The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-12

Africans HoaE.--The last Quarterly Review con-
t.in article this subject which have read with
considerable interest The writer gives an account of the
moral and social condition OF the negroes inhabtng the
gold and the adjoining countries al the time they
were FIRST discovered by the Portuguese and compares
their condition then with what il now as given by Mr.
John Beechsm of the London Wesleyan Mission The
parson shows that though they have had intercourse with
the civilized nations of the earth for four centuries though
missionaries have labored earnestly and zeaously in their
behalf their condition remains the In fact
not conceive how il could have been at any time
than what it is represented to be by this article
given by Mr. Beccha the concluding portion Of which
give below
Scarcely has Of their harbarous and bloody
been abandoned from the earliest period Of which
anyhing is known Of them They still pave their
Yards palaces and Tire markets places OF
their villages towns with the skulls Of those buchered in
feasts funerals sacrifices TO Bossun Still
e wives and slaves buried alive with the deceased
husband master When Adahanzen died, two hundred
and eighty of bis wives butchered before the arrival
OF his successor which put stop it only 10 increase
the flow Of blood and the number Of deaths in other
The remaining living wives were buried a'ivel amidst
dancing singing and bewailng the noise OF horns drums
mukeis yells groans, and screechngs the women march,
ing by besdless trunks bedaubed themselves with earth
and blood Their victims marched along with large
knives passed through their cheeks The eyecutiopers
struggle for the bloody Office while the victims look and
endure with apathy They were too familiar with the hor-
rid sacrifice show terror TO imagine that all
should be- Their hands first chopped Off and
then their heads sarred OFF to proong the
Even who assisted to fill the grave BUSTED in
alive in order add to the sport soenty Of the
Upon the death Of Kings brother four thousand victims
thus sacrificed These ceremonies often repeated
and hundreds slaughtered al every rehearsal Upon the
death Of king Of Asbantee general massacre takes
place in which there can he 30 computation OF the VIC
Tins
Al their Yam CUSTOMS lr Bowdici witnessed spec
tacle the appalling kind Every caboceer noble
sacrificed slave be entered the gate Heads and skulls
formed the ornaments Of their professions Hundreds were
slain; and the streaming and stcarnx blood Of the vie
Tins mingled in vast brass pan, with various
table and animal matter fresh rs well as putrid TO com
pose powerful tche AT these customs the
Of butchery and slaughter The kings executionlr
traverse the ciiy killing all they The day de-
oation eigns over the land The king during bloody
safurnala looked eagerly, and danced IN his chair with
delight
The king OF Daoin,s ayes the approaches TO his resi-
dence and the batenents Of his palace with
the skulls of his victims; and the great che b.
DAIRY has its widespread limits laden with human
and limbs There the want q chastity j. disgrace
and the priests employed papS Murder adultery,
and thieycry SAYS Bosnian are here no sins
The case Of Quaque given by our author shows how
vain il the hope Of eeciing national regeneration BY the
education of Africans 60 the Christian ministry In fifty
years residence AT Cape Coast Castle he gained
OF his countrynen and dying showed his confidence
still reposed his ichs and not ia Christian rites Well
ghf Mr. Beccham remark that the Of this individual
furnishes matter for grave consideration the part
those who anxious promote the enlightenment and
elevation of Africa
The picture given above gloomy one and shows that
there hope Of the negroes OF Africa emerging OF them
selves b, intercourse with civilized
lions from barbarism into civilization Their history 30
far in what condition they have been placed
shows that it is impossible for the negro take aak
among the civilized nations Of t,a s4rtn And yet with
these ct- staring face the subject Of abolition
is constantly agitaed the NORTH and with many ri the
South emancipation "a regarded with favor In what
dton do the ase friends Of the poor Africans wish them