The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-07-25


tween their capture and liberation Dies
q not really seem that Mr.. GrosVenor was
a Prophet That though nearly oil the
{ impossibilIties Of 1851 have vanished,
aud become as familiar facts as our house
hold customs, under the magic influence oil
Steam. Cotton aud universal peace, yet this
wonderful prophecy sill stands, defying
time aud the energy Dnd genius Of mankind.
Thousands ofvaluable lives aud fifty millions
# pound stering has been given away by
your Government III fruitiess attempts 10
oyerturn il. hope you have not lived too
long for your own happiness, though you
aase been spared 10 see that IN spite OF all
your toll aud those Of your fellow laboters,
and the accomplishment Of all that human
agency could DO. the African Slave Trade
has Increased three fold under your own
eyes-more rapdly, perhaps, than any 9th.
CT ancient branch If commeGce-and that
sour Efforts 10 suppress II have effected
nothing more than lht2c-foId increase OF
is horrors. There il a God who rules tbs
world All posofi1l- Fdtseeing: He
does not permit Ills creatures 10 foil His
designs. 1t is he uho, for His alsise,
though TO US often inscrutabe purposes,
throws lnposstblties in tho way OF our
iondesi hopes and most strenuous exerlons.
Can you doub. TN.
Experience having Sc tied The point that
Tins Trade cannot be abolished ty he use
Of force, and that block4dug squadrons
serve only TO nuke il more profitable and
more cruel, nm urtrsed that the attempt
IS persisted IN, unless il serves as cloak TO
some other purposes. Il would be far bet
ter than II now il, for the African, if the
trade was free from all restrictions and
LEFT to the mitigation aud decay which time
and competition would surely bring about.
II kidnapping, both secretly ind ty war
made for the purpose, could be by any
means prevented IN Africa, the mex, great.
est blessing you could besiow upon that
country would BIO to transport lis actual
slaves il comfortable vessels across the At
lantic. Though they might be perpetual
boudsincn, slil they would emerge from
darkness into li.ht--fsom baibafism TO civ
liz tlion-from dolatry 10 chrlsI!anily-ln
short from death 10 life.
Bot let u. leave the African slave trade,
which has SO signally defeated the P&tldn,
thropy Of the world, and turn 10 American
slavery, to which yeu have now directed
your attention, and against which crusade
has been p.coched us enthusiastic and Zero.
cions as that Of Peter the Hermit destln.
ed believe, 10 bo about as successful
And here let me cay, there 10 not vast diff
ference between the two, though YOU may
not acknowledge il. The wisdom Of naes
has coucurred in The justice and etpe9 -
cy Of establishing rights BY prcscrpiive
use, however tortious IN their ongtn they
may have been You would deem a man
insnne whose keen sense of equity would
lead him to denounce yont right to the lands
you hold, aud which pethaps you inherited
from a long line Of ancestry, because your
title was derived from a Saxon or Nor.
man conqueror, aud your lan1s were orlgi.
nally wrested by violence from the van
quished Britons. Aud go would tho New
England AbalIlioulst regard any ono who
would insist that he should restore his farm
TO the descendants Of the slaughtered Red
mon to whom God had as clearly given II
as he gave he aud freedom 20 the kldoap
ped African. That time does not conse
crate wrong, is fallacy which oil history
exposes; aud which the best and wisest
men Of aI ayes and professions Of religious
faith have practically deuad. The means,