The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-02-07
Slavery-The Worlds Fair

The PENNSYLVANIA In an eloquent article on
this subject, draws the following striking con-
trast between negro slavery In the South, and
the impoyished and oppressed laboring classes in
Englafd We bespeak for it the attentive con-
sideration of Horace Greeley, and his co.abof-
ers in the work Of fanaticsm.
"There is however, one department that we
should like the British Government to reserve Id
the Fair; and that is to furnish the means to
contrast American slavery with British slayeryI
before the representatives of all the world, who
will be found In London; in almost numbefless
masses. We should be willing to agree that
England should send George Thompon to the
South to select the worst object of black servi.
tude in that region while the objects of English
oppression might be taken at random. He might
go to the rice fields of South Cafolina; to the
cotton groves of Alabama; to the sugar planta-
tons of Louisiana; TO the tobacco plains of Virs
ginia and Maryland; and chose his specimens.
Let them be carried over the wide waste of wa
ters Let them De placed in the midst of that
Worlds Exhibition, Let them be brought face
to face with the rulers of England, and the
slaves Of England; and then let the judgement of
mankind be pronounced"
"On the one hand; we should see the colored
slaves of our southern states-the objects of
British bathos and periodical pathos-and ON
the other the servile slaves Of England; o! that
England, whose boast is it that the world con-
tains no land where the personal liberty of citi-
zens is so we'll secured, and where there is more
| personal happiness and comfort. Look at these
white slaves. Here is an object that never saw
the light Of day before. He was born in the
mines of Wales, where generations Of his fam
| lily had preceded him; born at the side Of grave,
to waste few short years of stupidity and toll;
and then TO step into it. Lo! the next; weak
woman! Once she was beautiful as the May
morning; once she was lovely as the loveliest OF
her sex. Poverty and penury drove her to a
| life of labor; she was too proud to beg, too pure
for vice, and yet too weak to work. Like huns
dreds Of thousands of her sex, "she dies every
| day she lives, and pines away in working for
those who riot in plenty. There is the once
strong Irish tenant; with his sick and starving
family; his eye kindling with the memory of his
countrys wrongs, even while his frame is crouch;
ed by the tyranny of government which re-
fuses TO listen to his prayers, and fastens upon
him foreign ecElesiastics to be supported BY his
emaciated hands,"
"Take next the slave of the cotton manufacto-
ries; the child premaurely cd, the perishing mos
ther, the despondiDg father, the reckless daugh-
ter-all the victims Of the brutality or bestiality
| Of the overseer. Next examine the scenes Of
vice, and of the countless myriads that swarm
IN the streets of London, and beg and steal for a
living. Manhood has long ago left his bosoni
and the light Of intellect has been extihguished
in the continual struggle of his brain to invent
a new plan of plumbers We let these samples o
British slavery stand. There are others. India
could send her millions. Canada might show
her thousands. But these we have cited are do
mestic samples. Letthe Worlds Jury pronounce
between the black slavery Of Americas and
the white slavery Of England. let them, de
eide which is better cared for-which is filter to
live because Of the good he does, and which i
filter TO die. Our transatlantic friends should by
all means see that the Worlds Fair does not GO
on until department FER this most philosophical
contrBst aud curiosity shall be prepared for the
inspection of the Nations Of the globe"