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Legitimate Results Of Slavery

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Day
13
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Is tliis contrast so fiattering to Kentuckians, that they shall honor the memory of the House of Representatives,when they shall have compelled us, by increase of numbers, to restrain the little liberty with which we may now indulge our miserable dependants? Do they look with cvil eye upon that clause in our constitution, where emancipation is guaranteed, to all those who, not blinded by gross idolatry of '-'perpetual slavery," believe that a frecnian is safer than a slave? Are our towns and citizens and cities to bc yet more infested ■ by lawless bands of robbers and ruffians, who, (under the specious garb of pólice assistants, sbamelessly assuming a name fordoing that, which impartial history proclaims that the wild savage of the woods would utterly abhor, in violation of the constitution and laws,) spare f rom violence neither age nor sex, bond 7iorfree, so that they bc guilty of a partial colored skin - wreaking upon innocent toornen the infamous hate qfrepclled and insatiáted lust, under the descrated pretence of rcformvng the moráis f the toicn? Shall the foundations. I vill not say of society, but of imperative elf defence, be broken up, and Lynch aw go unrebuked among us, under the alse and infamous pretensions that the aws are not sufficient protection for theeitizens ol Hentucky, a State that has in days past vaunted herself amicfet tliis glorious Union for chivalry and honor? If these are the legitímate results of slavery; are they so flattering to those who should imbibe inspiration from the glorious and imspottcd honor of their own native State, that their pride and self complacency are gratified'? Are they so precious in the eyes of a statesman, that hs would have more of it?" Hear this! ye croakers of ills to follow emancipation; - a freeman is safer than a slave." And ye who. every time ye go to the polls to vote for the candidates of pro-slavery parties, consider the results of the system you support. American Slavery worst op All. '!Here, then, we can pause a moment, and draw the melancholy conclusión, after we have traversed all tirae, and all people of all religions, and all grades ofcivilizaíion, and here in these United States of America, professing to be the only people on earth Cree, slavery stands fre-emincnt in degradation." MURDER OF S LA VES NOT PüNISHED. "Tis true', that our laws make the slaying of a slave murder, and punishable with death: but I will venture to say, that although numerous miirders of slaves have taken place, never have we heard of a single white man, who has been capitally punished for this offence, in any of the Slave States. The vriteï of this article has reason to believe that lie knows of three slaves who were slain by their masters. neither of whom was ever pun ished. lt is also true. that the laws insure, by word, that cruelty shall riot be inflicted, else the slave sh.ill be sold to another; yet never have we heard of a sale ofsuch a cause." Cassius M. Clay. Who wil! now dare to deny, as abolifion lie?, the statements of facts to which this noble Kentuckian adds thesanction

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