Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-08-15


der the sun that have ever seen, except in the
new States and that has arisen from the local
causes TO which my friend has alluded, and which
must change as those new States progress. have
no hesitation in saying, slavery is curse to the
master-I have been held up-as any man will be
who speaks his mind fairly and boldly, without
any qualifcation--as blsckish sort Of white,
and whi,i.h sort of black as an advocate for
slavery in the abstract. The other day, / saw
what the spirit OF fanatacism will effectuate: A
Captain in the British Navy cashiered for buy
ing slave, not an adult either, from some place
on the Coast of Africa For the naked fact of
buying a slave he is cashiered- turned out. What
should we have said to the British Government, if
they had prosecuted the benevolent Mr. Wiltshire,
for buying Riley and his companions? There was
the fact He bought so many American slaves
from their Arab masters not Arab but Bedouin-
half Arab and half Negro Il speak of the African
Moor, and not of the People of the Arabian
Peninsula why he no, cashiered? Every
body knows. There were no printing presses
there hireling writer's there
saints, to misrepresen, the state of those American
aud English persons. To buy them well
enough. Was not that slave trade! Ia it not buy
ing slaves have been wanting 10 get at this thing
good while, and am glad am got at it now.
wish knew this gallant British Captain, and he
should be welcome to my bed, my board, and to
every thing have for the rest OF MS days This slave
Jumped overheard and swan ashore, and why! Be
cause the slave had been led to believe the white
man meant 10 eat him, and he escaped, any wild
animal will, from man the fox cub will run "a
way or bite you, the hawk or the eagle will
strike at you while writhing Under the pain of a
gun shot wound; but sooner has he tasted the
water yeu offer him. but he acts like Il Here some
words are defcien, l. And would rather take
lesson from the shepherd in the fable, than ON the
Philosopher in the School, And what did this
Captain endeavor 10 save him from. Very proba-
bly, from domestic servitude; because, according to
Mungo Park he travelled IN Africa he was the
advocate ofthe slave trade himself though his book
was under the hands of redacte,v, hose opin-
ions turned the other way, and it has been soiened
much as possible that subject. This British
Captain would have preserved this slave from do
nestle ssrvtude; from political and civil servtude.
What would he have done with him? The wors,
thing would have been to have brought him to
some colony country where he might have been
brought up not to England- it would have done
him an injury. Suppose he had brought him TO
this country; who does not remember the old Afri-
can negro, more like baboon than a man -
they have been brought here, and in two ge-
nerations they almost on par with the whites.
If you take the upper classes OF the blacks and the
lower classes Of the whites the former is the most
moral, vis,uous, and intelligent man Il mean
confne myself to the slaves, and no. the free blacks.
MaltEuS laTOuS cAeCh o. vice anu want does
not prevent them from keeping up their numbers,
without the slave trade. These mal-treated, half
starved, cart-whipped negroes, Gas they repre-
sentei 10 beg go on increasing in frghifu arith-
metical, almost geouerical progression We can
not find bread for them we are forced to send
them to the Western Country, and sometimes to
run aw=J from them. II is only such lands as the
slluvial la' ds the rivers that will bear negro
cultivation and there it is that the condition of the
co. tha nf he lab
where on earth. Some lines wanting.]
Any man who takes me for the advocate
OF slavery in the abstract, mistakes me altogether
but don't get up head of popularity by declaim-
ing agains; the slavery of a black man. will take
Jefferson's practice, sav eIolder TO this day,
against his Notes Virginia, as l will take prac-
tice any where against theory.
Ous ancestors, did, what am afraid their pos-
terty doing. They thought what fine nice
thing twas get black fellow to work for moth
ing they gave 20, 3d. 10 pounds sterling, and
said, instead OF paying wages by the day year.
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 TO
grass, but here you have a 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 eau get out Of the same man by the ac-
ton and reaction, the elevation and depression of
the piston OF loans, paper money, and taxation. |
This is the same thing that drives John Bull to
work ten hours day-another loan eleven hours |
another loan, more victories, more Trafagars, |
more heroes They are most expensive charac- |
ters-like horses, they eat off their own |
heads lay them by the shelf to come out at the |
next war, AID you find that ten years peace has
unheroed them, and you have to get new set. |
Our forefathers did, what am very sorry TO see
some Of their posterity are now doing-they sub |
stiuted cunning for wisdom they thought it |
fine thing to get mans labor, and pay little or |
nothing for it but they should have remembered |
the maxim, " do as you would be done by.' Ev- |
cry man who leaves that great high road, will have
the chalice, which he himself has poisoned the |
chalice of justice, even-handed justice, pu, to his
own lips by the God of nature, who does not re-
qure abolition societies 10 carry his purpose into
execution Our fathers eat the grapes teeth have
been set an edge-our land is worn out-our coun- |
try is desert. What do we hear What il |
pains 10 hear it is owing to slavery there is |
no longer any hospitality in our country. The on
ly hospitality you find is in the alluval country
not so high up as where live we cannot afford I
it. The only hospitality is economically true as
the squares of the number of the slaves, just in |
that proportion is the hospitality. The other day
heard with great sorrow, because 1t came from |
the lips Of a man whom had not seen for forty
years, and whom when last saw, reverenced--
it at Lafsy ette dinner in neighboring coun-
~ he too having, no doubt, substituted meadows,
and beautiful green fields, and wheat, for ugly |
black tobacco stalks and corn stalks he, too,
chmed into the song. Let man have your ear
every day and in process Of time he is your master
II comes from the North all genius comes
from the North he had heard this thing
said II he began TO believe it, that we were in
state Of the most abjeet bondage till the French,
our good allies, came would 10 God they had not
come TO our assistance Tin the war Of the Revou-
fion q, ould IN &, od they had stad aXvav and EFF