North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-10-02
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"a ,he plantation. They doa't have ihe
kfraking 81 him thefe--rither 10 the I niiro
St,srs az the miIdeY lsland-srfyilude Of the
.ecsfscd Cabs. That pFnoely neck bows
ma, 10 their demon yoke The sweat ol
their reptile toll vii never moisien has Jove-
lilc fofhesJ. His kingly blood--'hcy msy
shed il and let their csnIbal soil, drunk with
taffyiag Yong att the human banquet
drink il up.--gsshing warm from has NIGH
~ heart Bot they doBt have han on The
ylian,stiou, there la coil about his giant
spirit the ansconds OF the ''pecuiaf nstie-
ilon. " Thank Heaven for that.
We arc not sohclious whether Cingues
lives. Life can have bot few charms Tor
him. II be could be taught Christianity,
from The bible, existence were worth his
while, and be might be q blessing 10 his
eounlfymen. We trust pains will be
taken t. enlighien him, not with The
hrhl Of .7merican Christianity, or Amefi-
can republ,csnism. They have as many
whips 10 them, as Meduss had snakes in
her head Of hair" We wish hls noble
eve could see the glorious pages OF the
bible. VIII not the aboliiIonists see TO II /:
Asan aboillonist we insist that the Al
fieans ought not To be tried, and ought
not 10 have been imprisoned. They are
not suspected OF crime and cannot be.
The occasion of this imprisonment and
tti.I is their color and their origin, and the
fac, oil their being claimed as slaves. We
tcas them 10 this way because we have
ensaved their kindred. Why should they
have been eaptyredi What propriety or
usage warEenled the brig Washington in
taking ,hemi We put it 10 The country,
It's law and jurisprudence to say why rs
all this. What had these Inen done before
they left their native land what IN ieav-
ing it.--what crossing the old sea, REDEEM
c.i ali the way by the track OF century's
slave trade, what at Havana, aud what,
we challenge land, what on the way to
the den OF the young Spanish RueZ, when
they did what men could TO regain their
wfested liberty and humanity, and what
oil men woald. And after they had slain
the illfated Ramouflous, what did they do,
10 merit capture or imprsonment!-Was
il that they trusted Monies to steer' Ca-
sar could not or Hannibal any better than
he. Napolean must have trusted the false
Spaniard, Tor all tho native genius he pos
scssed.
BY the way, the caloused hearted Ruez
must have been keeping these poor victims
as near starvation as practicable, without
hazarding their lives, on that voyage to his
plantation, for he says, he ordered bread
throvn 10 pacify them. He tho't they
were rising Tor bread-Cinques was think
ing OF something he hungered more for.
He was thinking of Liberty,-and his peo-
pie were thinking OF lhat-tor they would
not touch the base SpanIard's bread. That
they were hungry and famshed appears
from their devouring the sweatmeats and
medicine, as soon as they got their liberty. |
+" Ordered bread 10 be Mrown TO Mem,''
as the farmer throws corn knobs TO his |
pigs in the pen--a pretty way of treating
men.-Who does not feel his nature insult
ed beyond the utmost Christian endurance,
hy this swine estimation and treatment. |
We can forgive murder, or any injury,
But 10 be estimated as swine-to be Jod-
dereS ,-puts us beyond and below the for
giving capacity. Hogs, can't forgive. No
beasts Of burden, il seems TO us, are re-
qured TO exercise Christian charity. We
are almost prepared TO say that with the
New testament in his hand, Cinlues
might have risen from his brutality and
asserted his right TO be man, even at the
expense it cos, that Spanish pirate. For
how can man consent to be SLAVE! We
,an scarcely maintain the ca!mness Of an
editor (and storm becomes
him, much better than calm) when we
ook at this affair, and see, in The light of
I, the temper and position Of this slave
holding country. And we fell the more
ieeply, since, as aboIilionists, we are den-
iied, in estimation and treatment, with :
Cinques and his people. 1t is well per- :
,aps we should be. We can thereby the =,
more readily remember those ia bonds as
'ound with m.n-Herald Of Freedom.
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