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friends to the Union should take upon this agitating ques- 

 tion. If abolitionists really wish to see slavery abolished, 

 instead of seeing the Union dissolved, they will pause in 

 their mistaken, mad career, and see if there is not a more 

 certain way of bringing about that object, in a patriotic, 

 christian manner, than heaping abuse upon those who 

 were born to the inheritance. As an evidence that some 

 of the people of slaveholding States do not esteem the 

 inheritance as a blessing, I will give another extract from 

 the same paper. Speaking of Mr. Calhoun's^ letter to our 

 Minister in France, the editor remarks upon the institu- 

 tion of slavery, thus : 



"As to the blessings of slavery, Mr. Calhoun is very 

 silly to argue that question even at home; still more 

 abroad. The universal sentiment of the North, and, we 

 believe, a majority of the people even in the slaveholding 

 State, regard slavery here as a plague spot and a curse. 

 In Kentucky, while we believe all her citizens are loyal to 

 the constitution, and would resist any interference in the 

 question, nearly all regard the institution as every way 

 injurious to us and would joyfully adopt any just and 

 practicable scheme of relieving themselves of the evil. 

 The number of slaveholders in Kentucky is about one- 

 fourth the number of voters. This is an important fact, 

 which the considerate should constantly keep in mind. 

 Mr. Calhoun's principles carried out, would make the 

 laboring freemen of this country slaves to slavery. 



"God forbid we should excite the smallest prejudice 

 against either negro labor or those who enjoy it. We 

 would make no discrimination between them and others ; 

 for we hold ourselves conscientiously bound, under the 

 compromises of the constitution, to regard all and pro- 

 tect all alike." 



This is the true and honest language of the Christian 



'John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, born March 18, 1782; died 

 March 31, 1850. Secretary of war, vice-president, senator, secre- 

 tary of state, and political philosopher. Established a commodious 

 plantation homestead in his native district which he called Fort 

 Hill. Dictionary of American Biography, 3:411-19. 



