Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-31 00:00:00

with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural

manure."

Barere quoted the same idea a short time after in
the Freveh Assembly.
Retiring from Washington's Cabinet at fifty-six,
he played the usual game that Statesmen under-
stand so well when most desiring office, retiring
from public life. Cineinnatas is the stock example for
such disinterested parties. Jefferson in 1794 retired
to Monticello, where he resolved "never to takehnother
newspaper of any -sore' Yet at the same time he was
attacking Washington's Adniinistration as fiercely
all the while as Lord John Russell is Lord Derby's,
and for the same disinterested object. If the English
abolitionists have not get enough of his " Free and
equal" creed, I will make one more extract, written
in his retirement. from inn public turmoil.
Speaking -of the French, hoping that they will tri-
umph, he hints that the disgrace of defeat to the
invading tyrants, is destined, in the order of events, to
kindle the wrath Of' the people of Europe against those -who :
have dared to embroil them in such wickedness, and to
bring, 'at length, 'lamp, nobles, can priests to the scaffold—
which 'Meg have 'been so long deluging with human bbsod. I
um.still,warm When I think of these scoundrels.
What'do the abolition -nobility of England think
of such 'free and equal' sentiments as these ?
Returning:to my correspondent, who commenced
by holdino eferson over my head, and ended with
asking moil' I will discuss, in some public place, these
questions,=" Is the negre-a man ? If a man, should
any invidious distinction .exist, either in Church or
State, to 'cikest him of social, civil, and religious
liberty ?" I beg to say, -most decidedly, that I will
not discuss said questions in public—except with
the pen--Lbat with that I think in these articles I
have covered sufficient ground, and stated tay points
in such a. manner as to bring any intellectually pu-
gilistie.abolitionists away from the tea table into the
ring---,for from the first I have challenged refutation
of my arguments as a matter of debate.
Yes—the negro is. a man—so is the Esquimaux—
so is the Australian—so is the Patagonian—at least
they have no tails.

Observing an ourang-outang in a menagerie, one
negro said to 'the other, " Sambo, dat surely are a
nigger " No, tlett'isn't a nigger ;he look like nigger'
bathe "-I, dat war a nigger, he'd speke,'
responded Pompey. "Ale, yes," replied Sambo,
Des one- of .your cunnin niggers—he no speke—
'cause when heaspek,e, white 2nan put hoe in his hand."
This is no fiction. The slaves grow up like chil-
dren—their minds do not develope with their bodies.
Holmes saysthe negro's idea of luxury on a hot
day is conveyed by dividing a water-melon—feeding
on the pulpplacing one half on his head and sitting
down in the other !
The Honourable Miss Murray, speaking of the
peculiarities of the negro character, says (page 304),
"Adeline, at Lynchburg, saw my sketch of the black
cook on board -the Links canal boat, at which she
burst into a loud laugh, and exclaimed, He very like
a monkey, missus —we very like monkies !' "
Yes, the negro is a, man—but his race has always
been in bondage, and will so continue till the negro
shows self-reliance.
The ants are not strong, yet prepare meat in sum-
mer—the locusts have no king, yet go forth in bands
—the spider taketh hold .with hands, and reacheth
the king's palace—the beasts of the field often show
more self-reliance than the negro—yet he is a man ;
but a higher power than man has fastened upon him
the badge -of servitude—feeble humanity cannot
explain tlicao -thing°
"In every part of the universe," writes Archbishop
Whateley, "we see works of wise and benevolent design;
and yet we see, in many instances, apparent frustration of
this design. Ire see the productiveness of the earth
interrupted by unfavourable seasons; the structure of the
animal frame enfeebled, and its functions impaired by
disease, and vast multitudes of living beings exposed, from
various causes, to suffering and to premature destruction.
In the moral and political world, wars and civil dis-
cussion, tyrannical governments, unwise laws, and all evils
of this class correspond to the inundations, the droughts,
the tornadoes, and the earthquakes of the natural world.
We cannot give a satisfactory account of either. We
cannot, in short, explain the great difficulty, which, in pro-
portion as we reflect attentively, we shall more and more
perceive to be the only difficulty in theology, the existence
of evil in the Universe.
The negro is a man, but a serving man. Thus far
slavery has done them more good than freedom.
Slavery in America is civilisation. Freedom in
Africa is barbarism. I have a case in point.
Two Emperors have recently given up the ghost—
the one politically, the other mortally. Two great
Kings have departed—both were negroes ; both
were once slaves; both were black as the ace of
spades. Both proved themselves men—save the
bright side of human nature—for their vices, not
virtues, were most prominent. Both these
Kings ruled many millions ; but misfortune has
overtaken the one---death the other.
The Duke of Marmalade and the Earl of Water-
melon have engaged apartments for the fugitive
Soulouque—late Emperor of Hayti—at the Grand
Hotel du Louvre, in Paris ; and eight hundred negroes
have been cut up, butchered, burnt, sacrificed over
the dead body of Dahomey, the Slave King of negro-
land !

Yes, the negro is a man ! and, while replying to
the question, a few particulars of the life and death
of one of the most prominent of that race, may
prove the truth of what I have written in these
pages that the African is sensual, brutal, in-
dolent, savage, in his barbarian state, requiring
the strong intellect and moral power of the
white man to develope his power, and compel
him to • work out the destiny of his race---
through American slavery, to Christian civilization.
Straight is the road, narrow the way. "It was not
the Romans that spread upon the world, but the
world that spread upon the Romans." It was not
the Americans that spread upon the slaves, but the
slaves that spread upon the Americans.
Themistocles, the Athenian, when asked to play
on the flute, said " he could not fiddle, but yet he
could make a small town into a great city."
The abolition party can fiddle, but they cannot
retard the progress of Christianising savages ; nor
can they make a great nation into a little colony.
They aim at nothing, and always hit it. -When
they miss they fire again, and succeed in hitting it
where they missed it before.
We will speak of the Negro King in our next.