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Show PORTRAITURE QF SLAV£JlY. It\~ a w!se sentiment of the late Dr. Benjamin Hush, that ' Nothtng can be jJo/zttcally rtght that is morally wrong; and tl112t no ncccsszty can sanctify a law that is co11tmry to equity." It is morally and politically wrong both, (and without necessity too,) that an innocent, "foe. hte and untutored people"* should be detained by a poweifu~ an1 enlzghtened people, professing superior honour and .JUSt.Jce, m_ a state. of beastly, unwiUing, unrequited ~rvttude, and mdcscnbable . moral and physical degr.tda. non! But let not the Jell sttgma be attached entirely to !lie present retainers of the slaves. Everv citizen of the re!'ublic, entitled to the right of suJlrngc; is responsible for his p~oportionabl e quota of the miseries inflicted on the defencelt;ss Aft·ieans, in our privilege? country; Hu· ~n nature Is such, that a ltngc proportion of men, will 1m prove every means 'vitl1in their reach, for advancing their fortunes, indul~d _by political laws. In this country the laws eman:•te pnnuttvely from the people. T:,e outrage ~pon ~he nghts of our present slave population originated m Afnca. ~ur laws have, from their infhncy, until recently, sanctiOned the perpetration of that outrage, in Af· rica, by permitting its ptinciples and products to be transferred to, and adopted in, our own country; and they still sanction their continuance. Laws ought to be re· sponsible for their own operations and results. If a law ·were enacted authorizing the sale of aU the debtors now to let the m\dattos partake of the blessings of Jib~rty.~ This was evidently one of the chief proximate causes ;-but the primitive radical origin1of those implac.ablc conflicts bch"ccn different shades of colour, may be traced to the rni~erable fnhtl policy which permitled tlJe JlrOdUCtiOD OfthOSC Shades. II 'fhe While father f&IJS 8 ViCtim tO tl1e unnatural rage of his mulatto son.'" " Inn country where it is by no means unusual for lhe !mown children of the Planter to undergo all the hardships, ami the ignominy of slavery, in common with the most degraded class of mortals, is it there we are to seek for jnstancesoffilial affection?'' [Inquiry into the Catue, ofll1e Imurreclion qfthe Negroe, in St. Domingo.J . . • Recent message of the President of the United States to Con~ gt:ess, alluding to the red natives of America. PORtRAITURE OF S·LAVERY. Gl in prison in the Un.ited S!ates, fo~ unconditional and perpetual servitude, w1th the1r postenty, an? they _should be accordingly sold, it would be morally unjust, _wtth r_espect to the purchasers, but not the slaves, to proclatm an tmmediate emancipation, witl~out restoring the p~rchase money: that is, it would be unJUSt not to restore 1t. l~encc tl1e people of the United St:.tes, consid~red collecttvely as a nation, having confirmed and legalized ~he transfer, (or abdication) of the assumed power of Afncan desP?ts and banditti, to their assigns in America, and now holdmg the sovereign tv over the la,vs in their own hands, are the master aggressors upon the victims of those savage tyrants, and ,u·e bound to make them appropriate reparation. While justice is rendered to the slave, remuneration is due to the holder, for the loss he sustains in consequence of his prior confidence of the continuation of his legal power over him. It would he necessary and right, probably, until several successive rising generations shall have been ~oralized by education, that the government should retain, or leave with their present possessors a rational and definite civ.il guardinnship over the persons of these national prisoners. The redemption of the existing population of slaves would preclude the necessity of purchosing any of (heir descendants; and thus the blessings of freedom and moral improvement might he guaranteed to unknown millions of unborn members of the human family. As the interests of the southern white population, would he vitally benefited, by the accomplishment of this object, even if they were to consummate it, without the co-operation of the northern states, the additional impulse of humanity cannot fail to ir:fluence their unanimous assent and a generous compromts~. ~uch an act of national magnanimity, beneficence and JUS!tee, would diffuse joy and admiration amongst all colours nna all nation•. There would be no murmuring. It might be effected witl1out making anr ~a~ ~eel ~he poorer Jor it; and if it did, that is no excuse lor HIJUS!tce and _oppressi~n. A great proportion of the necessary sum mtght be ra1sed from duties on the imported pr?ducts of the labor of slaves, which are generally Iuxunes, as rum, sugar, cofl:Ce, &c.; and the amount of all the funds heretofore raised, or to be raised, from the |