Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-08-15

The principles oil democracy. DNCNlo
A~lbemarle, August.
FOREIGN CoRREsPoNDENCE-lNo. XvL.l
To THE EDITORS OF II ENQUIRER.
CAssEI, HEssE, GERMANY, June 80, lS43.
Dear Sir The following are the leaders of the
London "Times,' and of the London "Morning Chroni'
Gle of the 9th instant. They must have been placed
in your hands by a previous arrival, but fearing that
even your vigllant eye may have overlooked them,
have caused an entire copy Of each to be taken, in order
that there should be no doubt as to their appearance
in the columns of the "Enquirer." Give them, | pray
you, a conspicuous insertion. As mere editorial OPP
MONS, they are not of much Importance, but as they
appeared, simultaneously, in the organs ofthe Tory and
Wing parties Of Great Britain, always at daggers
points, except when it is their interest to be other.
wise, they must be regarded as the opinions OF Sir
Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. The worst enemy
of John Bull could not desire to see him placed in a
more ridiculous position than he now occupies in re.
lation to the Abolition Of Slavery
(From the London Times, of June pa
"THE WrsT INDIA lsTEREsrs.-We certainly do
not wonder that the West Indian interest makes a
stout fight for the protection as yet given to their su-
gar, or, that the Ministry support them in their clalms
for its continuance. If the d'fferential duties are not
allowed 20 remain, we will say, that the Abolition of
Slavery, instead Of what we are anxious to think 1t, an
honorable and distntcrested, though some what Iscos-
sIDERATE act of national generosity, was an instance
of tyranny, as mean and hypoeriticat as any upon re-
cord. Let US see how the history will read: 1t will
appear, that fifteen years ago, a large body OF English
subjects, under the sanction and encouragement OF the
Legislature, had invested large sums Of money in, and
wero deriving large incomes from, certain colonial es.
tates, which never had been worked, and practical
men said, never could be worked p%rofitably, except oy
means of slavery. That system may have been con.
trary to the spirit of the British Constitution, but IL
had been fostered and encouraged by re peated acts of
the British Legislature. 1t may be dIscordant with The
genius of Christian,ty-it certainly has been Reproduced
and comba,ted in detail by the Christian Church in
most ages-but any intelligent reader OF Scripture
knows, that there, at least, it's existence IS recognised,
and its mutual duties prescribed, without q breath OF
denunciation-nay, of disapprovai. The inspired VII.
ters, at least, found it an element of society, and
there they chose 10 leave it, acknowledged and regu.
lated, but neither recommended nor condemned by
Christianity. In 1880, or thereabouts, the English
public had become more particular. We all found
ourselves most virtuously indignant with slavery IN
the abstract, and planters in the concrete. Our con
sciences could no longer allow US, the Imperial Ma
ton, 10 sanction a property in our fellow creatures in
any of our remotest de dependencies. Not satisfied with
saying, that West In Ian slavery was a mischief, and
should be gradually modified, like English villanage,
into f~reedom-not satisfied with observing, that the
class of West Indian planters, like every other class,
since the world began, past, present, and future, had
abused their powers, and neglected their RESPONSE.
bilities-our generosity, our philanthropy, our exceed.
ing and aupererogatory bene violence, would not let US
rest, or wait till we had accomplished the social re-
solution involved in negro emancipation. Lord Stan.
ley saddled our hobby with an expenditure OF f2O,OOO,-
900. Even that did not stop US. The planters prophe.
sled and protested. We were too virtuous even to
look at them. We eased our consciences-we COM
pleted our object-and what has been The result:
al have made anxious inquiries says Sir Robert
Peel, into this question: asked for an account of the
estate of an individual. On an average of years pre-.
yious 10 the commencement OF the apprenticeship sys.
tenn, that estate was yielding about 100000 a year
During the apprenticeship system, the average was
about E6,400 a year. But | wished TO ascertain what
..o.0 - ot,rc nnyv of me nado and nyp6to
received-and this 10 the account, the accuracy Of
which, | have every reason TO confde in
eve need not follow Sir Robert Peel's details. This
result is, that, sfor the last three years, this estate,
from which the average returns were flO,O00 a year,
averaged a net loss on the three crops (of 1910, 184l,
and 1922 Of E3,O51.' And this is referable, with
unusual distinctness, to the change which we have
forced upon the West Indies. Labor is scarce, and
dear. While the proprietor is being ruined by high
wages, the iaboring black is buying his pony-ehaise,
his mustins-nay, his masters estate. 1t IS no want
of demand-no falling off in the fertility of his soil
no want of energy in the capitalist, which is running
the planter. II is only this-we have put the black
man on his shoulders, and the black man is riding him
to death. Unlike Paley, We Englshmen can afford to
keep a conscience, at onr neighbor's expense. And
now what is it that these ultra free traders call upon
US to do /? These unfortunate planters, thanks 10 our
own exceedingly sensitive consciences, cannot supply
Us with sugar cheap enough. They plainly cannot
give it US cheaper than they do, for, they are ruined as
It Is, III we want sugar HOW IHe west l0uteS, we
have TO paw for it, handsomely. 'The country says
Mr.. Brotherton, had paid Ego, 100000 for the eman
cipation, and lie calculated, that since then, they had
paid upwards of EDS 600, 900 to the West Indians, on
the score of their monopoly 10 short, Mr.. Brother
ton and the rest, find out, that this philanthropic legis.
lalion, of which he and his friends have been such
Incorporating partizans, has enabled the negro, not
only TO ride his master, but, what Is more 10 the pur-
pose, to fleece the British public-that these muslins
and pony 'chaises tell upon the price OF sugar. And
AZ. 49,. I4-tt ELa W.. - - ap,al. }
Oh, buy in the cheapest Market by all means :
Humanity is a very good thing indeed-and certainly
one would not think of allowing ones own colonies TO
supply one with slave-made sugar-odlous to one feel.
ings to think of it! Nothing less than drinking ne
groes' blood-at least, so said eUery body IN 1882. But
then, as that kind gentleman, Mr.. bro,herton, says,
'f there is no sugar, the richer classes are deprived Of
the means of preserving fruits, and our colonists can.
not expect US TO pay them ten pence, when we could
get The same article from the Braz'is tor eight pence. 10
be sure-it is only by the whip and the SLAYER that they
are enabled 10 do so-but no " the Brazlians may choose
to produce their sugar, is no business of ours. Charity
begins at the bottom of our own pockets.-Anything
for the principle of buying in the cheapest market
Foreigners call US a nation Of shop-keepers. But did
the most %peddl'ng trick ofthe most gripping retailer that
ever "sanded the sugar, and watered the rom, and then
went TO prayers like an honest man" ever equal the
canting sting'ness which furiously insists upon profit.
ing by what 1t is yet too straitlaced to allow; which is
far more than just-is profusely and ruinously magma
nimous at the expense Of our colonists, while deter
mined that no plea of justice or mercy shall add Id. q
pound TO the price of its own luxuries' One word to
prevent misapprehension or misrepresentation. We
are not arguing for a prescription of all slave produce
We are no anti slavery crusaders. The slave trade,
indeed, as at present carried on, is q sin. Std0ery Is
MOTT is an evil, and should be removed as occasion
offers, not crushed by a convulsion. We hold our
selves QUITE AT LIBERTY TO PROFIT BY ITS ADvAs
r.GEs, while anxious for its ultimate abolition. We
do not conceive ourselves always bound TO prefer the
DrOdUre nf free I1bOr In that IF cfapsS But. when we
ourselves-the British nation-for the satisfaction Of
our own sensitive feelings, have not induced, not