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

II hope they have the heart to whistle--while
their corn is putting in the ground, and they
are giving it the first working---out Of whose
corn houses the horses and asses of Washing
ton are to be fattetl---the articles consumed by
the People, the bulky articles, the cheap arti-
ces, which they arc obliged to have, and have
they must---,he Goa Sc woollens, which they can
do without after sort, as the Waverly man
said-bcing asked low he served the King, be-
ing in favor of the Pretender, lie replied, he
served him after sort-so they can do, after
sort, without these hings--but how? Some OF
them, who are gooi managers, may save their
rags, and make blankets out OF them---ln small
family, there willnot be rags enough, there
will where there ar plenty OF negroes---but III
a small family of white TO ks, they VIII have to
buy the blankets, aud how are they taxed---how
are they tarified---hd how are the People lying
under them tariiedwith cold' 1t is great M
justice TO the Southern population to suppose
that it consists OF nj obs, with legions OF black
slaves waiting thei' commands, and, as have
seen them pictured lying on sofa, having one
slave at their head and one at their feet, to
keep off the flies, Thinking cool lemonade all
da,, and hardly waking hundred yards in the
tweniy-iour hours,
There is less luxrv in the Southern country
There is not family in the State OF Virginia,
who in point Of !ufture, line mahogany iurnl-
turr Turkey carnrs, expensive wine, great
Sin -i grant ii IS miserable sort oil thing
bu. mere i, not 90: family within my know
ledge Nuo malulaih style Of expense equal TO
that, won't say ola Chief Clerk, but a secon-
Diary Clerk In our departments here---cqual to
tnat which, when vas in the habit Of going a
bout at night--whlch have long left oti--they
did Northumberland do not hear that they lave
fallen off in any respect; because | understand
that they generally pay by the same summary
process. The first thing which recommended
WIN. II. Crawford 10 me, for the Presidency,
WAS his giving me 10 understand, that, II he
came in, all those who paid their debts by
smacking the calf-skin should 60 out--there Is
not family in Virginia, within the course OF
my acquaintance, that lives III such style oil
expense, luxury and grandeur--and the more
negroes they have, the worse they are oil. we
are the trustees for our slaves, and they receive
much larger portion OF the proceeds OF the
soil than the lahorer Of any other country I'M
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 pro-
gress. | have no hesitation in saying, slavery
is a curse to the masler---l have been held up
as any man will be who speaks his mind larry
and Boldly, without any Qualihcatlon---as Olack
sort OF white, and a whltlsh sort OF O!acE-aS an
advocate for slavery in the abstract. ne oth-
er day, law what tne spirit OF fanataciSn VIII
efectuate: a Captain in the British Navy was
cashiered for buying slave, not an adult Ell
Their, from some place on the Coast OF Africa.
For the naked fact Of buying a slave he is cash
iered---turned out. What should we have said
70 the British Government, if they had pcrsc-
cutetl the benevolent Mr.. Wiltshire, for buying
ni'ey ana his companions? There was the fact.
their o9an Fgab = per'r. ma no; I'm
half Arab and halt Negro---I speak Of the AZ
rican Moor, and not OF the people of the Ara
bian Peninsula---why was he not cashicred?---
Every body knows. There was no printing
preSses---there were no hireling wrters-lhere
were no saints, to misrepresent the state OF
those American and English persons. To buy
them was well enough. Was not that slave
trade? Is it not buying slaves? | have been
wanting to get at this thing good while, and
| am glad am got at il now. wish knew
this gallant British Captain, and he should be
welcome 10 my bed, my board, and TO every
thing have for the rest Of his days. This
slave jumped overload and swan ashore, and
why? Because the slave had been led to be-
hcve the white man meant TO cat him, and he
escaped, as any wild animal will, from man
as the fox cub will run away or bite you, as the
hawk or the eagle will strike at you while
writhng under the pain Of gun shot wound;
but no sooner has he tasted the water you Of
fer him, but he acts like Here some words
are deficient And would rather take les
son from the shepherd in the fable, than from
the Philosopher in The Schcol.--And what did
this Captain enGeayor TO save him from? Very
probably from domestic scrvitude; because, &C
cording to Mungo Park--he travelled in Africa
The was the advocate Of the slave trade HIM
self, though his book was under the hand oil
redacteur, whose opinions turned the other way,
and it has been sottened as much as possible on
that subject This British Captain would have
preserved this slave from domestic seryitade;
from political and civil servitude What would
he have done with him? The worst thing would
have been to have brought him to some colony
or country where he might have been brought
up---not to England itwould have done him
an injury. Suppose h, had brought him to
this country; who does not remember the old
African negro, more like baboon than man
---they have been brought here, and in two ge-
nerations they are almost on par with the
whites If you take tne upper classes Of the
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