Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-06

is impossible in the frst place 10 roreyo
the principle OF labor emitting to reward
To wave it would be TO consisn po,,rf
and right to the sironees, toll wilton,
redress to the weaker; enloinng 10 ,..e
latter unqualified submission to whatever
the other might impose. To consent 10
the abandonment, of all those moral lies
on which the frame OF human society is
founded, would in these our reasor,ines
a frior1, go to favor che class Of man.
kind at the expence of the other-de.
|pressingthe slave to The leveloftlie bri,@s,
and erecting the proprietor into lord Of
the universe, even over his own kind.
To the planter it may be urged thar, to
concede somewhat in order 10 ensure the
preservation and security Of the whole,
is the part of wisdom. He must be lost
indeed 10 all sense Of ieason, il he ven.
lures to deny those precepts Of natural
and revealed religion, which prescrihv
the duties to all sorts and conditions Of
men, and teach US that acharity cover.
eth multitude of sins" But it will
hereafter appear in what his interest ON
this point consists. AS to the slave, II
must be seen that gradual emancipa,
ton is most desirable even for his welfare,
He is the subject Of real property---the
perverted object OF purchase aud sale
his services have been bought fer yalu,
! able consideration. In order to conci.
! late the concurrence Of the planter thus
materially implicated, he can only ex.
pect by industrious perseverance, and
the Accommodations of a strict frugality,
to aspire, in time, to the purchase Of his
freedom by slow degrees, so soon as q
regular system Of wages is introduced
in the island. A Legislative enactment
ON this subject would do more real ho-
4 nor to IFS framers than any. measure
perhaps, connected with the slave trade,
since the remarkable day oil its abolition.
I But let us see in how far the planter, the
\ West Indian Interests, so predominant
lin the British Parliament. and we may
| add, the government itself, are severally
I concerned in the adoption of a more en-
'Ilargcd and bene6cent scheme of policy.
! Revolutions would effect all, and though
we may pronounce on the ineificacy Of
isuch partial attempts at insurrection, as
: in Barbados: yet, when the proportion
,lof the slaves to whites is considered, be.
ling in the island of St. kits alone, as
i so to !, the mischiefs even attendant On
those attempts, are not to be laid out of
, calculation.
i The insurrection of the negroes in St.
4 Vincent and Grenada, about the year
3 1895, when all the estates were nearly
!, destroyed, will long be remembered, and
) fought to furnish useful lesson ut tha
: present day, when the fame Of discon-
tent appears smothered only for while,
| to burst out anew with additional horrors
u But, a higher motive exists to invoke
impartial attention to this momenous
{ enquiry. The history of mankind for.
lLida - &c re5y .'Por t. g unin,ssTsrnie'
duration Of state OF peace. A few years
may materially vary the pacific views of
t different powers. In such contingency
will ii be forgotten, that during the hos
Utilities with America, British naval
force under Admiral Cuchiane. giving
7 freedom to the slaves on the plantations
J of the Chesapeake, received on board and
transported to Nova Scotia, a considera-
! BILE body of the fugitiyes ? Has France
} yet ceased to impute her reyerses in St.
Domingo, partly to lhetdefeats that led
to the capture Of Cape ST. Nchela Mole
y and, partly, the ascendancy OF the blacks
10 the fundamentally of the British
? arms The evident policy OF England
IN neutralizing that important colony,
$ may be too successfully initiated in Cases
hwhere possession might not be convent
b lent.
: In state of feeling like the present,
on the part Of the slaves, with the seeds
|, of rebellion long implanted and ready TO
= Istart to life, it would not be difficult OF
;. Accomplishment for hostile force bonn
:, harding the towns, barassing the inhabs
itanis with feisned attacks, in front, and
melting the negroes TO revolt in the rear,
= in this manner to ruin a valuable posses.
:. sion where conquest might not be practl,
Icahle. During the late American war It was
understood that squadron of light fri
Igates under commodore Porter was in 6
= forward state of preparation for similar
source when intelligence Of the treaty Of
s lGheDt being concluded was received. In
!, a series of years we have seen nations
'olrise and fall, and maritime strength
: (hitherto the bulwark of British power.
: acquiring consistency or yerglng TO de-
i cline, according to the vigor or decrepi
>. tude of governments.
d In such crisis as we have contem.
,-Iplated, the sole security of the British
u i ANart India iclat,dc ,uonlh rest essenIial