Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-25
The editor of the Mercury goes on to say !:

"This mdrriage in high life IA only many which hav
signazed that immense emigration from chrsanzed Chni
during the last years. whereby Charleston has
population of and the State Of South Carolina
5000 0OOan emigration which has wonderfully harmonzet
with the great exodus of the negro to Africa"
[Some gentleman here requested to know of DR.. Ross
the date of the Charleston Mercury recording this
riage The Dr. replied the date is 9th May 1863
y one hundred years from this day Great laughter.
Sir, this is dream, but it is not all dream. No,
verify believe you have there the Gordian knot of slavery
united You have there the solution of the problem You
have there the curtain up and the last the
act of the great drama Of Ham.
am satisfied with the tendencies of things. stand
the mountain peak above the clouds see far beyond
the storm the calm and blue sky see the Canaan Of
the African. like to stand there the Ne5o of his
exodus and look across not the Jordan but the Atlantic
the African crossing certainly if gazed upon
the divided by great wind and piled up in walls
of green gitterng glass either handthe dry ground
the marching host and the pillar of cloud and of FIRE.
look upon the Niger black with death to the white
man-insnct withf to the children Of Ham, There is
the black mans home, Oh how strange that you Of
the North not how you degrade him when yon keep
him here You will not let him vote. You will not let
him rise to honors social equality You viii not let
him hold pew in your churches Send him away then;
Tell him begone. De urgent like the Egyptians; send
him out of this land There, in his fatherland, he will
exhibit his own type of Christianity He is of oil races
the most gentle and kind The man, the most submis
sve; the voman, the most afectionate What other
slaves would love their masters better than themselves
rock them and fan them in their cradles caress them how
tendery boys girls honor them grown up superior
beings and thousands of usrious instances be willing
to give life and in fact die to save themy
Verify verify this emancipated may reveal the most
amiabe form of spiritual fe and the eoe may glitter on
the Ehops brow in meaning sublime than all in the
poets imagery. Brethren let them go; and when they
are gone-aye, before they go away-rear monument ;
let it grow greatness not your highest mountain
in your hearts, in lasting memory of the South in me-
mory of your wrong the South in memory Of the self
denial of the South and her philanthropy in training the
- ha frae anli anpd nd CHI titan
Can all this bes Can this double emigration cvilize
Africa and than people the South Yes; and
regard the difficulties presented here in Congress or the
country, as little worth. God intends both emgratons
And, without miracle he will accomplish both. Difficult
ties These are no difficulties Half million emigrate
to our shores from Ireland and all Europe every year
And you gravey talk Of difficulties in the negros way to
Africal Verify, God will unfold their destiny as fast
and as fully as he best for the highest good of the
slave the highest good of the MASTER and the glory OF
Christ in Africa.
And sir there are forty thousand Chinese in Califor
MA And in Cuba this day, American gentlemen are
cuyatng sugar with Chinese hired labor more prota-
bly, than the Spaniards and their slaves. there is
China-half the population of the globeust fronting US
across that peaceful Her poor living on rats and
pittance Of red rice her rich boarding millions in sense
less idoatry or indugng in the luxures OF birds nests
and roasted ice Massed together, they must CRATE
Where can they got They must come to our shores
They must come did God forbid them But he will
hasten their coming They live in the EXTREMIST
South 1t is their attudetheir side of the ocean They
cultivate cotton, rice, sugar. tea and the
Their skill, their manipulation is unriyalled Their COM
mones gong you neither make nor explain They are
a law abiding people-wthout castes-accusomed torise
by merit to highest distinctions and capable of the nobet
training when their idolatry, which is waxing old as
garment shall be folded up vesture and changed Tor
that whose wears shall fail The English ambassador
that the Chinese negotator of the late treaty
was splendid gentleman and dipomatist to move IN
any court of Europe. Shem, then can minge Win "a
pheth in America. =
The Chinese must come God will bring them He viii
fulfil Benton's noble Thought yhe railroad must com
on some peak Of the Rocky Mounta, high snc ny
ing cars must point 10 the West sayingThere is the
East; there Is India and Cathay.
Let us then North and South, bring minds to com
prehend fpo IDEAS and submit to their irresistible power
Let the Northern philanthropst learn from the Bible
that the relation of master and slave is not SIN per Sc
Let him learn that God nowhere says it is sim Let him
learn that sin is the transgeson Of the law and where
there is no law there is sin and that the golden r
may exist in the relations Of slavery. Let him learn that
slavery is simply evil IN certain cireunstdncts Let
him learn that equality Is only the highest form OF socia
life-that suection authority, sldrey, may in
oren conditions be- for time better than freedom to the
slave of any complexion. Let him learn that stdpey
like all eUs has its corresponding and greater good thai
the Southern slave though degraded compared tc M
master is eeraed and enao6led compared nth his bTethro
in Africa Let the Northern man learn these things anc
be wise cultivate the spirit that will harmonze with
his brethren Of the South who are lovers OF liberty a.
truly as himself And let the Southern christian-nay
the Southern of every grade-comprehend that Goc
nerer intended The relation Of master and dpe 10 perpetual
Let him give up the theory Of Voltare that the negro
Of different species. Let him yield the semn6delit,
OF Agassz that God created different races Of the SAM
species in swarms like bees for ASIA Europe, America
Africa and the islands Of the Let him believe tina
slavery although not sin, degraded condition; th
evil the the South yet having blessings, in IL
time to the South and to the Union Let him know tina
slavery is 70 pass away in the funess Of Providence lie
the South believe this and prepare to obey the hand ha
n moves their destiny.
Ham win be ever lower than Shem, shem viii be eve
lower than Japheth All viii rise in the christian gran
deur to be revealed Ham will be lower than Shem, be
cause he was sent 10 Central Africa Man south Of thu
eauator-in Asia Australia, 0ceanica, America, espe
ciay Africa-is inferior to his Northern brother Th
blessing was upon Shem in his magnificent Asia. Th'
greater blessing upon Japheth in his man-developnt
Europe Both blessings will be combined in America
north.of the zone, in commngled light and life. see
all in the first symbolical altar Of Noah that mounC
at the base Of Ararat The father Of all living bow
before the incense Of sacrifice streaming up and mingn
with tho rays Of the rising His noble family,
all flesh saved, grouped round about him. There II
Ham at the foot Of the green hllock standing in his
tedluvian rakish reckessness the long 81
rae type Of his africa His magnificent wife, seated
the grass her little feet nesting In the tame lions
her long black hair flowing crimson drapery ant
covered with gems from mines before the flood. Higher
Il up is Shem leaning his over that mouse-colored
horse, his 1ro5 seed. His wife, in pure white linen
feeds the elephant and plays with his 1.-THE probocisbC
mother Of Terah Abraham, Isaac Jacob, Joseph David
and Christ And yet she looks up and bows in mild hu
mity to her Of Japheth seated amid plumed birds IL
robes like the sky. Her noble lord, meanwhile, high
above ALL stands with folded arms, following that eagle
which wheels up towards Ararat displaying his breast
glittering with and stripes Of scPret and silver
radiant heraldry traced by the hand Of God Now he
purhes his eye in the SUM- and he spreads his broad
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