The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-08-11
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pales are excited to tie Yeliest pitch h behalg Of
tie erslagea African Ii tha Southern States 81
this Union. they seem 70 think that slavery ex-
ss 10 where else ii the world and That il it could
he exleTninated here, the earth would present 3
scene full Of perfect liberty and unrestricted hap
piness They forget That white men may 30 slaves
as wen as negroes; and If they would only Be viii
ling to reflect for d single moment, They might be
convinced that the slavery existing il every State
Of Europe Is not less cruel and intoIlerable than
that which they so piieously mourn oyerhere. No
man, we presume, can travel abroad, and witness
the unreIieved physical suffering the social degra-
dation, the moral and mental darkness which eve
rywhere prevails among the laboring Glasses, and
not be struck with the fact, that after eonceding
Southern slavery to be as bad as truth or even
prejudice can warrant. it IS infinitely less to be de-
plored than that which grinds and crushes thepoor
Of Europe Indeed, the great fact until late years
little understood and less believed, that Southern
slavery il the main is blessing, and not curse,
would stand ont in bold relief BY the comparison,
defying the efforts Of al the crazy fanatics and
philanthropists Of the age to disproye Or eonfute
It Slavery has been an almost unmixed bless ng
to the African himself; reseuing him from the de-
gredation and brutal barbarism Of his native jun
giles, and placing him in situation where the in
iuences Of ciyilizationfand Christianity may do
their benefcent work upon him, in improving, ele-
yating and making him useful. It is not to be
looked for now, but the Judgment Of after times
win surely yindicate the wisdom and mercy Of a
system which has redeemed a whole race from the
brutalities of a condition worse than death, and
made them intelligent, useful and respectable.
The columns Of Abolition presses themselves
are flledwith abundant testimony to the fact that
the condition Of the laboring classes in Europe in
point Of comfort, morality and enlightenment, IS
not to be compared with that Of the slaves in the
Southern States IA late number Of the Cincin-
natl dtlas-a fanatical and rabid Abolition sheet
contains a letter from a correspondent in Prus-
sia, inwhich dark and revolving picture is drawn
Of the abject poverty, wretchedness and misery of
the laboring portion Of the European population.
The writer declares that their want has no relief
that the masses are born with poverty as their
only inheritance, having never an opportunity of
rising to any degree of comfort or respectabiity;
and that no matter what may be the character Of
the laborer for industry and frugality the renun-
Grafton is so small, and the outlay for the common
necessaries Of life SO great, that the most that can
be obtained when al things are favorable is a
moderate subsistence. He maintains also, what
every body admits that the institutions of Europe
are rotten in their very foundations and the rich
er portion Of the people, and especially the nobii-
ty, although they see the danger that surrounds
them, still shut their eyes to the only remedy
the feeding Of the starving millions who toll for
their support. And here follows praghant adj
mission from one who openly PROCESSES to be an
Abolitionist himself, which we give in the writer's
own language: "They (the nobility are so en-
gagged in schemes for the abolition of american
slavery, that they have no time to look at the
greater evils at home. We say greater, and we
say it advisedly; far be it from one who has ever
favored the abolition Of our slavery to justify our
own conduct in all things. But truth compels us
to say, that the condition of nine-tenths of the
slaves of the United States IS infinitely better than
that Of the peasant population Of Germany
Burns never said better thing, nor one which
could be more applicable to the sympathy of Eu-
rope for our colored population than
90 wad some power the giftie gle us,
To see ourselves as ithers see us;
1t would from many blunder free US
And foolish notion
Such are therconclusions of an intelligent Amer
lean traveller in Europe, who has no love for the
apeculiar institution" of his own country, but
whom truth compels to confess bis honest senti-
ments as to the comparative condition Of Euro
pean and American slaves. It is not less true of
our Northern philanthropists than il is of foreign,
that they are so busiy engaged in schemes for the
abolition of slavery IN the United States, they
have no time to bestow thought on the manifold
miseries that surround them, and daily stare them
in the face. Charity ought to begin at home, but.
in their case it begins long way of, and ends
there, accomplishing literally nothing, except the
production Of strife, contention and il-wilL We
conclude with an extract from The London cores
pondence Of the New York Herald, from which
If viii be perceived that the slaves here are far
more happy contented and prosperous than the
laboring population Of Great Britain. The pic
ture here drawn Of the condition Of the poor in
England would ID apply to the most Wretehel and
brutal Of Southern labofers:
sInfanticide is as pravelsntin England as
some savage countries a woman has Just
murdered six of her children, she was the
wet nurse to one Of the Royal children and
has turned out a druukard and an adultress.
The lives Of hundreds If not thousands Of I
children ID England are insured il death (