Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-11 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH .11, 1859.

YOUNG AMERICA ON.
SLAVERY.

(After reacting Thos. Colley Grattan's " Civiliseddl)nerica.")

NUMBER ELEVEN.

What will the noble Earl have, emancipation P
Doei he wish another St. Domingo massacre?

Does he not believe that if the slaves were left to

themselves, the southern plantations would become
a wilderness ? Can the negro grow cotton, and
sugar, and rice, and tobacco without a master-
mind to guide him ? Perhaps the Earl of
Carlisle woad suggest some way to raise a
fund, so that his seed-cucumber theory can be reduced
to practical use ?
Suppose to-day all the bonds of American society
were broken, who would reconstruct it ? Who
would naturally be master ? the white man or the
black 'man ? So long as. the Anglo-Saxon has more
brains in his right hand than the African has in his
head, the white man most assuredly will rise again
to the top. Where two 'races dwell on the same
-soil, one must rule.
Perhaps the noble Earl would (after raising the
fund, a simple matter of one-half the national debt of
Great Britain), like to send them to Liberia.?
Eight thousand shills would be required, each to
accommodate five hundred negroes ! Suppose you
put it to vote, how many slaves would leave a garden
like American to go to a desert like Africa?
Bancroft writing of the slaves when brought to
America, says that they had "no common language,
no abiding usages, no worship, no nationality."
They were savages, dependant upon the Whiter
race for civilisation.
Turn the tables, as most of them are born in
America, would they not be equally ignorant of lan-
guage, and be cast on a shore among their country-
men, who would sell them off again to the highest
bidder ? as ;the herd pounce upon the 'wounded
deer—so negroes rejoice in the misery of 'their class.
No ; the ndble Earl should admit that the slaves are
happier as' }they are, till some practical ,plan is dis-
covered for their emancipation.
The Africans have been, and must continue,
servants. Nature's laws are indestructible. The
Creator first made the inanimate world—then the
vegetable kingdom—then the serpenttribe—out of
them came the fish—then the fowls of 'the air—then
the brute creation ; but His master-piece was man !
He divided the world into climates, and peopled it
with kis children. As there were degrees in vege-
table, animal, and mineral kingdoms,-so he instituted
degrees in the human race- The Caucasian was
first, the Mongolian, the Malayian, and the American
followed ; then he made the African, finishing off
with the lowest type of man—the Australian ; then
the baboon, the ape, the monkey, and so on through
all the varieties of nature.
Africans cannot be changed but by mixing with
the whites. When they begin 'to change colour,
they-begin to show that change by "~self-reliance.
Negroes contract the vices, but (knot profit by the
virtues of the white man. Man bynature is indolent;
andthe African likes nothing so well as to sleep like
a dog in the sun.
"A black man is a jewel in a woman's eye," is an
English proverb.
It not so in America.
The black stewards of the American packets stand
at fifty premium In England, but are seventy-five
discount in America. Why is this ? most likely a
question of supply and demand.
Were the English at all accustomed to seeing
blacks promenading Regent-street, as we often see
them on Broadway, their views might change.
You should see the sable Dianas, and charcoal Ve-
nuses,„ crinolined, silked, and satined, ito an extent
that nauseates you, passing the New York Hotel, on a
Sunday afternoon ! what is more disgusting than a
negro fop ? or a negress coquette ? apeing all the
absurdities, without adopting any .of the dignities,
of the Saxon race.
England sees slavery three thousand miles off,
through dark glasses; she knows nothing of its
realities. No work from the anti-slavery party speak
of kindness from master to slave—no books written
about their Christmas presents—their new 'year's
gifts -their wedding parties—their funeral ceremonies,
—not aavord about attentions when ill —no picture of
their merry-makings—no description of their attach-
ment for-their masters—no bright side to the negro's
existenee—all, all is darkness and despair !
I met an English gentlemen yesterday, who some
years ago saw several slavers taken into St. Helena
by the British crusiers. At night he was attracted
by loud shouts of laughter, the sound of music, the
clapping of hands, and all the demonstrations of
gladness. Imagine his surprise when going to the
place to find that the gaieties proceeded from the
captured slaves ! There were eighteen hundred in
the cave, and such barbarian antics—sueh savage
joy—such chattering of tongues—spoke of anything
but misery.
Without intellect, without industry, without
civilisation—hew can such creatures exist without
some stronger mind to guide them ?
Where do these slaves go, when taken ? Will
some honourable member explain ? They never yo
back to Africa! What are the negro's talents ?
I answer—music, mimicry, memory, and sleeping in
the sun.

I wish an Exeter-hall delegate could be intro-
duced into a negro dancing-hall, after an animated
Virginian reel ! The Thames last year was nothing
in comparison ! The leopard will not change his
skin, nor the negro his smell.
The underground railway stock has fallen. The
Canadians are suggesting how to shut out the ne-
groes. No wonder—when their poorhouses—their
hospitals, and their prisons are so extensively
patronised by the Free Blacks!
The caste among the Southern negroes is as
marked as in India. From coal black to light
brown., some fifteen shades—l do not remember
their names ; but it is no unusual thing to hear a
negro call another a " black nigger; a " poor man's
nigger;" a «fifty dollar nigger." A slave despises
nothing more than a poor white man or a free negro !
The slaves look down upon the Irish and German
labourer with supreme contempt. Many of them
adopt the names of their master's family ; and the
slaves of the wealthy sneer and disdain to associate
with the slaves of the poorer planters. There is an
aristocracy, an upper-ten-don in the peculiar in-
stitution !

The masters often give them the chance to purchase
their freedom, and it is most amusing to hear them
depreciate themselves. If their master values them
at a thousand dollars, they insist upon their being
only worth half that.
Were you to offer the slaves freedom to-day, seven-
eighths, if left to their own choice, would never
leave their masters.
I What dg theyhAoly of the White Cravat sentiment'