The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1836-11-18

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enssiag al lis bar questions purely ma.
iionsl and personal, into which usdrr er-
rOneOus prelsxls Ihey hare InierleTed in
. manner the most sexalious. ] believed
Ihey were in great error-i presumed
they Eere sincerely disposed IN dn good
II knew they we're O.. sily doing a. and
themselves snd the World harm: and
challenged and forced into The matter,
have discussed il on lie mere merits
admitting you and your people 10 be all
you prOfessed 10 be-and only ehdeasor-
ing 10 prove fiat We were not so evil as
you made US out. So far as YOU and
those who can influence are Concerned,
you have declared that sou remain more
firmly than ever settled iB your harsh
judgments Of ne. and yuor fixed purpose
10 follow out all your offensive courses.
Nay. you plainly declare, that rather
than alter title Of your conduct. prinei.
pies, opinions or demands upon this sub
jeci. you prefer that al fellowship be-
tween us and you should terminate. That
argument and conclusion. then. being
complete and final. we need say no more.
am content TO vail and see whether the
American people will. al your sugges~
ton, change their nslionsl constitution;
or whether. in the event Of the adequate
majority for that purpose not being at
lainable. they will. as The inference Of
your argument, break up The cOplederscy
Ito regain your good opinion.
There 10. a. have said. quite another
view Of the whole case. You say in the
course Of your speech, "lf 0ur American
breihren saw any thing IN Us which they
thoughi, and justly thought, was an evil
Of sufh,ienI magnitude To induce their
kind afhees for lis suppression. We ought
% feel Obliged by their using their en-
, deayors to stir Us up In due considers
, lion Of il. aud 10 practical Efforts Tor its
removal" And in the context you are
| somewhat pointed in enforcing this idea,
as containing in il grea. rule Of dosy.
In general we have considered the i'll
doing of this delicate Office more hursfni
than its omission. In particular, IL has
! appeared TO Us as pretexl liable to Ins
| finite abuse, aud practically Tesorled 70
most By those who had least ground and
least right N display il. But sir, | can
hardly, either in fsilhlulness or honor,
sbsisiu any longer from IFS use. And
the main object Of this communication 10
10 point ouI. in The actual condition Of
considerable portions of the British em-
| pire. evils which really are, or which
your party has declared TO be. of so pal-
pable and so moRslrous description.
thai decency would seem to require you
to repress them, or be very modest In re-
buking others while they exist.
I. TO come al once To the grand cause
Of oulcry against us--,he unhappy and
indefensible existence of slavery, in mas
ny of the states. Will you be SO good
as to turn your eyes 10 the map of Afri-
ca, and fix them IN a spot longer than
half Of Western Europe! Al its southern
extremity. find Cape Town. Then find
the speech OF DIR. Philip. delivered in
Exeter Hall ten days after you delivered
yours. In that town and neighb9rhood
are 5000 British slayes!! Scattered over
that vast peninsula are many thousand
more Of British slaves!! And yei Inc ear
Of day is dull with being told that in The
British empire there were no slaves; and
the very speech that has elected these re-
marks was made a, a meeting on the sn-
niyersary devoted TO glorious fact that
never occurred. namely. /" Slave emancis
patton in the British colonies. -
2. Turn, now, | pray you. to The map
Of Asia, and find the vast dominions which
God has lent 10 you there, embracing q
=. population Of one hundred and thirty mil,
lions Of souls. Then look over file Of
papers aud read conversation thai &C.
CURED in the Commons House Of Psrlia.
meni. but a short time back. between the
honorable Mr.. Bax,on. aud Sir j. Hob
house. on the subject OF British slavery
in lndia!! There YOU will find il admit
ted that domestic slavery prevails to q
great extent in India. especially in Ben
GAL" There you will find proof that no
direct effort was ever made to abolish it.
and reasons urged b. the government
why il cannot now be aboilshed.--and
Why treaties now existing seem 10 ren>
der its future abolition impossibls!
| 3. Turn yosr 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; and call 70
mind The innumerable declarations made
weekly, up aud down the country. by
} those who belong To your party, and who
TAT the Houdsworth Anti Slavery Society,
} on the 81 Of Ihls month"; denounced i,
las aggravated slavery. under The del0-
: sive name Of apprenticeship" and de-
1 nounce every I" proposal Of government
: as only calculated to excite suspicion.
J Do draw an inference nj all strsspaa