Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-05-26
VOLUME XI.---NO. s.
WHOLE NUMBER, 52S.

Zil Will give US tuc tVbuVi o'c' e"o JUL
of Mexico and its border countries, together
with the islands, and the consequence Of
,hi, will place African slavery beyond the
reach of fanaticism, at home or abroad.
These two great slave powers now hold
more undeve.oped territory than any other
two Governments, and they ought to guard
and strengthen their mutual interests BY
a,tiug together in strict harmony and con-
cert Considering our vast resources aud
the mighty commerce that is abou. to ex-
paud upon the bosom Of the two countries,
if We act together by treaty ,7e can not only
preserre domestic serritude, but We can de-
fy the power Of The world. With 6rmness
and Judgment, we can open up the African
slave emigration again to the people, the
noble region Of the tropics. We can boldly
defend this upon the most enlarged system
of philanthropy. 1t is far better for the
wild races Of Africa themselves. Look at
the 5000, 900 in the United States who
have had the blessings, not only Of eivili-
zatiou but of Christianity Can any man
pretend to say that they would have been
better of in the barbarian state Of their
native wilderness; and has not the attempt
to suppress, by force, this emigration in.
creased the horrors Of the middle passage
ten-foll? The good old Las Casas, in
1919, was first to advise Spain to import
Africans to her colonies, as substitute for
the poor Indians, who, from their peculiar
nature, were totally unsuited to bear
the Labor Of slavery. Experience hD
shown that this scheme was fouuled in
wise, aud Christian philanthropy. Mil
lions Of black men, yet unborn, will rise
to Bless his benevolent memory. The time
is coming when he will boldly defend this
emigration bef re the world. The hypo-
critical cant and whining morality of the
latter-day saints will die away before Tia
majesty Of commerce, and the power Of
those vast productions which are to spring
from the cultivation and full Development
Of the mighty tropical regions in our own
hemisphere. If it be mercy to give the
grain growing sections of America to tho
poor ami hungry Of Europe, why not open
up the tropics to the poor African? The
ihs ssGR sSei i a q sPeeHht Ehs eHHht Iass tn
is as much philanthropy in oueas the other.
We have been too long governed BY psalm
singing school masters from the North. IL
is time to think for ourselves. The folly
commenced in our own government uniting
with Gre.: Britain to declare slave impor-
tation piracy. Piracy is q crime on the
high seas, arising under the law Of nations,
and it is IS well defined by those laws as
murder is at common law. And for two
nations to attempt to make that piracy
which is not SO, under the law of nations,
is an absurdity. You might as well de-
clare it burglary, or arson, or anything
else. And we have ever since, ~ joint
fleet with Great Britain OF the coast Of
Africa, been struggling 10 enforce this
miserable blunder. The time will come
tia. ali the island, ard regions suited to
African Slavery, between US end Brazil,
will fail under the control of these two
slave powers, in some shape or other. either
by treaty or actual possession Of the one
government or the other. And the states
man who closes his eyes to these results,
has but = very small view of the great
questions and interests that are looming
up in the future. In few years, there
will be no investment for the two hundred
millions, in the annual increase Of gold on
a large scale, so profitable and so Necessary,
as the development and cultivation of tho
tropical regions now slumberiug in rank
and wild luxuriancc. If the slaveholdins
race iu these States are true to thems Ives
they hsve great destiny before them"
! A RELIC OF PATRIoTIsM.-General
" Wooster, to whose memory . monument
has recently been erected in Daubury,
Mass, was killed at Ridgefei by an En-
elish bullet in lit. The surgeon at the
Daabury hospital, where tho dying Gen.
was brought, probed his wounds, and
searched fdr the bullet in vain, the bal!
still remained in the body when it was
consigned to the grave. S,ren.y-seveu
years afterwards, as We learn from the New
Haven Palladium, in 1884, when it was
sought TO remove the remains Of Wooster,
the exact spc, Of his intsrmsnt was uu-
certain. Digging near the place where =
few aged persons supposed the grave to
have b,en, soon the skull and larger bones
Of nan were found Then two punches
Of matted wire were thrown out; they wero
the eraulet,s of the deal. Mex, vas found
a portion Of q plume, and finally lump
of ciay was tossed up, which on being