The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, July 1915 - April, 1916 Page: 434
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known that the wisest and best Men in that Country are casting
their thoughts upon the past with regret, for it is hard to recede,
and upon the future with anxiety, for it is impossible to stand
fast.
Desperate public Men in the United States have ceased to
address themselves to the reason of their fellow Citizens, their
attack is upon their passions. What the consequences may be,
or how soon, no man can tell.
Mr Calhoun's strong prejudices and political eagerness have
blinded his judgment, not only as to. the feelings of Great Britain,
towards the United States, generally, but with regard to Slavery,
particularly-lf he had been contented to take his stand on the
position, that great as the evil of Slavery is, and much as it is
to be desired it should be removed, no fair comparison can be
instituted between the situation of Great Britain, in this par-
ticular, and that of the United States, every reasonable man
would admit that Statement. But what is to be said of a high
functionary of a great Republic, ;founded on an Jlnstrument
bristling with declarations of equal rights, who frights the world
from its propriety (mero motu too, for there was no, need to
touch the subject) with the astounding doctrine that freedom is
not a good thing per se, for the laboring people of -the darker hue,
and that it has been found to be particularly injurious to the
eyes and limbs, and understandings of the enfranchised black
people !
What can be adequately said of such a course by such a man,
and in such a station, and in the division of feeling that exists
upon the subject in this Country, but that like the desperate
Malay he is "running amuck", stabbing at friend and foe, and
probably ending his wild race, a self mangled victim.
If freedom produces this mischief on black people, it must in
some dgree do so, upon white. That has not been ascertained
to be the fact, and I am inclined to believe that Mr Calhoun
has collected ]hir (black) statement from some very inaccurate
statistics. At all events it is no satisfactory thing to have re-
marked that there are fewer deformed or helpless coloured peo-
ple in a state of slavery than in a condition of freedom. The
inference is painful
Let it not be supposed that I am one of these persons who
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, July 1915 - April, 1916, periodical, 1916; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101067/m1/461/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.