Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-09-11

earth to save sinners" III don't know who
made the world, never heard about God"
81 don't know Jesus Christ never saw
him; but have seen Foster who prays a.
bout him." Employer: KY on have express
ed surprise at Thomas Mitchel's not hear
ing OF God. Judge there are few golfers
herea6out that e"-Ibid | will quote
no more. 1t is shocking beyond endurance
to turn over your Records in which The
condition of your laboring classes is but
too faithfully depicted. Could our slaves
but see it, they would join us in Lynching
abolitionists, which, by the bye, they would
not now be loath to do. We never think of
imposing on them such labor, either in a
mount or kind. We never put them to any
'oork under ten, more generally at twelve
years of age, and then the very lightest
Destltution is absolutely unknown-never
did slave starve in America while in
moral sentiments and feelings, in religious
information, and even in general intelligence,
they are infinitely the superiors of your OPP
eratlves. When you look around you, how
dare you talk to us before the world Of
slavery? For the condition of your wretch
ed laborers you, and every Briton who is
not one of them, ale responsible before God
and man. If you are really humane, phi
lanthropic and charitable, here are objects
for you. Relieve them Emancipate them
Raise them from the condition of brutes to
the level of human beings-of American
slaves at least. Do not for an instant sup
pose that the name of being freemen is the
slightest comfort to them, situated as they
are, or that the bombastic boast that "who-
ever touches British soil stands redeemed,
regenerated and Disseminated" can meet
with anything but the ridicule and contempt
of mankind, while that soil swarms, both
on and under its surface, with the most
AFFECT and degraded wretches that ever bow
ed beneath the oppressor's yoke.
have said that slavery is an established
and inevitable condition to human society
| do not speak of the name, but the fact
The Marquis of Normandy has lately de-
clared your operatives to be in effect szaues.
Can it be denied Probably; for such phi
lanthropists as your aboitionists care no.
thing for facts. They deal in terms and
ictions. 1t is the word ''slavery" which
shocks their tender sensibilities and their
imaginations associate it with "hydras and
chimeras dire" The thing itself in its most
hideous reality, passes daily under their
view unheeded-a familiar face, touching
no chord of shame, sympathy or indigna-
ton. Yet SO brutalizing is your iron bond
age that the English operative is a bye word
through the world. When favoring fortune
enables him to escape his prison house
both in Europe and America he is stunned
With all the skill which IA hours of daily
labor from the tenderest age has ground into
him, his discomfort, which habit has made
second nature, and his depraved propensi-
ties, running riot when freed from his won't
ed letters, prevent his employment when
ever it is not matter of necessity. If we
derived no other benefit from African slave
ry in the Southern States than that it deter
red your ,freemeg, from coming hither,
should regard it as an inestimable blessing
And how unaccountable is that philan.
thropy, which closes its eyes upon such {
state of things as you have at home, ant
turns its blurred vision to our affairs hey ono
the Atlantic; meddling with matters which
no way concern them-presiding, as yor
have lately done at meetings, to denounct
the E'iniquity of our laws'' and ''the atrocity
of our PRACTICES" and to sympathise will
Infamous wretches imprisoned here for VIC
lating DEGREES promulgated both by God an,
man. Is this doing the work of "your Fa
Their which is in heaven" or is it seekin!
only ''that you may have glory of man?''-
Do you remember the denunciation of on
Saviour, "Woe unto you, Scribes and Phari
sees; Hypocrites! for We make clean the out
side of the cup and platter, but within they
are full of extortion and excess"
But after all, supposing that every thin!
you say of slavery be true, and its abolition
matter Of the last necessitIon, how do yo.
expect to effect emancipation, and what dc
you calculate will be the result of its accom-
plishmept? AS to the means to be used, the
Abolitionists, believe, affect to differ, {
large proportion of them pretending thai
their sole purpose is to apply 'moral sua-
son' to the shareholders themselves. As a
matter of curiosity, should like to know
what their idea of this "moral suaslon" Is
Their discourses-yours is no exception
are all trades, the exordium, argument and
peroration, turning on the epithets ''lyrants,' .
I:sthieves," "murderers," addressed to u.s.
They revile us as ''atrocious MONSTERS
"violatcrs of the laws of nature, God, and
man." our homes the abode of every iniqui-
tv, our land sbrothel." We retort, thai
j they are "incendiaries" and Fsassassins.'-