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YOUNG AMERICA ON
SLAVERY.

(After reading Thos. Colley Grattan's "Civilised,/ 'wilco.")

[Continued from Tuesday's Northern Times.]

By way of parenthesis you must permit to take
a note of "Audi Alteram Partem's" letter in the
NORTHERN TIMES of Saturday, where Young
America gets rapped over the knuckles for his
" foul aspersions " against the slave-trade, and
" against the Anti-Slavery party.
writes well, but with the old-fashione d

" base assertions

" Audi

abolitionist pen.
Before I commence dissecting him, I must ask

" Audi " one favour—that he will not quote Latin.
Like most living men, I have a ghost-like dread of
a Dead Language. Webster delighted in getting
off a Latin quotation, and Brougham macadamizes
his speeches with Latin and Greek. I can rattle
off many of the living tongues;
,but so many
people have been poisoned by uneducated apothe-
cary boys, by not understanding the Latin labels,
I have come to the conclusion that Latin and
Greek ought to be erased from the educational
system! It is an old fogy institution to most
minds—few understand it. Who ever read
"Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy" but some
rusty Eugene Aram student ? I agree with
Holmes,

That our poor

English striped in foreign phrase

ebra in a parson's chaise !'

(This slight deviation on Education is also in

parenthesis.)

" Audi " is clever—and puts strong questions.
In response to my saying that the Anti-Slavery
party did not understand the true bearings of the
matter, he asks— •

Did not Granville Sharpe, Thomas Clarkson, William
Wilberforce, and the noble army of British abolitionists,
from George 111. down to the present, understand the
question,—the practicability, the justice, and Christian
duty as a nation that had sinned, to abolish the inhuman,
soul-destroying, God-defying, abominable, piratical sys-
tem, the African slave trade?

Of course they understood it, as •" Audi "
understands it, in theory—not in practice. " Their
own friends, and, in some cases, relatives, were
actually engaged in it all the time." The same
class of men advocate missionary enterprises to
christianise the heathen, one of the most absurd
movements of our latter days. It is expensive
going away so far, when so much can be done to
christianise civilisation (?) at home. The followers
of those good men are equally anxious to abolish
the opium culture and the opium trade; but the
Dents, the Jardines, the Lindseys, and the Rus-
sells engaged in the mind-destroying, body-
corrupting traffic—are too many for them—and
Lord Elgin breaks down objections of the Chinese
Cabinet with cannon balls. To-day the opium
trade is legalised !
Th

slave-trade paid Liverpool, London,
Bristol, Glasgow, earned money in it. Commerce
is all-powerful. Although Wilberforce's resolu-
tions (May, 1789) were supported by Burke, Pitt,
and Fox, the African traders made their voice
heard at the bar of the Commons, and defeated the
bill ! Even some seventeen years later, when, by
inflaming the people's minds by recitals of .its
horrors, a vote was obtained to abolish the traffic,
Liverpool had 111 ships, of 25,949 tons burden,
engaged in it! And it is well known that, after
that date, British subjects carried it on, under the
cover of the Spanish and Portuguese flags ; and
it was not finally stopped till Lord Brougham, in
1811, passed a bill giving fourteen years' transpor-
tation to any subject found connected' with the
importation of negroes ! Vide Bandinel.

Wilberforce was well aware that the English
merchants, between the years 1700 and 1786, had
imported six hundred and ten thousand Africans
into the Island of Jamaica alone ! No wonder he
was horrified. He knew its atrocities—so does
" Audi"—so do I. But neither of us knows how
to wash out the stain that England has blotted
America with. Will the abolition party furnish
the soap ? Will they form a fund—an emancipa-
tion fund —out of the profits that have been made,
to assist us in eradicating the diseases of our
ancestors ?

" Audi " continues

Did the whole civilised world, together with Young
America, understand the question whenthey unanimously
declared the slave-trade piracy ? Were the British anti-
slavery party ignorant of the peculiar institution, when
the whole nation rose up as one man, and demanded its
total abolition throughout the British dominions ?

Yes. Young America understood and stopped
it. It was one cause of the revolution.

George the Third wanted more taxes, and to sell
us more slaves—so Young America just bowed him
out of the country !

Abolition is a beautiful idea. Its results are
less emhanting. What advantage, asks McCulloch,
is derived from " turning a laborious, well-fed
slave, into an idle, improvident, and perhaps
beggarly freeman?" He did not believe in the
anti-slavery party's " substituting abuse for
—assertion for inquiry—prejudice for

reasoning

principle

Demosthenes, in his second Phillipic, said " a
slave was better off in Athens than a free citizen
in many other countries,"—and I can assure
" Audi " that in our day " a slave is better off on
the. American plantation than the free negro,
by the road side, in a Jamaica sun."

Do the Abolitionists imagine that Africa would
have been improved if the slave-trade had never
existed ? The exposure of infants—human sacri-
fices—eannibalism—the wholesale slaughter of war

prisoners, gave way to the profit of the slave-trade
Yet I abhor the one as much as the other !
Another quotation from "Audi's " letter :

How stands the question in Young America.? Did
not Anthony Benezet, Dr. Rush, Dr. Franklin, John
Woolman, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Patrick Henry, and the Anti-Slavery party in the United
States, understand the question, when negro-slavery; in
1776, reigned predominant in the thirteen original States ?
Most assuredly these men were up and doing.
They forced England to give it up. They set the
example. Those who had slaves recommended
their neighbours to emancipate
Washington confessed his desire to do something
regarding it, but said, " it could not be done without
• 1.

legislation."
Washington was a slave owner, so Was Jefferson.
But it was too much for either to liberate their
slaves during their lifetime. I was last at Mount
Vernon in 1850, and saw Mr. John Washington's
slaves hard at it in the corn field, fat, ragged, and
saucy." No wonder Edward Everett writes for the
Ledger. No wonder the Mount Vernon Society
wish to purchase the estate, for Plymouth Rock
And Mount Vernon are our nation's monuments.
(To be continued.)

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