The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-07-09

Of yours, declared 10 I64O, that the num-
Der of Africans now annually sold into sla-
very beyond the sea, amounts, at the very
least, TO one hundred and fifty thousand
souls: while the mortality Of the Middle
Passage has increased, in consequence Of
The measures taken TO suppress the trade,
to IS or 80 per cent. And Of the one hun.
dred and fifty thousand slaves who have
been captured and liberated by British Men
Of War since the passage Of your Act
Judge Jay, an American Abolitionist, as
seFls that one hundred thousand, or two
thirds, have persisted between their cap.
ture and liberation. Does it not really
seem that Mr.. Grosvenor was a Prophet
That though nearly all the +" impOssibiI,
ties' Of 1857, have vanished, and become
as familiar FACTS aS our household Gus
toms, under the magic influence Of Steam,
Cotton, and universal peace, yet this wona
derful prophecy still stands, delying time
and the energy and genius Of mankind
Thousands of valuable lives, and fifty mill
ions of pounds sterling have been given
away by your Government in Iruitless at
tsmpts 10 overturn il. ! hope you have
not lived too long for your own happiness,
though you have been spared 10 see that
in spite Of all your tolls and those Of your
fellow laborers, and the accomplishment Of
all that hu0lan agency could do, the Afri.
can Slave trade has increased three fold
under your own eyes-more rapidly, per-
haps, than any other ancient branch Of COM
mere-and that your efforts to suppress il
have effected NOTHING MORE than a three
fold measure of it's horrows. There is a
God who rules this wOrld--aIl powerful
Far-seeing. He does not permit His crea>
lures to foil for designs. Ii is He who,
for His al-wise, though TO Us often inscrQ.
table purposes, throws impOssibiliIies," in
The way Of our fondest hopes and most
strenuous exeltions. Can you doubt lhis3
Experience having settled the PoiAt, that
this trade cannot be abolished by the use
Of force, and that bloCkading squadrORs
serve only TO make it more profitable and
more cruel, | am surprised that the attempt
is persisted 10, unless it serves as a cloak
TO some other purpose. Ii would be Tar bet
ter than it now is, for the African, if tbs
Trade was free from all restrictions, and lef
10 the mitigation and decay which time and
competition would surely bring about. Il
kidnapping, both secretly and by war made
for the purpose, could be by any means
prevented 10 Africa, The next greatest bless
ing you could bestow upon that country
would be 10 transplant tie actual slaves in
comfortable vessels across the atlantic
Though they might be perpetual bondsmen,
still, they would emerge from darkness in
to light, from barbaFiOm TO civilization
from idolatry to christianiIy--in short from
death TO life.
But let US leave the African slave trade,
which has so signaIly defeated the Philan.
thtopy Of the world, and turn 10 American
slavery, TO which you have now directed
your attention, end against which crusade
has been prcsched as enthusiastic and fe-
rOcious as that Of Peter the Hermit--deS-
tined, believe, to be- about a. successful.
ADD here lei me say, there is MT vast
difference between the two, though you
may net acknowledge it. The wisdom Of
ages has concurred in the justice and expe
cheney of establishing rights by PrescriP.
live use, however tortOous in their organ
they may have been. You Would deem
man insane hose keen sense Of equity
would lead him to denounce your right TO
the lands you hold, and which perhaps you
inherited from a long line Of ancestry, be-
cause your title was derived from 9 Saxon
or Norman cOnqueFOr, and your lands were
originally wrest,d by violence from the
vanquished BritOnS. And so would the New
England Abolition regard any one who
would insist that he should restore his farm
10 the descendants Of the slaughtered Red
men 10 whom God had Is clearly given Il
as he gave life and freedom 10 the kidnapr
bed African. That time does moi cOnse-
crate wrong, is q fallacy which ell history
exposes; end which the best and WisesI
men Of eli ages and professions Of religious
faith have practically denied. The means
therefore, whatever they may have been,
by which the African race now 70 this
country have been reduced to slavery, eau
not effect Us, since they are our property,
as your land is yours, BY Inheritance Or
purchase end prOseriPliVs right. You will
saw that q man cannot hold property %
man. The answer is, that be can lpd ae-
tually does hold property in bic fellow a'l
the world over, 10 q variety Of iorms' and
has always eOns 90. / will show present.
~ bis authority for doing H.
II you were 10 ask me whether vas
an advocate Of slavery in the abSifacii l
should probably answer, that am not, ae-
oording % ny understanding Of The quss-