The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-09

advance of ten dollars for every person VINO
may be induced to emigratc-an amount
nearly equivalent to that formerly PAID Tor
slaves-and were then actually engaged In con-
tracing with the predatory chiefs OF the coast
for their prisoners taken in war, to supply the
market thus opened. To check and prevent,
as far as the Liberian authorities could do,
this re-establishment of the old slave trade,
he ordered all vessels carrying emigrants TO
come into port in order that it might be as
certained whether such persons were voluntary
emigrants, or captured prisoners in fact
Now of this policy of Mr. Clay the Cuban
planters the California Legislature, and the
Hyde, Hodge, and British Government contract
for supplying the West India market with Ia
borers at sixpence day, we hesitate not to
pronounce and denounee them, one and all, as
simply internal; and Professor Stowe and the
Exeter Hall politicians must either stand from
under or take their full share of our lOathing
adherence, and contempt
We hesitate not to say, moreover, that we
will take no part nor lot in name, fame, or
effort, with any man, or set of men, who can
coolly propose the emancipation OF one set OF
laborers by the introduction of any set of bar
barians among us, or by their colonization in
East Iodia, Australia, or elsewhere, at rate
of wages which must brutalize them and
starve the free labor of the rest of the world
down to degradation below that which it
designs thereby to remedy.
Professor Stowe was in England seventeen
years ago; but if he had been there but a
week, with his eyes open, and his heart any
where nearly in the right place, he must have
seen enough of sixpence day to teach him
that Uncle Tom himself lived a happier life,
and died q gentler death, than any man or
woman ever did, under system of such unre-
deemable debasement.
If England ever dares to grow free cotton
at sixpence day to the laborer, the very
slave-drvers of South Carolina will be morally
degraded by purchasing whip-lash of British
manufacture, and the Cossacks of Russia will
benefit the world by introducing civilization
into Great Britain.
Why, Abolitionsm will be stencil in the
nostrils of the world, heather and Christian,
if doctrines and designs 80 atrocious can be
by any means fastened upon it. Free cotton,
indeed We did think, in our simplicity, that
Chattel- Slavery was the sum of all villanies
but it seems that hell has no bottom, and Mr..
Clay, Messrs. Hyde, Hodge & Co., have found
in the lowest deep a lower deep, still threat
ening to devour, to which the hell we suffer
seems a heaven" Better whtewash Uncle
Toms Cabin with apologies from the Bible and
paper it with the Declaration of Independence,
than tumble it into a pit dug for it by free
labor at sixpence day.
To say nothing of the sheer absurdity OF
starving Slavery into submission-which ls a
proposition away below any respectful discus
sion-think of the hateful spirit which it i'm
plies and the malignant antagonism which 1t
must engender. A conscientious refusal to
purchase or use slave-grown products may
have no unkindness to the Shareholder in it );
and, considering the number of persons who
ever will adopt that form of protest against the
evil, it may work no harm, but do some good
in the way of appeal to the moral sense of the
master; but systematic underwriting OF the
slave policy, by means of oppression ten times
worse than its own, has not one redeeming
feature of goodness in it. Its earliest and most
distinguished projectors were and are the COM
mon enemies of the worlds best interests and
the man who adopts it must not complain, If
he is judged by the company he is found in.
Between its Stiffness and wickedness it is to US
the ugliest piece of false philosophy and insane
philanthropy that we have met with from any
gathering of spcech-makers, in Europe or
America; and that is saying not too much,
though it would be hard to say more of it.
Be it understood that we neither work nor
pray for the bankruptcy of any STAKEHOLDER in
the South but on the contrary, desire for
every individual among them the greatest
worldly prosperity possible to the system. We
long for the day when master and slave shall
both abound in all the civilizng and elevating
luxuries of wealth. Heaven hasten the time
when every laborer in every field and shop
shall be worth 30 much money that no man
can afford to own him when his labor shall
yield SO large profit and his price rise SO
high that its annual interest with the expense
of keep and insurance against loss, shall equal
the wages of the well-paid freeman; for then
his shackles will fall by their own weight from
his limbs. Our Anti-Slavery has no element of
hatred or hostility to any man in it. Above
all, it is not narrowed into partial and ego
tistical bencvolence that would carry out its
special purpose at the sacrifice of any other
real interest of our fellow-men. The Anti-Sla-
very sentiment Of England was so exclusively
colored in Daniel O'Connelrs time, shat he
cried out in despair, would to heaven the
Irish were black" The Cinnamon will turn
up their great round eyes at Professor Stowe,
some day, and beg him to include their COM
plexion, also, in his philanthropy; and the free
white laborer at home and abroad, will ask
him why his brethren of the whole blood are
quite banished from his affections Our re-
spectful petition to him il, that he will care
fully exonerate American Anti-Slavery from
any responsibility for free cotton at Cd, day.
T..
BE 1T REMEMBERED,
That Massachusetts, has distinctly and posi-
lively refused to erect monument in her State
House, to the honor of Mr.. Webster The
Journal of the Wing Legislature of the Com
monwealth preserves the record, for the in
formation of posterity. His contemporaries have
given their judgment of his claims upon their