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

badly by the secret workings OF incl
deep though silent curses Of every
breast that, m0urns c0mrade slain.
How far the effect of these occurrcn-
ues is likely to survive in the memory
of the negro. and what turn OF mind
they may serve to produce can best be
conceived by those who understand
his character by experience. May
the day of vengeance be far distant.
and the arm Of ilTitated slavery. seek
ing to establish the sacred rights Of
liberty snd independence. be stayed b,
the adoption of a milder and wiser
policy!
TO Britain, the possessor Of more
ample share of colonies than has fallen
to the lot of any other power, it is natu-
raj TO look, after the decisive part she has
taken in this great question, for the hap.
lpy example of an improved policy, tend
ling at once to remove the causes OF dis
content and to bind the laborer to his EN-
ployer. We are taught to believe that
there is, on the part of the British cabi-
net, disposition to place the colonies on
| the most favored footing, and on behalf
of that most useful and laborioss class
who constitute 80 considerable propor-
ton of the inhabitants. it is but equitable
| to claim some title to consideration and
clsmency. 1t is not too much to hope,
indeed, that what Africa cannot Of itse
jbring about, the government OF England
will voluntarily yield--that, when ii shali
be seen the preservation of the Yves,
India islands in their alieeiarce to this
parent state depends caa.ely upon a
more ludicious line os conduct in the
lplanters--that the civilization OF Africa
Together with q beneficial extended com.
merce with the interior of that vast con
tinent is the happy result of such com.
lbination OF measures as seem to preseni
itself with every feasibility. the British
lgovernment will hesitate no longer to in.
|terpose, and, renderns to Africans ant
the descendants of Africans a great ac
Iof national justice, identify their interest.
with the cause of III IL Employers and tht
cause of the government,
i Influenced by sincere desire to pro
|mote the welfare of mankind, to advances
the interests Of my country and to efiac,
that stigma on The national character tor
4 long suffered to Exist, am induced te
suggest the propriety as well as policy o
Iseylslating in favor of the slave popula
Ition in the British West India islands
Ito establish the practcabiity Of ms
'lpians, and to serve as some guide III thu
discussions 10 which considerations i
this weighty question must uecessaiii,
Head, ! have been careful to collec. al
! the information it was possible to Obtain
Iduring recent visit to the West indies
and, in the interences drown, my JUDI
/, ment, not borne away, a. rome MA,
limagfue' ul. "A sling Duraenity, hap beer
Exercised in that sober induction whici
facts warrant and reasoning prescrbes
Investigation, fairy and impartia'ly con
tducted, will decide on the tenor of my
propositions which it is believed, are sc
cure 10 their tendency and practicable il
Operation.
| Il is not confined TO the student o
noisi philosophy to kons that wher,
seh ateresi Scltes, industry will be pro
W. 't,oncd 10 The ratio OF the stimulus
re scns IL tbs West Indies must ire
Iquentiy Eav4 observed the quantity q
DOOR bestowed upon soil to have brel
: gfeatiy accelerated by promise to Ill,
: -laves OF money or Of drink. u ich O
! The land about Deinarara and Hribic,
was clcarct' with astonishing rapidity b,
these successful appeals to human nature
md it is not DOUBTED that cultivation
might be extended, to the great atiyan
age of capitalists, in some very fertil
parls of South America adjacent to thos,
provinces, were the introduction of hiret
aborers encouraged, according 10 tn,
: principles proposed to be unlolled in tn
following treatise lit is unquestionabl
that the efforts of he slaves are mucl
relaxed when they reflcc, that they labo
Z without emolument, and SOW what the,
/ are not permitted to reap This relaxa
lion has been frequently ascribed to ma
, iural Incidence, the heat OF climate, an
: such slight predisposing causes, thong
merely to the one most probable aud i'm
portant, because this II is the policy G
the planter to conceal, VIZ. the want of
sufficient inducemsnt TO exertion.
That every man is worthy of hi
hre,' IS an axiom as equitable as it
G natural But, hitherto, the case OF tn
r|negro has been rendered, most unlustI
and lndelensibly, an exception to hi
/ general rule. To hire, rather than pnl
4 chase would, professionally, have ha
! the effect Of propelling cultivation fol
Il ward, in much greater degree than, a
estates are now administered, under III
lexisting system. Few can afford TO en-
. bark in the concern of an extensive plar