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THE TIMES,
18 published every Wednesday moraine,
N THE GRANITE- BUILDING,
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FOKSYTII, * M. JOil.\S'lO.\,
tors.
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Sheriff’s Sales under regulnrexeciitions, must
be advertised for thirty days; under mortgage
fi fas, sixty i)iYs before the day of wile.
Balks of Land and Negroes, by Executors, Ad
ministrators or liuaidiuns, for sixty days before
the day of s de.
Salks of personal property (except negroes) forty
DAYS.
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ly for SIX MONTHS.
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ians, of application to the Court of)rdiimrv for
leavn to sell tne Laud or Negroes of un estute,
four months.
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Debtors mil Creditors fa estate, for six WF.J-.ka
IT Lk rrEustp the priprietor 01 business,must
be post p \ in, to entitle them to at ten tin .
L A W NO TICES.
Alird & Howard,
ATTORNEY’S AT LAW;
Tuskfuek, Ala.
WILL practice all the brunchc* of the ]ir
*iu* in lids and tiie a tj iCcnl count.es.
Julio3 C. Alford, )
But. Franklin Howard, j
July 13, tb4S. Sl—ly
ftirhard 11. Clark,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albant, Ga.
Rrjfertn -es :
Him.Chss S. Henry, 1
H >n. Levi d-WLyua ,
Ma. Hm?l “I Jt vVard, f Salranl ”"’
M ri all In lui’ier t£g. J
Maj. O. P • -r., BR.uba.il . ounty:
Hon. Lo't Warren, Lee c maty.
Boben Land iv, ) ABsnv o.
loomu P S mill, >J
June 4. 1345. 23 l*tnov
J. LAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW;
BAINBRIDGE, (fIBCATUK CO ) GA.
“Will Sttnud pu tC'ual y the Superior Courts “f I he
icnuu lea of n.ariy, <■ *k ■ r and ijrciiur of ■ l.<■ W mill
W stern. arid ol the >:o m'y of Tu.<mjs us tne Sonni
er n Circuit. May 31, 184- 21 li
Irursau & Forsytli,
HAV.i renoved to olficu m “TiUioa” builtiiil l*.
u.i stairs.
May 14,1845. 23 if
C. hi. Rockwell,
ATTORNEY A T L V W ;
CoLUMIiCS, GA.
Office on Broad Street,over .Vlr. Leriav’a Jewel
•ror 81 ore.
’ April 2, lEJS, 14—ij[_
C’OXE & WILLS A MS,
A 1 TUitN EY S A T L A W .
Columbus, Georgia.
OFFICE in Hoopers New Building; Ear
aide Brmd street, near the market.
FRANCIS H COSE, >
6HARLI-3 J WILLIAMS. £
AprilS, .15.43. U-ts.
*Rol>srt B. Lester
AT TO RNE Y AT LA W,
Tazewell Marion County Ga.
March 12 1815 ‘ 12—ly.
William ittizel!,
ATTOR ,M E Y A l’ LA\V ;
Tazewell, Marion County-, Ga.
Marcli 5, 1845, 11 —ly
James 11. iVlitciieii,
A TT O R N E Y A T L A W,
Residence L nin pk in. Georgia.
WILL da trots ni- atteut.no It ii er, ex -nisive
ly to tna pro ftisiou, nod wtda.leul p.iueiil
4iy to alt nasiness -nt. uaed lo ms cipe, in any iru
t y i.i ihe oJiia lu-ioocltee or Sjutu-vVe.iero idt.en is.
Ken 5. 1815 B—ly
J S- jlliiCilcll,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Starksville, Lee (Jo Ga.
February 5.48 is‘ 6—ly.
William 55. ilTartin,
SOLICITOR A.ND ATTORNEY AT
LAW.
Office, in Girakd, Alabama.
Uto SSP.eO i'FULLY tenders bis profession it
ji-Vr serv.cev io the publi: genera, ly ; lie'nke* Ili is
mett.oi of appridn; bis pairons, toot lie makes tin
xolleoiioitr so le-edban ten per cent, on any sun
not exc ‘r Ing one inms ind and rilsra, lii. r risens tor
this puini atto.i,is'<• gv . general n itice to his won
barealrealy I.inn-l-il nun will t teir bu sines., wit i
out spe :i t c niir ici ; I'iat ney mav wnli iruw tb
■ ait) a,if liey prefer, and aI fu ore patruns if any may
expecl to be governed by this notice.
W'M. and. M 4RTIN
JinnareS 145 2—l y
law notice!
William 15. ih-yor
HAS stated hmi-pit’ in me iVa of I.aClrouge
I l'rnuji eouiny, Oiooigia, and will p it nice
law. in the coooties of I'roup, Meriwether, Cowe a,
.Csibpbeii, Oarrol and Heard, ot t le Coweta i nc.nl
—and rla.'is, Muscogee and Lalboi us (lie Cltatla
houcheo Circuit.
Uec 18. 1344 51—Iy
Taylor & Gouckc,
ATTORNEY’S AT LAW;
C(TTtteKax, (iLahdolph couarv.) Ga.
TIIE inrl rraig led laving .ssocia ed tbcmsr.lv,‘s
i,l miyirame iof hvt,a.v,win give their at
pennon t any bmi ,ess conn .led t, them ill me cmn
lieaiot dan I'lpi. Burly, .ink ,r,.Le *, ou nier Ltooly
8.1 Uoc ttor in ibe Snut iwe.le n, ~mt du wn, i of Hie
Couittio ,c me client. Tnov will an a, end .lie
.courts m durbour and llenre cottmiea tn A nbnuta
v¥,LI Ail I'A VL >li.
Vfwm a.u.jnkkb.
Novnmbsr 13 1844. 46-1,.
Kcesv & Dcutiartl,
ATTOR NE,Y S A T LAW;
Crawford Ala.
p:.tni.es s. Ueeje, 1
. I. BtMIAIIO f
Sept. IS, IS 11. 33—lv
li. 11. Platt,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albanf, Baker County, Ga.
Jan 1. 1845 I—'l~
Itiirks & Stephenson,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW;
TALBOTTON, GA.
J AMCC M. DVRKS, )
$ AMEX L. BTKPHENSON J
, feb 28. ISJi S>—l lf
FORSYTH & JOtINSTON, nprroats ]
I &, kJ>ij££iS 9
M-i Vii a tine m of (geo Kin and ’i'eis
ucssce 15AliaJit— “SO. a lo. of
.leathers,Flour, and (om-meal,
all of which -ill be wold at tne lowci prices FUK
A.'II.
June, 4,1815. 24—ts.
JOHN’ EVERftTT,
HAS rem veil to Dillingham's corner, nearly
<*lp*si.e his • id aand, “h-.-re lie will keep on
iiiiiiu lor sal# , a g oii a-sor-inent of
FA\CV ARID STAPLE
Rlnv ’8 18so. 22 ts
SPitl\G & SUMMER
C THING.
S. li. HAMILTON,
(Next Door to J. Killin')
HAS c liini’iictd roce.viuo a large Stock of
uig and .Stjinmer i loilhing.
I iMuo lln k and gi'Ceu cloih h'rock ml Dress Coai3;
DiapUVto, Krt’CK and Dress Cdu.;
Drmon do do tio
While, brown and check Linen, Frock and Dress
T ‘* ]. s Frock and Sack f/’oats.;
Haotaloons Vi sis, of every variety and descrip-
Shirt-, D awns, HandkerchivfM nod Cravuts.
Tie-. aiwJ Slocks, “f i very variety.
Si k ami Coi'on AJti.breihig.
Ha s uni ‘Li|H, m I very other article of Gentle
men*- “c:r, -4) ll table f>i the season.
. A {Fi ji MO, 1815 18—ts
NEW OOf>S! JfEW Gol>S>.^Ti
f H"l S1 •scriner mnovte :e viog a’ the old sum j
Al. former y occnptd by iVI JSiewari &
Komtonv. and morn remmy bv Mcrs 1111, law. |
.-oil Go an entire new and desirable us.-or incut oj !
FAMILY <iCf>CtEls3liS fiiC. &.C.
wlucli be off rs to the public ut prices m sttii lh„
lime*. li. MtKAY.
Uec. 4, 1 “44. 49—f
IffiU'XTJ LI, X.sr’ JlTr.TJKn,ociooi com-
PAB7 CP WBW-YOEK.
No of Lives Insured during the month of
June 1845 90.
Gnnditiim of tlieUuinpany Ist February and at t’df* |
d ’
Date, N't. Pol. G’-oss Lifts’ h and Amount j
istued. receipts, expenditures, ineisietl |
J innary 31. I ÜBG 124 687 27,415 97 273 i
l;me 30, 1513 1)1,907 35.J15 15J.5L2
Increase sn-c5
Isi .February, 427 67,220 10,901 56,519 j
M. ROBINSON, President. |
l’h<* hiisin-ss of this Comp nv is iapidlv ami rego- J
arly luof i’cs-ing. presenting vvory prospec, both ol |
<ec#nily and pi wfif.
App'iri i'ios ucoived and all desirable informa
lion t irnih# t| hy H. S. SMI 1 11, At*- t.
Juyl6, 1845 ‘2d-4r |
At tne Cheap Book-Store ,
OM Si.'ind near rite Market.
ptihscriho uiu i-.i n< # <1 -peso of lis mi
& lire s ork, i- SELLING OUT as lasi a- po
it;e a 1 p w rssidl lo or Horn rv.e •.
l each.-rs I'.ireiHs. and Dm P.in p. -n it, are
-a’sifs y mviied u call and exami# e his very exien
ire S’ e*, l*-'oro jm iniemg ••Lev here.
Ju y 16, 1815 II) if- UliOHUt DUNHAM.
MILLERS! MILLERS!!
BOLTIN,4 a 1 .he diflci-
I W eit v.imli rs, AticifOF Brand,
Ju*t received and loi sol,, bv
1.: J. .LAVIKS.
Nov* 1844 45—if
P iOPOS/VLS
Pur Publishing m tSuvini.uk a Monday Pe
rwUicul. to In culled
file Soiilitci'ii .j.sui'if.i! and Li*
iciary ,ta.,jg.,iS4s4e.
BdoaP. c i os.
The originator* ..! t.i * ....ru nt.i.ve lliat die fid -
.or liiuia.y ,xi 4 .,i0u an . i fl euce, in „nr cviiuiij, i
wu mg lo t.ccupy at l u*i a poi i .ii „l die gimuml,
vili U set in, l. it, invite UuourulM. ille eiu 1 ,b
je, , an ell .lie. have in M IV, i. ... U ll In .mama i g
n. is beiicvcd u.o tpiaiitiuU lo u suuio. T i., \
!e.go and * Hr >.!,!, i hi - channel, to , unit out Hie
r - unce.- tiuiJ deKi dte i .it re-im >4* die South, .
• pits ii v.iui i.r uii ilr c arac ei oii<i co di >on
ofiuepc #p.e, au J lo Imi -u i.c c.t> and ocaiuii li
oi e .eel *u id 01. >ii* ioe-o u v.-, u,ey ..m
MJ i.iii oi-ii.i-. i I t e u. and rto iu; the b si iU e..l oi
il white doulh; u.l.i l*e feu, Ilia> hey c. ii dpjnal
%ii s.mif <: j..*L44iace to Uieir ie ovv C I.Z J.is Joi fc. p
po.l and (’.o-nife.ii ll ,
I'iih wo k vrfif b,; bon he n—i; wi Ibo the organ
us a sccii in: oiit*in no n.u i o.w Mpu i. of no iuiy ‘.o uiiy
~> im ol oilr ouutry. J s icc U u>i caudoui iowuju
u.l. wdl gov.-rn is coor- ; and will bicuaiiy pu.ait
tho a ;r ii iiiiiiß #4 lulu.
i Hire •> ue ii, tSjh'ci i ly in thin diy <f cheap lit
criture, lur eri uud ,;i ciiimuu ii g cni-1111. —
• *jtniiiuesß ami y U i imiigu —u* vwruß
m*als—.ue m ol bring Ciushcd un
o.- m- uitt'S ot 11 u.'h of c.iirujjj (luoticatioiici, buiii
I .itMg.i a .i limn s c. which IHe (jicm>
iUejcul liiuiii'} lor sonic uunn* and in.ej e-.d-iD
gain*) iiiooe iiiilu ure ol ijic jß.bliNi.ii g hou ts .i
i I * coii.foy w ICI ihKiisgil im.go2i.ic ui-u i..e*fe|fK|ie<
urtli lg. C .liter at* lUHtle J.thvti 11 i'll■ <IIIOIIS Oil wi.ri*.-
liiaa VOritlllCß, rillU dl-’ Vtiy lOU CC.-t U £1 W.li
l iro.ll.at Mill .voUiMMHc (I iMO oj.llftoll. V* C liit.t
loro ~V W at die lliat*!, lim.l Wv micro il lo dvul Wl il
l a<ll'l v, |/l|u ithcia aitu Dot.K-, ny 1:1 1 üb. Vcl t)
Oli.y I milrol uy I r .iDiJirit , uim h |.|- p* i r fo.ru I-i j
in • com*, s.tia d.iv 10 u.. t otitiuUMiiy.
* cKu #.* u.d feci hi .1 otu ltd u. c.b jouiig.antl
lutiicito i.d m o niiDUiive. Xs.i vt.r ot.* bs u. i v.iy{
v I. uii i.uni b uilvdii and umili i. cuucstVur g J
g-ve iia .. lull , I ty.uj - umi .r .giu;iVctf , i ali i- j
o.fs c.uwu tioii 01 .ue n. ii of* u own tuu ilry.
1 Hui miN j* j.c eiui. Cluj i 1..1-4 ol ijripuid !
ih • ”I|. our ru.e 111 uiu .0, in woiKßiiU|i2, our iiclii*
ami o r User* uHiiinlt>ii‘iy in-c.tr io. in tlie Fu. {
- vrt , A Meric ... ije Hon mi j.ro iuc and w..iks < f ii>cii I
mi iia iannii.L Lij ~rni. VYcuro ur a y riv i-J
Mg Util GUIU|)C .11 1 Vfi> oepa lnieiit 4 u.vcidl *n, tiive !
u*iijt ii dial ui illc U'lii ‘ , ~vu I i.IIB, dll Unit pen- |
He.ti assertion .4 liiou-Ul and Iv iv.ng ha- lonimcuccd 1
wuicil llic Am lie an ji .sllf-ii ami cn fUCU-r dciiiauu,
>mi are culcuiaud t> tieveiopi . iwen n ro biuu . o
eacii olht rinnt w unJ uuvai.ci and n utioi.a. -‘in ex
,n cbfion dun -li.til Ue ii us io Hu sc c millions, nmai
g.vc in our ln. a urc new and original iu.ui>* J win
a cordingiy lie .no of u.e clicrism-d oij. cih ui ou*
>o f .-lor by ail die iu ana in our power,
every nnru se oi iitlivu uud . r-g ual s.
vMii.e imtiii gofuHLCiaii n or p u usau ch tracer
wii t-e admitted n loi-ur |agts. we tliali •> no iuuum
s -rit kL'iin uifCUssiiig ie Igloos i iiu jiollt cal io|.itb.
Tuey mvo ve Hie Higm >l iiiieiests ot man, and ui
• lie |r*beu , more in.-n at any fjani (ei od, aiiraci the
se.loi.B uttciillwli t fa.l ikflecu. gllliudw.
T e nuiesi wi.icii u e as ui die eflitdency
•a i ciiaraciij* id tiic iij'iiiv utid iMuvy, will ciuim lor
6o.ii -ervtces a |>ioi: iHu,t j/iuce in oi r cou.tnn .
Ju,’Naval ami Military Cdfiroe a huve olien slinvn
lb At lliey arc as t oihjr tent t udo ; u die literatim:, as
o defend tne • uf of Hi. ir eomil y ; and a nuii.i>er
ot able c >r*ti ilnittirs u id be *• cur and I.t in I li ir ranks.
Tnis iViag .z ue will a a* he ihe medium >lnugli
wii.c.i .Lu oIU.IuIA
will regmarly |mbtisli much of is most iniertsting
m-t ii.—(t'mioi.a .4’iu and nnmic and fmeign ct
leapo. and nee, cuuiuiuiiK auons, ieciuics, and oilitr |a
jn’.N whicii may jo4>ess a general value.
We ite ieve o dial our |>oition has peculiar a•-
vantage*, lie .r-ia jes i.emeM ‘lie i.entre of lh
Soutner . S u>ce ; (inti il.nn potfse-b** soperi r op
por u t.ieafjr eAtinmiing South, in . pinion, 6td liv
ing a true eAprtash.ii io pit-fc.-t
t no work will be puh/islied by AV.
li tMs on itie ora! day oi'every moudi, bcgiuuing in
Oclo -or ll*:*i.
Tn pr.co vv|ll be Five D)Uar* per annum, paya
ble in advance*. Age u Will be allowed a liberal
co- ua'*-Bion. and the r effdits to obtain subsetil-eit
arete pwlifuily rolieimil* lie urns lo be made by
the !*• of Aug nt.
Sivnnnah. LViav Ist. 184S.
N. B- E Jdora desiroup of exchanging w ill pUtse
imert lui4 P.ospectus.
ife wltttiwttfi etttteg.
SI.AVLUY.
From die Sonih Caroli. ian.
GOV. IdA.M.VIOND’S LETTEItd ON SOUTH-
Ell v SLAVERY.
( Concluded .)
Ido nnl know that I can subscribe in full
lo ilie settliuieni so ollen quoted by tbe Abu
lilionists, and by Dr D.ckmsou in bis letter
tome: “ Homo sum cl niliil humanum a me
aliei urn jnilof as translated and practicably
illustrated by Ibßin. Such a dncirine would
gne wide authority lo everyone for the mosl
d.iiijerous iritermediing will) Ihe affairs of
others. It will do in poetry; perhaps in some
sorts of Philosophy; but the attempt lo make it
a lioiiseh, Id maxim, and introduce it into the
daily walks of life, has caused many an
•‘Homo” a broken crown ; and probably will
continue to do u. Still, thougli a slave-bold
er, I freely acknowledge mv obi gations as a
man : and that I am bound to treat humanely
Hus febow creatures whom God has entrusted
10 mv charge. I feel I lie re lore somewhat
sensitive under the accusation of cruelly, and
11 *posed lo defend myself ami fellow slave
holders against it. li is certainly the inter,
est of ail, and I am convinced that it is also
the desire of every one of us, to treat our
slaves with proper kindness, li is necessary
to our deriving the grealesi amount of profit
irom them. Ol ibis we are a.l satisfied.—
And you snatch ft out us the only c insolation
we Americans could derive Irom the oppro
b mis,imputation of being wholly dev ted to
multi iig, money, which your disinterested and
gold-despising countrymen delight to cast
upon ijs, when,you nevertheless declare that
we ansready to sacrifice it lor the p easure
ol being inhuman. Yen remember that Mr.
Pill could never gel over liie idea that eelf
interesi would insure kind treatment to slaves
unlil ytui"jojUi him your vvoful stones of ihe
Middle passage. Air. Put was right in the
li.st insiance, and erred, under your luiUm;
in not perceiving the difference . 1 a
temporary and permanent - -•'” •‘I’ 0 ’
IBl.i n*-nore periei initio ici
men. They have passions. Some ot incut,
as you lUiy suppose, do mt at all times re
strain moiii. rveujier do husdiands, parenis
and Inends. AiHLpi eseii of these relations
as serious suffoilugsas Irequenlly arise from
oncentioiled passions as ever does in that us
Master and Slave, and with us little chance
ol indemnity. Yet you would not oil that
account break themjup. I have no hesitation
in saying tlint our slave-holders are as kind
masters, as men usually are kind husbands,
parents and friends—as a general rule, kinder.
A bad ma'ler —he overworks bis slaves, pro
vides ill lor them, or Ireaiatbem with undue
severity—loses llie esteem and respect ol Ins
follow citizens to as great an extent as lie
would, for the violation-of any of Ins social
and most ot his moralobliga i nis. What Ihe
most periect plan of management would be
is a proid -tn hard to solve. From the coui
meecenieiit ol Hl.ivery in t :is cbnuliy, this
subject lias occupied the miuJs of ill slave
iiblders, as much us llie improvement ol Ihe
general condition of mankind bas lln.se of the
unis, ardent Philanthropists ; and the greal
esi progressive amelioration of tile system
inis been effected. You yourself acknowl
edge ilia! m ihe early pari ofyuur career you
vverff T-xi eedingiv a x mis for the immediate
aholi-tiou of ihe Slave Trade, lest those en
gaged in it should so in ligate its evils iis to
.1 stray theT.irce ol your argtlm-. ins and fads
I’ll, improvement you then dvtnd- and nas gone
mi steadiiy In re, and vv uHI doubtless have
taken plat e in the -lave Trade but for tbe
meaßii.es adopted to suppi-css it.
Ol late years we nave -been not only
annoyed, liui greatly embarrassed in ilii
iii.il-ci, hy tin- Au, luiomst*. We Inive-beeii
eoti)|ielied to curian some piivih-ges; we
live been debarred Irom granting new ones.
In toe face of tlucust.ous wnich aim at
ousening al. tics between master and slave,
we h.i.ve in some measure to abandon our
eliorls to atL-.ch lueiii to u- and coutrol them
through their ailedi,,ns and pride. We
ii ve to rely iu,ue and mure on the power
of tear. \Ve iiiusi in all our in.ercuuse vviih
lueiii assert and niaimaiu strict mastery,
and impress it un them tint they are Slaves
This is piinlul •. us, and certainly no'pre
sent advantage io-them. isu. it is the direct
consequence of the AboimoA agiiainm.—
v, e are do.eru.iued to continue Masters, I
and io do so we have to draw-the rein i
l igh er and ligh er day by day lo he
ssurt-d that we bold them in complete
check. How far this process will goon de
penus wlioliy and solely un the Aholniou
ists. W lieu they desist we-can relax. We
may no’ before. Ido not mean by all this
lusay that we are m a state us actual alarm
and lear of our slaves;-but under existing
circumstances vve should be inctlabty tlu
pid nut lo increase our vigilance and
strengthen our bands. You see some ol
the IVmts of your labors. I speak freely
and candidly—not as a colonist who, l hough
a Have bolder bas a masier; hut as a Tree
while man, bolding, iiudei G -d, and resolv
ed io liuld, my sale m my own bauds; and i
assure you tlint my senlnm-uls and feelings
and delernniiaiio s nre lho*e ol every slave
ho.der in this c-un-try.
Tiie research and ingenuTy ts ihe Abo
liun.sL, aided by liie inve nioa of runaway
s aves- in which facul y, far as improvis
ing falsehood go -s, the Af.jcaii Race is
.without u riv .i—have succeeded in shock
ing the world w illi a small number of pre
tended msiaiices of our barbarity.• Tbe
only wonder is that, considering liie exlcnl
of our county, the variety of our population,
itn fi iCtualing character, and the pubirci.y
of all our transactions, the number of cases
collecied is so small, li speaks well fur us.
Yet of these many are false, and highly
colored, some occurring half a century, must
of iheui many years ago; and no d-übt a
large proportion ol them perpetrated by lor
igners. W ill) n few rare exceptions the
emigrant Scutch and English are the worst
ma-ters aiming us, and the next in them our
Nuithern fellow-citizens. Slaveholders born
and bred here are always mute humane to
slaves, and those who have grown up to a
large inheritance of them, the most so of
any —showing-clearly that the effect of the
system is to fus er kindly feelings. Ido not
mean so much to iuipu e innate inhumanity
to foreigners, as to snow ihey come heie
with false no'ions of ihe ireaituenl usual
and necessmy for slaves, and ihe newly ac
quired power here, as every where else, is
apt tn be auused. 1 cannot enler iiiloa de
atiled examination of the cases staled by the
Aool lionists. il would be disgusting and
of little avail. I know nothing , f them. 1
have seen nothing like them, though born
and bred here, and have rarely heard of any
thing at all lo be compared with them.—
Permit ine to say that I think most of your
facts must have been drawn from the West
Indies, w here undoubtedly slaves were treat
ed much mure harshly than with us. Tins
was owiqg to a variety of causes, which
might, if jrfyeessary, be staled. One was
ihat tlievmd at first to deal more extonsive
-1 ly with Wrbarmns fresh-frb.n the wilds of
THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND TItK SOVEREIGNTY OB’ THIt STATES.
COLUMIUIS, GA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 30, 1845.
Alrica; ano her, and a leading one, the ab
senteeism of Proprietors. Agents are al-:
ways more Unlee,mg tliau owners, w heilier ;
placed over the West li dian or American
slaves, or Iru-li Tenu m ry We lee, this evil j
grea ly even here. You describe the use |
of llitvnb streu s as one mode of punishment
amo, g us. 1 doubt il a thumb screw can !
be found in America. I new r saw or beard
ol one in this country. Stocks are rarely
used by private individuals, and confine
ment si,II mure seLom, though both are
common punishments for whites, al! tbe
world over. I lliink ihey should be more
frvq ently resorted to with slave*, 33 sub
stitutes for flogging. which I consider the
most injurious and least efficacious mode of
punishiug them fur serious offences. It is
not degrading, and unless excessive, occa
sions little pain. You may be a little as
tonished, after all tbe flourishes that have
been made about “carl whips,” &c., when
I say flogging is not the most degrading i
punishment in the world. It may be so to ■
a white man in most countries, but how, is j
it lo the iv lute boy? That necessary coad
jutor of the school-master the ‘‘birch” is
never thought to have rendered infamous ;
the unfortunate victim ol pedagogue ire; j
nor did Solomon in his wisdom dream that !
he was counselling parenis lo debase lheir
offspring, when he exhorted them not to
spoil the child by sparing the rod. Pardon
me for recurring to the now exploded ethics
ot the Bible. Custom, which, vnu will per
haps agree, makes most things in this world
good f. r evil, has removed all infamy, fiom
ihe punishment of die lash to the slave— j
Your bl od boils al the recital ol stripes in- |
fl ced on a man; and you think you shnujit ‘
lie frenz ed to see your own
g“d. You see how If SoClely .
idea, arising Myffßmilted to ihe rod yourself,
...oiler years, when the smart was pernaps
as severe as it would be now; and you have
never been gui'tv of the folly of revenging
yourself of toe Proiepior who in the plem
lude of his ‘‘irresistible powet” thought pro
per to chastise your son. So it is with the
negro, and liie negro father.
As to chains and Irons, they are rarely
used; never I believe except in cases of run
ning away. Y.,u must admit that if we
pretend to own slaves ihey must not be per
muted to abscond whenever theyseefit;
& if nothing else will prevent it ihese means
must be ix-sorted to. See t e inhumanity
necessarily arising from slavery) you will
exclaim. Are such restraints imposed on
no other class of people giving no more of
fence? Look tc your army and navy. If
youi seaman, impressed f.om their peaceful
occupations, and your soldiers, recruited at
the gin shops—boll) of them as much kid
napped as the most unsuspecting victim of
the Slave Trade, and doomed to a iar more I
wretched fa e; it those men manifest a pro- I
penalty to desert, the heaviest manacles are
their mildest punishment: It is most com
monly death; alter summary trial. But ar
mies and navies yon say are indispensable,
and must Ip kept up al every sacrifice. 1
answer that they are no more indispensa
ble 1 ban slavery is lo us—and to you; for
you have enough of il in your coumry, llio’
the form and name differ Irom ours. De
peiTii upon i Tliat many things, and in re
gard lo i-ur slaves, mosl tilings wlucliappear
revolting at a distance, and to slight it flee
lion, would on a nearer view and impartial
comparison with lie customs aid conduct
us toe rest of mankind, siiike you in a very
different light. Remember ihul on our es
tates we dispense with the vvnole machine
ry of public police and public Courts of J us
urp. I Ims we iry, decide and execuie the
sentences, in thousands of eases, wliirh ill
oilier countries Would go into the Courts. —
I fence, must of the acts of our alleged cru
city, which have no foundatom in truth.—
Whether out Patriarchal mode of adminis
tering jusiice is less humane than Lite A-si.
zes can only be determined by careful in
q .i.y and ci ukpai ison But this is never
done hy ihe AbolftiiuLsts. All our punish
ments are ihe outrages of ‘•irresponsible
power.” If a man steals a pig in England
lie is transported; torn from wile, -children,
parents, and sent to the Antipodes, -10-fa
m us, ami and an outcast forever, though
perhaps he took from ihe superabundance of
iiis neighbor to save the lives of Ins famish
ing little ones, if one of our well fed ne
groes, merely for the %uke of Iresh meat,
steal-a pg, he gels perhaps forty elnpes.
II one ol your-Co lagers break i-itoanother’s
lionse, he is hung f. r burglary. II a slave
does tile same luvTe, a few lushes, or perhaps
a few hours in IHe slocks, se'tlee the mailer.
Aie 011 Courts or yutirs ihe most humane?
If slavery were not in question you would
doub’.ess say ouis is mis-akenlenity. Per
haps it olten is; and slaves 100 lightly dealt
with sometimes grow daring. Occasional
ly, though rarely, and aliivosi in consequence
of excessive indulgence, an individual re
bels. Tli-s is the highest crime lie can
commit. It is trea-ou. Ustrikes at liie root
of our w-ho'e system. His liie is justly lur
f.iied, though it is never intentionally
taken unless after trial in our Public
Courts. Sometimes, however, in capiur
ring or in self-deience, he is unforinnate
ly killed. A legal investigation always fol
lows. But, terminate as it may, tbe Ab
oln-i mists raise a bue and-cry, and another
“sli.-cking case” is held up to the indigna
tion ol the world by tender-hearted male and
female Philanthropists, who would have
thought all right had the master’s throat
’ been cut, and would have liiuinphed in it.
i cannot go into a detailed comparison
between tbe penalties inflicted on a slave
in our Paririarchal Couris, and those of the
Courts of Session to -wh -cb freemen are
sentenced in all civiiiz <1 nations, but I know
well lliat if there is any fault in our crimi
nal code, il is that ol excessive mildness.
Perhaps a few general fads will best il
lustrate tbe treatment this race receives at
our bands ft is acknowledged that It in
creases at least as ra| idly as the while. I
believe it is an established principle, that
population thrives in proportion to us com
fbris. But when it is considered that these
people are not rectuiied by iirinigration Irom
abroad as tbe whites are usually settled on
our richest and healthy lands, the fact of
lheir cq ial comparative increase and giesi
er longevity, iiuiwcLj-k; a tnousanj Aboli
lion falsehoods, in favor of the lenieucv and
providence of our management of them. It
is also adrnilieit lliat there a.e incompara
bly fewer cases of insanity and suicide
among them than among 41. e whiles. The
fact is, Dial among the slaves -of the Afri
can race these things are almost wholly un
known. However frequent suicides have
been among those brought from Africa, 1
*ay that in me time I cannot remember to
have known or heard of'a single ius.ance of.
deliberate self destiuetion, and but one of
suicide al all. As to insanity, I have seen
but one permanent case of it, and that twen
ty years ago. It cannot be doubted that a
mong three millions of people there must
be some in-ane and some suicides; but 1 will
: veniure lo say Ilia- more ca*es of both occur
| annually among every hundred thousand of
the population ol Great Britain than among
| al! our slaves Can it be puss ble, then,
| that they exist in that stale of abject mise
i ry; goadetl by cons'ant injuries, outraged
! i:i lheir aflections an 1 worn down with hard
ships, which the Abolitiunisls pain, and so
many ignorant and thoughtless persons re
ligiously believe?
V\ ith regard to the separation of husbands
and wives, parents and children, nolhii g
can be mo,e untrue than the inferences
drawn from what is so constantly harped
on hy Abolitionists. Some painful instances
perhaps may occur. Very few that can be
prevented. It is and it always has been an
object of prime consideration with our
slaveholders to keep families together.—
Negroes are themselves perverse and com
paratively indifferent about this matter. It
’ is a singular trait, that they almost invaria
j bly prefer forming connexions with slaves
belonging to other inasiers, and at some
nTTsiAuce. ~Ti is therefore impossible to pre
j vent separations sometimes, by the remo
; moval of one owner, his deatn, or failure,
! and dispersion of his propiny. In all such
cases, however, every leasotiable effort is
made to keep the parlies tbgelher, if
they desire it. And the negroed forming
these connexions, knowing the chances of
their premature dissolution, rarely complain
more than we ull doof the inevitable slrokes
ol tale. Sometimes it happens that ( B n l 'jj an
! l' rHtrs to r K lve u up h ' B i?. n "V’ have’ known
I separate Irotnbi-*, ~0 willfully selling off
J sl ‘. c “.Mlfiif or a wile or child. 1 believe it is
rarely, very rarely done, except when some
offence has been committed demanding
‘•ir-mspoi laiion.” At sales of Estates and
al Sheriff’s sales, they are always, if possi
ble, sold in families. On the whole, not
withsiandinw the migratory character of our
po|4ilalion, l’bejjeve there are more fami
lies among our blaves, who have lived and
died logellier without losing a single mem
bi r from their circle, except by me process
•of nature, and in the enjoyment of constant,
llllinleil U plod communion, tlion iinuo flour.
islied in the same space of time and among
the same number ol civilized people in mod
ern times. And to sum up ail, ii pleasure .
is correctly dt fined tube the absence of
pain, which so far as thegreat body of man
kind is concerned, is undoubtedly its true
definition; I believe oursluves are tbe hap
piest three millions of human beings on
whom Ihe sun shines. Into their Eden is
coming Satan in ihe guise oi'an Abolition
ist.
As Tegards their religious condition, it is
well known that a majority of the commun
icants of the Methodist and Baptist cliurch
les of the South are colored. Amosi every
’ vvlitre they have precisely tbe same oppor
tunities 01 attending worship that the whiles
have, and besides, special uccarions for
themselves exclusively, which they pre
fer. In many places not so accessible to
clergymen in oidmary, Missionaries are
sent, and mainly supported by their mas
ters, for the particular benefit of slaves. —
There are none 1 imagine who may not, if
they hear Lie Gospel preached al least once
a month—=TTTOst of them twice a month, and
very many every week. In our thinly set
tled country ihe whites fare no belter.—
But in addition lo tins, on plantations of any
size Ibe slaves who have joined the church
are formed into class, al the bead of which is
placed one ol their number, acting a* dea
con 01 leader, who is also sometimes a licens
ed preacher. This class assembles lor re
ligious exereise weekly, semi-weekly, or
opener, if lire members choose. In some
pans also Sunday schools for blacks are es
ablislied, and Bode classes are mally in
structed by discreet and pious persons.—
Now where will you find a lib ring popu
luion possessed of greater religious advan
tages I had these? Not in Loudon, 1 am
sure, where il is known that your Churches,
Chapels and Religious Meeting Houses, of
al! sorts, cannot contain one-hall ol the m
habitants.
1 liave admiltedd, without hesitation, wh’l
it w-ou and be umrue and profitless lo deny,
that slaveholders are tesponsiblu 10 toe
world for tbe humane treatment of the fel
low beings whom God has placed in lheir
hands. 1 think it would be only fair for
you to admit, what is eq"uaily undeniable,
that every man in independent circuinsiau
ces, all tbe world over, and every Govern
ment, is lo the same ex ent tesposiblo to tbe
wliule human family, lor the condition of
the poor and laboring classes in their own.
country and around them, wherever they
may he placed, to whom God has denied
the advantages lie has given themselves.—
Il so; il woulJ naturally seem the duty of
true humanity and rational philanthropy to
devote lheir tune and labor, lheir thoug is,
writings and cuarity, first lo the objects
placed as it were under their own imme
diate charge. And it must be regarded as
a clear evasion and sinful negLcl of this
cardinal duty, to pass from those whose
destitute siiuaiim they can plainly see,
ininutetlv examine and efficiently relieve, to
enquire afier the condition us istheis io no
way enirusied to their care, to exagerate
evils of which they cannot be cognizant, to
expend all lheir sympathies and exhaust all
their energies on these remoie o jecls ol
their unnatural, not to say dangerous, be
nevolence; and finally, lo calumniate, de
nounce and endeavor to excite trie indigna
tion of the world against lheir unoffending
lellow-creatures for not liasiening under
lheir diciation 4o redress wrongs which are
slouil y and truthfully denied, whJe they
IheuiseJves go but I.tile farther in allevia
ing those cliargeableou them than openly
iiud unblushiiigly to acknowledge them. —
There may be indeed a sort of merit in do
ing so much as to make such an acknowl
inent, but it must be very modest if it ex
peels appreciation.
Now 1 affirm that in Great Britain the
poor and laboring classes of your own race
and color, not only your fellow beings, but
your fdUow-cithens, are more mbwnblS ami
degraded, morally physically, than our
slaves; to lwtlievaled to the actual condition
of wp.oip, would be to these your fellow citi
zens a most glorious act ot emancipation.
And 1 also affirm, that the poor and laboring
classes of our older Free States would noi
be in a much ui-.re eviable condition but for
our slavery. One ol their own Senators lias
declared’iu the United Stales Senate, “that
liie repeal of the Tariff would reduce New
England to a howling wilderness.” . And
the American Tar.ff is neithei more nor less
than a system by which the slave Siatcs are
plundered for the benefit of those Slates
which ao not tolerate slavery.
To prove what I say of Great Britain to
be true, I make the following extracts Irom
the Reports of Commissioners appointed by
Parliament, and published by order of the
House of Commons. I can make but few
and short ones. But similar quotations
[VOL. V.—NO 31.
might be made to any extent, and 1 defy you
to deny that these specimens exhibit the
real condition of your operatives in every
branch of your industry. There is of course
a variety in their sufferings. But the same
incredible amount of toil, trightful destitution
ana utter w ant of morals, characterize the
lot of every class of them.
Collieries. “I wish to call the attention of
the Board to'the pits about Brampton. The
seams are so thin that several of them have
only two feet head-way to all the working.
They are worked altogether by boys from 8
to 12 years of age, on allfours, with a dog
belt and chain. The passages being neither
ironed nor wooded and often an inch or two
thick with mud. 111 Mr Barnes’ pit thes6
poor boys have to drag the barrows with one
cwt. of coal or slack 60 times a day 00 yards,
and the einplv barrows bark, without once
straightening their backs, unless ihey choose
to stand under the shaft and run the risk of
having their heads broken by a falling coal.”
Hep. on Mines, 1842, p. 7L “In Shropshire
the seams are no more than 18 or 20 inches.”
- 67.
“ At liie Booth pit,” says Mr. Scriven, “I
walked, rode and crept 1800 yards to one of
the nearest faces.”— lbid. “Chokedamp,”
“K,redamp, ’’ “ Wildfire,” “ Sulphur” and
“Waier” at all times menaced instant death
lo die laborers in Ihese mines.” *‘ Robert
North, aged 16 : Went intolbe i*- -* * years
o: age, to fill un 1 about 12
*i._ .. nen 1 drew by the girdle and
Lilbin my skin was broken, and the blood ran
down. I durst not say anything. If we
said anything the butty, and the reeve, who
workd under him, would take a stick and
beat us.” Ibid. ‘‘The usual punishment 1
for tlielt id u* place the culprit's head between |
the legs of one of tiie biggest boys, and each
boy in 1 lie pit—sometimes 4hei are 20 ‘
inflicts 12 lashes on the back and rump with !
a cat.”—- Ibid, “liidtdnces occur in which j
children are taken inih these mines to work j
as early as 4 years of sometimes al b,
not unfrequently 6 and 7, While from 8 lo 0
is the ordinary age at which these employ,
ments commence.”— lbid. Tlie wages paid
al these mines is from $2 50 to 87 50 per
~..„l. (nr , ri „„„ 0 „s
ability, and out of this they must Support
themselves. They work twelve hours a day.
—lbid.
In Calico printing. ‘‘lt is by no means
uncuminou in all the districts for children 5
or 6 years old to be kept at work 14 10 10
hours consecutively.”— Rep. on Children,
1642, p. 59.
I could furnish extracts similar lo these
in regard to • very branch of your Manufac
tures, but 1 will not multiply them. Every
body knows that your operatives habitually
labor from 12 to 16 hours, men, women and
children, and the men occasionally 20 hours
per day. in lace making, says the last quot
ed Report, children sometimes commence at
2 years of age.
Destilu ion. —lt is staled by your Commis
sioners that 40,000 persons in Liverpool, and
15,000 in Manchester, live in cellars; while
22,000 in England pass the night in barns,
toots, er the open air, “ There have been
found such occurrences ss 7, 8 and 10 per
eansiu one cottage, I cannot say for one day,
hut for whole days, wiiliout a morsel ol food.
They have remained on then’ beds of straw
for two successive days, under the impres
sion that in a recumbent posture the pangs of
hung r we;e less felt.” Lord Brougham's
speech llt/i July , 1842. A volume ol fright
ml scenes might be quoted ‘o corroborate the
inferences to be necessarily drawn from the
lacts here staked. I will not add more, but
pass on to the important inquiry as to
MorrM and ISHuraliuiu—“Elizabeth Bar
rett, aued 14 : 1 always work without stock
ings, shoes or trnwsers. I wear nothing but
a shift. I have to go up to the headings
wilt the men. They are all naked there. I
am got used to that.” Report on Mines.
“As to illicit sexual intercourse it seems to
prevail universally and from an early period
of liie,” “The evidence might have been
doubted which attest the early commence
ment ol sexual and promiscuous intercourse
among ‘bo-ye and gul*.” “A lower condition
if morale, in the fullest sense of the term,
could not I think be lound. I do nm mean
by tins that there are many more prominent
v.ces among them, but that moral feelings
and sentiments do not exist They have no
morals.” Their appearance, manner* and
muial natures —so lar as the word moral can
be applied 10 them—are in accordance with
their naif civilized condition. — R-p. vn Chil
dren. “ More than half a dozen instances
. occurred in Manchester, where a man, his
wile and his wife’sgrown up sister, habitual
ly occupied the same bed.”— Rep. on Sani
tary Condition, Robert Crucliilow aged 16:
“ I dont know anything of Moses—never
heard of France. 1 dont know what America
is. Newer heard of Scmlatid or Ireland.
Cant tell how many weeks there are in u
year. There are 12 pence in a shilling, and
20 shillings in a pound. There are eight
pints in a gallon of ale.” Hep- on Mines.
Ann Eggly, aged 18 : “1 walk about and
get fresh air on Sundays. I never go to
Church or Chapel. I never lieard ol Christ
at all.” ibid. Others:” The Lord sent
Adam and Eve on earih to save sinners.”
“1 dont know who made the world, I never
heard about God.” *“1 dont know Jesus
Christ—l never saw him—bui I have seen
Foster who prays about him.” Employer:
“You have expressed surprise at Thomas
Mitchell’s not hearing of God. 1 judge there
are few Colliers here about that have.” Ibid.
I will more. It is shocking beyond
endurance to turn ever your Records in
which the Condition Ofytiur laboring classes
is but too faithfully dejlic ed. Could our
slaves but see it, they woiildjoin us in Lynch
ing Abolitionist*, which, by Ihe by, they
would not now 6a loth to do. We never
think of imposing oa them such labor, eiihei”
in amount or kind. We never out them to
any work undertew more generally at twelve
years of age, and then the vary hgb', est. De
slitutkm is absolutely unknown ; never did
a slave itiTve in America ; while >io moral
sentiments and feelings, in religious informa
tion, aud even in general intelligence, itrey
an infinitely the superiors ol your operatives.
Wftexiyou look around you how dare vou
talk to us beluie tlie world of slavery 1 For
the condition of your wretched laborers, you,
and every Briton who is not one of them, are
responsible before God and Man. Ifyoua e
i really humane, philaniliropic and charitable,
here are objects for you. Relieve them.
Emancipate them. Raise them from the
I condition of brutes, to the level ot human
1 beings—of American slaves, at least Do
1 not tor an instant suppose llmt the name of.
1 being free-inen is tbe slightest comlort to
them, situated as they are, or that the bom
> bastic boast that “whoever touches British
1 soil stanJs redeemed, regenerated and diem
’ thralled,’’ can meet with anything but the
1 ridicule and contempt of mankind, whjle that
soil ewarms, both on and under it* surface,
1 with the oiost abject and degraded wretebe*
that ever bowed beneath the oppressor's
yoke.
I have said that slavery is an established
snd inevitable condition to human society. I
do not speak of the name but the fact. The
Marquis ol Normandy lias lately declared
your operatives to be ‘in effect slaves.” Can
it be denied 1 l’robably, Lr such Ptnlanthro
pislsasyour Abolitiunisls care nothing for
tacts. They deal in terms and fictions. It
is the word “slavery” which shocks their
tender sensibilities ; and lheir imaginations
associate it with “hydras and chimeras dire.”
The thing itself, in us most hideous reality,
passes daily under their view unheeded j a
lainihar face, touching no chord of shame,
sympathy er indignation. Yet so brutalizing
is your iron bondage that the English opera
tive is a b\e word through the world. YVhen
favoring fortune enables him to escape his
prison house, both in Europe aid America
be is shunned. With all ihe skill which 14
hours of daiijj labor from the tendcrest age
j has ground into him, his discontent, which
j habit has made second nature, and his de
jpraved propensities, running riot when freed
| from his wonted letters, prevent his employ
ment whenever it is not a matter r.f necessity,
lit we derived no other benefit trout African
slavery in the Southern States thin that it
deterred yonr freedom from coming huher, 1
should regard it as an inestimable biessing.
How unaccountable is that philanthropy,
winch closes its eyes upon such a state of
tilings as you have at home, and turns its
blurred vision to our affairs beyond the At
lantic, meddling will) matters which noway
concern them—presiding as you have lately
done, at meetings to denounce the “iniquity
of our laws” aud “the atrocity of our practi
ces,” and lo sympathise with inlamoua
’ wretches imprisoned here for violating de
crees promulgated both by God and man. Is
this doing the work of “your Father wW(
is in Heaven,” or is it seeking only “that
’ you may have glory of man ?” Do you re
-1 member tlie denunciation of our Saviour,
1 “ Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees ;
i! P-rpucrites ! for ye make clean the outside
|of the cup and platter, but within they are
! rob to extortion and excess.”
I But after all, supposing that every thing
( you sny of slavery be true, and its abolition
j a matter of the last necessity, how do you
i expect to eflect emancipation, and what do
.you calculate will be the result of its ac
|Complishment? As to the tneans to be used,
,ibe Abolitionists, l bet eve, afiect to difler,
a ar ß e proportion of them pietending that
[their sole purpose is to apply “mothl ua
, ion’ to the Slave-holdeis themselves. A*
a matter of curiosity, 1 should like to know
i what their idea of this “motal suasion” is.
1 heir discourses—yours is no exception
ate all tirades, the exodium, aigument and
peroration, turning on the epithets “tyrants”
“thieves,” “murderets,” addressed to us.
They revile us as “atrocious monsters,”
man,” our homes the aGode of every^lniqui
ty, our land a “brothel.” We retoit, that
they are “incendiaries” and ‘‘ assassins.”
Delightful argument. Sweet, potent, “mo
ial suasion!” What slave has it freed—
what proselyte can il ever make ! But if
your course was wholly different—if you
distilled nectar from your lips, and dis
coursed sweetest music, could you reasona
bly indulge the hope of accomplishing your
object by such means ? Nay, supposing
that we were all convinced, and thought of
slavery precisely as you do, at what era of
“moral suation,” do you imagine you could
prevail on us to give up a thousand mil
lions of dollars in the value of our slaves,
and a thousand milliins of dollars more ju
the depreciation of our lands, in consequence
of the want of laborers to cultivate them ?
Consider : were ever any people civilized
or savage petsuaded by any argument. Hu
man or Divine, to surrender voluntarily
two thousand millions of dollars? Would
you think of asking five millionsof English
men 10 eontribirte either at-once ot gradual
ly four hundred arid fifty million* of pounds
sterling to the cause of Philanthropy, eveD
if the purpose to be accomplished was not
of doubtful goodness ? If you are ptepared
to undeitake such a scheme, try it at home.
Collect your fund—purchase our slaves,
and do wiih them as you like. Be all the
glory youis, fairly and honestly won. But
you see the absurdity of such an idea-
Away, rhen. wiih your pretended “moral
suasion.” You know it is mere nonsense.
Tlie Abolitionists have no faith in it them
selves. Those who expect to aeeompltsli
any tiling count on means altogether differ
ent. They aim first, to alarm us : that
failing, to compel us by force to emancipate
our slaves, at our own risk and cost. To
these purposes they obviously direct all
their energies Qur Northern Liberty men
have endeavored to dbseminaie their de
sriuciive doctrines among our slaves, and
exciie them i insurrection. But we have
put an end to that, and stricken terror into
1 Item. They dare not show their faces
here. Then they declared ihey would dis
solve the Union Let them do it. The
North would repent it far more than the
South. We ate not alarmed at the idea.
We are well content to give tip ihe Union
sooriPT than sacrifice two thousand millions
-of dollars, and with them all the rights wo
prize. You may take it for it
is impossible to persuade or alarm us into
emancipation, or 10 make the first step
towards it. Nothing, then, is left lo try,
but sheer force. If the Abolitionists uto
ptepared to expend tfceir own treasoire and
shed lheir own blod as freely as they ask
us to do, let them come. We do not court
the conflict; but we will not aud cannot
shrink from r. If they are not ready to go
so far : if, as I expect, their philanthropy
recoils from it: if they are looking only for
cheap glory, let them turn theii” thoughts
elsewhere, and leave us in peace. Be the
sin, the.danger aud the evils of slavery alt
our own. We .compel, we ask none to
shate them with os.
I aua well aware,that a notable scheme
has been set on frot to achieve abolition by
making what is hy courtesy called “free”
so much cheapei than slave labor as
10 force the abandonment of the latter.
Though we are beginning to manufacture
\ wilhtlavea, Ido not think you will attempt
, t pinch your operatives closer in Great
Britain. You cannot curtail the fags with
which they vainly attempt to cover their
nakedness, nor reduce the porridge which
bately, and not always; keeps those who
. have employment from perishing of famine.
. W hen you can ad o this, we will consider
, whether our slaves may not dispense with
, a pound 01 two of bacon per week, or a few
. garments annually. Your airft,“however,
I is to cheapen labor 411 the tropics. The
I iden of doing this by exporting your “bold
. yeotnaDry,”U 1 presume given up. Crom
-7 ** -- -T— l—- —“ P’ rol*
, lowers of Chat les into West Indian slavery,
1 whete they speedily found graves. Nor
r have your recent experiments on British
, and even Dutch constitutions succeeded
1 better. Have you still faitli in carrying
, thither your Cooli.es from Hindustan ?
Doubtless that one wild robber race, whose
, highest eulogium was that they did not mur
, der tnetely for the love of blood, Lave becu
tamed down, and are peihaps “keen for
1 immigration,” forsince your civilization has
f reached it, plunder has grown scarce in
1 Guxerat. But what is the result of the ex
■ periment lhasfar? Have the Coolies, ceas
-1 ing to handle arms, learned to handle
. spades, and proved hatdy and profitable
i laborers! On the coot tary, broken inspirit
: end stricken with disease at home, the
, wretched victims whom you have hitherto
1 kidnapped for a bounty, confined In depo's,