The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

hir oradequate idea of this curious but widely
spread • iastitution. Thie is, the fault of the
work :t it mistakes a fragment for a whole—in-
vests a particular series of facts, occurring in one par-
tinier locality, with the consequences of a law ear
venial is its role. The author seems to ignore the
existence of " bondsmen" everywhere except is the
01 New World." One might as reasonably cominease
the study of BM progress of art or civilisation at the
discovery el Columbus ! It would be equally sane
and equally fair. Mr. Help appears to forget that
slavery is IS Old-World institution. It is not indige-
nous to the American soil. Along with the 110111000
and the government, the literature and the
ef Europe, it was transplanted thitherli."Cretie.
the period of American discovery, it bed neverlstm
unknown in Europe ; from de earliest times it
was probably in a declining stato—espscially after
the irraption of the northern races into the esatral
and western provinces of the Raman em
then never was a day
.in which the chilled leads
were free from the abomination. It Brrished is all
Eid under all systems Sayptiaas, Hawn,
'Mess, ltalian., Arabians, all bald mea ia
bondage. No great legislator of the antique
world expressly repudiated the idea of one maa
bolding a property in his flows. The truth of
hickey cannot be &ladled : and no good would come
of ft if it could.
This idea of the sanctity of human life and of indi-
vidual liberty is of a comparatively modern growth.
The elements of it, no doubt, were brought into the
system of European civilisation by the cooquerors
horn the north. But many centuries elapsed before
it mimed a sabstantive shape, and became one of the
leading characteristics of modern life and opinion.
Spain, by the accidents of its external fortunes, was
lees likely than any other country in western Europe
to arrive at a conception so lofty. Spain was in eon-
Met with the Moore—a race to whish booboos were
a political
In and a social sew immemildel
standing: In the canguinary conisets of them thole
for religion and dominion they ameared and ambered
each other. They bad a regular seememes k
They hal always known and boss asmallamai to con-
sider a 'cavils race am necessary M tbe =Meese of a
social body: These idses were, of wit" very
_false
and very wicked—bat they exietei—ead the institu-
tion existed. These hats the blenerien is bound not

to ignore.
By forgetting all thewantandoets of the qnstica,
Mr.-Help—unintentionally, we think—rains the see-
pions that some of the men whom we have hitherto
= with great veneration, such as Coloonne.
with
of Portugal, and the Kin of Arnim,
had a meet culpable than in the iiishment of a
asw sad nefarious traffic. The points which tell
sanest Columbus are brought oat with great force,
and will probably astonish many of those who know
the great discoverer only in his traditional character.
These points are mode too much ofd they are poortrayed
in tints too dark, and serve to convey false as well as
unfavourable impressions of him. He was
any mom a perfect character bat he pc
most oldie virtues which in that age went to snake
op the ban. He was just, patient, pious, and meg-
mite= to the extreme ; a tittle severe, bat withal
ebettisbie sad humans. His fault wee the fault et
Ye sp. Ile bed so horror of slavery : bat who in
Isseps lisit When could he have learned it ?
Oiehisay set ea the seeds of Africa, where he had
spent mach el his adventurous youth conversant with
cad is debt tithe Moorish waMo in the dark children
titbit deems& elatasent. Certainly not in the halls
of lady, Pettessl, or Spain, then swarming with sable
beedleetsa, misisters to their mailed vanity and
pride. Nem slave, were lag knew. is the parse of
ibebitlehmobefore they ssereespertei hateihe Wass
et Hisperefels. Bat is °shining sanseralde OW
111.4... Colombo bend a social isetintion
did not try to pat an end to it—this
b bi'....;Wiiaahisirtcst may plead guilty to the
slime egos&
Ss dole= him, or even to taint his reputation, on
Ws med. is 'gully unwise and unhistorical. He
acne, perhaps. of all the men who at that time con-
nived or executed plans of discovery, was thoroughly
basset and snare. He was a Chrietiaa and a ore-
neder—earryieg the pious chivalry of the twelfth
amatory into the power and lode-lusting fifteenth.
Without overlooking the minor points of his simian,
be thought chiefly of the nation to be
into the told•of the true faith : and regarded Etherreal
enterpeise only so far es it eubserved the more im-
portant plan of converting the inhabitants of Cathay
and rebuilding the temple of Jerusalem
-
Isabella, Queen of Castile, is a great favourite with
our author—considering her share in the expiation of
the Moon, the penention of the Jews, and the
foundation of the Invitation—rather more than she
merits of her owe grace. Her conduct towards the
American aborigines was perhaps the best part of her
elearecter; but her protection for an absents
monarek—was not very great, seeing that they were
destroyed under her benignant rule in myriad'.
Mr. Help has, as yet, only brought down his
.arratiye to the time of the promulgation of the laws
of Burgos, and the noble stand which was made by
the Dominican friars in favour of the natives. Ibis
latter part he tells with nice erect and considerable
spirit. The work is expected to be completed in
another volume. This we suppose will come down to
the period when negro slavery became the order—or
rather disorder of the day ; but a great deal, in fact,
all the better side, of the history of the negro in
America will still have to be written. Whether
Mr. Help will attempt this we know not.
There are plenty of materials for each a
history, and it is well worthy of being written.
The position of the negro has excited the interest of
many of the best and greatest men in modern times;
and the annals of slavery are, in fact, the annals of
the of society in knowledge and in Menden
s hit. Ilsis is a pest Noblest : we are too
near the struggie—the times and the engaged in
it—to appreciate it raid . Who would me a large
object in its,just p most retire to a distance;
but the dechuie and fall of the institution of slavery
will be too important to fail of Sadie. a &rookies.

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