The native American., 1838-11-03

friendship, to every dictate of gratitude, employs
her prostitued hireling to illuminate his foul
mothed abuse upon us, it is good that we should
know it.
Who are they, these revilers of our country
Tor It's system OF slavery, these English and these
Irish OF the father land! The ects of the very
government, the sons of the very men, who tas-
tened the system Of slavery upon our country in
despite OF Its earnest and repeated opposition and
remonstrance. The sons of the very men, who
originated the traffic in human flesh, who kidnap-
ped the negroes on the coast of Africa, brought
them to this country, sold them to our foreathers
and, through the agency of the British Govern
men in manner compelled them to be received.
In vain our ancestors demonstrated against the
traffic as not merely inhuman and unchristian in
itself, but as well calculated to produce the most
injurious results upon the country. The British
Government still tostered and promoted it. The
claims of humanity the vital interests of the peo-
| pie Of this country, could touch no chord Of SYM
pathy in the bosom of Britain, so long as one of
her own home subjects could make dollar by
the traffic. 1t is set forth III the Declaration of
Independence, one of those tyrannical acts of
oppression for which this country cast off it's allie
glance to Britain.
Our government had the honor of being the first
to prohibit the traffic. and the first to denounce it
as piracy. Not till after the trade ceased to be
profitable not till after her colonies were glutted
not till after her home merchants ceased to have
any interest in keeping it up, did Britain follow
our example in prohibiting the traffic and denoun-
cling it as piracy. 1t is true, in prurien Mt zeal
for humanity and with her usual recklessness for
the interests of her colonsts, she has partially
abolished slavery in her West India Islands; but,
even in this, she has Jagged for near half century
behind the examples of five of our States; and
even in this, she manifess but commendable
forecast in bringing about, by gradual process,
the least injurious to her own home interests, a
result that she foresees to be inevitable. The
European is constantly dwindling and deterora-
ting under the West India climate, whilst the
African finds in it genial heme and it is progress
sively improving. Under this state of things
there is no law Of nature more certain in its ulti-
mate results, not even the rising and setting Of
the sun, than that sooner or later the negro will
become the master. 1t required but little forecast
to see that this must have occurred, in some way,
in less than halfa century. If occurred through
a violent disruption of the ties between master
and slave, it would necessarily have sundcred also
at the same time all beneficial connection between
the Islands and Great Britain; whereas, if sunder-
ed by the gradual process now going on, she may
well hope to retain her political maserdom over
the islands, with results as beneficial to her en-
crossing and monopolizing policy as from the
late system of individual serviMde. She has
warrant for this belief, in the actual state of things
in her East India possessions, where sevitudc to
individual masters has never been practised. She
has derived equal benefit from the more summary
but equally lniquitous process of national slavery.
The Queen of England is the largest STAKEHOLDER
in the world Besides the millions she holds in
a qualified and mltigated sort of slavery at home
in Great Britain and Ireland, she has untold mil
lions IN her India possessions in a condition of|
the most abject and unqualified slavery to her
government.
Does Britain, after she has carried out her sys-
tenn of emancipation in her West India islands
and reduced the white population to the ratio of|
one for every hundred blacks-does she then pro-
pose to give the Islands political emancipation?
Nothing is farther from her purpose. hemerey
intends to substitute national for individual slave
ry, to render the blacks the slaves of the govern
ment instead of the slaves Of individuals. Which
carries with 1t the greater degree of moral turp-
tude, let casuists determine. If either be a de-
parture from the due fortnight of perfect moral
recttude, they are both so.
That Great Britain has no intention of accord
ing any such ultimate perfect emancipation to the
blacks of the West Indies, witness the ruthless
rapacity and inhumanity with which she acquired
and has retained her East India possessions
Witness the perverse tenacity with which she
chung to her right to misgovern and tyrannize over
these States, compelling our fathers to achieve
their independence at the cost of seven years
war and with the loss OF tens of thousands of hu-
man lives and myrads of treasure. Witness
the tenacity with which she clings, for the sake
OF supposed commercial benefit to her right to
misgovern her North American colonies, against
the known wishes and interests of nine-tenths of
the colonists, treading out, with her iron heel,
even the last spark of the spirit Of independence
among her Canadian subjects But, above all,
witness the centuries she has retained unhappy
Ireland under the servile thral of her tyranny and
mlsgovernment; from motives Of mere policy,
from hearess principle Of supposed self-inter-
est, keeping an enlightened, christian nation in
condition of the most abject political slavery, and
inalcting upon millions of fellow-beings woe,
want starvation, and misery, in all their worst
shapes.
Are the people of Great Britain, who are them
selves, as nation the largest shareholders in the
world, who were the very instituters of this sys-
TEN Of African slavery, who planted it in America
forced it upon our fathers, who betray SO little
sympathy where any principle Of State necessity
l