Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

YOUNG AMERICA ON

SLAVERY.

(After reacling T hes. Colley Grattan's "aailisedlnmazi.")

NUMBER TWENTY.
Let me ask the Uncle Tom party a fev
Do they not think that as their philanthropic cats
and dogs have been so successful in 'their hunting
after pkOanthropic rats and mice—that it would be

estions

a change to give a little attention to 4th
of Eels and buffaloes ? Is not a whi
cheftr more worthy of thought thas
America ?
Are they aware that the sole 'atuVtion of a ill

nobler gam(

slave is to own a SIRVE

Like m

nan in Man-

a black man in

ster like ma

Do they know that their -closet ;philanthropy for

the ebony race has

tion than any otiv

clone more to postpone emancipa

action

Can they find on the face of tare globe the lower
eighth of the population if any country living so
happily and contentedly es .the:tiaves of the West.?
Are there four millions of people better taken care
of in any Lana?

Did not the records of qfre -House of Commons
prove that the President of :the • Liberian Republic
received 1;565 dollars for ,the;eloo negroes on ,board
the Regina Ccelia P Has emancipation worked 'well

in Spanish America—in 'the French West Indies—
in the Saitiskpossossions? Have not civilisation,:
morality, agriculture, and Christianity, declined
under 'the .-withering infimerne of the abolitionists ?
Do they mot., thinkthatovlille sixty thousand ni.inis•

*lzeaching•the doctrine of our Saviour

--sixty millions of Saxons ere practising

Is there in reality so wide a
difference between the American, slaves and the slave-
owners, as there is between the English aristocracy

of Moses-t,

and tale people

Let the Exeter Halltreforrriers reflect
remember:that under the pro mogeniture law, which
Mr. .Locke aing is :trying to change, England
entailed slavery .upon'Arnerica, her eldest son.!
The negroes did •notrmake the American Constitu-;
tion. Washington vwas au officer in the British.
army. Jefferson--,Adams —Hancock - were British
*subjects. All =mare not born "free and equal."
I deny it. The Creator's plans cannot be thwarted
by a turn of words- in a nation's declaration .of

Let them'

independence.
I really did not intend to extend this article to its
present length ; but, as I. wrote, the subject widened,
and I could not well,eurtail it.
I have received more letters—some censure—some

Piµ--D man says cut it short, another classify
your facts bettei, "-;.,-1 does not see any force
in my argument ; then comes au.— th how
such
things should be written. What object have yu...
What good do you. accomplish, &c.

To-day I find this. on my table :—" I enjoy all you
say in'the'TlMES. it nourishes me. lam improving
daily. One fault only--a little too epigramatic—too
true—too manv thundering, overwhelming truths
crowded into one nut-shell. Had you not better
fill up with lighter matter now and then, and not
choke off opposition with so much energy." I begin
to feel encouraged at this when another friend writes

me in the strictest confidence—" your articles in the
NORTHERN' TIMES. on slavery are the worst things
you have ever written—bad grammar—bad punctua-
tion—bad spelling; &c." I ask him if that is mine or
the printer's fault—and if a few able bodied ideas
were not scattered along the papers ?

It is all,vo.vs so—your strong points are passed over

One Mena advied me not to kick against the
pricks ; adding that treacle catches more flies than
vinegar. ,Exactly—but the truth is lam not anzbi-
tious to catch files, when more respectable game is
on the move.

"You must not consider that all Eaglishmen are
stamped and labelled- Exeter Hall," writes another.
Of course not; I respond ! but the .few abolition
leaders were high in rank, and millions followed
them without reflegtion.

The Times, of Friday last, reports the debate on
the West India Bill.
Buxton said that it was the fall in ,)
emancipation, that ruined, the West Indio

;ugar, not

llow happens it that the same analogy did not
apply to the Spanish colonies ?
Jamaica, said Labouchere, used to send to
Britain 1,500,000 cwt. of Lugar, now she sends not
qutte 500,000 cwt

Great

'Coolies

Julwer gave some interesting facts
immigration to Mauritius commenced in ,1836,
susyended in ,1838, and Government took it up in
1813 ; since which 170,000 have been introduced.
The sugar :crop decreasing in consequence, from
70,000,000 lbs. to 238,480,000 lbs. In British Guinea
23,000 coolies were imported; augmenting the crop
from 34,000 hhds., in 1841, to .54;366 hhds., in 1844:-
Trinidad was equally progressive only 10,000 being
taken to Jamaica. The debate decidedly favoured
co ii emigration ; , Chinese—Hindoos—but not ne-
griitli:: Bulwer was equal to Asiatic slavery—so was
BOiion—so Labouchere—so Crossle,y—so Fortescue
—but these statesmen cannot quite swallow African
slavery. The yellow boys as coolies ; but not the
blacks-as slaves ! -Yet the African is Salamander proof
insthe cane brake; while the poor Asiatic shortens
Mays No matter—let them die—fie long as the

nexo,,liTes

131.111wer was eloquent when snubbing,the apostles
of Uncle Toni. He admits the evil, and asks Mr.
Buxtoli " What he will do with it?" ;Read his

pg..l?rgion

trae,say, in conclusion, a few words to the idends of
WC-Anti-Slavery Society. I have fought by their .side in
nt,x7youth, and now, when I think they have been misin-
fesmti, I still believe that our object is the same—nAmely,

to give compl

iblime experiment of .t

€46Vireitialion. It becomes them above all men to do their
yi,rerider prosperous the colonies in wl
b4ina,43o4shed Every hundred weight of sun
bY,the immigrant at Jamaica is a hundr€
fiiim-thetnnrket of Caban slaves. Will slave states follov

awl' slavery

,ht withdrawn

it ? Can capital

our example, unless capital flourish under
risk-unless it has the right to hire labour wherever
Itirou; is willing to be hired ? I warn them, that if by any

tt of over zeal on oil

bilifp;w;inkired, it is we who shall rivet the bonds of negTo
ittiver/ ifibeiever it yet desecrates a Comer of the earth.
'74-51(Wei17- curses the white man, and blesses the

-slave!"

'f'llltre-is many a Southern planter that will endorse
flint view--but he dare not. It is more difficult to
.taantipate the whites than the blacks. They s'
_by institution as they would by their bales n
cotton. In reality, there is much difference of
*tam in the Slave States ; but knowing that associa-
iinn.,, is:, their ;strength, good representatives are
mehiigedr:to endorse the bad—a division in, the camp
''creates diSaster—the South speaks as one man,
kc.•
-Aerhe'cowardly act of striking below the belt—the
witeilewes -strangulation of the Indian Thug - the

Panite thrust—were no more ignoble . no
mere unnunly---not half so disgytegul as that brutal

assault of a Southern Trepre'sentative upon a
Northern senator-
Yes—the Southerners have been goaded on to say
things and do things that -naching but the sense of
injury would make than say and tie. The grim,
destroyer has crossed tile threshold of the Carolinian.
Let him rest,—and let us hope that the south will
never again have ,oaoasion to endorse an net that,
would bring disgrace-yap:in aprize ring. The Northern!
Senator, however, las not learned the manliness of
lesigzotion. "Gtmernor Banks deserves the seat.
I like Mr. 'Sunnier, but the nation (cannot afford
these stirring times to keep a vacant chair in the
upper house ;for martyrdom or ,p6fitical purposes.
As the north 'taunts the south so has England abused
America. 'Lock out for your geese when the fox
trams preachy
The spring-guns and man-traps of the anti-slavery
party had b&tter be broken for while. "'Famarity
eeds, contempt"—especially .With castor oil.
Americacdeclines England's kind assistance on this
Theory will not navigate a man of war.
It is' easier leading a horse-to water than to make
him drink."
En-gland makes fun of -us by agitating this ques-
tion. 'She criticises, butdoes not create. She sees
the nuisance, but declinesto soil her white kids with
the. chip. Always talking Emancipation, but never
suggesting the plan. Will she open a sinking
fund'? 'Here is an idea.
"Negroes grow wool-; -wool is valuable; each slave
could-raise one pound der annum• ; 4',000,000 slaves
now produce 4,00%000 lbs. At me shilling the
20'3,000. Ten years would give
Then, is the • nest-egg of a fund
where nobody is the loser. The negro cuts his own
hair, and thereby purchases his own freedom !
,will also suggest that England, during this
period of ten years, should devote all the philan-
throphy she may:thave 'to spare, after removing the
beggers from her streets—' and improving the condi-
tion of her poorsr classes-4o the wretched natives
described by Dr;Livingstone.
'Leave America alone for- the time. 'Let the problem
work. Africa is a wider' field.
It is too much to ask of 'England not to buy our
.slave-grown cotton, or sugar, or tobacco.
It is too much to ask her for money to purchase
emancipation. It is too much to expect her-to break
Up any: of her charities, or lessen her philanthropy.
Therefore, let her devote a portion of her time to
Africa. America will keep —the slaves will not run
away. In MO there will •be six millions. I ask
this as an experiment. If it does not-work—at-the end
of the• time. England can get her -porcupine quills
ready to throw again at .America—but meanwhile,
let her rest. Sowing in'the sand yields no harvest.
---;11 not extinguish fire---nor is a sieve the proper
thing for drawn%
t„.„ will not float—
neither can England force America to !ALL,—
hundred millions sterling into the abolition lagoon.
The abolitionists have been for thirty years legis-
lating far the blacks. Nov I have a great respect
for the whites. The-blacks are a decent but a bad
smelling race—the whites are comparatively sweet.
Now, as there are sort* .fifty-six ,millions of very
respectable white people in our lands, and only four
millions of negroes, the majority for once ought to
rule—not fifty-four, forty,—but fifty-six to four !
During the ten years -that the hair is growing to

natter

pound you have

X100;000. Herc

raise the 'two million sinking fund, and England is
pushing her blue-pill-philanthropy down the throats
of the Africans, some abolition alchemist may
possibly discover a process to galvar)49glilAckWSl4l.
stand lv the ropes, and place our *banners on the
outer wails. Napoleon suggested that each negro
should have a white,Wife, and each Saxon should
have.a 'black wife, but all.this would require time.
The world was not made in a day, nor can you make
a black man white with ,one generation of abolition
chalk.
Americans are weary of being misrepresented,
and ask-the Uncle'Tom Party, as a special favour, to
leave :them ialone 'for the. above time.
Sensible Englishmen 'have similar opinions, but
there are a few, in high places, who continue to
delude the 'masses. 'They 'forget that a sparrow
in hand is 'worth two vultures on the-wing. The
fable of the dog, who lost his mutton by biting at the
shadow, is instructive. 'While•the abolition party
are catching flies, the hornets escape. The difference
between the American slave and the Blase negro-
polist is, that one works to get meat for his stomach,
the other to get stomach for his meat. An argus
on American slavery, but -a mole on English '
poverty.

It is not safe to put Reynard on the jury in a
poultry trial. The Emancipation Bill was ushered
in with elaborate dinners, hot suppers, nice tea
parties, and mutual admiration ,committees, but that
day is passed. Buxton endeavours-to prove that the
West Indies still flourish, but gives •no credit to free