antagonism
of races seen and felt in the South
bat in it, absence you will ind--in
spite Of the canting hypocrisy of it,
professions oflovc oflibcrty and equal.
ity, that the poor laborer is treated as
an inferior by the wealthy employer
and, with the exception Of ownership
the slavery of the poor white is as com
plctc and more degrading than wa,
the slavery Of the African. The sole
difference consists in this the south
rrn owner said to his slave do this, OF
Will cha,tise you" whilst the puritan
employer says to his hired man, ID,
this, or | will discharge you Tn,
fear of corporeal punishment, in on,
case, secured obedience; in the other
thr necessities ofpoycrty, secure a lik
obedience. Which form ofslavcry i
most Objectionable depends more upol
mawkish sentimcntahty than upc
any difference in practical results.
Yet il is these same New Englan
puritans who cnSlave their own color
and arrogatc 10 themselves the God
like power TO make equal, in all re.
poets, the undergraduates ofthe Soutl
and the semi -barbarous African whol
,h,y abducted forcibly from their M
tive land, sold to southern planter
and again forcibly took from the
owners and turned loose upon thcm
be protected and educated as equal
IrLiyingstone is approhensiye III;
his yankee friends may resume ii
African slave trade, he perhaps, MAKE
a good hit, bat il he expects to max
successful war upon slavery, he mu
come out of African iungles and stris
at the root ofthc evil which he WI
find in the deprayity Of human natn'
a. developed in Christian New Enc
land. more fully, perhaps, than in az
other locality in sill ehristendor
Slavery will exist in varied form
ur,.l .lss IS inside perfect aud