The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-03-02

without her aid pray you to bear iii mind,
that the golden rule Of life is for each to attend
to his own business. and let his neighbor's alone
This means peace, love, friendship. The oppo-
site means hatred, ill-wiIl, contention--lt des-
troys the peace of neighborhoods. and is the
fruitful cause of discord among nations. must
also say to you frankly that we regard England
as an Indifferent adviser on the subject of negro
slavery. Her craftsmanship, If il be judged by
her course of policy in regard to the West India
Islands, would give her no exalted position; un-
less, indeed, fanatlcism be good adviser, aud
ruin and desolation, evidences of wise End
sound policy. No, we prefer to follow our own
conception of what it is pveper for us to do
Our eyes are turned across me ocean, not in the
direction of England. ,uut to Africa The foot
prints of cilT policy are seen in the colonies
there established, already become independent
Statss--ln the voluntary emancipation of slaves
by our citizens as preparatory OF emigration to
Africa course of emancipation which from
1870 to 1850, has increased our table in Virgin
ia, of free negroes. in the ratio Of 30l per cent,
while the white population has only increased
1929 per cent, and the slaves but 643 per cent.
These interesting statistics, ! extract from me-
mortal recently presented to the Legislature of
Virginia, asking additional aid to further the
colonization of freed negroes i'll Liberia. Thus
we seek to retribute the wrongs done by Eng.
land TO Africa. by returning civilization for bar
barism-Christianit for idolatry. We desire
no such boon as England bestowed on her Is
oh
tructive-no ultimate war between the RACES
bloody, desolating, and finally annihilating
Steam is conquering distance, and Africa will
be brought nearer and nearer to our shores each
revolving year--and the results of a policy. at
once wise and discreet, commencing with slave
holding Virginia, and extensively adopted bv
the people of the U. States, will claim, sooner
or later, the admiration of mankind
America might love England if England
W ould permit her. A common descent COM
mon language, mutual interests. and to great
extent a common heritage of freedom, should
draw the two nations together. The d;sposi-
ton of the Southern mind, q speak what do
KNOW is to cultivate the closest friendship with
England, Nearly all of the Southern people
re the desced tnts of the first settless Thev
nave kindred blood almost unmixed by emigra-
tion, flowing in their veins. Their interests
lead them to cherish the principles of free
trade. Their cot on, their rice, and other pro-
ductions of the soil, find ex ensive markets in
Great Britain. They would have them still
more free-still more widely open. For nv
self when have visited England it has been
with emotions of reverence growing out of the
recollections of the historic page. Westmins-
Ter Abbey, with its undying memorials-the
noble monuments of the past scattered over the
face of the country-the very ruins spoke OF
an ancestry alike dear to the American and
EnglisLman. My intermixture of Scotch
blood, derived from leader of two Scottish
clans, who lost life. castle, and estate in the
wars OF King Charlie, with the pure Anglo
Saxon, in no wise abated my ardor and enthu-
siasm, when l looked upon these mementoes of
the mighty past, in which so many of us here
| claim common interest with you. But, if
England will sever these ties if, instead of
cultivating good feeling with US, she chooses
rather to subject US 10 taunt, to ridicule to in
suit in its grossesl form and, above all, i'm
properly to interfere in our domestic affairs
if she scalters her nobility among us, first to
share our hospitality and then to abuse us-if
what las sill worse, she sends her emissalies, in
the persons of members of Parliament, to stir
up our people 10 mutiny and revolt-il, which
is quite Objectionable, her public press shall
incne her WI men. and the more illustrous for
birth, the worse it makes the M, tier, to address
Us homiiies justice. humanity, and philan-
thropy, as if we had not like themselves, the
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Christianity; with all the desire to cultivate
relations of undying unity, the men of the
United States, deriving their spirit from their
mothers and their wives, may be forced into
the adoption of very different feeling with
rega I'd to Great Britain
JULIA GARDINER TYLER.
Shea1cood Forest, Va, Jan 24th, 1852.