Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-16

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charlottesville properties generally being 100
small to permit them to live away from their people
the income not being sufficient to support them
in Incidence and luxury, as was the case with the
government of the negro slaves in the West lndles
was despotism that Of the American slaves Is Ine
most perfect of all goyernments-the parenta OF pa
| triarchical bearing the same name with the west
India slavery but altogether different thing Hence
under the patriarchca government, as administered
| by American republicans, each residing among MS
negroes and taking care of them the 5o0,ooo nave
become 4, 900 000-whe in the British west lndies
the 100 600 originally imported, have under deS-
potism of true slavery been reduced to 626,1 ~: Ii
the slave trade were revived negro slaves would pc
come so plenty that capitalists would convert the
present mild, patriarchical government that Amerl
can negroes under, into despotism or true sia-
very like the British East and West Indies. The
American mistress often sits up all night or hall the
night in nursing sick negro children and chlel
part of the time of good housewife is spent IN pro-
viding for the health and comfort of the children
and the sick large portion of whom would die II
their mistresses lived on the other side ofthe ocean,
or if they had no masters and mIstresses TO take
care of Them as the free negroes of the West Indies
and our northern States.
Negro slaves increase faster in Virginia. Maryland,
Tennessee, kentucky, and Missouri; than they do
in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, because the
estates are smaller in the former than in the latter,
each slave coming directly under the supervision Oh
Lis or her master and mistress.
On small plantations, in the latter States, where
the prop ietors reside on their estates the increase
is fully as great as in any part OF prolific Virginia
As far the common comforts OF fNare concerned
in regard to food clothing and lodgings, the accom-
modations better in Louisiana, Alabama, and
Mississippi than in the northern tier of slave States
But these cannot compensate for the absence OF the
master and mistress. Their presence makes the
government patriarchal-their absence converts it
into desposm but, after all not severe des
pots1n as that which 100 000, 900 of nominal free
subjected to- belonging to the East India
clio rI,tn tnn -Nfll
The honorable East India Companys subjects are
like cattle grazing by the wayside, having the liberty
of going up tn. road or down, but every other lib
erty fenced in against them. The fish in the wat
crs the birds of the air, the wild game and fruits OF
the land are not inaccessible to prisoners in
ia than they are to the inhabitants Of those vast
countries in Asia, which England and Irelands
tyrants, under the disguise of merchants calling
themselves the East India Company, have plumber
cd and subdued, changing the tarest potrion of the
Oriental continent into vast prison where one
hundred and fifty millions of human beings have
the liberty of starving, working for pittance of
wages insufficient after all taxes and expenses are
paid to purchase shoes for equal number of
American negro slaves. In America we have day
set apart-the 4th of July-fOr the Qualification of
those republican principles which filling
land with rapidly progressing population sof CT
viliZed and Christian people in the full enjoymentS
of all the comforts OF life. Let any one, however,
read the two volumes written by Malcolm, a celcbra-
ted Baptist clergyman of our country, who Travelled
through British India listen to the testimony of
of the ten Mississippi overseers whom Capt Bayles,
an officer i'll the East India Companys service
tced to India to oversee some of the company cot
ton plantations (who left in disgust, not having the
inhumanity to make laborers work whose masters
failed to furnish them the necessary food and cloth
ing) and he will the necessity of setting apart
day in the year as day of tribulation to weep
over the ills that humanity is suffering at the hands
of British abolitonists. Thus while according to
the last census just received by the author, from
Hon. Mr.. njamin, United States senator, 1913
are born in a day in the United States and
above the decreascsfrom death, (addng six millions
to the population in ten years,) upwards of 5000
a day. according to Malcolm and the best authorities,
have been dying in British India un[ er the govern
ment of their abolition masters, over and above the
natural increase-dimnishing population in ten
years fifteen millions at least Never did British
Crown officer record greater or more important
truth than did Mr. Alison, the able historian and
statistcian in his work entitled, "principies of pap
uLation," when he penned the lines: The despo-
tisn Of the East has destroyed more than all the
freedom of the west has created the depopulaton of
Asia has than counterbalanced the increase of
Europe and the growth of the Atlantic world"
-DOtcier.
In setting apart the 18th of July to glory over re-
publican progress, ought not to set apart day
to weep the millions of human beings in Asia,
whom the tyranny of British abotionists is send
ing out of the world more than twice fast the
Increase of the American population? When British
abotonists send their agents here to preach against
that patriarchca form of government existing among
US, called negro slavery ought they not to be made
tell both wings and democrats what they have
done with the million and half of missing negroes
imported as slaves into their West India Islands,
and the fifteen millions that have vanished in their
East Indian possessions during the last ten years.
before open to receive instruction from
them If British abolitionsm, in its first advent
into country, had been called to stern account
for its misdeeds in Van Dieman's Land, where it
has swept the negro almost from the face of
the earth, and Ffoc the wrongs it is incting upon
humanity in Ireland, India, and everywhere else in
the range OF its power, would not now have seen
large portion of the people of Connecticut, YER
mont, and Massachusetts, in open rebellion against
the constitution laws, and authority Of the United
States; nor would we have seen the democracy Of
the great State of New York-helpless hopeless
poweress-between the upper and neither mill
stone of hard-shell and sof-shell grinding it into
dust and ashes. But if Connecticut, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts Western New York, and the Ohio Re-
serve will continue to be the dupes of British policy
and force upon the country a dissolution of the
Union it is but right and proper that of the |
consequences of disunion which their blind fanat-
ciSm has disqualified them from seeing, should be
made known to them in advance and that is |
that the South could be compelIed IN seItGetence
to reuice the african sLare trade on a grunder and
ertensire scale than erord has ece1 aotnessed
General Felix Huston, in some able papers, has |
proved beyond doubt that negro slaves in war !
the more better) element of nvincble |
strength, and not of weakness, abotonists vain
ly suppose. All our prove it. The history Of
the revolution proves that Washngton's army in |
Pennsylvania and New Jcrsy, at the most gloomy |
period of the Tar, when the government had neith-
money credit, was kept together and supper
ted with provisions made while the war was going |
on, by Virginia negroes; and that Burgoynes cap
tured army sent from the North into the heart
of the slaveholding region for safe keeping. Our
not