Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-24 00:00:00

THE SOIIinIERN TIMES, THURsDAY, FEBRuArtY 24, 1859

YOUNG AMERICA ON
SLAVERY.

in former days to see the pens where the war-
prisoners were stored to fatten preparatory to
being eaten. They were stall-fed for the market,
and hung up and cut up, as you would sell a sheep
or an ox. Young girls were considered the
greatest delicacies, but when tough with age they
became beasts of burden. Guilty of all crimes,
accustomed to the lowest acts of barbarians,
always at war, strangers to education, civilisation
and Christianity—brutalised by the lowest de-
pravity—the question arises, no matter what the
motive, has not his removal to America bettered
his condition, improved his morals, elevated his
mind ? Has not that been the first step towards
regeneration?' There can be bat one response.
So far as America is concerned—slavery, if not a
curse to the white man, is, compared to his native
habits, a blessing to the slave. America is no
more a hell to the negro, than Africa is a heaven.

(After reading Thos. Collie Grattan's "Civilised America.")

[Continued from yesterday's Narthern Times.]

The good Duchess of Sutherland clears the
peasantry from her estates, to make room for the
grouse and the season's shooting, and then forsooth
sends a monster petition, with half a million signa-
tures, to the American ladies, to do away with
slavery—she should. have added, "as she has done:'
" A thin partition, so you see, 'twixt Cupid and
cupidity." Her reception of the authoress of
" Uncle Tom" has done more to prolong, slavery
than the noble duchess will ever know. Had the
Rathbones and the Croppers of the anti-slavery
party devoted a little more time to the affairs of
the Borough Bank, and a little less to the
"domestic institutions" of America, perhaps there
would not be to-day so many families reduced to
beggary, perchance to a servitude, to them much
more wretched than bondage co the African.
'Tis natural to follow the leader ; and the ideas
of the few have become maxims with the many-
Children have their ears wide open, and their
memory is like wax to receive impressions, and
like iron to retain them. Facts are stubborn
arguments ; I crowd them into this article to show
that England has made the most money out of the
slave-trade ; and that it is wrong for Englishmen
to allow their children to grow up with ill-feeling
against relations who solicit friendship, on account
of acts for which their own parents are mostly
accountable. Every bale of cotton, every hogshead
of sugar she buys, is a premium on slavery !
Be consistent ; tell the truth ; don't exaggerate.
Better let the left hand know the right hind's ,
movements, than practice deception.

Slavery is the growth of ages. You cannot
emancipate it in a day. Slavery is the growth of
ignorance—not of education.

(To be continued.)

NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR

RAILWAY

The twenty-sixth ordinary general meeting of the
proprietors of this company was held in the Clarendon-
rooms, at one o'clock yesterday. Mr. Francis Shand
presided, and among the other gentlemen present were,
Messrs. Charles Holland, Edward Heath, Alerander,
Shand, Lupton,William Spalding, J. M. Magee, (Newry),
&c., &c. The meeting in addition to its ordinary
objects, was made special for the purpose of considering
resolutions passed at a meeting of Irish shareholders,
held in Dublin, on the 17th day of Sept., 1858, urging
that the seat of management should be removed from
Liverpool to Dublin, and that Messrs. A J. Small,
P. M'Evoy Gartland, John 0. Woodhouse, and J. M.
Magee be appointed directors of the company, in the
room of Messrs. Shand, Heath, Holland, and Fitzadam.

The report, which was taken as read, showed up to
31st December last, a decrease of £ll7 19s 5d in the.
passenger traffic, as compared with the corresponding
period in 185.7, arising from the wet and ungenial
weather during the summer; but on the other hand, the
goods traffic shews an increase of £37 19s 4d, and the
working expenses were only £613 12s 5d against £626
2s 7d last year. . .

How long is it since the right-of-search question
produced discord ?

Is it fair for England to insult America every
little while on this touchy question ? Lord
Brougham thinks so, but not Lord Malmesbury.
Young England's statesmanship is a decided im-
provement on Old England's.

The Chairman stated that, at the last mooting, they
parted with the understanding that Mr. Magee, of Newry,
was about to prepare the arrangement of a new directory
more acceptable than the present one to the proprietors,
and more efficient in carrying out the welfare of the
concern. There appeared, however, by a statement
which that gentleman had subsequently issued, to be
some little difference as to the expressions of the directors
upon that occasion. Mr. Magee appeared to believe
that they had then offered unconditional resignation of
their offices, and now charged them with having adopted
an after-thought—namely, that they would resign when
they had seen a proper local directory formed. He
denied that there was any such after-thought, and con-
tended that the directors would not be justified in
abandoning the concerns of the railway without any
consideration to that providence to which, he said, they
had otherwise left it. The Chairman proceeded at
considerable length to reply to several of the allegations
contained in the letters of Mr. Magee, and especially
referred to a statement put forth, on the authority of Mr.
Dargan, that Irish railways managed by directors in Ire-
land were also paying a good per centage, but that Irish
railways managed by directors in England were paying
nothing. He pointed out instances of railways managed
by Irish directors in Ireland, among others the Limerick
and Waterford Railway, which were not paying at pre-
sent, and the accounts of some of which showed a con-
siderable deficiency. Tho Chairman, at great length,
defended the management of the English directors in several
particulars, and concluded by stating that, although he
had taken a pride and a pleasure in aiding to bring what
had been chaos and confusion into good order, he should
be perfectly willing to resign his seat at once, when the.
shareholders believed that they had found a better man.
He then moved that the report and statement of accounts
be received and adopted.
Mr. Spalding seconded the motion. _ _

To become benefactors of the few blacks, the
Exetor-hall party would become malefactors of
the many whites. Their politics clash with their
ethics. Their near relations, the Americans, they
would sacrifice for their very distant acquaintances,
the Africans. Such conduct is not consistent.
Why is it that the black man must remain in
Africa ; why is it that he should be imprisoned
within his own borders ? Red men, yellow men,
white men, brown men—emigrate from land to
land, under. contracts equally binding as slavery.
But black men, like the Crown-jewels, must be
handled in white kids and placed in a glass-
case, to be looked at ! What have the aboli-
tionists to say to the coolie trade to Cuba
and Callao —the liinclostanee trade to the
Mauritius—the Boer trade to Cape Colony—all of
British origin ? I could paint as terrible a picture
of the Swatau and Macao coolie traffic as the most
rabid friend of the African. I have been upon the
ground. Parliamentary returns give the list of
the dead, but say little of the misery of the living
Out of 14,000 agricultural labourers in Trinidad,
7,927 were from India and China. Between 1845
and 1859, of 11,458 Chinese and coolie emigrants,
6,278 remained as voluntary emigrants or returned.
The African is much more adapted to the climate
than the Asiatic, and a negro thrives under a sun
that destroys a coolie !

Mr. Magee, in a lengthened address, condemned the
policy pursued by the present directors, as well as the
previous board which sat in London. Me declared that
although the line was as level as the table, and passing
over land that was of little value, there has been £122,000
expended upon it. Of the original board of directors, he
stated that only two were Irish, and the remainder were
English. Mr. Magee concluded by moving the following
resolution : " That the consideration of the report be
adjourned until the 4th day •f April next; that a com-
mittee be appointed in the meantime to investigate the
affairs of the company on the spot, and report to a meet-
ing of the shareholders to be held in Liverpool on that
day ; and that they have power to call for the production
of all books and papers requisite to procure an inquiry."
Mr. Small, of Newry, seconded the amendment, but it
was negatived.

Labour was wanted—supply and demand rule
it. Slavery is a crime—therefore coolie trade is
introduced. Measure after measure is brought
forward to obtain labourers ; and no matter what
the system, so long as it is called by any other
name than slavery.

The truth is, I have heard the word so often
repeated that I am disgusted with it; and I believe
if Congress would pass a law compelling the slave-
owners to be called coolie-owners, or serf-
owners, and the slaves to be called coolies,
or apprentices,- or serfs, or servants, or any-
thing but slaves—l believe if this could be
done, Exeter Hall would be perfectly happy, and
the world would revolve upon its axis as in the
olden time. For really it is the sentiment, not the
fact, of slavery that occasions such clamour !
What does England wish America to do with
her slaves—liberate them ? I think.not.
What does she want ? Do the Clarksonites
consider a negro equal to an Anglo-Saxon ? If
they do, I don't. Do they believe that an Anglo-
Saxon can be brought down to the level of the
African without crossing the blood ? They cannot.
Then how expect the African to rise to their
level without mixing the stock ? 'Tis unnatural.
The moment the white marries the black, the
white deteriorates in greater ratio than the black
improves. 'Tis a question of race. There are
degrees in nature. Can you make a pointer out of
a poodle P Can you get a peach out of a crab-
apple ? Can you grow an oak from a pea nut ?
Can you change a carrot into a melon ? Will a
donkey produce an Arab horse ? Can you bring a
chicken out of an egg plant ? Can you make an
eagle out of a duck ? A lion from a pole-cat ?
Most certainly not ; you . cannot trifle with
nature, nor make a silk purse out of a
sow's ear. And it is scarcely impossible for
you to change an African into an Anglo-Saxon.
It is a question of blood -of race ; and a question
far above even the thoughts of those who abuse
America on account of slavery !

Mr. -Speakman stated that he would . support the
original motion, that the accounts and report be passed
and adopted. The report was perfectly satisfactory to
him, and the accounts. showed amazing economy. Mr.
Magee had sent a circular to the shareholders, which
contained more perverted matter and more downright
falsehood than ever he had witnessed in a doeninent of
the same length. Mr. Magee said that the income of the
Newry and Armagh Railway had increased by £403
during the half year, and that the income of the Newry
and Warrenpoint Company had decreased by £1.47.
Now, the income of the former was some £1,500, and
the expenditure about £l,lOO. The income of the
Newry and Warrenpoint Company was about £2,500, and
the expenditure did not amount to £l,OOO, which showed
the better management? Mr. Magee also avered that
Mr..Dargan had stated that all Irish railwaysmanaged by
Irish directors, paid on the average five per cent; and
those managed by English directors did :not pay three per
cent. He did not believe that Mr. Dargan ever said such
a thing, but if he did, he told a downright falsehood, and
ought to be scouted, Where did the Irish people get the
money to go on with their railways ? Why, from Eng-
land. The money invested by Irishmen is not more than
from ten to fifteen per cent .of the whole. Who spend
the money ? Irish contractors—lrish landlords. It
was divided amongst the people on the spot, who
took every shilling they could, and put it into,, their
pockets. He then proceeded to investigate the original
outlay. He found £lO,OOO spent in parliamentary pro-
ceedings to go over a swamp. They had no reason to go
to parliament, as there was no opposition. He found
that £65,000 was put down to permanent way. He
would get as good a contractor, as honour-
able a contractor, and as wealthy a con-
tractor, to have done the work at £l2,ooo—npo per
mile. Who received all the £60,000 ? -Why the same
Mr. Dargan who so falsely stated that every railway
managed by Irish directors would pay five per cent. He
concluded by stating that the affairs of the company are
in safe and proper hands, and turning to Mr. Magee, he
said, " Go home to Newry and tell the people that if they
want any assistance from a body of English directors,
they must improve the commercial morality of Newry,
and not allow their mercantile men to negative everything
that is just and equitable."
Mr. Small moved that the following paragraph be
expunged from the report :—" The Newry and Armagh
Company having continued to refuse to complete the
agreements made by them under their- Corporate Seal,
and having introduced a'bill into Parliament for the pur-
pose (among other things) of obtaining an access at
Newry independent of the one sanctioned by Parliament
in the bill obtained by this company last Session, and
in violation of their pledges, your Directors are taking
measures strenuously to oppose such bill, and to bring
under the attention of Parliament the gross breach of
faith which has been perpetrated!'
Mr. Magee seconded the amenanent, but it was also,
rejected.
The reports and accounts were• then agreed to.
Messrs. Shand and Fitzadam were re-elected directors,
and a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per anntim,
less income tax, having been: declared upon the pre-
krence shares, the proceedings terminated.

When they will explain to me why God, in His
wonderful wisdom, made one mountain overtop
another mountain—formed one ocean larger than
another ocean—planned one valley wider than
another valley ; when they can make me understand
why He made the oak stronger than its neighbour—
the rainbow more beautiful than the storm-cloud
—the lilly more lovely than the lilac ; when they
will tell me the reason that Providence ordained that
the fair Saxon should be permitted to express, in
the blush upon her face, all the emotions of her
soul, while the African knows not the signification
of the word ; when these things are made
clear to me, I will admit that the African
is equal to the Anglo-Saxon race, but not till then.
They were born and bred servants —they cannot be
masters. I have been in Africa, and nowhere did
I learn that the Nub ian had ever been other than
a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. For
forty centuries they have borne the burden.. We
may regret their position, but we cannot change
the laws of God. The obelisks and hieroglyphics
of the past have stamped their occupations.
They built the pyramids. For forty centuries
trey have been in a state of serfdom that
their descendants on the American plantations
would shudder to contemplate,
Of tho fifty millions now in Africa, some forty
millions are slaves, It NNP,s U 0 unusual thing

DEATH OF THE FIRST TAL,NKEE CLOCK MAKES. Died,
at Plymouth Hollow, Conn., Jan. 29, Seth Thomas, Esq ,
aged 75 years. The New. Haven Journal says of the
deceased :—" We know,' of hitn as one of the fist, if not
the first, to introduce. the manufacture of clocks,. now a
great staple of Connecticut. His ingenuity was success-
fully exerted in thismatter, and he established the business.
on a very extensive. scale. Enterprising, prudent, reliable,
he prospered in hiis.business undertakings,. and soon became.
known as a manufacturer of cotton goods. His large
establishment-M Plymouth has been in successful operation
for a long time, and we recollect hearing it said that during
the recent financial revulsion his different flictories did
not decrease. their work at all. He has been engaged
in other. manufacturing enterprises, and has been, we
believe, successful in all of them. Ono peculiar habit of
his was, in spite of his wealth and age, to employ himself
at the work bench the same a.s. the ulen 313 his employ."—,
New Pa; paper,