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Show 288 LIBERTY AND SLAVERY. which the fatal experiment of emancipation has been tried. Such are some of the fearful consequences of emancipation. But these are not all. The ties that would be severed, and the sympathies crushed, by emancipation, arc not at all u nderstood by abolitionists. They arc, indeed, utter strangers to the moral power which these tics and sympathies now exert for the good of the inferior race. "Our patriarchal scheme of domestic servitude," says Governor Jiammond, "is indeed well calculated to awaken the higher and finer feelings of our nature. It is not wanting in its enthusiasm and its poetry. The relations of the most beloved and honored chiefs, and the most faithful and admiring subjects, which, from the time of Jiomer, have been the theme of song, are frigid and unfelt, compared with those e"--i.sting between the master and his slaves ; who served his father, and rocked his cradle, or have been born in his household, and look forward to serve his children; who have been thJ:ough life the props of his fortune, and the objects of his care; who have partaken of his griefs, and looked to him for comfort in their own; whose sickness he ha.s so frequently watched ARGUMENT FROM TIIE PUDLIC 0000. 289 over and relieved; whose holidays he has so often made joyous by his bounties and his presence; for whose welfare, when absent, his anxious solicitude never ceases, and whose hearty and affectionate greetings never fail to welcome him home. In this cold, calculating, ambitious world of ours, there are few ties more heart-felt, or of more benignant influence, than those which mutually bind the master and the slave, under our ancient system, handed down from the father of Israel." Let the sl:1vcs be emancipated then, and, in one or two generations, the white people of the South would care as little for the freed blacks nmong us, as tho same class of persons arc now cared for by the white people of the North. The prejudice of race would be restored with unmitigated violence. Tho blacks are contented in servitude, so long as they find themselves excluded from none of the privileges of the condition to which they belong; but let them be delivered from tho authority of their masters, and they will feel their rigid exclusion from the society of the whites and aU participation in their government. They would become clamorous for "their inalienable rights." Three mill-i.ons of f•·eed blacks, thus circum T 25 |