The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-07-06


tahe care of ourselves this far, and when
we need their assistance we shall probably
call upon them. In the meantime, hOwev-
er, we would suggest to those noble Lords
and Ladies Of England, who have lately
manifested such deer concern for our well.
fare, that there are sundry things nearer
home that need looking after, and are quite
as deserving Of their sympathies. Yes,
when you have put bread into the mouths
Of your starving Irish population, and pro-
vided comfortable homes for them and
your landless tenants. When you have
relieved the wants Of the inmates Of your
factories; your work-hOuses and your pris.
ons. When you have banished crime and
poverty from your cities-provided free
schools Cor your INDECENT children; and, in
short, when you have placed The great mass
of your laboriDg population on a leUel ,cih
OUR SLAVES, then may you come preaching
philanthropy to us.-When You have civ
ilized the victims of your a%varice IN The
East Indies, who now worship stocks
and stones, and who are stretching forth
their hands imploring your assistance
in providing them with schools and relig.
ious teachers as we have our slaves. When
you have provided the necessaries of life
for the %fuSitives within your Canadian Prov
inces, whom you have assisted in e%niicing
from their masters, withOut asking us TO
pay for them; and, finally, when you can
convince the civilized nations Of the world,
that you are To- or ever have been the
disintercsted friends Of the colored man
then, and not till then, can you consistently
preach charity and brO!herly love to a re.
publican people.
Abolilionisis Of the United States, you
also have a work to do, and one far more
worthy of your symPa,hies. There are
hundreds and thousands Of sewing women
in our eastern cities. who toll early and
late for a mere piitance, aud who are too
often reduced 10 a state of moral depravity
infinitely lower than hat Of The great mass
of our southern slaves. They need your
assistance and your aid. Cease your I'M
holy agitation, and your still more reckless
demonstrations, The whole history of the
past cries out against your proceedings.
What have you gsired by all your exer.
lions, and the money which you have ex.
pended in holding Anti. Slavery Conyen.
tons, circulating abolition documents and
preaching treason! Every effort Of yours
has only rivited the manacles of the slave
more securely, and retarded the very cause
which you advocate.
II, however, you consider the negro more
deserving Of your sympa,hies than people
Of your own race and color, manifest that
interest to ONE purpose, by contributing
your surplus means for the support Of The
American Colonization Society, which has
,lready swept the slave trade from nearly
four hundred miles Of coast, where it for.
merly existed in i,s chief s,renth, and offers
the only safe refuge for the colored man.
It is in Africa alone that he can ever be
raised to an equality with the white man,
and ii alone offers him tho free en-.
Ioymani of true political and religious lib
erly. Let The auti.slavery men of the norh
engage in Ibis great and truly PhllanthrOpic
work, and thousands Of warm-hearted
soulherners will unite with them, but they
have too much humanity and too much
genuine affection for their slaves, 10 liberste
them before a place of refuge is prepared
for them, other than among their protested
friends Of the north, who, as heretofore,
would undoubtedly leave them to shift for
themselves or staIve. Then, we say, lei
men Of all parties and all sections unite in
carry ing forward this great and glorious
undertaking, and the sable sons of Africa
will ye. be enabled to join in lie onward
march Of Progress and Civilization. E'hi
opia will yet be seen hopefully stretching
forth her hands to God, and christianity
eyershadow the whole Of that now down.
uodden and %benighlod land. c. W. b.
'ScO page 5, ofa Lecture upon African cOloni-
Eat on, delivered before the Ohio Legislature OF
lSA9, by David Christy, to which ! ain indebted
for the principal facts herein stated.
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