the western carolinian published every saturday morning aijjiij^jti ajxh'l^jl aso yusd^lpji wa ulaai-p^dil editors and proprietors number 28 of volume ig : salisbury north-carolina december 12 1835 nxliftbet yom\)eg\ym\-\g 8\0 the wcwu'i'ii carolinian political is ns members of tl same family of confederated republics nnd at the same time yuih that firmness and decision which becomes a sovereign state while maintaining her dourest interests and most sacred rights i the institution of domestic slavery we hold ourselves responsible only t cod and it is utterly incompatible with tba dignity and safety of the state to permit any foreign authority to question our right to maintain it li may nevertheless be appropriate aa a voluntary tokon of our respect for the opinions of our confederate brethren lo present some views to their consideration on this subject calculated to disabuse thoir minds of false opinions anil pernicious prejudices no human institution in my opinion is more manifestly consistent wilh he will or god than do mestic slavery ami no one of his ordinances is writ ten in more legible characters than thai which con signs ihe african race to this condition as more conducive to their own happiness than any other of which they are susceptible whether yve con sult the sacred scriptures or the lights of nature nml reason yve shall find these truths us abundant ly apparent aa if written y.iih a sunbeam in the heavens under both the jewish and chrialian dispells lions of our religion domestic slavery ex isted with ibe unequivocal sanction of its prophets its apostles aud finally its great author the pa triarchs themselves those chosen instruments ol cod were slave-holders in fact lhe divine sanc tion of this institution is so plainly written that ' he who runs may read it and those overrigl.teous pretenders and pharaaees wl.n effect to be scandali zed by its existence among us would do well to in quira how much more nearly they walk in the yvavs of godliness than did abraham isaac and jacob that the african negro is destined by providence to occupy this condition of servile dependence is not less manifest it is marked on the face stamp ed on the skin und evinced by lhe intellectual in feriority and natural improvidence of this race they have all the qualities thnt tit them i'or slaves and not one of those thut would tit then to he free men they ure utterly unqualified not only for rational freedom but for sell government of any kind they ure in all respects physical moral and political inferior to millions ofthe human race who have fer consecutive ages dragged out u wretched existence under u grinding political des potism and who are doomed to this hopeless con dition by the very qualities which unfit them i'or a better it is utterly astonishing that any enlight ened american after contemplating ull the muni fold forms iii which even lhe while race of man kind are doomed to slavery and oppression should suppose it possible to rechii.il t african race from their destiny the capacity to enjoy freedom is an attribute not to be communicated l.y human power il is an endowment of god and one ofthe rarest which it has pleased his inscrutable wisdom i bestow upon the nations of the earth it is con ferred as the reward of merit and only uik.u those yy i ure qualified to it until the ' ethiopian can change his skin it yvill lio vain lo attempt by any human power to make freemen of those whom cod has doomed to las slaves by all their attributes let not therefore the misguided and designing intermeddlors yvho seek to destroy our peace ima gine thut ihey are serving the cause of cod by practically arraigning the decrees of hia providence lode 1 it yvould scarcely excite surprise if with the impious audacity of thus yvho projected the toyvei of babul they should attempt to scale the battle ments of heaven and remonstrate with the god ol wisdom lor having put the mark of cain and the curse of hum upon the african race instead of the european if the benevolent friends of the black race would compare the condition of i but portion of them which we hold iu servitude with that which still remains in africa totally unblessed by the lights of civili z.iiioii or christianity , and groaning under a savage despotism as utterly destitute of hope as of happi ness they yvould be able to form some tot ruble es timate of what our blacks have lost by slavery in america and wl_.it they yvould gain by freedom iu africa c cuily us their condition has been im proved by their subjection to uu enlightened and christian people the only mode mm lor heuven bv which it could l.uve is accomplished they ure yet wholly unprepared lor any thing like u ration tl system of self government emancipation would im a positive curse depriving them of n guardian ship essential to liieir happiness und they mav well say in the language of lhe spanish proverb •• sale us fro our friends und we will take cure ol ur in incs if emancipated where would ihey live und what would he iheir condition '. the idea of their remaining among us is utterly visionary amalgamation ia abhorrent to every sentiment ol nature ; and if ihey remain as a asperate casle whether endowed will c.p.ul privileges or not they will become our masters or are must resume ti mastery over then this state of political ainul gamation and conflict which the abolitionists evi dently ui lo produce would is the most horrible condition imaginable and w,„,l,l furniah dante or milton yvill ihe type for a , olher chapter llu-lra tiiig ihe horrors of tbe infernal regions the only disposition therefore thai could is made of our emancipated slates would be their transportation to africa lo exterminate lie natives or be extermin ate by them : contingencies either of which may well serve to illustrate th wisdom if not tbe phi li.ntl.ropv of these supers ri icei.blo madmen who mi ll mime of immunity would , i solute the tin rest region of lho enrth ami destroy ihe most x-rli-ct system of social and political nappioeas thatovej ""' ____________________________ jstories may l.e propagated by mercenary travellers lulu make a trade f exchanging calumny ibr hos pitality the peasantry ;,,„! operatives of i untry mi the world are better provided liir ill these re spects than the slaves ofour country iu the sin gle empire of great britain the most free ami en lightened million in europe there are more ivretcli ed paupers nml half starving open lives than there ure negro sluves in the hi tied states in all res peels lhe comforts of our slaves are greatly su perior to those of the english operatives or the irish and continental peasantry to say nothing ol tlie millions of paupers crowded together in those i loathsome receptacles f starving humanity the public pom houses besides the hardships 1 iu cos.nnt toil to much almost for human nature to endure and the buiu rings of actual wanl iri ing lliem almost to despair these miserable creatures are perpetually annoyed by tl st distressing cares i'or the future condition of themselves and 1 iheir children 1 refuge from robbery nnd anarchy under n mililary despotism hut where the menial offices and de pendent employ incuts of society are performed by domestic slaves a class well defined l.y their color and entirely separated from the political body lho rights of properly are perfectly secure yvithout the establishment or artificial barriers in u word the institution of domestic slavory supercedes the in ssity of un o ler i nobility and . l the other appendages of a hereditary system u government it our slaves were emancipated nnd admitted bleached or unbleached to nn equal participation in our political privileges what a commentary should we furnish upon tlie doctrines u the emancipation ists and what a revolting spectacle of ret iblicun equality should yve exhibit to the mockery of tbo world ! no rational man yvould consent to live in such a state of society if he could find a refuge in any other domestic slnvory then-lore instead of being a political evil is the corner stone of our republican edifice no patriot who justly estimates our privi leges yyill tolerate the elm of emancipation nt anv period however remote or on any conditions of pecuniary advantage however favorable 1 would as soon think of opening a uegocialion i'or selling lhe liln.-rty of the slate at once us ibr making liny stipulations for the ultimate emancipation ol our sluies so deep is my conviction on this subject thai if i were 1 ed to die immediately after re cording these sentiments i could say in all sinceri ty ami under all tl sanctions of christianity and patriotism " c,,,l forbid that my descendants in lhe remotest generations should live in any other than n community haying the institution of domes tic slavery as it existed among tin patriarchs of the primitive church and in alt the free states uf by as1111ix smiths joseph w hampt01 extract from the message qf governor m'duffie to the legislature uf south carolina since your last adjournment the public mind throughout lhe slave holding slates has been in j tensely indignantly and justly excited by the wa 1 ton officious and incendiary proceedings of certain i societies and persons in soine of the noiislay hold ing states who have been actively employed in at tempting to circulate among us pamphlets papers and pictorial representations of the most offensive and inflammatory character and calculated to -,-. iluce our slaves from their fidelity and excite lliem to insurrection and massacre these wicked mon sters ami . leh.de 1 fanatics overlooking the numer ous objects in their otvn vicinity who have n mo ral if not a legal claim upon their charitable re gard run abroad in the expansion of their hypo critical benevolence muffled up iu the saintly man tle of christian meekness to fulfil the fiend-like er rand of mingling the blood of the master anil the slave to whose fate they aro equally indifferent with the smouldering ruiiisofour peaceful dwellings no principle of human action so utterly baffles nil human calculation as that species of fanatical en thusinsm which is made of envy and ambiton as suming the guise of religious zeal and acting upon the known prejudices religions or political of an ignorant multitude under the influence of this species of voluntary madness nothing is sacred that stands in the way uf its purposes like ull other religious impostures it has power to consc craie every act however atrocious anti every per son however covered over with " multiplying villa nil that may promote its diabolical ends or wor ship at its internal altars hy its unholy creed murder itseir becomes a labor of love and charity a i the felon renegado who hies from the justice of his country finds not only n refuge but becomes a sainted minister in the sanctuary of its temple — no error can be more mischievous than lo under rate the lander of such a principle and no policy can ik more fatal than to neglect it from a con tempt for the supposed insignificance of its agents the experience of both france and great britain fearfully instruct us from what small and contempt ible beginnings this ami des imirs philanthropy may rise to a gigantic power too mighty to be re sisted by llll thc influence and energy ol the gov eminent in the one case shrouding a wealthy and flourishing island in the blood of its white inhabi tants ; in the other literally driving the ministry l.y means of an instructed parliament to perpetrate lli.it act of suicidal legislation and colonial oppres sion llie emancipatioi slaves in tl britiah west indies it may lie not unaptly compared to the element of fire of which n neglected spark amongst combustible materials which a timely stump ofthe foot might have extinguished forever speedily syvells into a sweeping torrent of fiery desolation which n , liumnn power can arrest or control in the opinion of intelligent west india planters it is because the local authorities from a sense of false security neglected to hang up the first of these po litical missionaries that made their appearance on the british islands that they are doomed t bar renness und desertion and to be the wretched abodes of indolent and profligate blocks exhibiting ii their squalid poverty gross immorality and sla vish subjection to an iron despotism of britiah bay onets the fatal mockery of all the promiased bless ings or emancipation cider these circumstances and in this critical conjuncture ofour affairs the solemn an i responsi ble duty devolves on the legislature of inking care that the republic receive no detriment the crime which these foreign incendiaries have committed against tho peace ofthe slate is ono of the very highest grade known to human laws it not only strikes at the very existence of society but seeks to accomplish the catastrophe by the most horrible means celebrating the obsequies of thc state in a siiliirnial carnival of blood ami mur der and while brutally violating all tin charities of life and desecrating lhe very ulturs of religion im piously calling upon i leaven to sanction these abo minations it is my deliberate opinion that llio laws of evory community should punish this species of interference by death without benefit ol clergy regarding the authors of it us enemies of the hu man race nothing could is more appropriate than for south carolina to set this example iu the present crisis ami i trust the legislature will not abjourn till it discharges this high duly of patriot ism tp.iims op publication 1 tbe western carolinian ia published every sa tiiintv nt two dollars per annum if paid in advance or two dollars nad fifty centa if nut paid before the expiration of three months i n paper mil !„' discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the discretion of the editors j subscriptions will not be received for a less ti than one year and a failure tn notify the editors of a wish to discontinue nt the end of a year will be consi dered as a new engagement i any person win will procure six subscribers to the carolinian and lake ihe trouble to collect mil transmit their subscription-money to the editors shall have a pa per gratis during their continuance 5 fcj persons indebted tu the editors may transmit to them through ihe mail nl their risk provided tiny get the acknowledgment of ut respectable person to prove that such remittance was regularly mnilc from the excess of labor this actual yva.it and these distressing cures our slims ure entirely ex cepted they habitually labor from two to four hours a day less than the operatives i other coun tries and it has be ui truly remarked by some wri ter thiit a negro cannnt he made to injure himaelf by excessive labor li may !,,- safely affirmed thai they msm ally eat ns i inch wholesome und substan tial food in one day as english operatives or irish peu sal is oat iii two and as regards concern for the future iheir condition may well be envied oven by iheir musters there is not upon the face ol the earth any class of people high or loyv so per fectly free from cure ami anxiety they knoyy thai iheir masters yvill provide liir then under all circumstances ami that in the extremity of old aire instead of being driven to beggary r to seek pub lic charity iu a poor-house ihey yvill be comforta bly accommodated a kindly treated among their relatives and associates cut the elder bus been regarded as a model of roman virtue und yet lit is said to have nol i his superannuated slaves to avoid the expense of maintaining them the citi zens of this slate may not aspire to rival the virtue of the romans but it may be safely nllinnetl that they would doom to execration the master who sho 1.1 imitate the inhuman example of lhe roman paragon the government ofour slaves is strictly patriarchal nnd produces those mutual feelings of kindness which result from an interchange of good ollices and which can only exist ill ll system ol do mestic or patriarchal slavery they are entirely unk/lowu either in a state of s.litical slavery or in that form of domestic servitude which exists iu all other communities tk.rms of advertising 1 advertisements will be conspicuously and correct ly insert ■,!, at 50 cents per square for the first insertion and 3.11 cents for each continuance hut yvhere an ad vertisement is ordered to l in only twice fit cts yvill be charged for each insertion if ordered for one in si rin.n only sl yvill in all cases be charged i persons who uexire to engage by the year yvill be accommodated by a reasonable deduction from the above charges for transient custom 1 to insure prompt attention to letters nddresse to the editors the postage should in nil crises be paid deferred articles the following tribute lo the character of tb south is copied from an essay in the portland cou ricr : i'lii southern character antiquity if the legislature should concur in these general views uf this important element of our political and social system our confederates should im distinctly i donned in any communications yve may luivo oc oasion to make to them that in claiming to be ex empted from nil foreign interference yve can ra cog isi no distinction between ultimute und imme diate emancipation it becomes necessary ill order to ascertain the extent of our danger und the measures of precau tion necessary to guard against il that we examine into the real motives ami ultimate purposea of lho abolition socio ios a i their prominent gents — to justify their officious and grain tons interference in our domestic allnirs — lhe most insulting and in solent outrage which cm be offered t u communi ty — they profess to hold themselves responsible for the pretended in of our domestic l»»«ry becau.-e forsooth they tolerale lis existence among ns if they are al all responsible for the sin ol slavery whatever ihal may be it is nol because they i„lo rale it now hut because their ancestors tvere tbe agents and authors of its original introduction — these ancestors sold ours the slaves and win r mted lhe title i it yvould he a much more becoming lalk.r of filial piety for their descendants to pray for their souls if they are protestants nnd buy maaaea to redeem them from purgatory if they i.ro catholics than to assail their warranty and slander their memory l.y denouncing them as " man-steal ers and murderers — hut this voluntary und gra tuitous assumption jf responsibility in imitation of a recent and high example in our history but im perfectly conceals a lurking principle of lunger which deserves to be examined and exposed what is there to make the people of new \ ork or mas sacbusetts responsible for slavery in south carolina any more thu ihe people of great britain 1 to assume that the people of those states are reapon sible i'or the continuance of ibis institution is dis tinctly to assume that ihey have a right o abolish it and whatever enforced disclaimers ihey may make their efforts would be worse than unprofita ble on any other hypothesis the lolly of attempt ing to convert the slave-holders lo voluntary eman cipation by n course of slander and denunciation is io great to be escribed even lo fanaticism itself they do not indeed disgust the fact that their principal object is tu operate on public opinion in lhi - jitm i sln_v.,-li<,l.lii><r slates and to what pur the writer lias travelled thousands of mile in the souther uuiitry nnd for several years he bus been an attentive observer of character as it is de veloped beneath a southern sun he has mingled in the various grades of society he has met her citizens under all circumstances favorable and un favorable willi these opportunities of judging he would certainly come to a very fuvorable or different conclusion wherever in 1 has wandered the hand of hospitality has been extended towards him — mow sweetly has the cheering voice of welcome i'alleti upon liis ear many aro the ollices of kind ness be has experienced and not u , frequently from the hands of entire strangers grateful is the re collection he yvill ever cherish of scenes hat ure past but which luivt obtained the u.usl hallowed pi i his memory he is aware thai his pen is incapable of ioi ig justice lo ibis subject hut he yvould do violence to his feelings were he to sutler this op portunity to pass without recording his testimony in favor of the citizens among whom lie resides — after wandering through the distant parts of our wide extended land he reels authorized to say that go where you yvill you cannot find a more gene rous and patriotic a more enlightened nnd high minded people than those who have received such a lilien.l share of abuse from the northern abolition ists does any one doubt this assertion lol him come and examine for himself i lie will find this to be the language of truth and soberness ill a word our slaves are clieerf.il contented and happy much beyond the general condition of the hull an race except where those foreign intruders and fatal ministers of mischief lhe emancipators like their arch-prototype in the garden or i'.den ami actuated by no less envy have tempted them to aspire above the condition to which ihey have been assigned iu the order of providence nor can it im admitted as some of our t.yvn stntes en have affirmed inn mischievous aud mis guided spirit of sickly sentimentality that our sys tem of domestic slavery is a curse lo the white pop ulation — a moral and political evil much to is de plored but incapable of being eradicated let the treo lm judged by its fruit mure than half a cen tury ugo one of the most enlightened statesmen who ever illustrated the parliamentary annals of great britain i hiking into political causes with an eye of profound philosophy ascribed lhe high iiiid indomitable spirit of liberty which distinguish ed the southern colonies to the existence of do mestic slavery ; referring to lhe example of lhe free htates of antiquity as a confirmation of his theory since these colonies have become inde pendent stales they have amply sustained the glory of their primitive character there is no coloring of national vanity in the assertion which impar tial history will ratify thai tl priocples of ration al liberty are no less thoroughly understood and have been more vigilantly resolutely ami effectual ly defended against all the encroachments of power by the slave-holding stales than by any other members of the confederacy i which of our great political conflicts is it that ihey have not im-.-u found arrayed against every form of usurpa tion and fighting under the hag of liberty ' indeed il is a fact of hisl irical notoriety that those great whig principles of liberty by which government is restrained within constitutional limits hnve bad iheir origin and ibr a long lime had their only biding place iu the slave hoi ling states reason and philosophy can easily explain what experience so clearly testifies if we look into the elements of which all political com unties are composed it yvill is found that servitude in some form is one of lhe essential constituents no com a " little monster — one of the state banlis in vermont haying boen suspected of a violation of ms charter a committee was appointed by lhe legislature to overhaul its affairs ami report there mi to that isidy iu iheir report the committee a no other develop cuts of lhe mysteries of banking slules that llio " banking room of this iu si ton in is in a wooden building occupied us a store ihal the place of deposit for notes hills papers and specie ofthe hunk is a icoiulcii desk — ami that ll l us of tin bank consisted f one or tiro sheets of paper pinned or stitched together .'" — this no doubt is one of these well managed insti tutions which is to takn the place of the united stales bank and is to supply the country with it currency superior to thu rugs of nick middle ! ! pose they cannot suppose that the opinion of tlioso states however unanimous can break the chains of slavery by some moral magic tho wholo tenor of their conduct und temper of their discussions dearly demonstrate thai their object is to bring ihe slave-holding states into universal odium and lhe public opinion ol lhe no,,-slave-hold ing states to tbe point of emancipating our slaves by federal legislation without tbe consent of their owners disguise it u they may " to this com plexion it must come al lust li is ... tins aspect f the subject thnt it challen ges our grave ami solemn consideration it be hooves us then in my opinion to demand respect fully of each und every one ol the slave-holding states — bloelt.legs — ii is stated in the wilmington proas thai a faro table yvas recently set up in that town ; nnd thai a meeting of young ,,„■,, took place nt which lynching yvas propose lor ridding the plnce f the nuisancej hut that after mature reflec tion thev came lo llie conch ion tli.it it would he 11 more peaceful remedy i'or lliem to refrain from visiting the faro they were right while ihe nuisance is legalised 1 is better quietly to render ii innoxious by shunning it as though it wore a in lei 1 hh disease than by violence and tu mult to utteinpt to eradieale it by physical power standard it cuiiuot is distinguished however thnt any laws which may is uncle i by tbe authority of this state however adequate to punish und repress offences committed within its limits yvill is wholly insufficient to meet lhe exigencies of the present conjuncture if we go no farther than this we hud ns well do .., along these outrages agaitlst the m-aco nnd safety of the stale aie perpetrated iu other co.niiiu.mt.es which hold and exercise sovereign und exclusive jurisdiction overall persons and things with their territorial limits it is within these limits protected from thu responsibility ofour laws hy lhe soverign ly of the stales with which liny reside ihal the authors of all this mischief securely concoct their schemes plant their batteries and hurl their fiery missiles among us aimed at ihal mighty magazine of combust hie n , alter the explosion which would luy llie slales in rums it will therefore beooma oor imperious duty re curring to those greut principles f international law which still exist in all their primitive force amongst the sovereign states of thia confederacy to den a 1 of ir sovereign associates the condign punishment of those enemies of our peace who avail themselves of the sanotuaries of their respec tive jurisdictions to curry on schemes of incendiary hostility against the institutions the safely und the existence of the state in performing th.s high duly to which we un c.n-lru 1 l.y the grout lutv f self-preservation lol us approach r c lutes with ull the fraternal uiildue-swliisli becomes i . .... 1 1 1 v ever lias existed without it aud we may confidently assert none ever will in the very na ture ol things there must is classes of persons to disci urge all the diflbrent offices of society from the highest to the lowest some of those ollices are regarded as degrading though they must and will l performed hence those manifold forms of dependent servitude which produce a sense of s periority in lhe toasters r employers ,,,„! of in feriority on the part ofthe servants where these ollices are performed l.y members of the political comm ity a dangerous element is obviously in traduced mm the body politic hence the alarm ing tendency lo violate the rights of property l.y agrarian legislation wl.i.1 is beginning lo is mani fest in tin ol.l.r states w here universal suffrage pre vails without domestic slavery a tendency that will iuc reuse in lhe progress of society will the increas ing i equality of wealth no government is wor thy of the name that does not protect the rights of property and no enlightened people wall l,„,g sub mit to such a mockery hence it is that in older com tries different political orders art established lo effect this indispensable object ami t will is fortunate f,r tho noo-alavo-holding btatasi if they are not in less limn .. quarter of a century driven lo the adoption ul u similar institution ur tu take 1 . a formal and solemn disclaimer l.y its imgis lalure of the existence of any rightful power either in such state or the united nates in con gress assembled to interfere in any manner what ever with the institution of domestic shivery in south < urolina su/icrior court — thursday friday nnd satur aiv i ni were folly occupied with tbe triul of case ilia i which none has excited as uiinli interest in ilus community for many years it yvas the stat rs john wailihll jr joshua w cochran und j is ii my rover on an indictment for killing j seph hubbard on the 19th of kept last without entering fully into the testimony it is sufficient to stale that tin deceased oame to i is death by a gun shot wound whilst attempting to make bis escape from un officer aud bis sse yvho had arrested him or worn endeavoring to arrest in under a warrant for n high misdemeanor the first lay wa so tirely taken up ill forming u jury tbe second with tho examination of testimony and the ilnrd witm _.. the immediate passage of penal luws l.y such legislature denouncing against the incendiaries or whom we complain such punishments as will speedi ly 1 !!., ie suppress iheir niacin litmus againsl our peace and safely though tbe right tn email cipale our slaves by coerceivc legislation has been very generally disclaimed l.y popular assem blages in the non-slave i.ol ling slates it is never theless important that each of thnso states should give tins disclaimer the authentic and author tativo form of u legislative declaration to be preserved iis a permanent record for our future security our right to demand of those status the euuettnent of laws i'or the punishment of loose enemies of our peace who avail themselves of the sanctuary of their sovereign jurisdiction to wngo a war of ex termination against us is limn led on one of lhe most salutary a.sl conservative principles ol inter iiuiiuuul law every slate is under ibu muni m the arguments of counsel the judge's charge wus delivered to the jury aliu dark on saturday vening when the jury retired and in ol i tun minutes returned with a verdict of not oidlty — tins annunciation of this vsrdiat produced as wo understand a very audible expression ol tin appro ballon of tl large crowd yvh.cli bad thronged lhe it is perfectly evident that the destiny of the negro race is either the worsi possible form of po-l liti.-al slavery or domestic servitude as it e\i»ts iii tin slave holding si.ties tl advantage of do mestic slavery ovei the oost liivornhle ...... i i .,, of political slavery does mot admit of a question it is the obvious interest i lhe master mil less llu.n ins duly to provide com fort le i ml and cloll.i.ig for his slaves , mid whatever fulsc and exaggerated courthouse from ih lie trial — ftlyctteville observir of xoc hi lo he close of