Slavery and the Constitution

hich ennobles and beau

er recognized nor protecte

aves, there is an indirect instruction much more p

for innumerable persons, the only relation in which they feel the true sentiments of humanity. It gives scope for every human virtue, since each of these is developed from the love and confidence which here predominate. It unites all which ennobles and beautifies life,-sympathy, kindness of will and deed, gratitude, devotion, and every delicate, intimate feeling. As the only asylum for true education, it is the first and last sanctuary of human culture. As husband and wife, through each other, become conscious of complete humanity, of every humane f

calculable, what must be the moral degradation of that people to whom marriage is denied? Must not the degradation also be uncalculated and incalculable? And yet such is the condition of the slaves! Not content with depriving them of al

d at large, depend upon its sacredness and purity." Without these there can be no marriage. No less true is it, that the institution ("Rel. Inst." p. 132) "depends, for

, "without the consent of their masters; and their marriages do no

ract or connection as that of marriage cannot be doubted; but, whilst in a state of slavery, it can

y ignorant of its dissolution. It leaves this whole matter where it ought to be, that is, untouched, and with the owners themselves. If th

al disgrace nor punishment visited upon those who criminally violate their marriage vows,[M] except what may be inflicted by owners, or, if the parties be members, by the church in the way of suspension and excommunication."-Page 119: "The relation is liable to disruption in a variety of forms, for some of which there is no remedy."-Page 133: "Families are, and may be, divided for improper conduct on the part of either husband or wife, or by necessity, as in cases of the death of owners, division of estates, debt,

us to expound to slaves the seventh comman

ed in a public or in a priv

ony be performed?-A. By a minis

esent to witness th

may a man marry?-

sband and wife separate w

ver power to separate t

God hath joined'? A. 'What, therefore, God ha

and wife ever s

ny ways?-A.

?-A. When either of

cond?-A. When eit

ay the other lawfull

e who break this commandment in the w

kind of live-stock! It declares that those whom God hath joined may be put asunder, whenever the owner pleases; as if, wishing to raise money to pay his debts, he finds it more convenient to sell the wife at auction to pledging his bank-stock; or if, wishing to remove, he thinks it will be better economy to take his stock with him than sell out, perhaps at a sacrifice, and buy again an inferior article!

his good pleasure, he wills that it shall change! It ends when he wills that it shall end! Wherein is the union among the human stock, on the Southern plantations, regarded as more sacred and lasting than the u

hundreds of similar ones might be

mond Enquirer,

t. He is no doubt attempting to follow his wife, who was lately sold to a speculator, nam

nd (Va.) Compile

ny known cause, and I suppose he is aiming to go to his

n H

n (Ky.) Intelligen

ed Dick, about 37 years of age. It is highly probable said boy will make for New Orleans, as he has a wife

& Th

n, June 1

nderstand Gen. R. Y. Hayne has purchased his wife and children from H. L. Pinckney, Esq. and h

Dav

ly taught to say,-"Thou shalt not commit adultery," and to consider such to be a divine command. But he is strong and healthy, and his master orders

with its member against the commission of so great a sin! And, when prayers, entreaties, remonstrances, have all been tried and have failed, how sternly will the church proceed to the last extremity,-excommuni

God and mammon, and reconcile obedience to the commands of the master with obedie

a character as to preclude all prospect of future inter

sw

the parties, not only to stronger hardships and strong temptation, but to church-censure for acting in obedience to their masters, who cannot be expected to acquiesce in a regulation at variance with justice to the slaves, and

ssociation in Virginia. This question was presented

een sold by his or her master into a dista

e, who made the following report; wh

re placed, the committee are unanimous in the opinion, that it is bette

aster's stock! Can any man who owns the body of his sister be expected to a

ce? Does any one say that either law or public opinion protects the female slave from the brutality of her master? The great frequency of outrages of this kind is demonstrated by

Richmond (

arly white, that it is believed a stranger would suppose there was no African blood in him. He was with my boy Dick a sh

son B

ry 6,

Banner and Nashville

size, nearly white, and very likely. She is a good seamstress, and can read a little. She may attempt to pass for white,-dresses fine. She took

te, so I can get them; $100, if caught in any other Slave State, and confined in a jail so that I can get the

. Jo

le, July

dvertisements are tak

mulatto boy, named Alfred. Alfred is about 18 years old, pretty well grown, has blu

. St

Count

an-slave, named Sam. Light sandy hair, blue eyes, ruddy comple

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April 2

away with her a pair of ear-rings,-a Bible with a red cover; is very pious. She prays a great deal, and was, as supposed, contented and happy. She is as white as most whit

n B

sa, May 2

wbern (N.C.)

of the following slaves,-Samuel and Judy, his wife, with their f

a slave belonging to the estate. William is about 19 years

J.

h 13,

we cut from the "New Orleans

inches high, speaks English and French, about 35 years old, waddles in his walk. He may try to pass himself for a white man, as he is of a very clear color, and has sandy

lothes).... Said negro man was raised in Columbia, S.C. and is well known by the name of Dick Frazier.... He was lately known to be working on the railroad in Alabama, near Moore's Turn Out, and passed as a white

. Al

Court Ho

aped foot and leg, and his f

ft is as white as our own sisters. Wm. W. Brown ("Narrative," p. 34), describing a gang of slaves who were under his charge,

r skin that created such a sensation among those who gazed upon her: it was her almost unparalleled beauty. She had been on the boat but a short time before

curling hair, blue eyes, and almost a blonde complexion. After having been kept as a mistress by her owner, he finally

en, is the pollution of the soul of the mother, compared with the fact of her increased value as a commodity? How utterly insignificant is the fact that a father holds his own children in slavery, compared with the advantages notoriously derived from such an improvement in the slave-stock? In sober, literal truth, the brother owns the body of his sister, and the sister that of her brother,-so sacred is the marriage-state of slaves! If the father wishes to repair the wrong he h

urt of the State of North Carolina,-the Old North State, whence Bishop Ives has long since ceased to weep over the "imaginary sufferings" of the slaves! To avoid a chastisement, a

In criminal proceedings, and, indeed, in reference to all other persons but the general owner, the hire

ic peace. The subject is one doomed in his own person, and in his posterity, to live without knowl

ho has no will of his own, who surrenders his will in explicit obedience to that of another. Such obedience is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority over the body. There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect. The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave

Bishops Ives and Freeman. If he had, he would not thus have followed the dictate of a "

delegate to the State Emancipation Convention recently held in Kentucky. In a speech mad

concubinage; for, in the eye of the law, no colored slave-man is the husband of any wife in particular, nor any slave-woman the wife of any h

less compute, the deep degradation cause