The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-29

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bis morality has taken place"
But. Mr., President. would suppose that this new
species Of the slave trade would have al least diminished
the other, which has long and anxousy engaged the
attention Of philanthropisis But so far from this being
true the documents prove conclusvely that this trade
has increased greatly in extent and with aggravated hor
rors. An extract from the London Times, TO be found
in the number Of the Democratic Review to which have,
before REFERRED and taken from official sources proves
that trade be vastly on the increase and that is in
creased or diminished in ratio corresponding very nearly
with the rise and fall in the price OF sugar Wherever
we turn Then ihe experiment proves itself 70 have been
srac good for which mach Of human happiness and
social prosperity were sacrificed The Africans the la
masters and changed 10 their own disadvantage They
are longer the slaves Of one master, but Of many.
They belong to an abstract bengthe government--and
that In all the schemes for relief from the planters them
selves, they proposed additional restrictions to
force the labor Of the ex-apprences saw, too. that
Earl Grey felt the necessity for this and willing to
do what he could without offending public sentiment at
home attain this object; and il occurred TO
what were the existing regulations which had proved
so inadequate found them stringent enough and as
specimen, present you with an extract from the first
section OF the law passed, for understand there is
general similarity in all those laws Here il is. sir;
y@s s op I ne,
il servant be gultyof certain offences therein specified,
Oi shall Ss guilty IF any Gnei M @
the execution thereof otherwise respecting the same,
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such offence shall be commi.ted Or where such SER
tees, forfeit and pay ns or penalty moi exceeding Es or
be committed to the common Jail house Of correction
Of the said parish there 10 be Imprisoned only or to be
prsoned and kept hard labor for any exceeding
thirty days"
These white Justices members Of the ruling race have
the right to punish these aborers not only for specified
offence, but for the very definite crimes Of Z misconduct
miscarriage, misdemeanor, ill-behavor:" They may
keep them, too, at "hard labor" How, il it be not by
the lash. or some greater physical punishment Mr.
President, these unfortunate wretches are, in truth,
slaves still but is slavery efficient and hap
pier than theirs, in the precise proportion that the indi
yldua management q farm Or factory would 9e better
vious from all this, sir, that these beautiful islands
fast falling into waste and their colored inhabitants
authorities both at home and abroad, and feel these
facts; and It is probable that they would gladly rerace
their steps. if public opinion would permit, and such
step possible would be rejecting upon the power
OF observation, upon the wisdom OF their governors, TO
suppose otherwise Those beautiful islands OF east.
adorned. after the cunningest pattern OF
nature, for the delightful abodes OF civilized man. Has
Great Britain moral right to withhold them from the
OF civilization, and devote them to perpetual waste
and barbarism! Any civilized nation which had the
power, would have the right TO wres those islands
from her leaden rule and dedicate them TO the purposes
Of civilized man, that she had to take this continent
from the Indians who once possessed It. The Indian
occupation was more hopeful and happier than such
rule the present promises be in those beautiful but
misused and ruined colonies.
Mr. President. have presented you with no exaggera-
ted picture OF the results OF this experiment OF the British
government Can any man. from mere abstract consider
atoms OF right and wrong, pronounce measure which
2 such to have been good R and
would risk repetition OF such measures, with the
teachings Of this experience before him Suppose that
in 1885, African slavery had been abolished ali over the
Word-in the colonies 0f France and in Rrazil in
the United States, wherever, in Short il stedwhat
would have been the consequences to mankind! Why,
in the markets Of the world do not pause to calcu-
late the effects of such upon the internal
Germs Of the societies in which slavery existed ask,
how such policy would have operated upon the world
at argel No cotton! No sugar. But little coffee and
less tobacco Why, how many people would thus have
been stricken rudey and at from the oil the
wordl An intelligent member from Alabama, in
and striking letter TO his constituents, has said that
the entire loss OF one cotton crop in the United States
would produce more misery and ruin in Europe than
any two Of Napoeon's most destructive campaigns He
presented truth in striking but not exaggerated
FORM II there be any reliance to be placed upon the
English statistics, as TO their interest in the cotton
factue, there more probably far white people
of the southern States whose subsistence depends
absolutely upon the cotton crop, than there in those
States themselves Such blow to the human
never dreamed or imagined as would have been struck
had the phlanhropsts of Exeter Hall possessed the
power OF legslatng for the world in 1885, when they
compl,shed, 80 far as the British government was con-
But Mr. President, the phianthropists OF our day
fuse to regard the gross they refuse TO take
the test OF experience but insist upon recurring 10 simpler
propositions, and what they call fundamental principles
Slavery they say abhorent to the conscience OF every
ghtminded man II is repugnant TO the best feelings OF
our nature and matter as TO which is too late in
the day know, sir that these ideas have be-
come so common, that they are now matters rather OF
sentiment than of opinion and the harder 10 combat for
that reason. And yet il is abstraction upon which no
one acts can act at home. What slavery, Mr. Pres
identl This question has been asked here BEFORE and
never answered YETI for il who may, he will
find that the definition will embrace evils which exist at
home. shall be told, perhaps that il is "involuntary
seryitude and that involuntary ssrvitude except for
voluntary servitude exists in the only government
which we know certainly to be OF Divine origin
mean. sir, the family government The child is SUBJ
lect to the father throughout the world and accord
ing TO our practice, Tor than third OF his life
the father is the head and rules the household Ii
is true, that this government is tempered By natural
affections and instincts, which soften and endear il 10
its subjects But is not the establishment on southern
plantation modification and extension OF the same
family government The ties which bind them together
not close nor the affections so warm as in the
family proper but still those ties far closer and those
affections far warmer than persons imagine who have no
actual knowledge Of the relation between master and
slave as IL exists In the South But what involuntary
servitude what is slavery las asked before know
OF voluntary sevtude except the labors OF love- The
socialist tells US, that the institution OF wages is an ns
tuition OF slavery and surely all servitude for wages
involuntary, and therefore state OF slavery according
to the common definition We serve for wages to avoid
something which s painful us than serving ano-
her; and upon what other principle il il that the African
works Tor US WAL any man pretend TO say that the
sevitude OF the aborer in the crowded populations OF
Europe is voluntarily Go info the Eny.h eo,arv