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VOL- 4.-NO. 8.FI UAH P* LOVE JOY, Editoragricultureihe rase... • •*—-*—vLTOX observer.streetflirt**ry Thursday morning—Oft tees store.auiuuu—a deduction of ftftrSecondill benegroesas littleMrscrupulous ot moral right asune sqiaru or under, one dollar;—forfatwilling to bring them negroes for money.By the adoption of our present national constitut'dLovbjot, Editor Alton Obwasto recoiof youiEarlyof themstrv Pi,r5*n5 writina*hSd sun-* where theybe 8 nltW;theytoCongressList or agents for the observer.Misftovm.rp'ift'iJL.Ki. K.-V Wm.FTuchruiLouisville, James Baird.Pleasant Grove, Dr. S. M. Harris. St. Charles, Thomas P. Cojtes. Auburn. Philander Drajter.Loustana, James Watson.m- - . ..AW I •of political management, the slave States contrived j¥enientto insert an article to prevent Congress from acting, |societras it respected the importation of persons, previous |c^iase Ato the year 1808, so that the several slave States, rused *\\ IiiW' ;T V pxrfcer E«a.KjnCr0(i'CO.L yi.P^uibone,Esq. MarionCoHvse, Win. Oaklay.by that means, retained, for twenty years, the ju- jin Us Po , , , vAsn. Franklin,Peter B. Davis.lUnnitab-- „ ^ Gentry, P.M. Millersbursrh, Martin Baker.iSrS* ifcLicu. KOlon. Nolle,.Charii- ii, _4, « . Jones Tan\ard, Isaac Tate..n j it ,mo,._____ Potosi, Henry Pease.KISq-'K R Wallace, Esq. Caledonia, Kev. T. Donnell.J.,,k Creek, Cyrus Henderson.1LLI JtOIS.Dayton, Kev. R McCoy. Canton, Kev. Kol«rt Stewart,risdiction within their own limits, upon the particu- nica^10(’haritGB. J'5I,U* , ot ,, j \HWfcFl Cl* I)*^dl6Portland. r‘ „ ’ i» \tLorminatim, J D P*'**rii *lar subject of importing slaves. Accordingly, in jmay 111South Carolina revived the slave trade, after ious 00Viirfield. Kcv.William Kirby.idle, Kev. A. F^N’orton.Kxcier. N. vV- a?w lfD Esq I. M.Aihi-ns. John N. Moore.f r^wiUc,Uet. Amos P. BrownPrinceton, K H; 11 «•f' H.i00’ J”hn in. tt rii'ht.Pu?hviHe, K. H. Hurlbut. sliiMino, Dr. John Lyman. ujiDtoro’ Charles Holinei, Jr.(hiin'v. liev. A. Turner. Pmsfudii, Wm. Porter,i A VV Lynn,years, andthat thher example was followed by others.lowedrrince s urove. arr. iv. vv. Babbitt.I^rnim'jrttm, Gelt;*. W.Utlli*W Whas never had the power to prevent her citiaens! (luenceCarrollton j Thomas A. Brown,Gttowa,Kev. K. W. Gridlwy.Cartilage, Kev. J Lawton,La llarj***, Mr. L. VV. Brooks.Naples, Mr. L. Davis, Bloomincton, Kev.Lemuel roitsr Dupage, Col. Wm. Smith,Peoria, Kev. J. Porter,Greenville, Rev. Albert Hals,Tremont, Rev. F. Bascotn, Collinsville, A. W. Beach, Sprirurfu ld, 1*. C. Canedy,Galena, Rev. A Kent,Carlinville, Bela White, Hennepin, Dr. J Sticksll. Winchester.Z. Cartar. Jacksonville, D B Aires, Warsaw, Rev. Julius Read.from engaging, as individuals, in the slave trad^;hut, on the contrary, the southern communities,peculiHebothasof hispossessed, and have exercised, within their ovnhis ovlimits, the power of legislating,outasforeigners, the temptation of money, to induce them tocoveropen iwasheflr#t:nock, W. D. Furguson,Bales ville, Mr. Lyon,MICHIGAN.Vpsilanti, Joseph C. Allen, M. D.aekahsas.Little R«*ck, Da»idFulton,gratify their desire, and bring them captives ; andWISCONSIN.Dubuque, Rev. C L. VV ntsonthese captives became property, not by any witch-transporting, hut kysouthern legislation; and by the same legislationALTON OBSERVER. those born within the State became slaves.ful gotof burhis anilourisHe.... I..lor the Alton Obsirvar. . the country, and made slaves by the legislation v,eorfollowing is a copy of a • ’ * . ® •Your demand is for compensaton for those bo*nthat inMr. IjOvejoy : Theof the States wlicrc they were horn; and it is founl-servicpiece ol private correspondence, written m ltliout a .* . V ... . ,1 ii i- i.0.i ed upon the lact that money was paid, not for then,thought of publication, which I had in an unfinished * J _ 1.....vou tlstate, when your last week’s paper came to hand,not for those whose liberty is desired, hut for tluir ithoiwith the address of “An American” toAbolition- ancestors» w^° *lave ^fen w°rked or worn out lywith ciists. Thinking it will suit one* r i the planter. The trader also expended money mpart of ms argu- * . 1wouldmeni, about as well as it wouldth friend for *lUm£ out anlt;^ hiring seamen, and payiiglife sjwhom it was first intended, I submit it to yourfor captives to the African chief. He likewise ex-aste, , i . * ponded labor, and endured danger, and he had is olirdisposal, and will endeavor to prepare a notice of i ’ f thgood a right to have his pay for the money and lathe other arguments, as soon as convenient.Haring, in my last, endeavored plainly to statebor, which he expended, as the planter had to kis Pnl,ltthe questions between us, I•ii money; hut the planter did at the time, receive tiewill now oiler some imore particular observations uponpropositionexact pay or equivalent, which he fieely chose, lor r(.. , A i * i i * his money; and having held and worn out the aiti- ma'which I assumed, That the northern people are *ot I1IB u,uuc^’t f * t f j u ^_____. # .hligathe ask the price tofor their slaves.be paid hack again?The claim of the trader andtices1 will first observe that, however unjust a.d wick- the l)latcr’ each 10 lhc e,fuivalelU he, C,,08e’ ireall tled manstealing or slaveholding may be, it is entireagainsthis vly possible for the kidnapper, the trader, ami he other; but neither of themi . .1 •* i • .t the broken law of God, or the rights of their vieplanter, at the same time that they are united m the UR UIU* ’1 timslt; The truth is, tr*dpr ami tinmost awful conspiracy against the rights of the slave,between the trader and the *d*rnit w as a fair business transaction, and wis of reto conduct the business with entire fairness, as it res- Planter- . .to be consci- so considered at the time, by both parties, m which ne«ipects each other. Men may intend,,,1 / . r ,1 each obtained just what he wanted, the planter ocntious and honorable, and yet, Irom the effect of uuuu J . . 1.ii. • .1 t »tained ihe neirro which he desired, for which *ebad education, error, or insensibility, they may do n Bwhicit se• , , , • mu • 1st* I freelv cave to the trader, the money which was tie ffro* vcrv wicked things. There is such a thing as hon- Ircci ’ , , . , e , ,uor6 ® =* Each having acted ft eel y, therot among thieves and robbers, as it respects each °^Ject ol pursuitother, for interest and common sympathy may leadand received the equivalent he chose, that is the fromthem to treat each other in anentirely different end of pecuniary responsibility between themselves, grea __ .*1 hut responsibility to the victims of their avarice, nighmanner from what thev do that portion of man- *lut responsibilitykind which they have marked out as their prey.moral responsibility to God, to the community, and mani #t . c * to each other are other questions for which each miglLet us now look at some of the prominent facts 10 eacn omer, are uuiui juu uu .* ! i l. r^Ail oc itfnl 1 fic nnh. rPSlli i c i it * mu«t stand before the bar ot God, as well as pub- restirespecting the introduction of slavery into the Uni- ,nusi aailu n 1l* :i 1 nlu.nvc vonvim infiPtlttmlP. v nr.i I ^ vl 1V' I !•Vl v'v*^v** * n7* w 1 • • • i |trd States. Tl,e first circumstance, worthy of no- lic °P‘»ion thal il1 not alwa s reiraa,n ,n“ns‘ble-lice, is the general insensibility to the sin of kid-Let us now review the ground over which wefor tnapping, siavetrading, and slaveholding, that pre- ^ave traveled.and1. In a time of general insensibility to the rightsvailed among Christian nations, from the commence-, - .ment of negro slavery, more than three hundred Lcathen men and negroc s, the soul u rn peop evesrs ago, until near the time of our revolution, freely admit sla\er\ among them.mavwhen the civil and political rights of men were ex-2. They legislate, they establish hereditary sla- hastensively discussed. It was during the prevalence VCIT ^aw» °Pen a public market for the pur. of tof this awful insensibility to the rights, particularly cdrase ot negroes ol all who will bring them , the)IiV/i Wiilo d f\ 1 Vi 1 llloLIialUill t ) tv Uil/ I 1 ^ 11 to ^ Jlul tlvlliuil ? , 1 * Xof heathen men and negroes, that slaves were, in °^er particular encouragement for their importaVI ucdturu uicii duu ULgiuuo, ttiat ajavto dcic, ^ ^ jthe year 1620, for the first time, introduced by a ^on» anc^ ma^e direct and special opposition to ^UIC Jlcll * iUl UIL lilcV I1IUUUULI U *JJ U * * 1Dutch vessel into Virginia; and from that time for- those who, upon moral principle, are opposeward, they continued to he introduced. Much l^ll“ir importation.wisstress has been laid upon the fact, that Virginiaonce petitioned the English government to discontinue the slave trade3. When a portion of the States have become; hanopposed to slavery, and have abolished it within ,mJ!their own limits, the southern people contrive by arighteousness have, on that account, been claimed i sPec^ political manoeuvre, to retain the jurisdictionfor the south; but I believe it was a mere business over '^ie gla'e trade in their own hands, ant tien,transaction, a question of pecuniary prolit, and not v'dien l^ie same constitution which permits them to— ^ u Vj iivui.lv/it j I' » 11 I*V* « illof morality; at any rate, it would be well for peo- retain the jurisdiction o\er the slaie trac t ta *es t .at on(pic to look up that question, and inquire particularly jurisdiction from the northern State s, the) open W ltinto the facts, before thev venture to make a right- their Ports’ and enlice ™rlhern citizens, who cJ ® . • 1 l .1 .___(Lair Lnl^can-ateousness of it, to counterbalance the sin of slavervin a dozen States, and some of them during a peri-not he restrained by the State to which they belong, pHTod ot more than two hundredyears.South Carolina not only patronised slavery bydirect legislative enactment, but early became fa-as well as foreigners, to engage in the slave trade.4. The northern peoplecalled!for the slaves, because they sold them to the south. 0flfNot those only who engaged in the slave trade, are ,mous for ihe perfection of her slave laws. Mary- ualled uI1011 to Pa’’ but thosc’ als0’ W,,° n°l aland, at an early date, passed an act for the express participate, and who had no power to restrain those ly,purpose, as stated in the preamble, of encouraging that did« all» both those that profited by the trade injtheimportation of negro slaves. In Georgia, theand those that did not, must pay; not for the slaves wlt;first colonial governor and board of directorsw e rethat were sold to the south, for they are worn out sllupon moral principle, opposed to slavery; but the and dead but for their descendants ; not for their jnpeople were so charmed with the idea of having deseemhmts otdy, bt for the descendants of those inslaves to do their work, as in the other colonies,! imported by foreigners, (and they constitute the mthat they petitioned the English government, and, greatest part,) who were reduced to .later) b) 1^ them removed from office, that their notionsj^aws die ^fates here the) were born.Imight be gratified.Although the jurisdiction ofA parable upon the subject, and I am done for ; ticthe hands of theseas wasSuppose you w ere in the habit of vv0IRes had legislaturesaspeople, or their representatives, passed those laws l)a)» ere enga£e *n bringing you swinwhich mademen propertyand encouraged the distance, for which, when I arrived .with a lot, youimportation of Africans. Withof which! joyfully paid me the money, and we both considerhasthe end of that transaction. Y-oii also buyoiarotompelledJ from half a dozen other drovers besides me, so thatpelled the colonial legislatures to establish slaveryhv laiv. It permitted, and perhaps caused tempta-. — —Rons to be placed before the people, and then leftpleasedcolo-nie» never had any jurisdiction beyond their ownlimits.I supply you with a mere fraction of your stock. \\byraisepigsAgain, in process of time it is discovered ajreasons againstearlysouth did not import herBut ithe English and the Northbusiness, and you begin to imagine that sheep would a!be more profitable to keep on your farm thanmoralness upon the subject, at the south, but simply be- you for your swine; not the old ones Iaffordloseacause they had markedthey’ are dead anduptheapersonal labor, and slaves were | young ones and pigs that you have raisedWouldunsuitable agents to build and navigate ships, and j you not be ashamedBut dMnport more slaves; they chose, therefore, to leave! does it not illustrate the exact principle uponthatalone, andtheirfoundedF.t
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