The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-17
From he W Y. Hsssld.

The Negro Question Policy qf Great Britain on
Stapery--Ths Progress and Principle Of the Sla-
rery .dgifation--R Results Of Negro Freedom-Con-
diton Of Society IN Guadalupe Erpatiation,
SC. Sc.
There is not an island in our archipelago whose
inhabitants do not participate in the pleasure and
instruction afforded by your unrivalled paper
Where and when to send for our supplies; where
and when to ship the produce of our island; how
to invest dollar in Wall street, without a chance
of which are readily found in our faithful guide,
the Herald But am planter, French planter.
DESTROYS of awakening in the people Of the United
States some sympathy in favor Of our wretched
countrymen, through the medium of your widely
circulated paper, and to engage you to notice our
unfortunate position, for IL is with great pleasure
that we see you have Of late touched upon a sub
ject Of yceral interest TO US, and which must very
soon become subject ofimportant discussion in,
and assume an aspect equally interesting to the
United States-"The West lndies-the slaughter
and expulsion of the white race by the negroes
their ultimate destiny-and the influence of their
ultimate destiny over the peace and prosperity Of
the United States" , ss - y /, j.
To US these are frightful questions, the agitation
of which has already kindled the torch, and whet-
ted the knife of the negro, covered us with ruin,
and filed US with profound and hopeless despair.
No one, say, who has profted by the lessons Of
history and experience, but must admit as mat
problems, the determination of which must eventu-
ally be worked out by the Government of the
United States, and according to the rapid march
Of events around US, at no very distant period.
To those who look at things specifically, Eng
land appears to have performed an act of costly
philanthropy in the emancipation of her negroes.
But there are others, who have studied, and who
have a different view of the subject. England
was the first power in Europe to discover that the
time was rapidly approaching when the European
nations would cease to have any posse ssion or in
fuence in America or its affairs, and she knew
that her sole hope Of maintaining her position, her
sole hope Of keeping in check, and ultimately
breaking up her great rival, was to institute a
crusade against negro slavery in the new world
She made France see and adopt this policy; she
will make Spain do the same; and the United
States now begin to feel, though in its inception,
the inauspicious influence of this very policy.
Great Britain is, perhaps, the only country in
the world in which diplomacy is studied as
science and profession; and the question of ne
gro slavery is one on which she has concentrated
all her talent and craftsmanship, as regards her re-
lations with the United States, and she will treat
this great question, this thoroughly studied ques
ton, directly and indirectly, in such manner as
to arrest the United States Government in its ca
reer of boundess empire and boundless power.
cannot but observe, in passing, that it furnishes
matter for curious comment, to hear England and
France, with their hands fresh from the pillage,
and reeking with the slaughter of India and Al
giers, lecturing America on Mexican conquest and
negro slavery, simply because the people Of the
United States will not give up the homes of their
Christian brethren of the South to the fire, murder
and rape of the negro worshipper Of Obi, and
thereby kindle the torch of civil and servile war,
which will result in your national ruin, and their
national prosperity. l say your national ruin;
for, in such case, what will be the state Of the
Northern and Western fragments of your great
Government? Corrupted by the blood and license
Of civil war, they will readily submit, as neces-
sity, to military rule and military despotism; for
the plough, and the loom, and the ship will no
longer be worked by the hands of the citizens
arms will be in their hands, and armed men
must have leavers-leaders, power; and military
power, its inseparable and indomitable adjunct,
military desposm.
say your national ruin, for in the South, what
will be passing therei The fields, teeming with
all the necessaries and luxuries Of civilized life,
will be abandoned by their well fed, we'll clothed
and happy peasantry, and burned to ashes by in
furiated hordes of negroes, the home of the
Southerner will be a scene of blood and pollution
"a scene Of negro equality, and fraternity, and
domination! Who will stay this storm Of blood,
and rape, and fire, 1t will not be the political
Abotionists Of the North, who trade on the igno-
rance Of fanatieism, and grow rich on the troubles
Of the nation. They will hide themselves from
the sight Of their honest and indignant fellow
citizens, for they will have no power to calm the
tempest that they have traitorously assisted Eng
land in raising. But England will be there-she
is your relution-your language is hers, and your
institutions and laws are adumbraed for her own.
She is there to hold that mighty political lever be-
tween contending States-the balance power. She
will know how to calm the storm that she has
raised, She will be there at Jamaica, with fine
fleet and $4,000 armed negroes, to make peace be
tween her Northern and Southern relatives. Do
you remember, sir, the battle of New Orleans p
the black corps and the backer motto, " Beauty
and booty?"
say that the abolition of negro slavery by
Great Britain, was not an act of costly phianthro
Ply, having for its object the regeneration of her
colonies, and the advancement of religion and CIV
ilization, but an act Of costly policy, having for
its object the maintenance of her position in Amer
ica and the ultimate overthrow Of the peace and
of the United States. But it is not my
province, sir, to trace through all its windings,
this long studied and now rapidly maturing poll
cy of Great Britain, from its CONNIE ncement to its
approaching contamination. My object is to So
licit the interposition Of your paper in behalf of
the poor West Indian, who is forced, like the OPP
pressed of other countries, to seek resting place
among you, for our affairs at Guadalupe and its
dependencies are in deplorable condition. The
widest political rights, and initiated in the infer
nal doctrines Of socialism by their political dema-
gogues, have been allowed too long to pursue, I'M
checked, their aggressive instincts. Commerce and
agriculture are abandoned in rich and beautiful
island, and second edition of the st. Domingo
tragedy is prevented only by military force and
military vigilance that cannot be long maintained.
Our governor, M. Fieron, distinguished soldier
and administrator, is placed in an embarrassing
position as regards the nature of his acts. France
yet feels her revolutionary throes and he does not
know, from one day to another, which will be
the dominant party, and what will be
the fixed and leading policy of the country. In the
the planters are irremediably ruined
and the National Assembly, in order to vanquish
their preudices, and carry out their doctrines of
annals amation, call on them, under penal laws, to
mix with the negroes on juries and in the Nation
al Guards. All appointments of honor and emol-
ument have been given to negroes and men of
color, and the policy of the country has been to
degrade the planter and white man; consequently
the great majority Of them will abandon their
estates, and with their suffering families seek safe
ty, and the subs stence Of an honorable and OBJ
scure poverty, in the Southern States Of your
Union.
/ say the subsistence Of an obscure poverty, for
what, in point OF fact and justice, is the indem-
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