The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-02-26
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clearly to our mind, what we have ever
commended for; that bondage or slavery is a
blessing to the African slave--lhat It Is
means used by the Almighty for converting
them to the gospel. Why the Almighty
should have cursed one race and doomed il
to eternal servilude, it is not our business to
enquire, the fact that be has done so is
enough. lie did il for wise purposes, and
those who think to the contrary have "de-
MED the faith, and are worse than inlidsls;"
Il is gross insult to the wisdom and Justice
fthe deity.
Those who admit that slavery is an evil,
cannot with any consistency blame the alb.
olitionists for trying to get rid of it; it would
be criminal in them to do so. An evil should
be gotten rid Of as soon as possible; t!
only thing to be considered, is the best and
sltest mode Of doing So We are panied
and surprised to hear some of our friends
and slave owners, declare slavefy TO be an
evil, wrong inflicted upon the slave, An
individual who thus thinks. commits an un-
pafdonable sin, TO resist we'll devised plan
decentralization. lie may Justly contend
that Congress has no power to interfere
with slavery in the States. but he should not
oppose the effort to give it the power, with
out presenting some feasible plan, for get
ting rid of the evil. Every man who be-
lieves that slavery is an evil, must be an
abolitionist, or a contemner Of the laws Of
his maker. To be an abolitionist, it is not
necessary that he should go hand in hand
with Giddings, Seward & Co. We mean
to say that consistency requires him to de-
sire and seek some good mode to rid the
country of on evil. If it be an evil at all,
it is OF the most "hideous MEN, The
holding our brother in bondage without d.
vine sanct on and appointment, has not a
fellow" to it in the whole catalogue of evils
and all good men should bend every ener
gy TO provide mode OF correcting it, and if
the one provided by the aboIilionists OF the
North is defective, it devolves upon those Of
the South, not to condemn, but to provide a
better. There is no getting around it; it is
either an evil, or it is not; if it is an evil,
then the sooner we get rid of it the better.
It would be great injustice to entail this evil
upon posterty, and leave it to them to cor
rect our sins.
We maintain that is not an evil, bu!
great blessing-a blessing to the slave as
we'll as the master. We go farther, and
hold, that it is wrong for a master who
treats his slaves properly, to set them free.
They are incapable oftaking care Of them
selves, and it is wrong in the master to
withdraw his guardian care Of them. Now
and then we see a free negro capable of
taking care Of Eimself and of providing an
honest living for himself and family, but we
believe we are within the compass of the
truth, when we say, that nnety-nine out Of a
hundred, OF the freed blacks, if left entirely
to their own direction, would become vaga-
bonds and live by thieving; and with the
assistance which the law now gives them,
in compelling them to have some guardian,
nine out of ten make most of their living
by stealing, and this too when they have
none but themselves TO provide for, their fam
lilies being in bondage, and provided for By
the master. 1t will be borne in minC
too, that the freed black is always the
choice and favorite negro ofthe master, anC
is set at liberty on account of his good quail
ties. The master believes him capable o
becoming good and orderly citizen, or be
would not free him. The negroes which
are set free from bondage do not bear ,
proportion OF more than one to a thousani
of the slaves in the south, and those are tn
very "pick" of the whole, the best in moral
intellect and Industrious habits, and yet wha
picture of debauchery & vagabOndism d.
they present. No man can seriously con
temp,ste the picture, and say that the mas
ter would be justified, or even exeusable
. for turning them loose upon the world I
a take Of, and provide for themselves Th'
: welfare Of the slave, and the interest of sos
} ETY., alike forbid it.
: The experiment Of Bishop Capers Q
] South Carolina, who recently presided owe
! the Methodist Conference in this place, an
. whose grave demeanor, austere piety, an
snowy locks, (what few were left, as he wa
e the baldest headed man we ever saw ex
1 cited the respect and reverence OF ever
9 body, is appropriately the present subject