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proportion. are no more! Humane and plOuS
contrivance! To alleviate the fancied suf-
lerings of the accursed posterity of Ham,
you sacrifice by cruel death two-thirds Of
ihe children of the blessed Shem-and de-
mand the applause of Christians-the bless
ing of Heaven! If this ''experiment' is to
60 on, in Gods name try your hand upon
the Thugs. That other species of ''immi-
gration' TO which you are resorting | will
consider presently.
But what do you calculate will be the
result of emancipation, by whatever means
accomplished You will probably point
me, by way of answer, to the West Indies
doubtless to Antigua, the great boast oil
abolition. Admitting that it has succeeded
there-which will do for the sake of the
argument-do you know the reason of it:
The true and only causes of whatever sue
cess has attended it in Antigua are, that the
population was before crowded. and all or
nearly all the arabic land in cultivation
The emancipated negroes could not, many
of them, get away if they desired; and knew
not where to 60, in case they did. They
had practically no alternative but to remain
on the spot; and remaining, they must work
on the terms of the propretors, or perish
the strong arm Of the mother country for
bidding all hope of sezing the land fol-
themselves. The proprietors we'll knowing
that they could thus command labor fol
the merest necessities of life, which was
much cheaper than maintaining the non-ef
fective as well as effective slaves in a style
which decency and interest, if not human
ity, required, willingly accepted half their
value, and at once realized far more than
the interest on the other half, in the dimi-
mutton of their losses, and the reduced
comforts Of the freemen. One of your mos
illustrious judges, who was also profound
and philosophical historian, has said ''tha
Villeinage was not abolished, but went into
decay in England" This was the process
This has been the process whenever (the
name of Villeinage or slavery has been
successfully abandoned. Slavery in fac
"went into decay" in Antigua. have adj
mitted that under similar circumstances il
might proftably cease here-that is, profit
ably to the individual proprietors. Give me
half the value of my slaves, and compel
them to remain and labor on my plantation
at 10 to IL cents day, as they do in An
tigua, supporting themselves and families
and you shall have them tomorrow, and il
you like dub them ''free.'' Not 10 sickle
would surrender them without price No
! recall my words: My humanity revolts
at the idea. | am attached 10 my slaves
and would not have art or part in reducing
them to such condition. deny, how
ever, that Antigua, as a community, is or
ever will be as prosperous under present
circumstances, as she was before abolition.
though fully ripe for it. The fact is we'll
known. The reason is that the African, if
not distinct, is an inferior race, and never
will effect, as it never has effected. as much
in any other condition as in that of slavery.
know of no Shareholder who has visit
ed the West Indies since slavery was abol-
ished, and published his views of it, All our
facts and opinions come through the friends
OF the experiment, or at least those not OPP
posed to it, Taking these. even without
allowance, to be true as stated, do not see
where the Aboltionists find cause for exul-
tation. The tables of exports, which are
the best evidences of the condition of peo-
pie, exhibit a wo(u falling of-excused, it
is true, by Unprecedented droughts and hur
ricanes, TO which their free labor seems I'M
accountably more subject than slave labor
used to be. | will not 60 into detail. 1t is
we'll known that large proportion of Bri-
fish legislation and expenditure, and that
proportion still constantly increasing, is
most anxiously devoted to repairing the
monstrous error of emancipation. You are
actually galvanizing your expiring colonies.
The truth, deduced from all the facts, was
thus pithily stated by the London Quarterly
Review, as long ago as 1910: IN one of the
benefits anticipated by mistaken good inten-
tons have been realized, while every evil
wished for by knaves and foreseen by the
wise has been painfully verified. The wild
rashness of fanaticism has made the eman-t
cipation of slaves equivalent TO the loss of
one half Of the West Indies, and yet put.
back the chance of negro civilization."-
{. 4rt Id. Dudley's Letters) Such are the.
real fruits of your acknowledgements
glori6ed Abolition, and the valuable dividend
of your twenty millions of pounds sterling
invested therein.
A Boston chap who lately returned from
a tour In New Hampshire, says he was