The true problem, then, is, not how the conflicting claims of these two principles may be adjusted, (for there is no conflict between them,) but how a real public order, whose claims are identical with those of private liberty, may be introduced and maintained. The practical solution of this problem, for the heterogeneous population of the South imperatively demands, as we shall endeavor to show, the institution of slavery; and that without such an institution it would be impossible to maintain either a sound public order or a decent private liberty. We shall endeavor to show, that the very laws or institution which is supposed by fanatical declaimers to shut out liberty from the Negro race among us, really shuts out the most frightful _license_ and disorder from society. In one word, we shall endeavor to show that in preaching up liberty _to and for_ the slaves of the South, the abolitionist is "casting pearls before swine," that can neither comprehend the nature, nor enjoy the blessings, of the freedom which is so officiously thrust upon them. And if the Negro race should be moved by their fiery appeals, it would only be to rend and tear in pieces the fair fabric of American liberty, which, with all its shortcomings and defects, is by far the most beautiful ever yet conceived or constructed by the genius of man. FOOTNOTES: [136] Locke on Civil Government, chap. ii. [137] Robert Hall. [138] Political Philosophy, chap. v. [139] Reflections on the Revolution in France. [140] Locke on Civil Government, chap. ix. [141] Chap. ii. § x. CHAPTER II. THE ARGUMENTS AND POSITIONS OF ABOLITIONISTS. The first fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The second fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The third fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The fourth fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The fifth fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The sixth fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The seventh fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The eighth fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The ninth fallacy of the Abolitionist.--The tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth fallacies of the Abolitionist; or his seven arguments against the right of a man to hold property in his fellow-man.--The seventeenth fallacy of the Abolitionist; or, the Argument from the Declaration of Independence.