Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-07-16

Wh,ch mas run through the whole round of
.ai-siaVery society presses without mark
misrepresentation, is but one link in the chair
evidence, showing that every consideration ,
national honor and prosperity will. bv tbes
infatuated and infuriated men, be sacrificed ;
the shrine OF their goddess of liberty. Goo
men and sound patriots of every partv oual
therefore TO unite as brethren in SAVING or
oeioved country and hermatchless institution
rom her Vaccinations, ere horrors Worse tina,
nose OF the French Revolution be brouub
upon us. 1t ought TO be known also that SOM
o o their most prominent men are now in th
west inoies, exciting. in the breasts of thei
nos'o Ponnlat:oii; feelings of nlaliynity to-
wards the United States, and repIenIsiiinS r M
Golfers OF the Anti-slavery Society by contri.
buttons obtained from the emancipated slaves.
ms fact Is established on the authority OF
their official presses. Nor is the formation Of
Wholc regiments OF black troops along our
canada frontier, and composed wholly of
slaves Invited and aided to desert their own
ers by these '.Philanthropists,' to be over
looked especially as the same presses boast
oil their cGerishing the most implacable ba-
tired towards the land of their birth. Thus we
may see that there is intimate connection be-
tween the projects of immediate abolition"
ana the exclusion of our products from Eng
rand In my last letter from very dear
friend now in London-one of our most dis
uhgulshcd and estimable CONFERENCE.-The
says mat "the British nation has determined
70 exclude all our slave-grown products, and
the sooner we make up our minds to conform
10 the new state of affairs, the better"
gentleman here is recently told by his Enn
lish correspondent, that thew have expended
twenty millions sterling to destroy Yves, India
slavery, and will, If necessary, expend as
much more In eXterminating il from amono
us Gan we believe all this to be pure be.
heVolence, when we know the extent of the
miserles oflndia and Ireland if indeed il is
Possioict TO conceive the horrors of British mis-
rule In India. We may, by comparing their
professions with their practice, doubt the SIM
ceri'y OF their love for our slave population,
without any breach of Christian charity. I
repeat, then, that the real design is the disso-
luton OF the Union, TO effec. the overthrow of
our rising manufactures and the destruction
OF our commercial interference with them in
foreign markets.
we have then, the Anti-Savery Society
and It's animated branches, an imperium i'm
lmperlo, with alliances more entanolino and
mlschlevous than We're ever dreamed of Inv
the Immortal Washington-and, reoardin1
colonization as its antipode, l cannot but
look upon the general diffusion of it's BENIGN
principles as eminently conservative. Its
system OF mductive philosophy, which, by
alsciailning all unconstitutional, illegal or
uhchriStiah interference with the guaranteed
rights OF our Southern neighbors, would fits
True character Were rightly understood, insure
the cooperation ofall the benevolent and MONS
of every sect and party throughout our wide
spread Empire. But, even if not advocated
on the grounds of religious duty, the benefits
to be secured to our country by its successful
prosecution recommend it to the patronage
OF The enlightened statesman. The important
TACT, stated in Gov. Buchanan's last despatcb
mat there were then no less than 81 sails of
Brush ships, many of them SEQ to 900 tons
Durthen, in the Benny river, receiving carooes
OF palm oil, an article only recently entering
into the list of African exports, gives but a
laint Idea OF the native commercial resources
OF that vast continent when properly develop
ed. No less than 80, 900 tons of this valuable
article have been imported into England in a
single year-worth at 9 cts. per pound, its
present value in our market, 81 ,056 ,OOO.-
stop the slave trade, and the export NAV be
increased ten fold. The sugar estates of
w stern Africa, destroyed by Portugal ON
The discovery of America, were deemed the
finest in the world. Africa NAV We: afford MS
an immense supply, as sugar cane is one of
her indigenous products. Her native coffee
loot which IL or Ia varieties grow wild in
.i'e forests OF Liberia, Is unsurpassed in quail
Ivy, and may be raised to any extent. Shin
llihoer, furniture and dye woods of almost
endless variety also abound, and even now
are shipped to large amount One of nv
London friends told me that in Nav. 1928
he received is cargoes of African Oak from
Sierra Leone. Camwood, now worth 500
per ton, may be obtained from our colonies TO
almost any extent, as soon as roads shall be
extended into the interior, and they will be
very important to our cotton and woollen ma
nufactures. Ivory, gold dust, gums, ostrich
feathers, drugs, hides, goat skins, manila
hemP' indigo, rice, corn. pepper, beeswax,
Cand all the products of tile tropics NAV be
added would form the basis of a commerce.
"hich II duly promoted, would probably.
within the next % years, rival in importance
the whole OF that between us and Great Bri-
tam 20 years ago. Indeed, at the present
time, and under all the desoIatinp influences
OF the slave trade, Britain enjoys an immense
trade with Africa. One of her commercial
houses alone received returns in 8 wears a.
mounting to about 81 500 900, principally in
gold, Ivory, and gums. Another, i'm Liver
pool realized profit Of 100000 by sinple
voyage. from ivory and palm oil. This com
merce aDsorbs large amount Of British ma
nuiactures and though still comparatively in
It's infancy, is esteemed by her writers TO af-
ford clear annual profit of several millions.
She naturally desires TO retain this rich mono
poly, and Jealous of our sharing it, arrogates
10 herself the right TO denounce our BENIGN
and dlsinterested system, (she at the same
time planning vast operation for commercial
colonies In Africa for her own benefit.) al.
,9ough Tor purposes so superior to hers =
iieI coionests have been curse and terror
70 africa and Asia-ours only scatter bles.