Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-15

Virginia, as will take practice any where a.
gainst theory.
Our ancestors did, what am afraid their
posterity are now doing. They thought what
fine nice thing it was to get black fellow to
work for nothing-they gave twenty, or thirty,
or forty pounds sterling, and said, instead OF
paying wages by the day or year, we will have
him, like horse to work for nothing. But
YOU forget-you may make horse work, you
may feed him in the stable, or turn him out 10
grass, but here you have moral agent TO deal
with, and defy YOU, with all your machinery,
TO get half the work out Of any black man or
white that You can get out OF the same man by
the action and reaction, the elevation and de-
preston of the piston OF loans, paper money,
and taxation. This is the same thing that drives
John Bull to work ten hours a day-another
loan eleven hours-another loan, more victories
more Trafalgars, more heroes. They are most
expensive charlottesville race horses, they
eat off tn cir own heads-lay them by on the
shelf 10 come out al the next war, and you find
that ten years peace has unheroed them, and
YOU have TO get new set. Our iorefathers did;
what | am very sorry to see some of their pos
terity are now doing-they substituted cunning
for wisdom; they thought it fine thing to get
but they should have remembered the maxim,
do as you would be done by Every man
who leaves that great high road, will have the
chaice, which he himself has posoned-lhe
chalicc OF Justice, even-handed justice, put 10
his own lips BY the God Of nature, who does
not require abolition societies to carry his pur-
pose into execution. Our fathers eat the grapes,
our teeth have been set an-edge--our land is
worn out--our country is desert What do
we hear? What 1t pains re 10 hear--lt is ow-
ing to slavery there is no longer any hospitality
in our country. The only hospitality you find
is in the alluvial country--not 50 high up as
where lye-we cannot afford il. The only
hospitality is economically true, as the
squares Of the numbers Of the slaves, Just IN
that proportion is the hospitality. The other
day heard with great sorrow, because II came
from the lips Of man whom | had not seen for
forty years, and whom when last saw, rcver
enced-it was at Lafayette dinner in neigh
boring county-he too having, no doubt, sub
stituteG meadows, and beautiful green fields,
and wheat, for ugly black tobacco stalks and
corn stalks-he, too, chimed into the song
Let man have your ear every day and IN pro-
cess OF time he is your master. 1t comes from
the North--all genius comes from the North
he had heard this thing said till he began to be-
lieve it, that we were i'll state of the most alb
ject bondage, till the French, our good allies,
came; would to God they had not come to our
assistance Gin the war OF the revoution0 would
TO God they had stad away, and left us to work
out our salvation, not with fear and trembling
that will do for indlviduals--but in the only
way we could do ii, by action. We should
have saved ourselves much trouble by prolong-
ing the war, Tor q new generation would nave
grown up--wc should have been a new people,
and III that respect, the Spanish American peo-
pie have the advantage Of us-thcy beat US all
hollow-they will have worked out their own
salvation If they succeed, Oy tnei.
This person GcScanted-he comes from an elo-
quent tamlly-they have an hereditary predis-
position to eloquence-on our independence,
and drew vivid picture of the improvement
that had taken place since that event through
out the country. | should like to have asked
him whether the lower Northern neck of Vir-
GINA had also improved. should like to have
asked what had become of those large hospta-
bic mansions on both sides Of the Rappahan-
mock and Potomac, The seats once Of hoapitali-
ty, inhabited by men fiji to take their stations in
the councils OF any nation | would have asked
him if he thought there had been any improve
ment there, either i'll the country or in the race
ofmen. l have, sir, acclaimed too long-I am
sorry for it wanted to get this thing QUITO
shew that the condition Of our slaves, badly
treated as they may be, is far above that Of the
peasantry Of England. England had once
yeomanry; she has none now, except the yeo-
many caYalry that Gu. down the cotton spin
ners at Manchestcr-and that work is support
ed by the very saints who cannot endure there
should be slavery in jamaica Men are whip
pee TO death at Charing- Cross, while drums
and trumpets sound 10 drown their cries, with
in the ear-shot of these saints, and it diSturbs
not their rest. But the overseer, who, Sung
to madness by the Vaccinations Of these very
men, shall chastise slave beyond the point,
the press is set to work and it is spread on ev-
cry table. Who hears about men being whip
ped to death at Charing Cross? fit appears in
the press, it is denied. Would to God that
the press was il this country, as in England
II is not there that the King, and few foreign
ministers, and one or two Of the inhabitants,
have all the dinners to give; it is not there that
they give the tone to the fashion There is
Devonshire House, at which | had the entire,
where there are weekly concerts, that would put
Carlton House in the dark. There is Spencer
House, where the nobility and gentry assemble
and the question is, whether man is of an
old family and landed estate Mr.. Coke is as
much Peer as if he sat in the House of Peers;
and the npyy mushroom, I ordc