The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-05-12
THE UNION: WASHINGTON THURSDAY MORNING MAY 70 1853
From the National Democrat
The Fruits OF A DolitfOnism.

the National Democrat
| The Fruits OF Aboiitf0nisn.
Alter u Of two or three years the abolition IA
naticsm, there has come awakening which promises
10 make furious onslaught upon the constitution
OF The United States and upon The rights OF the separate
States than we have witnessed in any former die pensa
ton OF this Jr0re. Three OF Tour Slate OF national aho-
on societies TO hold their anniversaries this city
during tie present week, and the polco-aboion organ
zatons have been securing up lher rusty guns, and
marshang and drilling their old forces ever The
lale presidential election The result Of lhal election
regarded terrible blow TO abolllionsm, but the
ster lifted IT'S bruised head 10 show that It's fiery
heart was yet unsubdued. "Jaek Hale" the political
" king Of abolition isis" has had rendered him ire
menaous dinner al Boston, the speeches at which ndca-
ted world OF hope and vigor and Mis-. Harriet Beecher
Stowe IS receiving over thousand dollars week IN
England 10 promote the antl-slavery 10 America
| Everything indicates powerful revival OF the old ia
naiicsm Al such lime will not be unineresling 10
inquire litlle into the fruits Of this excitement After
twenty five years o agitation what have the aboopsis
accompl shed Have they benefited the condition OF a
single slave, OF have they gained the first step towards
The abolition OF slavery IN the South To be sure, they
can point 10 few slaves which they have stolen but
their condition in the North, whether freezing Cana
da, starving ia New York city, infinitely than
it before Aud the abolition excileuen, has neces.
sary caused great abrds of the liberty and prvi-
leses OF the whole body OF the slaves Thus lar the abo
huoss have been the greatest curse OF the slaves And
they have also caused an interruption OF the natural
progress OF those commercial social and Industrial oper
aons which gradually and safely abolished slavery in
the northern and middle States, and which are the only
causes that will ever remove it from the South Aga-
! lIon will never do II.
Agitation defeats itself. and ever must while the con-
stulion remains 10 hold the States together
| And then, after all the noise and uproar which these
fanatics have made may fairly question if they have
ever yet canddly and calmly weighed the consequences
Of immediate and ndiscrimnate emancipation OF an I'm
mense body OF slaves al There is history OF this
kind of emancipation, which contains lesson that the
world may read ana which desire 10 present to the
groups OF madcaps which are TO assemble in this city TO
morrow.
III, of tha lie In
1s4S, France had productive and fertile colony Cayenne
situated the northeastern coast oil South America, hall
degree above The eQua,or and not far distant from
the mouth OF the Amazon-ibe largest river on earth
and whose commerce, before the lapse OF quarter OF
century, firmly believe, will not be insignificant when
compared with that of the Father of Waters our own
Mississippi The territory is twice as large as that o!
the State of New York lis climate healthy and agree
able the soil is capable OF producing in bounteous pro-
/ fusion many of the most valuable articles OF commerce
its sugar plantations yielded 100000 Of pounds
its cotton farms 100000 pounds; lis Glove plantations
300 900 pounds and all lis agricultural and other resources
were promising, brilliant and increasing in every respect,
supporting % 600 trenchmen in auence and prosperity
yielding handsome and increasing TO the mother
country and keeping the blacks in comfort, and gradually
improving them IN all respects, socially, mentally, and
moral y-when the act OF emancipation passed by the
French republic in lS4S. threw dismal cloud the
lovely scene, beggarlng the whites and rendering DISCO
late and baIbaIc The blacks To use the language OF
colempoIaIy fertile shields of industry fas,
Ieapslng inlo unwholesome wilts and IFS once we'll
prosperous and happy society," has been convert
stricken, reckless rabble" As the blacks OF Jamaica,
according The London Times, rapidly degeneratng
into babarsn under the influences oil the freedom they
incapable OF approaching, bot which was thrust
DpUn hm by the Brit sh government, The Tree negroes
OF Cay not having passed though any noviae, not
having had The advantages oil preparatory process have
sunk, instead OF rising, mentally and morally until il
would be blessing To them and an advantage 10 civil.
zaton TO place them under The control OF mas
1 tiers and owners
proposition has been made 10 the French government
to surrender the whole cultivated territory of Cayenne,
which supported 90 000 Frenchmen in siuence 10
the country for and three fourth mil
lions of dollars, and TO abandon entirely 10 The cenyct
and negro population. In utter despair the oggeBt
poprletors have given mp all hopes OF regeneration and
ask the country which has ruined them sum about sui
fcent enable them 10 gel 10 some other country IN.
cursed by The evils Of miserable, false, and an I'm
pfactcable philanthropy
This system Of indiscrimnae emancipation has ter
ribe and appalling history II ruins The MASTER and de-
noazes and bsrbarxes the slave and the poor African
RAPIDLY sinks 10 the depths OF the degradation IN which has
fathers have waowed for Centuries all hopes OF IN.
prov enenl are thereby cut oh for The time The lights Of
Christianity grow DINNER civilization reures IN dissusi,
aud IN the destruction OF commerce, the iun oil colo.
Mes the impoyerl.hment OF masters, the degradation OF
slaves triumph OF incidence, vice, dissipation,
sualty, and crime, the emancpsonisis may exult,
u They can, the fruits which the success OF their
philsnthroPc eudeavofs have brought forth.
Having referred TO The bllghtng effects OF emancpa-
lion ia Cay enne, give, by way OF illustration, the fol-
low ing result Of the emancipation act IN Jamaica, as
! given in the report Of the Assembly made In 1852
/ Sugar estates abandoned totally l2s
\ Partially abandoned n
Coffee estates absolutely abandoned 90
/ Partially abandoned 90
! Country seats absolutely and partially
j abandoned 81
Number oil acres 3l9lS7
From the foregoing il will be seen that within the
short space OF year nearly 100000 acres OF "a hne
land as there il upon earth have been, whole or part,
abandoned, and are nov running TO weeds And thus
process going since the passage OF The
emancipation BY tie BRUSH Parliament, some twenty
years ago. Glorious estates have become wdencsses
and the dark night Of African baIb1rism, with all its
Ioalhsome and degrading sdiancs, has been brought
back to daTkle the pleasant seals OF cvliZa.
uon religion, and refinement As Madame Roland,
when she reached the place OF execution in Paris, urnel
10 the statue liberty aud said 20 liberty what crimes
are they committing IN thy name" So may az r,a phi.
Ianhropsls say: 20, mpdern philanthropy, what libel
thou art upon Thy name y
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