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ST. Domingo presents in its well regulated gov
ernment, cheering prospect. Cuba must next
become free, as are now the rest of the West In
dia islands, and the universal feeling which per-
vades the European world, offers to slavery an
other guarantee towards its annihilation in our
southern states, The first effort, then, which
humanity dictates, is an endeayor to induce gov
ernment to exert every means inits power for the
purpose of putting stop to the cruel separation
of families, by selling off intervals the husband


from his wife, and the children from their parents
If this is not done, and it is asking little Of the
philanthropy of the age, revolution will but the
sooner break out-when the slaves are least pre-
pared for freedom, and the horrors of war will
then, too late for remedy, sound its terrific blast,
far and wide The first efforts of revolution may
perhaps be put down, but successful one will
follow. Much human life would be lost in the
struggle for in the prosecution of such. designs,
Providence has ever been prodfgal of courage and
the sacrifice of lives-the field of contest, though
strewed with the mangled dead, serve but to ex-
cite deeper desperation and a more determined
spirit of resistance. The darkest gloom at one
time hung over the inhabitants of ST. Domingo,
but the magic charm of freedom carried the ban
ner of the slave to victory and at the cry of Con
ward, onward" in the face of the most horrid
cruelties, we see the unfehered slave in the open
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who had acquired the proud title of the heroes
of Italy,"-but God forbid that the slaves of our
southern states should bedriven by cruelty to such
an alternative.


Revolution, even in the civilized world, is aw-
full in its waste of human blood-look at France
nation only contending for form of government
whether to be ruled by king, directory, or
by consuls-the streets of her cities flowed
with the blood of both sexes-the innocent and
the guilty alike fell victims to its ndiscriminate
fury, and what would be the exhibitions of three
millions Of fslaves, struggling for their lives, and
the very women, if not among the warriors, are,
as cultivators of the soil, equally effective in sup
porting the cause of freedom, with the male pop
ulation' While, therefore, we urge every effort
for the utter abolition of slavery at. the earliest
period possible, we prefer to think that the eman
cpation of the slaves at the south NAV ct be
accomplished without advising them to steal
horses, or any such questionable measures 10 e ;
able them to escape, for thus 10 escape is in pos,
sble; and even supposing that one out of fifty
succeeded, what good is to result' We reply,no
good, and much evil to their fellow slaves For
where could they go or. where find an asylum
under the U. States constitution ]?


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