Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-11-15

those FOu Gun lilllIciGS 0Ic toiiNSit|u'
YOU have declared that you remain more
firmly than ever settled i'll YOU harsh jndg-
mems of US, and your fixed purpose to fol-
low tall youroticEslvc courses. Nay,you
pIainlv declare, that rather than aI'cr I; IT,
tie of your conduct. principles, opinions, or
demands on this subject, you prefer that all
fellowship between lis and you should ter
inmate. That argument and conclusion,
then, being complete and final, We need say
no more. an content to wait and see
whether the American people will. Il; your
suggestion, change their national conslI'u-
ton; or whether, in the event ottrc adequate
majority for that purpose not beng a:taina-
bic, they will. as iAe inference OF Your arsu-
ment, break up the con!cdcracy-;o regain
YOUR good opinion.
There is, as have said. qrlite another
view of the whole case. lou say IN the
course of Your speech, "lf our American
brethren saw any thing in us, which they
thought, and Justly thought, was an evil OF
sufficient magnitude to induce their kind
offices for its suppression. we ought TO feel
obliged by their using their endcarors to
stir US up to due consideration of it, and
to practical efforts 10: Is removal" And
in the context you are somewhat pointed IN
enforcing this idea, as containing in it 4
great rule of duty. In general we have
considered the ill-doing ofihis delicate Office
more huriful than its omission. In particu-
lar, it has appeared TO us as pre'ext liable
to infinite abuse, and practically resorted to
most by those who had least ground and
least ri GIT to display il. But. sir, | can
hardly either in i;,htuncss or honor, abstain
any longer from its use. And the main
object of this communication is, to point
out, in the British empire, evils which really
are, or which Your party has declared to be,
of so pal pable and SO monsirous descrp-
ton, that decency would seem to require
you to suppress Them, Or be very modest
IN rcbuking others while they exist.
/. To come at once TO the grand cause
of outcry against us--the unhappy and In
detensibc existence Of slavery, Ill many of
the States. VIII you be so good as to turn
your eyes TO the map Of Africa, and FIX
them on a spot longer than half Of Western
Europe! At It's southern extremity, find
Cape Town. Then find the speech OF DR..
Philip, delivered in Exeter Hall ten days af-
ter YOU delivered yours. In that town and
neiehborI.ood are 5000 British slaves -
Scattered over that vas; peninsula are many
thousand more of British slavcs!! And
vet the ear of day IS dull with being told that
in the British empire there were no slaves;
and the very speech tha. has ellclted these
remarks was made at Il meeting on the annl-
versary devoted 10 glorious fact that never
occurred, namely, 'Slave emancipation IN
the British colonies"
2. Turn, now, pray YOU. 10 the map
of Asia, and find the vast domlnons which
God has lent to you there, embracing
population of one hundred and thirty mil
lions of souls. Then look over a file Of
papers, and read conversation that occur
red in the Commons House of Parliament,
but short time back, between the honora-
bic Mr.. Blxioa and Sir J. Hobhouse, on
the subject Of British slavery in India -
There YOU will find it admitted that "do-
mcstic slavery prevails TO great extent IN
India, "espccaIIy in Bengal" There you
will find proof that no direct effort was ever
made 10 abolish it,-and reasons urged by
the government why it cannot now be abol-
ished,-and why treaties now existing seem
to render its future abolition impossible!
8. Turn Your attention, next, to the
Western side Of the Atlantic Ocean, and
see nearly million Of apprentices in the
West India Islands; and then remember
what YOU have yourself said and written on
the subject OF this system: AMI call to mind
the innllmerablc declarations made weekly
up and down the country, BY those who be-
long to yo,r party, and who Cat the Houds-
worth Arti-SIavcry Society, on the Sd OF
this month) denounced it "as aggravated
slavery, under the delu<ive name OF appren-
ticcship," and dcnonce every proposal OF
government as only calculated to excite
suspicion.
DO | draw an inference at all strained.
when say, that the subjects OF a Monarch,
whose dominions in three quarters OF the
globe are, by their own showing and by
irrefragable proofs, covered with slaves,
should deal somewhat gently with other
nations, who may chance to be in the same
unhappy condition! Do | say too much,
when caution such people TO be more
guarded in boastful assertions, which are
contradicted by the fact and the record of
the case! Do give needless offence,
when | beg You to remember, that your
Parliament is omnipotent over this subject,
and is therefore responsible for all the evils
which exist, either through their negligence
or bv their consent! Alas! sir, it is an an
cicnt habit. to be bitter against our brother
t.,r. ,,o+o ,,ban q haop, iS IN our own pye