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2 urs us no Avliday conten Qrons—of white @ dred nemo U ' t “ strife of rivah fac | ey thaatric Neré ond iach’; Daltie between and ron) —debworn sd pt gy Boys rattle gannck be fought wath emouses or with rovewater There % austere work tobe dma, and Freedom canne! consent to fling awiy any of her weapons. Bl were viepoeed (0 eHriDk from this discussion, the Doundiess assumptions gow mate Dy Senators oa the other side would not allow mo. [ue whole character of Sia- very 86 & prevented form” of civitmetion is put dircetly iD eae, with which bapish ail reserve om this sie. Im thsee aasamp- ons, Senators frow South Carolina matertliy take ine fesd’ Fo lowing Mr Caihoun, who pronoanced ‘alavery the most rfc ard stable basis for free 1astituttons tu the ," avo Mr MoDuiie, eno did not shrink from call | fwg it ‘ube Corner stope of the republicau edifice,” the Sepater (rom Sout Carciina (Mr Bamamend) iaswis that + ts forms Of Bociety are the best in the world; ead o16 ‘colleague (Mr. Cheemut) ‘akes ap the strata =Oae Seuator from: Miseteeippt (My, Davis ofds that slavery ‘is bots Torm of civil government for thuse who are Bet Mt Wo co ‘vern themeecives;” and hia oolicegue (Mr. Brewa) opraly that it ‘is a greet moral, social aad pitti sal -—s bieesing to the sieve and a bleasing 6 the ” One Senator from Virgiow (Me Huater) ja 6 ‘Btadied vinciestion of whal be is pieased wo call “Lae 80- system. of the Blavehoiding Staves,” oxaits slavery the normal condition of buman sosiety”’ — "beneficial to Bon sieve owner 48 it ie to thes! aver” —* best for happiness of both races;” aa iff zt ® eotnarisstic ad yatone of the mighty ‘yoosey, declares “that the very erch, which by its concentrated strength is adie to fas ‘tem eur bleok mar- Die block “and tbe mighty woo bles terea baie bere; and bis colleague de over besitated where slavery was ia quostios proclaimed that it is ‘‘ennodiing to Dole mest: giave’”’—® word which, #0 far as the slave Was aed he changed, on @ subs quent wo “eleve'tag,”’ a5 @umicg still that it is ‘‘conobling’’ to the master -—whi sh is simply & new version Of an old asgumption, by Mr. Me. | Duffie of South Caroling, that ‘‘siavery superseies the mecesrity of an order of nobiimty ”’ SLAVERY INCONSISTENT WITH CIVILIZATION ‘Thus, by various voices, le thé clei mate for slavery, which is put forward deGantly asa form of civilfeation— me Mf ie existence were not plainly inovueisweut wiin the lee of anything that can be called Gtvilieation—except by tet figure of speoch tm clagsical literatore, where a thing takes ‘te name from somecbing which it bas not, a2 the dreaaful fates were called merciful becaass they were without mercy, And pardoo the allusion, if Ladd, that, listering f these sounding wordn for slavery, I am retniaded of We kindred extravagance related by that romarkadle teveiler in Chiva, the late Adve Buc, of @ gloomy bole ta whic be was lodged, pestered by mosquitoes and ex oisome vapors, where light and air entered only gle Darrow aperture, but styled by Chinese pride fhe Hote! of the Beatitudes It 18 vatural that Senatora, tus inrenribie to the true character of evince an equal tneensihility to the true cl @onstitution. This is shown fo the aim now made, ant pprebsed with unprecedented energy, degrading the work @f our fathers, that by virtue of the conatituitoa, the pre fended property in maa is placed beyoad the reach of Congreerionsl prohibition even within Congressional Juriediction, 80 that the slavemasier may at all mes enter broad on, Territories of the Union with the victimes of his oppression, aad there continue to hold them by lssh aad chain THE NATURE OF THE ASRUMPTIONS Such are the two assumptions—the Orsi an assumption of fact. the second an assumption of coartituvonal Jaq, which are now made without spology or hesitation the the first Loppose the essential bar To the second Toppose the unaniwerahle They are “twine” suckled the former. 1t is oply when slavery is exbibited express letter of the conrt tution, and withont a single tes anfluences, whether hijh or low @8 Baian is Satan still, wh-ther towering in te sey or squat the United 8b tro avsump. walt, They are the ‘couple’’ ia the present And the latter cannot be suswered withoat fm its truly hateful charsc'er thet we can fully apprenats tbe abeurdity of the assumption, which, in defiance o” the Bentence, phrare or word upholding Duman bon tage, yet folets into this diameless text the barbarous jiea ‘hat siavery is national; in exposing tho uoconati Puriouality of the Fugitive Slave bi Vindicating ihe = of slavery ia the Missouri ferritory ; ia exuipit ‘ube umbecility hous tas Revolation of too slave ‘Brates, and especial Sonth Caroline; and lastly, in an maskwg the crime egainst Keosas. Oa all these oocasioan, where | Deve spoken at lewgth, | have #aid too ite the character 0! slavery, partiy Decause otber to,.08 were presente’, anc partly from a “isinclinetion whica | have Qiways felt to prees the argament sgenst those whom ( Knew to have all the sensitiveoees of a tick men = But, God be praised, thie time has passed, and the debate is Bow lifted from details to priastipies. § Grander debate nas mot occurred in our history; rarely in any hutery: nor can Gris debate close or subsude exorpt with the criumpa of Pree t THE ASSUMPTION OF FACT. Feet Asscurtion —Of course [ pegia with the aszimp. Won of fect It was the often quoted remark of John Wes , Who knew well how w use worde, as also how w bearts, that nig d wes “the sum ox Ee att m ‘The phrase is pungent; but it would be ri fo any of us to criticize the testimony of that illastrioas foun Methodism, whose ample x pericacs of slavery in Georgia fand the Carolinss, seems to have been al! condensed io ‘Mis wententious juigment Language ws feeble to express autre coarmtly of ie tnsliteition, whs Ais Now caunte {asin trelf @ form of cirlszn'im, “ennobling’’ at leat & bl maser, sf mot the shave, Lovkgs! iLim whatever lagh! you wild iF end if is always the soab, the canker, the “ bare bones,” an Ge shame of the country, wrong, wx merely 64 the abstract Os is often adauiied by ts apo yu, but wrong in tre con erdte alo, and poaesing "0 tingle clement of righ! Love at tw th #,ADd it 18 nothing less tuen ® ¢ clernal Iaw of G1, iavoiring im is pr of all buman rights, and ale the devia! fa wuteh God bimeeif is nant fest, thus the gro ine grommet A 3 ly Bolence, wch a wrong must by a tere law of comprnsation Dhast the marter as well as the slae: Mast the Lands on week they lve; blast the community of witch they are 4 part; beast Ge government which does we fortit the outrage: the etaly t prewails, mat whole social ayaton Bartarows wnorigm, barbarous im is law, birbarousin all te pret mesons, barbarous tn (\e umtru men's KH omph | barbarous in cmecquences, barbarous in spirit; barivarous wherever i shows self’ Slavery must breed barbarians, nied enden ooyenen aie ie Rep ge vor Ser ha socuty of whack he forms a part, (\+ casmial elem <S this character it is now oons,).°:y14 before Tn undertakieg mow woarpqee tne Derberiees @elavery, the whole bros: id ww open be ove me. im ite character, its manifold wrong, its 1m, and especialy in {ts iilasace oa ths clam to be “ennodlei”’ by it, that will n06 fall under considersti a. DIFFICUCTIRS IN LIMINE. the dif -uity of ths discussion involved in trath wh which [ begia. Sonators on yas revealing their senrivility, bare even sinet any comparison beiwoon what were Civilizations,"” meaning the two eocial reap-ctively by freedom an My siavory end the are not wanataral, (bough “Two civilizations!’ Sir, in thw nineteenth Chrimian light, there oa be bat b saben Meeen a ! on are for ihe one, you canna be for the oth » proportion to the em>rase of slavery is in Tuas slave masters ebould be shen this i exposed. might be expicwed Bat Bow #0 boasifally mate, while they not prevent the wseorivility, yet surely exo! ground of protest when thes: assumptions aro . Nor w thie tho only difficulty. Slavery 8 blooiy tovch men’, sod everywhere I it Dow blooms the biooty flower. It fe on thy As we BPProaeh the wational Tepito! It ‘oa the om: Die steps which we moon!, | Geum on tom dow J aand Mowe im tae house of es Friends. About ms, while T speak, Gere ids mont tenvitive guardiane, who hate chown ia the pit Rew muck they are rely cher b9 door me 6) do where slace TT) Mensces to deter ma bare cot deea epered 1 could il! deserve this high post of daty bore, With which I bave bees honored by « generoas aad oa: Rghtered people, if 5 could estate ladletry hay been of tem exposed 0 the presence slators, and Ayprcrisy hie been chastised um the presence of cries and @nariwes Yas iY i exampirs may give cocouragement tha Sener who ao Gertakes in this presenos to exyore slavery aor oan any Mnnguage, directly reepoasive to tie aseumptions vow mace for this barbarian, be open to question 8: ly De painted in the eteroest crore: vat I cena xt ‘that natare’s sierneet paloter has been called she ° DEFINITION OF THE ‘nanwansen.’* Appears frat, ia the che. ly, tm the character of glare Pacter of slavery, and masters. Under the fret heal we shall naturally coaw- Ger (1) the law of slavery and its origin, and (2) fhe prac ‘Gea! results of siavery, a4 shown in acomparison Det eose the free States and the siare States bead we shall natura!) shown jar the macoat iy conmter (1) slave masters as the law of slavery; (2) slave masters jo tier with slaves, here glancing at thor thres ph: and (3) sieve masters in thoir rolativos Aber, with society, ant with ting the character of slavery, thers is little 0, Sxompt to allow slavery to paiat ite'r done, the picture will need no expla Phegin with the Law of Slavery and tie Origia, ant te ta ith owe chamme dad i spay crn South Caralion, whove foes for distincureness. Hse ie =k Brey, power of 8 maser to ware by him, depose of hia pera. hie een do Bo'hing, 074s a’hiag, hal mad Delong 19 he anmer of Maryland thas In ttrectly cn Property of « ward shall consis of Savrn vorkiog Senate ahire f Soy for the word may —Steituter oy Mary io a th @ carefel writer, J ik OF jariaical ae Well wa philnsthropte tent pertimacity gad @ hardinood | N%W YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. : ce ae Ser among bat rg ry rf ty 8 che antes ae metnabind oe ‘on Siro 2 of Stawery p aio of this deflot@o, a¢ frow 4&4) tary germ 6 petiimess might be crushed by the haga, 10 Upas tree tnd alt ite givantic po mon Study 6, ‘Will comprehend tbe wh le mon’ prous growin. ‘THE WAGES OF LAVERY, Sir. look a its pisiu import, apa see une relation which | Westadiehes The sieve ie P eld smply for toe use of nis Matter, to whose dedeste Dw life, iberty ami nappiares Bre devoted, and by whom. he may be barteret, inased, mertgaged. bequeathed, i svoiwed yped a8 carga, stored 82 goods, wold ou executjon, kno uf at paviic aastioa, aud eves stated atihe gaming table on the nazar! ‘card ore die; at according to aw = Nur ts tiene anwtht | wathon the lamets of life, inflicted om a beast whior may mit be tried on the slave He may be marked like a hog, Wp | wenl:, yoked like am om, hobbled Wee a here, drwen neared Whe @ sheep, maimed like aour, and | Weke-on ten like @ brude; alk aorrding law Aad stsould bfe 1 het ie the remery? The law | of elavery,, imi le of evidence whick, ta Dar. | Warous days aod barbarous couatrie fed = & «Christian = from twatifying feu openi ORO DCC the cy of ‘the whole Afticad’ rece whether bond or free testify in any case inst a white , 20%, thes naving already eeomtenel tee slave crowns is tyraooy by excluding the very tat through whicb the bloocy cruelly of the slave mester Might be expope!. Thur io its ery parrot it self; but it 8 only when we look éseential elemenis— five in Dumper-—all wapired DY gle motive, that its feet TIM FRANCHISE OF LINERTY. Foremost, of coures, 1u these dlements, is the impose Die pretension, where barbarism is lost ia impiety, t which man claims property ti man. Against such « gance the argument is brief According to the iaw of ture, written Ly the game baad that placed the plaasts io iheu orbite, and, like them, constitutiag & part of th Cterbal aysiem of the universe, every human Doing hast & complete title to bimseif direct from the Atmighty. Nake he |s-born; but this birthright is Inseparabie (rom the no man form. A man may be poor tn this worid’s goots, bal he owns bimbelf. No war or robbery, aucleut or reseat, no middle passage, no chyoge of elima, v0 capture, no pur chase money. no transmiesion from hao? to hans, a> Matter bow many times, and no matter at what prins, can defeat (his indefensible God given fraucnine And a Divine mandate, strong s« that which guards it's, guards liberty also Even at the very morniug of crestoa, #nen God €ald let there be light—earlier thea the male icvion against murder—Ha set an overiasting difference betwaen man and 9 chattel, giviog to man dominion over the flan of the sea, and over the fowl! of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the exrth: that right we bold Ry His donation; but nan over men Fe wxde nt lord such tiths (> htmarlt Beverving, naman ieft from haman free. Slavery tyracpically assumes a pOwer whicn Heaven do pied, While, vader ite barbarous necromancy, borrow yi frow the source of evi!, a maa is hanged inte a chates!— & person js withered into # thing—s aval i# shrunk 10% mercbandise. Say itr. tm your madness, that you mun te sum, the stars, the moon; but do not say that yrs own a mtn, endowed with a soul hat Mali live tamrtat when sun, and moon, and stars have pasied aoay. SLAVERY DESTROYS MARRIAGE, Secondly. Slavery painta iteeit agen tm ila complete abrogstion of merr: acrament by the church, and civilize tion prevails. Und fo Bch sacra, ment is respected, and no sich coatract oun exat Tne" @s are Kil BAdjact wo bot the imaster, aifortivas whien er; ao is this Stripped of every defence, the chastity of « whol» Trace is exposed to violence, while the result ts re corded in the tell tae tacea of cpildren, with their master’s blood, bat doomed for mother’s rkin to slavery,’ through sil “texcentiag geverations, The Senator from Migsiseipp: (Mr Brown) ts galled by the comparison between slavery and poly gamy.and winces T bail this eensibility as ihe siga of virtue, Let bim refleet, and he wi!) confess inet there are many deguating elemenw in wigvery which are at Present ib polygamy, while the single diagastiag siemeat of polygamy ‘ts more thaa present in stavery. fy the Neense of polygamy one man may baye many wives, all bound to bim by the marriage tie, aud in other respects protected ty aw. By the license of elamry, @ wh le race As delivered oner to prostitution amd omeutanige, wa dout the protection of any law. Str, t mot siavery oarburous? JT ADROGATES PARRNTAL RELATIONS, ‘Thirdly. abrogation of the parental rejation, which God ta ns be nevoleves bas provided for the nurture aud etucation of the bumas family, and which constitutes aa sential pact of civilization ‘tee. And yet, by the Jaw of sla very—beppily beginuing to be matided ia some plac s— this relanion is set at maoght, and io its place te «abet tuted the arbitrary control of the master, st whose mere command bttle casidren, such as the Savivar called wets Rim though clasped bya mother's arms may be twept wader the hammer of tne auctioneer, Thonn dwell og pais ex hibition Sit, is pat tlavery barbarousy their Ht Instruction, while fo many pisses, the aw iteeif, by cumatative profits that he shail bo taugdt to ree rlave Cannot be a! F ma'earisve tor be would thea ecm With the Sorptares, with the Decslogre auil the wonders of Sinal; With that aacieat text, sesleth « man and selicth him, or if he be fount to bapdé@, be shall surely be put to death:” with tha text, “Master® give ont your eerwa: limer story, wher me, wibout distinction of race, might be to mankind commend wents whied, even without nw ex ample, make slavery impossible. Thor, ia o- dar ty facton Jour wacacies . 4 the slave, you fasten other maces os upon bis oul. Sir, is not slavery barbarous? THE SLAVE DESPOILED OF Ths LAUR. FrYtbly Slavery palow reel agate io the approoria tion of All the wil of ite victims, exchuting them from that property in thetr own earnings ‘which tos law of aatare allows and civilization secures. Ths paiefal t»jastos of ‘this pretension is ost ia ite meanness. ft is rob dere aad petty larcepy under the garb of law; aod even its maa bese is ont in the absurdity of it aasoctate pretension that the African, thus despoited of all his evrniags, is faved from poverty, and tast for bisowa good he must work for bis master, and not for pimsel’ Alas! by suck 8 ‘silacy ia @ whole race pauperizy!. And set this trang action is bot withoot jliusivative example. A solema poet, whose verse bes fount wide favor, piotares @ cros tare wbo ! | 4 ry J =e dept pat penn ‘are of poveriy, ‘Auld with the Steyr Cok a ob Ning oat Pottocl’s Cocree of Tine, Book VT 6 And a oclebrated traveller through Russia, mwe thao a generation ago, descrides s kiodred spirit, who, while on bis Koees before an aliar of the Greene church, devouty told bie beads with one haat, aod with the other deiiba- rately picked the pocket of a fellow sioner by his site | Not acmiring there inst anges | aystem which bas much of doth, while, under an aifecta ton of charity it sordidiy takes from the slave 4il tor frute of bis bitter sweat, and thas takes from bim (ue maine pring & exertion Tell me, sir, is aot slavery Darbarous’ RECAPITULATION OF THA CHARGWY. Sock # slavery to fe Ore spell elements of barbarian ae recognized by law, first, ansuming thet man can hod perty im MAL; Secondly, a)yrogating the reletion of jo and wife; thirdly, abrogsiiug the paroote! tis; fourthly, closwg the gates of koow edge an! A Uhly, ap Provristog (be unpaid labor of aaother f, th. eases,” an J Crase to exist, for it i# these very ‘‘adures’’ which constr tute slavery. ' Take away aoy one of them, ard the a! Ntiew of slavery begioe. Acd whee I present slavery for jo*gment, 1 mean no slight evil, with regard to whieh there may bee reasonable cifference of opiaioa, bat I meen this (ive fold embodiment © ‘ebase” —thie grey quinenox of bar eriem—each particalar of which, if oon Bidered separately, must bs denousces at once al the ardor of an honest sol, le tbe whole five Jolt combioation must awake « frofold denveciation Bot this five fold compination becomes stil more beteful whea ite siogie motive is coasiered Tae Sepetor from (Mr. Davia) eaye that it ie “but « form of civil goverament for tose wh om | to govern themseives.” The Senator te mistakeo outrage Where five diferent pretoustons al! oo lookimg ovly to the prod: o' ine fe ever present movire prger, ‘compel the iabor of fellow men eth Of slavery Wore less extaated fome barrow region: if it bet low 3 violins Were Onmatel 7 | right when doe ty © Ringle soul —if it . Presideni—it cannot b+ Aad yet this is denisd by the Derberous logic of sarery, which, taking advaqiege , Claims imMuUBIty DeCKaRE it LeurpAL Ie ae eaputeed @ frost of aedecy that canaot be safely at tacked. Unvapptly, here & barbartom deewhere in the , wt amerwean slavery.as definet ty exiting Lv, Ji orpancced barbarim om oh ON ihe Tt te withou « single peer after making it, broke the dis COMPARISON OF ANCIENT AND MODMRS SLAvERT If cortosity carries us tw the origin of thw ine aod bere 1 approach & topic often consi tered ia th coum | Der—we shail conlees agvic it barbarinm. It is 1 te sathor, me Presumptions of freetom, Galixe thet Fale o yours by whieh the servitude of the mother te \y tant | Upon the child it i# pot derived from the Krnee that fovptan of tyranny, for tro , ben this law, in it better days, ware rigors wore common in@ iteeif—seoured ty ths bred koown to the Amoricag siave—ia oor mule thie law eran hie Contineet had low or od fi ractar decoues completely mea i-° Slavery pain's iteeif again to its complete | T cannot ovese to depior e| ‘rem the Span law; for * mene, unkoows wo Staturets; for we hav. toe positive 1 everment of the dewetor from Virgaia.( We and algo of other Sengvors thet in not a siagis | a4 ibe Uaion cam any Sach statuts eal y De fond. Frem o0ns of these dove it come, ORIGIN OF THE AMESRCAN SLAVE HY STEM. No, fir, Dot from any leo! of Civiimetiog w thie’ bar darism derived. ¢ comes from A/riow; ancient murse monsters; from Guinea, Dahomey and Omngo. there is its orn and fountain. This beoigtted region, we are told by Chief Justice Marehall, in ® memore rie judgment (the Antelope, 10 Whestoa R, 46), wilt assors e right, owcarded by Curistendom, to eoslave captives takea in wer; and thi African barbariam t the pagianing of American slavery; andthe Supreme Sourt of Georg 4— & pave State—has not shrunk from vais eosclusion “Licented w bold slave proper'y,” says the Ovart, * ine Georgia pinnter held the slave as a ohatiel, either direct ly from tbe slave trader. or from those wi heid ap ier Dim, and be from the slave captor ia A’ The pro perty w the siave in the planter perty of the, captor.” (Neal Former, 9 Georgia Re Page 055.) It is masnra! that @ right shus derived tn aetiance of Onrigtea ‘om shoud be exer ciked without any mitigating influence from Carieienity ‘bat the master’s authority over the persoo of Bis slave, Telativos, Over hie parcutal relations, over the ployment of bis me, over all euld be recogp'zed, while nciwes to freedom, and the man can deliver only a slave. From is Dome ta Africa, whero tt 8 eurtamed by immemorial usage, this barberiam, thus and (But deveiopss, traversed ae Itentered on voarii that feral slave ship “built io the eclipse and rigged ‘which in 1620 landed ae Ra cargo jo Virgin's, aod it has boldly t Surviving the tornients of the middie passac 8 coupiiees vicums pinnged bearath the way: a8 left the slave sini) Only to travel ines parable from the @ ip its various doom sanctionin ite barbarous 1 every outrage, whet er of may oF roboery, of jash or lost, and fastening twelf upon hws oifspriag Wo the remotest ¢cueration. Thes are the barbarous preroga- irbarvs African ebiefe parpetaated in American while the Senator from Virginia (Mr Me fon), perbaps upcooscions of thelr origin—pernaps desi- Tous Ww feoure for them the appearance of & barbarous pedigree — iricks them oat with & phrase of the Romeo law. diacariel by the cCommon.iaw, partus sequitur onirem, which simply rea- ders into anctent Latin an extstiog rule of african bare bariam, reooguized ax an exietiog rule of Americaa alt ¥. Such athe plaia joridical origio of the American State slayer FEE Surely the lew trade as pir. auishable with rath hao @ diferent inspira oa ‘rom + ober law. which secured immunity for the slave traie it and thveeied tts supporters with As there is @ higher law above, #0 there Delow aod cach feit to human affairs. SEOOND DIVISION OF THe ARGUMENT. Thuefar, we have seon siavery oniy in is pretended law, ape io the origi of thatiaw. Aud bere [ mignt stop, without procesding in tha argument; for, on ihe Letter of the law alome slavery must be condemned | But the tree wt known by its fruats. anc thee T mow shall exhibit ; and tits brings me to the secund stage of the argument 2 Io considering the practical resulta 0’ siavery, the Materials are 60 obvious wad diversided, feat my chiet Oure will be to woridge aud reject, and here | shalt put the Slave States and free States tuce w face, showing ach potnt the dlastiny we fluence of slavery’ WIDE EXTENT OF SLAVE TERRITORY, ‘Ube States where this barbariem now ts excel the free States in ail vatural advantages. territory is wore Catensive, siretcbing over 551,448 square miles, while the free State, incindiog California, embrace ouly 497 square miles. Here 1s a difference of more than OC square miles in favor of the shave Stats, showing that freedom starts in ths great controversy with @ field more than @ quarier las tan that of slavery. Iu bapp! bets of climate, A’apted w productions of special value; io eXDAUSKIES# Motive power distributed througuous ite domestic and foreign Diend—in all these respects the lave States exce) the free Swutem, whowe climte Otten sburligh, wbore motive power is lees various, whose Ravigabie rivers are fewer and often sealed by ice, and Whore coast, bile lees ia exteut aud with fewer herd: ip often perilous from storm acd cold. Bit the part of a parpy, ao’ d vary pays eB the Choieast Dauquet See wal 1 does with this territory, spacious aud fair, THE GROWTH OF POPCLATION Ab \mopertant io dieation of prosperity is to be fount in the growth of popuiation. IC this respect the two regions piarted equal. Iu 1790 at the dest Census unJer Wye con SHLt06, the popuistion of the preseyt slaro State was 1.001,872, of the present free Svates | 968,455, he ts 3 LY dillereuce of 06 y 7,088 in favor Of the free Stace ais diflerepee, at Arst merely nomial, has boon coanteni!y increening einer, Rowing itself more wLrongiy in each de- Cevorel ceosun, Until, in 1850, the popu'ativa of the & States, swollen by ‘the savexation o: taree foreiga Tor ritories, Lowwriane, Florida and texas, was oaly 0,612,769, while tbat of the (ree States, without way #acd aumetations, reacbed 13.44.4622, showwwg @ difference of 3 424,153 ia favor of (reedom. But this difference Deoomes still more remarkable, if we oovfin> oar inquiries to the while population, which, at this p riod, wasunaly 6,184,- ‘TT ip the sinve States, while it wan 13,238,670 10 the free Sace showing « difference of more thas 7 .064,108 im fa Yor Of freed im, and showivg that the waite po yuintion of ths free states had not only doubled but commenced w triple that of tbe eave Stote, witoough oscupyiog & Sualer Wrritory The comparaive sparceness of the bs /UTBSHeR BOOLHEr lilustration Io the 6 Stats the average oumber of tnusbiteuts to arquare “ hile 1 the free States it was 21.93, or alorat twe to ove in favor of freedom. Taoere reaulis are goaeral; but if we take apy partioniar sieve State aud compare it ‘with @ {ree State, we shail fot the m me constant ¢vides for treedom. Teke Virginia, with @ Urrivory of 61,360 wiles, sna New York, wih @ territory of 47,000, or over quare miles ines then her sister State 400 miles revs fromeu Wee ot Canasta; 8.097 304; that of Virginie bet while that o° New York had m fo A @\milar compar itoa be mede Setwoea jucky, witb SO square miles, atmitied into the Uaioe {| 84 loag goes 1700; sad Obin. with 99.906 aqu ‘srimitied into the Union in 1802 In 1860 ihe al bec # population of only 982,405, while Ubio hal ap lation of 1,080 320—#bown ga dillerence of nearly ami hon ip favor of freedom TAR RRLATIVE VALOR OF PROPERTY. AP im population #9 sino in the Value of property and perros), do the free Stems exes ths slage According W the census of 1890, the value af pr 7 io the free States wee 64,107,162,198, while in States it war $2,036 000,737; or, if we detuct the asserted property in Duman fomb, ony $! ,€55,945,197—eho wing An enormous difference M Hilious im favor of freetow Im the (res States ths valuation por acre was $10 47; la tne slave States only $304. This disproporvian was stil! grester tp 1866, sooo sing Lo the ropurt of tne Secretary of the » When the valaation of the free Sister wan $5,770,194.680, oF 814 72 por’ sore; and of the slave Staten, $3.977,959.40; or, if we deduct the as sorted property ia bhumae teen, $1.6.5,186,345, or $45) per acre. Thus, ia tive years (rom 1850, the valuation 0° im the @ee States received an \acrease of more than the woole accumulated valuation of ths sia Beetes at real eo slave time Lootieg st details, we dad the & tory, wore admittoa yei, in 1856, the whole mae, iacriding ‘tte aewer ied property in bomen leah, wa ony 864,060.72" ohie ot oo cee oe a save, was $i) Sal The Scoumulated Fslosuon of the sinve States, deducung feeiy, in 1850, was on! of Now York alone. of 8) 491,286 279. im, Florida aad Toxas, aitoge hor, ta homan (leh, wae 6575.35.4,860, of simply per aore—Deing ives thao the of Memachuseus alone, which was $574 947.286, of $114 85 per nore. AGRICULTORE UN THE NORTH AND SOUT The slave States boast of agriculture notwitusten ting (heir superire nara: « = Plactetions, in the aumoer of acres of improved lands, ie tae casb value of (arms, ia the ave rege Falue per acre, and in the value of (arming imple ments and machinery. Hore i# & sport 1avie:— Pre Slave Sate Acres of (mproved land 798 040 54,970 427 Cash waive of farms... 143,44 0871, 117,080 O00 Averege Yalu peracre... 1° ow Value of farming implem'te. $85,736,053 05,345,0 Such is the mighty contrast. Mut it ious not stop Gore Careful tables place the agricultaral product of the (ree Reatee, for the your ending Jane, i559, at $455,654,534, ‘while thowe of the slave States were $43) ,277 417 the ot per acre in the free States at om, aod the product per acre in the siaee Stites at $3 4, and the average prodest of each ha “tet in the free States at $242, and ia the sare stale at $1TL ‘Thue the free wah a amalier p pajatian ragaget io sare States, wiih emaller territary, tal Of agriculiaral uote sur Baws by wwe cmeareé ot , While twise asroace le moro than tise ae much 16 pro will show we con Free States. Slane Series, «8680 240.061 5.0% 870 oo 406.546 008 86,199 4659 . 196 076 458 33,257 280 3 « 42695.069 186,413,027 be ilinstrated by details with regera to 1i/. rea—whether of shoes, estton, #o\l +a, t iron and iron castings ell showing the | might alto be illustrated by a comps wn ween Cilerent Matan—ehowing, for iaeaey ‘aut the , ing the last year, ox veded Oveee Of all the save Sates cominaed. cee 108 my ost larger sone. Under Of the slave Svetes if on yet a heed tbe ceo8 8 dome pot supp) matiegion, nod we are left, therefore, 9 4 | * Ie 634 «This large ¥ that of Batimore, ‘Schools, normal - oft i persone larger South Carob’ States 006, all IF ee of the , We free States hed an ; the slave ave an amouet i 6,226) ws, Being © oiflerence of five to one; and the tonnage of tt alove being 970,727 vous, an amount larger ail the clave States. The tonaage outlt during the free States was 623,944 tone, by the sieve tons. Maine alone built 215,905 was, or four times the whole built ia the slave = < iF ii * é s ei f rs } inciuiiog the vaunted cotton The importeof te free States were the slave Ms: 586,623. The ce of New York ‘a8 more thaa that of all the slave state, hor tmporis er OXpOT'S wore larger & ale. Aid to vettmoay e Vir jan, before Thaanace of ry 1 © don, Thos be complains ‘There ar: a dosen seeks en: fm our own trade thet ore omnes a irglale, ang have ponte Sek 8 during the height of our busy eeasen. P INTERNAL OOMMUNICATION. ~ Is are the avenues of commerce; excel. O railroads ia ope- wore 13,105 miles in the free States slave States. Of candle there were 3,633 the free Stats, aad 1,116 tp the slave States. BOCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS: Hehis not only the agent 0, joins in the uniform testimony. According to the tabies for 1859, Leg aye collected if the ree Staten wae $6,592,000, cua expease of a tne 118 $6,745,180, eaving a delet of $1,21 18d, the mei Ip the elave States the amount collected was oniy $1,983,- 050, and the expenre of dhe mails $5,016,612, tog leaving the enormous deficit of $4 024,568; the differance between the two deficite being $2,813,372. Tho slave Btates cid not pay one third of the expense of trans, tbeir meils, and not a Bigle slave State paid for the trans- portation of its mais, not even the email State ef Dela- ‘ware. Masrachuretts, besides paytog for hers, had a sur- larger than toe ‘whole amoant oollacted in South ae. According to the census of 1859, the valae of eborches in the free States was $67,773,477; in the slave States, $21,074,581. The voiantary ooatri- buted im 1865, for certain leading rposee of Christian benevolence, was, in the ‘States, $963,813; for the ame. purposes in the siave Ptates, $194.784 For the Bible canse, the free States coptributed $319,667; the s'ave S:ates, $53,126. For the ‘miasl cance, the first contributed $319,667, and the second $101,934. For the fract®oclety, the first ceatri- buted $151,972, and the second $28,725. Tas amount contributed jn Masaachusetis for the snaport of missions was grester than tnst cootribated by ali the slave States, and more than cight times that contributed by South Caro. line. Nor bave free States been backward ta charity, when the slave Siates have bsen smitten. The records Massachusetts sho long ago as 1781, at the begin- , there Was aD extensive contriba- ote, ed Particular ael Adams, rehel of inbabitaute of South Carolina and Gorge ‘a 1865 we were secdened by the prevalence of yellow fever of iv Portsmouth, Virginie; and now, from a the Selief Committee of that place, wo feara that the amoaat - of charity cont by the slave States, exclasive of Virginia, the aillicted Stave, was $12,182; and, inclu: ‘Virginia, it was $33,398; while $42,547 were contri by the free States NATURAL RESULTS OF THY “BARBARISM.’? Tp all tos array we 8-6 the fatal iailaeace of slavery; but its Darberiem is yet more conspicuous ‘we con- sider ite educational estabilshmests, aed the unbuppy results wbich naturally eoeue from their imperfect cha- racter. Of cotleges, in 1866, the free States hal 61, and the slave Btates 69; but the comparative efilcasy of the institutions which agsume this name may be measured by certain facts The number of graduates in the free States was 47752. im the States 19,645; the number of ministers educated in ve was 747, im the free colleges 10,702; and the number of volumes ia the libra- ries of slave coUeges 803,011; im the libraries of the free colleges 667.227 if toe materials were ut hand fora epece; in patural higu ways, by more shan fl ty a: comparicon between Lbese coiloges, ta buil cavinets rivers, never clsei by the rigore of winter, an and -ectentific apparatue, or in the standard of scholar. co of coast along oceso aad galf, odeated by | ebip, the difference would be stiil more apparent. Of Duspitable barbors-the whole - presemiag igoom | professional schools, teaching | ,medieine and theology, parable advantages for that srue civilization where | the free Siates had 65, with 260 professors, 4.426 sia: Sericuiture, man/actures aad gommerce, boti | denis and 175,951 volumes ja thete libraries’ while the slave States bad on'y 32 professiona! schools, with 122 1,807 stotents, and 30,795 volumes in whole number educated at free States was 23,618, Of these, the largest number in the slave States study law, next mediciae, aad lastly theology. According to the census there are only 96 in the sinve theotogical echools, aud 747 studying for the minietry in the slave colieges: and thia is all the reoord we beve of the ecucation of the slave clergy. Of acade- mies and private echools, in 1850, the free Sates, not. withetandiog their muititadioous public schools, had 8.197, with 7,175 tenchera, 154.893 pupila, and eo annual imoome of $2,467,372; the slave Sistes had 2,797 acade- mies and private echoole, with 4913 teachers, 104,076 pupil-, and an annual income of $2,079,724. Ia the ab- Penoe of public schools, to a large extent, where slavery Nbraries. The these institations {a the tm the slave States 35.2 pile, te number of teachers, or the amount Support. In public schools, open "to all , the ‘Bnd the rich, thy eminence of the free States is pigte. Here the figures show a aifference as wide as that be- turen freedom and slavery Their namber in the free 62,435, with 72 G41 Weacbers, and ee pila, Rap- 750,937. ang Der io the slave States is 18.507, with 10,307 tescters, and wi'b 581,461 pupiile, supported by aa avaual expense of $2,719) difference may be illasteated by de- talls, Virgipia, ao old Stata, and more than ® third larger ‘tban Ohio, pas 67,255 puoils in her public schools, while the latter Rate has 454 153 Artantss, equal in age ant size with Michigan, bas only 8.493 eg her pablic ecbools, while the latter State bag 110,455 South Caro. hoa, three times as as Massachueetis, my Ty while the later State has 176 476. Carolton spends ‘or this purpose, aanually, $20, 600, Massachureite, $1,006,796. Baltimore, with a popu Jation of 169,032, 08 \ne northern verge of siavery, bas ‘school buildings valued at $105,729; those of Busion aro @vatued at $729,502 Bostoa, with @ population smaiter than of » hes 203 public schools, with 353 Virginia =obaeke in & climate of constant felicity, | teachers and 21.673 pupils, supported a. an annual ex | Gut freedom & letter than climate, riners_or | pense of $237,000; ymore bas only thirty eix public | wosort Iu 1790 the popuistion of Virginie with ' 158 wachers aod 8,011 is, wup- | 768,508, and th 150 \t war 1,421,061. In i790 me ported a\ am anual exoense of $32,423 Bai erea | tattoo of New York was 340,120, and ja 18501 these figures do not disclose the whole difference; for there exM in the froo States teachers’ institutes, schools, tyoenms, and public coarses of lectures, whieh are unknown ip the region of elavery. hare ad ran‘age are enjoyed also by the children of colwrad ; mmpariaon which anos the degradaisan of ts Oweir hast particularly to dertde free colored persons. See now, with what cause Taoanamber 1a the tree states l@ 196,016, of whom 22,043, of more than one ninth, attend school, ome mut, atten terol, which ‘ts supplied by the whites of mo uth PUBLIC LPRARIE® AND THR PIES. Among educations! establish monte are ana here, agein, the Free eminence, whether wi public, or libraries of a much larger Proportion w Pohooi, of the college, atartllo, To 587,888 In slave 64,820, 8 smeasbuset', wy » South Caroline, Coorg, “ciuproportion ts tho. sgqregsts is detatis. In the sieve Staten political than aoy others: but even of i | f entra! news $,812,620: the free Statae, naesptne rs, the, lave, States pablish "20,345,800. ane ree & = > i E it 4 : § whole iand of riavery. Thas, , literatore, religion and even Dy the activity Ptate io oe to Politics, a9 attested the periodical press, do the while darkness gathers over wi to the census of 1810, the between the two reg one fone coonected @ith the prese bomber of printers wae 11 Mareechusette; in the slave States whem Seuth Caroling the number States, siave ~ we States, of the fre jtatee were $167,- | ee aulho# ae and oan, ‘ when wo try them by num! y ne ons a chess eoorl. haw taken @ place in the t Literature of the country—Irovng, Presontt, Sparks, Emersum, Milley, Hslarefih and Hauchorne; also, Bryant, Longfellow, Dams) dalle Whittier and Lowell — and J might aud idly to the lt. ‘gut what name ID VENTIONS IN THE SLAVE AND eo —_ ™ A similar disproportion appears ia number of pa- tenis, stating the inventive industry of the oovtrasted Lod retuss of irtues Wang ulebed —~ 71 hoor of Morak™ %, x it, pronounced a wae ree im slave South Carolina, 39. Bamber ww free Uaaect'- ve masters of Virgen Fz O69. ih cut, emall in territory and population, was 628; 1a slave | Cation which attests at least their own, A ated ee a ‘Virginia, large in territory aud popuiation, 184. kw rope. Ge crlananlé ai aed by tas a, uieaed Ax URUTRFACTORY COROLEINN, ee Sore ag ened by ie testimony of . thon 4 . Jonson, ta a | valest ia tho slave Stes; Dut ths shows nasi fe specias | #8/FiDd, thus shows his opinion of elave marie: With such guthorities, American and philaoyh'c, 1 ‘not hesitate im this ungracious task; butiruta, which page and Samuel Johnsoa, marsnals the evideace unor ‘THE ARGUMENT EXTENDED. with this argoment, whieh broaiens a3 wo Advance, we shall sre sisve mas ()) in the lie of slavery, (2) io their relations with slaves, (3) im choir relations eech other and with society,and (4) iu that upconsciourness which renders them insensidle to chur troe character. , (1) As in considering the character of slavery, so in copaidering the charscier of slave masters, we begin with the law of slavery, which, as their work, ‘eatihes againstthem. fm the face of such an wnutteribie abomint- rr or sted cruelty, (iene Gnd robbery, ail serve | for mastery, tf ts 9” wain fo aBsiert Menai OF 1 ermal ‘tht ee baecwace of its authors. Full woll 1 kuog that which speaks #0 powerfull; the solitary soul i often eilent im the corporate boty, and sna, sil ages and covctrier, numbers, whea gath- ered in communities and Siates, have sanctioved acte from pop gw bo nee on yet T faow no surer way of judging s people than by tts igwe, especially where those laws Lave been long coutioue and open! Towntained, Whatever may be the eminence of 5 visual virtue—and I would hot so far dispsrage numaaity, ae to suppose that the offences which may be geaeral avery. avd Pince the law itecif degraies ‘the slave to be a chattel, ani submits him to their weo- spoctibie control, So to dicd and to scourge—to poy the fruits of ; Ack more | Polite the bo ty— and (o outrage al! ties of family, making marriage impos- : Se en cae Spas. ‘such enormities are sauc- ve tioned masters. the exclusion of tesumouy and bition of instruction—by sapplementary iaw— dom com the evidence of thei: complicity, ani this ooa- . interest of free | clusion must stand unquestioned just so locg ae the law Of tlavery exists unrepeaied, Ceas:, then, to bacon the masters. Tll me not of the bwity with which this cruel cole is & it unhap into an over Fy” subpects. Tell me not of sympathy whicr ‘Through tts injluenie from the mansion of the master to the calan of the manufactures, commerce, | slave. In vain you asiert such * actients” [9 © office, calieges, profer- | vain you show that there are who do mot exert } i end | ica ghey Sotcay nam Soe vor} 5 jua cae ver i winded ov the énuaié- | Slave Code, und proclaims constavtly the cberacter oe te as adults , ‘authors. is the first article in the evidence i saying of Montos- THR ERLATIONS OF MASTER-AND. SLAVE R countries are not 2.1 am next brought t slave masters in their rola- but by reason of | ticrs with slay and here the argumeut is founded up a : arty in ne pomeenal Intely bas tequiry burst into wel. givomy “world of bea” beat + copennmentneaed Cornet eaeeinoiamenen ie enough is already ‘3 ; | known to srouse it Condemnation of mauxind. 4 love ledge, and supplies the | For instance, bere advertisement—voi Beans Of grautying iL borty lathe dest of schootaaes- | thournus—from the bite leer ug } Rox Awsy—My man Fountain; 9 / Seiler eee” Msooo, Oa. wae Ae of the lash: @ slave master propuses w ideaufy nize nd here is another ad: 4 vertisement reve sty here tn the capital; and orth America, Thoogh on diferent sidvs of the At- | respectability. Ot osaren Jantic ana on different continents, our slave States and | jeoge of th Cauors; burt the original Biatcs oooupy noarly the example: —" . og i eqasre PB nee i Mars 4 removed | mon nature productions, mon barbarism waly hua ‘or Tasie poes.0ie , sat by awe | under dove | worts | solema * } ; rms terriviey Fx 2 of We master mont be sbroiave the euvmisaio: of the wave 1mae treet conten my gence of ths harsa- + ‘Beas of this proposition. 1 it as deeply as any man cna. E Are. ey Gg ta bu retire gecer . meri must repuciews it. But, tana coma ot mes, Il. From the consideration ca ct slavery’ ma he tothe wale of slavety. inde i ta tbe relnton of tase reouite, iitetrated by the contrast between {he free | SMé slave—Zhe Stut es Mann f Derercavee fe 392 ‘Stas and slave States, | pass now to another of the And this same terrible latitude has beea ‘Ubus expoand- la cnteptaee ak net a soar souk 35 : wai a on ve lue- | hee Sumer jan, Semtarvaits | kannst cebe a eet eros simee more to the 1B response to e om the 4 @ sleve ‘Drovest ibe maser the pretessious of Seunters en this hoor, wor is there any” {rom preneeuuon, and vunieamont ne FES Siiet De crisence 8 mere compiste, It lato | Gs. excostve. — 8 Cuelt, 7 Gratton, character of slavery itself that we are to fied the | ” REFLECTIONS ON character cf slave masters; bat I need not go back 10 the | Can berbariem farther get Here te c@ irreaponsibie ~ ae are A Power, rendered more irresponsivie still vy the seciusion : ast dale fivefold ens. eed ment 0 must natcrally appear juent Christiaa saint dif pot disclose the whole truth. ‘ts founded om vir- | lenee, a8 we y “ 4a 9 “petty Ki y of an this exists there can be but one supreme law, to whi been other laws, legislative or social, are subordinate, med tine oe 4 is the pretended law of slavery. All these things must bo infants, Danifeat in slave masters, and yet, unconscious of thelr | dom: h he ition, they boas reveal still fur. but ‘worse 2 ther the uuhappy influence. Barbarous etandarde of oon. ReGen soko aay, Pe one wales oath avowed. The er of @ bully se ancther Beastie, whee willrever b ‘tonen coh & otk tran ered ane rabindude for ‘argument, ed ont eee, ane Ghee eae Pireame ar sas ted to be . Long ‘wonder, ne th he -~F Ovre was fxed certain that the day which maage mars f°," pay wy ae bp Lede oJ sy “4ook half his worth away,’ worde from the ancient harp | yen a ¥~ agg 8 he gh Te of Homer, resounding through long generations. Nothiog | {bq ‘annita nd meat the escape of tua bere is sald of the human belng at the other end cf the | atGe he in ‘Gemtner halons wate tle coor at bain. ver tbat on thie same day all his worth ie tho onl poten Bat, aias! aniegs the might seom incousistent with exceptions cpio Bir ent hone of political wisdom edly recognise: but, alae! it both elusive, ite unrecorded horrors must from reason rf from "evidence, thet, ad oo artes is pat ‘more fearful pooutee: for the slave, it is worse for the-master. plate ik In making thn expeoare 1a n fortiied at th bt area! e om two clareee of authorities. whose testimony W will be dit, | nt pallor paor cuit to question. The first is American, aud founded on bert remains fo arr bt ¢ Py experience; the second is philosophical, and | . THRES jed On everia-ting trath. Firat, American Eee we, i} and here T adduce words often quoted, which Cy Samed from the lips of Have raaniers in thove beiter 4 pay Rigg FB : Se pe go more vigor than Coleeel Riana slave from Sitoct pee Ci more fi deinen the edo of tae onl oman Soar, ore Gh emboaica, von. fe are bis words: — ae ‘There a the lash, duly do- scribed fo hie Wire * | born ie Aad lowest, [3 hie hands w who sseumes o bakdven are mesior por- | SF) enevoitty senha | Sekn cvieetion Me. Guolevn, of Vi ex, | git, any alleged the “formas aiave® found and necessary tek or whoas tense nie =¢ bloot- the le —