Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-07-12

en- by the ohceIs OF The ditflt tor cutting It
down, and lone folders we're appointed to the
Iervice-bui the 6rlt ttroke OF the axe appeared
the hgnal for univerfai iuiurredion the whole
country was in arms and ione aefs Of honility
eniued- The people declared that If the tree
| wassfeiled, they would fet FIRE TO their habita-
| tons and retire into the interior, and the Gov.
ernor found il exPedieut to order thar the at
tempt fhould be abandoned, by which means
| tranquility was reltored.-Lsnd. pap.
| The Able Raynal. in his hiilory of the EAT
| and Wet Indies, appears 10 have foreieen many
| years ago the events which are now happening
IN St. Domingo and Guadaloupe and little
| did his PHI anthropic foul imagine that his
| countrymen were 70 become engines IN the
hands of foreigner, an Italian advenurer, an
ufurper to oppreis and emf we he poor Blacks,
| who, by folemn decree Of the French govern
msnt ten years ago were declarej FREE
| Bu1 Bonapar i, a decided enemy to civil Ito
elty md the rights OF MANKIND; il is nov his
! intei eli 70 IN be, and il would not be matter
| Of furprize, hculd be BE- iuccef iul agaiah the
black, thar IN concert with fome other defpots
of Europe, he may be tempted TO ltrlke lore
| blow aganit she envied Liberty of the United
| States. Let us hear what the Able iays aeour
the Negroes, in the 18th Book, chap. IS of his
hi,toIy Of the lnoes
There IS only ing te the negroes chief
| fufhcenly courageous, 10 lead them TO vsn-
| geance and c4Tnage
~ Where is he, this great man, whom nature
4 owes 10 her vexed, opp,ehed, tormented chill
| dren tie VIII appear never tear, fried Ct
humanity he will ih.w h'mitf (; he viii raf-
| the facred tandArd ct liberty This venerable
iignal will siTrmble round him his unfortunate
| companions. More impetuoUs than torrents.
| they will leave behnd them every where indtli
be marks of their jun eientrnent Spanards,
| Pouuguefe, Engh:h, Frenc n, Dutch-al their
| tyIaht. viii become the prey OF iword and IT
| flame. The American fields will drink with
tranfport the blood they have 70 long thirited
| atter, and the bones of 70 many unfortunate
| wiesches piled up for three INJURIES, will leap
lforjcy. Tie old world will jim her app auies
TO The new. Every where will be bleHed the
name of the hero, who fhall have ea4bfihed
the rights of the humaa fyecies every where
| wl be erected trophies to his glory. Then the
| Black code will diapPear AID the W6iH esde
will be ierrible, if the conqueror conlul;s only
| the right of rep'iials I"
SO much or The eloquent, the humane Able (;
Il
| great, The immortal Montefquieu, fays : OF
| the Aavery OF the Negroes" Book IS chap. 5
| Were to viIoicate our rieht 10 make
| aaves ct the negroes, theie thoud be my arsu.
| ments."
| The Europeans having exlirpa,ed the Aine
! ricans, were obliged u make flaves of the AT
ricans for clearing fueh var tracts of land
| Sugar would be 700 dear, ii the plants which
produce it were cultivated by" any other than
| Caves"
"Thefe creatures are al over black, and with
fuch AAt notes, that they can fcareely be
| pitied y
:. 1t is hardly 10 be believed that God. who
| is wife being, mould place foul, Especially a
good foul, in fnch black and ugly 5ody."
Ii is 70 natural 10 look upon colour as the
critic ion of human nature, that the Ahatics,
! among whom eunnchs are employed, always
! deprive the blacks of their tmbIance 10 US,
BY more opprobicus din naon
80 The negroes prefer 9afs necklace to that
of colo, which polite nations iohighly value Can
/ there be g eater proof Of their wanting com
mon fcnfe 1t is irnpoAi5le for Us to fuPpofe
theie creatures to be men becaufe, allowing
them 10 be men, a fufpicon would follow that
we ourfeves are>not Chri(tians."
Weak minds exaggera,e too much the
wrong done to the Africans for were the cafe
as they fate il, would the powers of Europe
who make 70 many needlefs conventions among
| .hemieves, have filed to make a general onc
IN behalf Of humanity and compaiion ~
/ Thus this great and good man thought that
1.-The bet way of aniwering the advocates o!
African Il.very, would be ludicrouily 10 efer
their own weak arguments 10 the world, deem
ling il infnlting 10 human reaior, AM beneath
the dignity Of his exaltedimind. feriouily &c CO.
ter INTO refutation Of fnch filly 2retexts.]