Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

(OUATG AMERICA ON
SLAVERY.

,r reading Thos. Colley Grattan's "Cit

*sedAmerica.")

NUMBER TWENTY-TWO

the African will not work without a master. The
European combines and succeeds. Th.e Asiatic race,
also, understand the power in part of working in
But the African has no idea of a joint-
They were always bondsmen. They
will always, so continue. But they must not be
called slaves. The word stinks almost as bad as the

stock enterprise

for the negro's pores are always
- -
open ! Enslaving debases the enslaver, but thus far
has elevated the slave. The Africans never combine,
therefore it is absurd, under the present system, to
fear a rising at the south. Persians, Asiatics, and
Tartars have had. armies, but who ever heard such
a thing as an African army, an African regiment, an

negro-

)t quite

African bank, an African joint
kind? Be assured the r

-stock association of any

egro is a one horse mind

with a one story intellect. Under guidance they

will work---alone they wallow in idleness. ✓
Nature never intended the negro to be our master,
or even our equal, but our servants. Nature's plans
are simple; her results are sublime. Every infant
born, is another link in nature's chain. Progression
is her first Claw. The sun comes on and leaves us at

the horizon

s always moving.
Day breaks by degrees, and
night comes under a regular law. Nature's -law
destroys the doctrine of chance. In Africa, slaves
are wretched; in America, they are happy. Ask a
slave if he would go back to Africa, and he would
the idea. Go into the Southern States ;_
observe the attachment that grows up between mas-
ter and slave. The planters call them " uncle " and
_ _

make great things

Little tl

, and the
lips is spoken in kind and affectionate words.
It is considered contemptible for a planter to sel
his slaves, unless obliged to part with them through
financial embarrassment. Pierce Butler, the husband
of Fanny Kemble, has just sold his estate in
Georgia to pay his debts. Some 400 slaves were dis
posed of, but the husband was not separated from
his wife, nor the mother from her young child.
This was the express stipulation of the sale.
The Times published in full the New York
Tribune's description of this sale, and - the next day

massy and missie

from their

gave a leader on the subject, which dealt much more
kindly with the slave-owner than was the case some
time ago. It concludes thus :

Jest point about this sale is that the familifs were
arated. The Philadelphian Mr. Butler made this

concession to the feelings of those among whom he lived.
The old men and women were sold with their grown-up
progeny, the husbands with their wives, .and the little chil-
dren with their parents. The writer hints that by.this mode

was made out of the

)ek ; but we are willing to

believe that it is the result of a dawning consciousnes

among the masters. The scenes which took place at every
auction, when negroes were ruthlessly separated, the remon-
strances of the North and of the world in general, and the

- •
of some of the clergy, in whom the spirit of Chris-
tianity has not been entirely quenched by the habit of looking_
on blacks as inferior beings, have led to the practice of
''ng the families as much as possible together, and the
s,wnersof late have taken no little credit for their
progress in humanity. But is this the only element which at
all palliates the sad and degrading spectacle. If any one
wishes to see how low the white man may be brought by
unliinited power to use human beings for-gain, let him read
the life-like description of the Southern planters, and see

selli
slave-

into..what a class the increase of the cotton trade has

1 the gentlemen of the Carolinas and Geor

Press, of April 16, devotes an editorial to
reflections on America. The concluding
paragraph will illustrate what I have endeavoured
to describe as the tone of the ministerial journals
towards America on this slave question :

This "pure democracy," this model El pOrado, after
which 11r. Bright seeks to shape the policy of England, has
been vauntingly called by its most eloquent orators "-die

In Congress and Senate it

Englishmen go to the Slave States, they Come back
delighted with America ? Why are their views so
changed? The Hon. Miss Murray was astonished
to find things so different from the way that she had
been taught.

Carnot says, that so far from sleeping on feather
beds in Africa, the slaves seldom have the luxury of
a mat or boar hide.

The Mandingo chiefs are the most civilised, yet
their " beds, divans, and sofas, are heaps of mud,
covered with untanned skins for curtains, while logs of
wood serve as bolsters !" In America they fare better.
I like consistency. Many of our most rabid anti
men---our Quakers, our long-faced philanthropists—
continually take money from the slave owners for
goods sold. Is it not as bad when .a planter sells
slaves, takes money, and buys merchandise of the
abolitionist—•the abolitionist knowing it was slave
money ? When debts are owing from Southern
States, abolitionists have never been known to refuse
taking slaves in payment ;- that is, they were, of
course sold, and they took the money ! These same
people who profess so much sympathy will not sit
in the same pew at church—ride in the same omnibus
or railway carriage—not allow a negro to come any
nearer to them than they can help. 'Tis hard to re-
duce their Maxims to actual life. The Times has
lately given an instance of the elopement of a
beautiful girl in Detroit with a huge negro. The
description was revolting.