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Show 126 LIBERTY AND SLAVERY. gospel and its sublime lessons of peace be everywhere set forth and inculcated. In one word, Jet it bo seen that in reality the eternal good of the slave is aimed at, and, by the cooperation of all, may be secm·ed, and then rna! we be asked to teach him to read. But until then we shall refuse to head a conspiracy against the go order, the security, the morals, and against the very Jives, of both the white ana the black men of the South. \Vc might point out other respects in whieh men are essentially equal, or have equal rights. But our object is not to write a treatise on the philosophy of politics. It is merely to e><posc the errors of those who push the idea of equality to an extreme, and thereby unwisely clcny the great differences that exist among men. For if the scheme or the political principles of the abolitionist~ be correct, then there is no difference among men, not even among the difl:crent races of men, thnt is worthy the attention of the statesman. rrhcrc is one difference, we admit, which the abolitionists have discovered between the master and the slave at the South. Whether this discoYery be entirely o1·iginal with them, or whether th~y received hints of it from ARGUMENTS OF ABOLfTIONISTS. 127 others, it is clear that they are now fully in possession of it. The dazzling idea of equality itself has not been able to exclude it from their vision. For, in spite of this idea, they have discovered that between the Southern master and slave there is a difference of color! lienee, as if this were the only difference, in their political harangues, whether from the stump or from the pulpit, they seldom fail to rebuke the Sonthcrn statesman in the words of the poet: "He finds bis fellow guilty of a skin not colored like his own;" and "for such worthy cause dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey." Shame and confusion seize the man, we say, who thus dooms and devotes his fellow-man, because he finds him "guilty of a skin!" If his sensibilities were only as soft as his philosophy Is shallow, he would certainly cry, "Down with the institution of slavery!"' For how conltl he tolerate an institution which has no other foundation than a difference of color? Indeed, if such were the only difl:erencc between the two races among us, we should onrselves unite with :1\Ir. Seward of New York, and most "affectionately advise all men to be born white." For thus, the only diffclencc having been abolished, all men would |