Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

YOUNG AMERICA ON

SL AVERY

(After reading Thos. Colley Grattan's

[Continued from Friday's Northern Times.]
Admit that slavery is a wrong, would not
freedom be a greater wrong to those incapable of
taking care of themselves? Their Egyptian life
Was dark as midnight, in comparison to the noon-
day existence of a southern plantation. In Africa

they lived in misery—In America in comparative

happiness

In their native land they were slaves,- as were
their grandfathers and great grandfathers before
them—slaves that were fed to be eaten or -slaugh-
tered for the amusement of their conqucrers ! But
in America their fortunes have changed. Tyre
in infancy' and in old age, in sianess and in health,

they are- cared for, sheltered and clothed, neat
provided, wholesome food is furnished,
suitable garments are precured, and if disease
overtakes them, physicians are at hand to ad-

cottages t

minister to their sufferings. You may say that
t guarantees all this. Even. so ; is it
ndt'•hetter than African wretchedness
the-free negro of the North, who may die in want ?
Better than thousands of white men in this
great land, who, were it not for the sentiment, the
l repugnance to the word save, would be

Nelf-inter

Better than

t:aturf

glad to change places ?

You see no drtnkenness amen

the slaves

while the free negroes brutalise

,niselves wit;

drink ! The free negroes adopt vices that the
slave would scorn. They are nett allowed to drink
rum. Therefore, `the strong law,of the planter im-
proves the Incrrais of the slave.. -

Is it not in Sacred "Writ, where it is laid do-4,-,-n
that every man shall do some -.:good to himself or
his neighbour ? In Africa :the slave would do
harm. In America he carries out the Divine rule,
and under his Tresent life he is obliged to support
himself, and in doing that, =he is made to grow
rice, sugar, .oern, and cotton for his fellow man,
thereby conforming to the:great law.
If any one doubts that,lhe slaves are happy,
let thein visit them around their meals, or their
cottage fie.; let them join in their plays, and see
the joy of their dances. 'Notice their glee when
the master ~returns.

There are thousands ,of planters who never

permit the --word slave to' be used on their planta-

tions : the negroes are spoken of as servants.
The Texam have just passed a law permitting any
negro who .had purchased his freedom, and wished

to return quin into bondage, to do so—choosing

their own masters, who must agree to kind treat-
ment and the necessaries of life in return for their
labour. ^Do not be surprised when I tell you that,
though the law is not two years old

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My

negroes Aave returned again into slavery

authority is a wealthy planter at present in
London. He gave me more instances of those
who wick._ to return than those who wished to

leave.
What,

I ask of the abolitionists, is n truthful,
common tense emancipation scheme, and a sound
practical plan of freedom ? Point it out, and I

may join them

I want'theinto-admit facts—not distort them—

an,;* -G,.

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be

admit that slavery in America is better
than freedom in Africa—admit that slavery
forced on the Americans by Englishmen

negro

admit

that Emancipation has not brought the expected
admit the wrong of risking war between

results

two civilised nations on account of a ship-load of
slaves—admit that there are many white labourers
in England who have less comforts than the

blackmen in America. I want those who abuse
America because of her slaves, to admit the in-
justice that is done to America, by laying all the

crime at her door—if crime it is, to improve the
moral and social condition of Barbarous races.
Rest assured that slavery is a matter of race.
You cannot make a white man a slave under many

generations ; neither can you reverse it with the
negro in less time. With Mrs. Grundy, I believe
in blood. Can you grow an oak in a flower-

pot ? Tame au eagle in a canary's cage ? or a

tigra in a rabbit warren ? No
Anglo-Saxon be made a slave.
It is simply a matter of brains. The most in-
tellectual must govern. The negro must always
remain a servant ; yet Exeter-hall would elevate
him to mastership, always forgetting that what
is contrary to the law of races is contrary to the
law of God.

Neither can an

Such advocates would make all men fat or all lean
—they would have mountains levelled—valleys
filled—no short people, no long people, but every-
thing on a dead level. This would be contrary to

nature. Roman noses, and pug noses ; French
noses and flat noses, would all, under their system,
be reduced to the emancipation shape !

What has been will continue—you cannot
change in days, that which centuries have formed.

ht is

born of experience, satin is made

from the mulberry tree

but it requires hundreds

of years to change the negro.
What has been accomplisher] by the African

Is there any evidence of genius, of capacity,
or power, on that Continent ? No, not one relic ;
yes, I will not do them the injustice of omitting
the monument of African sculls, erected lay King
Dahomey to his wife's memory! But there is

nothing else

(To be continued)

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