Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-12-05
NEW sERIEs.-vOL. ~. No. 19.

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mas been successfully made upon large
scaie--namely, TO Jamaica.
! "TheEe the two races are upon a pe..
feet equality in point Of law. There Is
no master-there is no slave. The law
does not recognize the slightest distinc.
liOn between the races. You have Dor.
rOWed the far greater part Of your address
from the cant phraseOlOgy which the
West Indian slaveowGers, and especially
those Of Jamaica, made use Of before
emancipation. They used to assert as
you do nOw) that abolition meant destruc.
ton: that TO give freedom to the negro
would be to pronounce the assassinali on
Of the white; and the negroes, as soon al
freed would massacre their former own.
ers, and destroy their wives and families
10 short, your prophecies of the destrue.
tive effects Of emancipation are vain, and
the foolish echoes of The prophetic ape
prehensions Of the British slaveOWners
They might, perhaps, have believed theIr
own assertions; because the emancipa.
lion Of The negroes was then an uniried
experiment. But you-yOu are deprived
Ofany excuse, for the re-assertiOn of a
disprOVed calumny.
"The emancipation has taken place
The compensation given by England was
not given to the negroes, who were the
only persons who deserved compensation.
1t was given to the so called owners
it was an additional wrong-an addition
al cause OF irrlaiiOn to the negroes.
"But, gracious Heaven! how nobly did
that good and kindly race, the negroes.
falsify the caluminOus apprehensiOns Of
their task masters! Was there one single
murder consequent on the emancipation?
Was there one FiOl-one tumult--eVen
enc assult3 Was there even one white
person injured either in person or proper.
4tyg Was there any property spoiled or
laid waste2 The proportion Of negroes
in Jamaica TO white men is rs 300 to 60,
or so per ceht Yet the most perfect
tranquility has followed the emancipation
The criminal courts are almost uDemploy.
ed. Nine Ienths of the gaols are empty
and open; universal tranqility reigns,
although the landed prOprietors have
made use ofthe hardest landlOrd.poWer
to exact the hardest terms, by way Of rent
from the negro, and have also endeavOr>
ed to extorl from him the largest posi-.
be quantity Of labor for the smallest wa
geS.
''Yet the kindly negro race have not
retallated by one single act Of violence or
of vengeance. The two races exist TO.
getber upon equal terms under t he Brit
ish government and under British inslitu-
tiOns.
"Or shall you say that the British gov
ernmenI and British institutions are pre-,
ferable 10 yours? The vain and vapOring
spiri, Of mistaken rePubicanism will not
permit you to avOw the British superiOr-
y. You are bound however reluctantly
to admit that superiority, or else 10 admit
the falsity Of your own assertions No
thing can, in truth, be more ludicrous
than your defamation in favor of slavery.
1t, hOwev7r, sometimes rises to the very
border of bIasphemy. Your words are
Sod forbid that we should advocate hu.
man bondage in any shape How can
you take the name Of the aiigood Crea.
tor thus in vain! What are you doing ?
Is not the entire Of your address the ad
vOcacy OthumaR bondage7
"'Another piece of silliness-You ale
ledge that it is the abolilionists who make
the slave restless with his condition, and
that they scatter the seeds of discomfort.
"How can you treat US with such con-
tempt as to use assertions of that kind in
your address? How can you think we
could be so devoid of intellect as to be-.
Ieve the negro would not know the mis-.
cries of slavery, which he feels every
hour Of the four and twenty, unless he
were told by some abolitOnists that slave
ry was miserable cOnditOn2
"There is nothing that makes us think
SO badly Of your strain OF ribaIdry in at
tacking the abolitionisls. The desire 10
procure abolition is 10 itself virtue,ald |
deserves our love for its charitable dis-
position as it does respect and veneration
tor its courage under unfaYorabl9 cir
camstaMces. Instead of the ribaldry Of
your attack upon tbs abolitioDists you
ought to respectand countenance them.
II they err by excessive zeal, they err in
a righteous and bely cause You would
do we'll to check their errors and mitigate
their zeal within tte bounds of strict pro-
prieiy, but fyou had The genuine feelings
of Irishmen you nevr would confound
their eros with their virtues. In truth,
we much fear, or rather we should can
didly say, we readily believe that yeu ate
tribute to them imaginary errors fer no
other reason than that they really possess
one brilliant virtue, namely, the love Of
human freedom in intense perfection.
"Again we have TO remark that you ex,
aggerats exceedingly when you state
that there are fifteen millions Ct the white
population in America, whose security
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