The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-06-21

These countries when they threw off Spanish
rule not only freed the Blacks, but also gave
them equal political rights with the Whites, and
this has universally been acknowledged to be the
prime cause of all their wars and anarchy. 1t
cannot be the Catholic Religion, Or tie union of
Church and State, since both of these institu-
tions+we believe exist in Brazil-a s,ve country.
which is highly prosperous and isdestined to
become to South America what the United States
are to North America. Qndeed shetis already
that The end and aim of England then is
emancipation and anal gamation IN tie Southern
States. She has every facility for reaching our
public opinion, because We speak the same lam
guage, have the same laws and literature and
hold the most ultimate commercial and social
intercourse with Eer. She finds plant tool in
the Northern States, which want the exclusive
control Of the Federal Government. Besides all
the foreign emigrants to this country settle at
the North. They are full of anarccial theories
Of Red Republicansm and universal equality of
men, whether aristocrats or plebians, whites or
blacks. They remember their own slavery at
home and think that ours at the South is quite
as bad. They feel as white men and imagine
that the stupid African has the same expanding
intellect and the same accute sensibilitGs asthem
selves. All of the despotic Governments in Eu.
rope studously cultivate this feeling in their.
subjects at home and consequently il their emf
grants to America, because those desrots, like
England, desire to promote amalganation here
as in the Spanish American States and thereby
overthrow Republicanism-b blight our prosperity
and neutralze the acknowledged influence: which
our example and institutions are EXERCISING over
European States. The Nonarcl ieal and despotic
world are thus leagued against us and England
guides their hostility. She finds good material
to work upon at the North and she has worked
it well, at any and every sacrifice and with any
and every weapon. The number of slaves which
her West India Colonies had was quite small
when compared to the Blacks in the Southern
States. The quantity of territory which she had
in that quarter was also small, and hence she
could we'll afford to. emaneipate those slaves
in 1888 and to convert those happy Islands into
deserts, where gardens of Paradise once, flourish
ed. The palaces of former slave owners are now
decayed ruins, inhabited by laboring whites. or
degraded blacks. The machinery Of the sugar
mill Is noAonger heard, and luxuriant Jungle
thrves, where Coffee and Tobacco once Welded
abundant harvests. Commerce is gone, the
wharves are rotting aad grass is growing in the
streets Of deserted cities The freed nerr res are
fast relapsing into barbarism-lesing the intelli-
gence which they received from slavery during
two or three generations under the white man.
They lazy wander about the country, eating the
spontaneous. fruits Of the earth and sleeping un-
der the canopy of heaven.
This is not what England intended she has
been too eager for her victim and has worked
too fast. She now breads revulsion in tlIe
United States. The picture of West India
emancipation is too much for British pride to
behold with complacency. She grows restiye
and her ancient stubbornness would rather
brave the shock ofa crushing world than ac-
knowledge an error or rctrace its steps. She
would rather cease to exist IS a nation. .,than
record op her Statute Books that infalIible' Fig
land could do wrong. Hence the spasitodic'
efforts ofExeter Hall Phanthropists, the un.
bounded popularity of ''Uncle Toms Cabin"
and the cordial welcome to its infamous au
thoress-the grabbed School Mistress and dis.
appointed old maid, who lately joined in a
Banquet at Glasgow, in sight of the dishonored
flag Of her country-robbcd of its stripes, be.
cause forsooth, she is pleased to think with Tom
Campbell, that the stars represent the Northern
States, and the stripes the Southern. She is
entertained all over England eby the nobility
has free ticket to travel when, where and
in what style, she pIeases, and is while we write.
the great lisncss of the British public-receiv-
ing more attention than any other American
ever did. or than any European now does.
But while England is doing this at home
and putting forward Reuben Roberts to actate
The slavery question in this country, she is also
making desperate efforts to repair her blunder
in the West Indies. She has imported Cool.
les, or white aborers from India and uppren.
hced them for series Of years to her farmers
at fifty dollars per- annum. These either died
like rotten sheep on shipboard, or proved very
inefficient Iaborers in hot climate under cru.
el masters and in different agriculture, to
which they had been raised. After this mag.
nifcent failure she imported Chinese aborers,
with like success, and now-ye Gods, Who
would beieve-iia-whle the war ships of Eng
land are watching the African coast to suppress
the slave trade, her merchant vessels are shin.
ping African laborers to Jamaica to be appren.
ticed. She is even deluding the poor blacks
of Liberia to 90 out as Agricultural apprent.
ces to the West Indies, and President Roberts,
it seems, suspected foul play on recent occa.
sion, as he issued proclamation the other day
requiringall British vessels trading in such
black apprentices hereafter to appear at Mon
rovia, the Capitol IF his Republic, and there
submit to an examination, to prevent any du-
ress being practiced.upon his people -, -; ;.
England, the North, or Federal Government,
and South Carolina then are the parties to the
suit now before the Supreme Court England
will pay the expenses of her plaintiff, Reuben
South Carolina will stand by her Sheriff
Yates, and both appear at the Bar ola Tribu.