Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-01
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Every man has his peculiar trouble, which
is either real or imaginary. Wien the first is
wanting, the last is substituted for it. Real
troubles are manageable, but by strange per-
versity, the man who for want of a real trou-
BILE, makes an ideal trouble, refuses to imagine
a remedy for it, AS with individuals, so it is
with nations. In the United States, where
God, in his goodness, has not only given us the
best of governments and freedom Of religion,
but has scattered around us, with prodigal
munifcence, all that can conduce to content
ment and happiness--here even, we have
trouble, an harassing and peculiar trouble.
We are not oppressed, for each man has
voice in the counsels of the nation. We are
not suffering for food, for we are in land
Flowing with milk and honey" We are not in
climate that breeds disease and pestilence.
Ours is, perhaps, the best climate that God
has vouchsafed to any country. Yet we
have great trouble 1t attends us through
out the day, and haunts us throughout the
night. At last, however, it is naught but an
imaginary trouble. The curse of Ham, that
God never designed for us is sought TO be
brought upon us. The serytude of the de-
scendants Of Ham was foretold. The predic-
ton has been fulfilled, and wicked men, who
love wickedness for its own sake; are endea-
goring to transfer the curse from the descen-
lants of Ham to the descendants of the foun-
iers and fathers of the republic.
More than once we have demonstrated to
those wicked men--those fanatical abolitionists
and miserable enemies of their country, that
those who hold slaves now, are not to blame
for the institution of slavery. Their own
athers, in conjunction with Adventures and
SPECTATORS from England introduced slaves
INTO this country. They bought or captured
African savages, and brought them TO these
colonies to SELL They instituted the traffic
hat their descendants now affect so much to
ibhor, and left to those descendants the wealth
that resulted from that traffic. They love the
prize--they revel in the booty, but they pretend
to be disguised with the manner in which it
was obtained. Like the son of Noah, these
degenerate children have uncovered their
fathers nakedness, and exposed them to shame
and reproach. Ifthat child was crnelly cursed,
should these escape punishment?
Their fathers caught wild, wretched, OPP
pressed, unclad Africans. They brought them
to us who clothed them, fed them, reclaimed
them from barbarism, and made useful SER
wants of them. Their s6hs inherited the
money for which some of those slaves were
sold, and became the owners of such as
we're unsold. Instead Of manumitting, they
sold them. They have now in their pockets
what they delight to call the price of blood.
They sold them as they sell horses, cows, sheep,
or hogs. They use the money as they would
use money obtained by other means; but after
that purchase money has been paid, and the
property taken by the new and honest owner,
they rail against that owner as bad and
heartless man. They curse him with bitter.
ness, and seek to deprive him Of the property
for which they have been paid. They call such
Infamous dishonesty-such wretched mean
ness, by the engaging names of religion and
philanthropy. Such is abolitionism.
1t is not to be wondered ut that the honest
men Of the non-slaveholding States look with
contempt upon such miserable creatures Nor
is it to be wondered at that these creatures
have sworn an oath Of deadly hostility against
them. The man who sells spawned or
blind horse for high price, and then laughs
at the fraud, is honest compared with those
creatures who sell slaves, pocket the money,
and then question the title of the purchaser.
We have taken occasion more than once to
show that the abolitionists care nothing for ne
yroes. The latest testimony on this point is
that of the recent fugitive Burns, who said that
al but fugitive slaves were permitted to suffer
md starve without any offers Of relief. Could
theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, even Fred
Douglas himself land negroes make, next to
lboltionists, the cruelest masters,) or the i'm
naculate Mr.. Sumner himself inherit hun.
lred slaves, there is no earthly doubt that each
and every one Of them would sell those slaves
and pocket the money. They might refuse
one, for very shame, but more than one would
appeal with irresistible power, not to their phi
anthropy, but TO their cupidity.
But one thing is strange, passing strange.
The negroes Of Africa lay for ages buried in
Darbarism, in servitude, and in misery, and
he world cared nothing for them. Some of
hem, much to their relief we're brought to this
country, as to other countries, and made slaves
,G Their condition was vastly improved.
They were christianized, civilized, fed on good
God, and clothed in good garments. In pro-
less of time these colonies became Independent
md established new and free government
Nobody thought Of abolishing slavery, nobody
bought of giving to the negroes equal privileges
With the whites, or indeed any political privileges
whatever. The generation that made the Con-
'titution has died out. We have grown from
hree, to between twenty-five and thirty millions
If people. There are not more than 3,204, 1921
slaves, who are no more slaves now than. they