Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-18
An inqairy into the nature and results of
the AnfT-Siagery Agitation. with u vie "
at the prospect before us.
By 4 CITIZEN OF ALABAMA.
THE PROSPECT BEFORE Us.

the AnfT-Sia.ery Agitation. with u vie "
at the prospect before us.
By 4 CITIZEN OF ALABAMA
THE PROSPECT BEFORE Us.
coNTISuED FROM LAST WEEK.
We have before noticed the prodigious
operations of the Society, In the circulation
Of their opinions. An extract or two from
these publications will slrowthe impression
they communicate of slavery. We take
from the most eminent and authoritative of
these writers. "A slave country says DIR.
Charming, sreeks with heentiousness 1t
is tainted with a deadier pestilence than
Bic plaque. But the worst is not told
AS a consequence of criminal e5.ssrecsosss,s
many a master hes children born into sla
very. Of these, most, presume, receive
protection, perhaps indulgence, during the
life of their fathers, but at their death, not
a few are left to the chances of cruel bon
dage, Still more, it is to be feared, that
there are cases in which the master puts his
own children under the lash of the over
seer, or else sells them, to undergo the
miseries of bondage. If my impressions
on this point are true, our own country,
calling itself enlightened and christian, is
defled with one of the greatest enormities
on earth. We send missionaries to heather
lands. Among the poliutions of heathen
ism, | know nothing worse than this. -
John Quincy Adams, in formal and pub
lie address, delivered the 4th day of July,
declared, that since 1880, slavery, slave
holding, and slave breeding, and slave tra-
ding, have formed the whole foundation
of the policy of the Federal Government,
and of the slaveholding States, at home
and abroad.
Daniel O'Connell, Theobald Mathew,
and 10000 others, addressed their coun-
trymen in America, that slavery is a sin
against God and man: All who are not for,
must be against it. None can be neutral
We entreat you to take the part of justice,
religion and liberty. 1t is in vain that
American citizens attempt to conceal their
own and their country's degradation under
this whitening curse"
These are favorable specimens of the
treatment we experience.
Foreign Aid and Comfort.
This movement at home, meets with aid
and encouragement abroad. The aboli-
tionists of Great Britain, in single gene
ration, oyerthrew West India slavery. In
1913, the Duke of Wellington threatened
to bring the encouragement given to the
slave trade by France before the Congress
of Vienna. The French provisional gov.
ernment abolished, in 1913, slavery in hel
colonies, giving to the colonists but two
months for preparation. Denmark and
Sweden have followed the same career
Near one million three hundred thousand
slaves, in the West Indies, have been libe-
rated against their masters, under this Eu-
-ropean agitation.
The ministers of the church are the prin-
ciPal agents of this work World conven-
tions, Evangelical alliances, formal adj
dresses by hundreds of ministers, and tens
Of thousands of people, to churches and
communities in this country, calling for ac-
tivity in prosecuting their work, contribu-
tons of money, expressions of anxiety and
interest there for measures conducted here,
are the important and efficient means en-
ployed to testify that interest. The British
government formally declares It's anxiety
to promote abolition. Thomas B. Macau-
ley, Lord Palmerston and George Thomp-
son, have arraigned at the bar of Europe
the institutions and practices Of the South
ern people; while, the warning of the il.
lustrious Peel is thus given: There have
been mighty convulsions in Europe. Then
mighty heavings are already felt ON the
other side of the Atlantic Look at Mar
Unique. These are useful lessons, by
which Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
will do well to take a timely warning. Ny
belief is that the events which have jus
happened in Europe must precipitate tht
time for the final extinction of this slavery
and of the slave trade. | hope that thu
abolition will be effected, by timely precau
tons on the part of governments; but there
will be an increasing sympathy with th'
condition of slavery. But, whether there
be wise or proyidential legislation OH the
part of government, or not, l believe it.
doom is sealed: That slavery cannot Ions
survive; that it must, at no remote period
be extinguished.'
OF the Efficiency of Countervailing In
1 fuences.
i The question arises what has sustained
the country, under this weight of adyers
influences?
/ When this agitation commenced, til,
opinion generally prevailed over the coun
try, that slavery was domestic concern O
the Southern States, for which no respon
sibility existed, beyond the States where
was established by law. 1t was treated il
Congress as subject of great delicacy, tn
discussion of which was TO be avoided
| When abolition was started as Northerl
or National concern, it offended this opin
ion; it required much effort to remove th
conviction and to destroy the sentiment @
the danger involved in its agitation
The administration of General jackson
which was then in power, was possessed @
vast influence and popularity, from its pop
ular sympathies and great principles, too
an uncomprosing attitude of hostility to il
His party, embracing large majority c
! the country, sustained his position. Th
influence of the impression he then com
municated is felt to this day. Throug
the long series of anti-slavery reports, tn
hostility Of his party is always anticipated
There was. moreover, a strong persua
sion through the country, that the agitatio
of this question seriously menaced the pei
petuity of the Union. The Union was the
| source of pride and power, of infuenc
abroad and security at home; and though
i full and considerate men eschewed the coul
! ses leading to It's dismemberment. Th
active intellect of the country looked to
/; for honors and preferment, and returned