principle of our holy religion, so long as he legitimately uses, and does not abase the institution, will never suffer his neighbor, especially if he be a citizen of a free State,[1] to say to him, "Sir, your practices are in violation of the laws of both God and man; you must relinquish them, you must emancipate your slaves without 'the hope of fee or reward,' colonize them to Liberia, and then give them the necessary outfit for commencing life in their new sphere, or submit to their elevation to a political equality with yourself in our midst." Such a result never can obtain throughout the slave States; it is unreasonable to expect it, and the more it is agitated the longer will the institution of slavery be perpetuated. No motive of this kind can ever be brought to bear upon the slaveholder. The deep seated nature of his principles, the protection of his domestic rights, social privileges, and individual interests, will cause him to resist it as long as life lasts, or reason sits enthroned in his breast. But when the free negro — that curse of the slave and the slave owner, shall have been removed — when the natural increase of the white
- ↑ "Men are fond of berating their fellows for slaveholding, and waste their time, but very little of their money, (this they take better care of,) in making a loud outcry against a distant evil, while their gaze is so elevated as not to take in the yoke of slavery, which grinds men in the dust at their very feet; a heavier yoke than Roman, Turkish, or American slaveholding ever imposed. Every energy is bound down, every hope crushed, every affection forbidden, or made but an additional weight of pain and anguish; everything that life has of good or of beauty, is taken from them, and they are left, hopeless and despairing, to die miserably. If men would but expend a tithe of the sympathy on these slaves which they profess to have for the others, a jubilee would be kept in many a hovel." — N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
