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LETTER OF HoN. HENRY A. WIsE.-We
referred yesterday TO an interesting CORES
pondence between Rev. DR.. Adams of Bos-
ton and Hon. H. A. Wise. DR.. A. propounds
in his letter the following inquiries:
Al the South heard you. sir. and your opinions
spoken of with great respect as representing one
side of the subject. 70 would strengthen me much
10 my aim to do good to know your opinions on
few points, viz:
l. What idea have you of the destiny of the slave
population in the Unised Sfatesf
What Is your conviction with regard 10 me
practicabilisy and usefulness to all concerned OF the
,olouiz alton schemeg t
J. II slave asserts his liberty and runs away, DO
you feel that he ought to be recovered, or has ne
naturafr right to escape If he chooeese
Does slavery west of Georgia and in the south.
west differ much AZ to severity from that in the
eastern and central southern Sfatest
5 10 emancipation desirable or possible IN any
view oft If the blacks are to remain here where
did John Randoph's slaves find refuge at last, after
being driven out by several free States
Mr.. Wises reply is a splendid production;
cogent in its reasoning; original and striking
in its illustrations; vigorous, manly and elo-
quent throughout We regret that we have
not space to lay before our readers even such
synopsis of it as will do justice to its unan-
swerable argument, commanding e.oquence
and lofty tone.
He begins by enlightening DR.. Adams as
to the feelings and relations of the South in
the matter of slavery. He shows that slaves
are sacred as property by the moral as well
as municipal law, and that the interference O.
the North can only ALLEVIATE the affections OF
patriots, on which alone the Union rests. His
answer to the first question is admirable, re-
plete with sound sense and playful wit. Mr.
Wise does not profess TO know the designs of
Providence. Nevertheless, he has no doubt
some wise end was in view, in bringing Afri-
cans from worse state of slavery in their
own country to a milder one here and from
Paeanism to Christianity. In two centuries,
434675 of them in the United States have
been set free, and the Slave States have ibe-
rated more than the Free States. The fol-
lowing passage, showing the effect of Ameri-
can slavery upon the African is 20 strong and
striking that we must give it entire
There are 1904, 3l3 slave population in the United
States Which for civilization, arts arms, social and
moral blessings, are worth all the princpalties,
powers, and peoples OF all Africa, wIhou. except,
there, from the Nile, through Iimbuctoo, to the
Cape OF Good Hope! In the very words would
repeat this proposition thousand times to eInpha
size it and show mean literally what say: that the
descendants of africa here IN bondage, in the
United States are, massc Uhote ,oedth OF Peo
pie, IN bodily comfort, morality enHghtenment
(Hristinaity and actual personal freedom, north
than their mother country enttre, not excepting
she EHropeaus there combined NTH the mattress This
ia no boast but fact which challenges comparison!
Inis enormous result. Nothing short OF the
power of God could have effected this prodigious
result upon near four millions OF human beings IN
s0~short a time as that of two centuries: Gods
sufches In the southern States of this Union have
done this some and all by operating both upon the
masters and the slaves. The Methodist and Bap
list churches have been the great apostles among
these Gentes And thus add another proposition.
to wit that sidcery american SLAVERY, an the United
States has been the most efficient missionary among
The heather IN the last tho centuries Not by going
10 Africa and raising affairs there at hrst, but by
bring the fathers here and preparing priests to
~ back to Africa and bear the Christian torches
Through the darkness OF her night.
The answer of Mr. Wise to the first ques
ton is-The destiny of the slave population
in the United States is towards Africa. The
second question is answered by the reply tt
the first. Looking to the ends Of ultimate
colonization and what he considers the true
. policy of the States at home, Mr.. Wise would
sprohibit by law the future emigration of the
free colored population from the slave to the
free States. He expresses the opinion that q
mark ed revolution would have been produce,
if slave labor had been permitted in Califor
hia.s He thinks Virginia, North Carolina
/. Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee and Ken
tfcky' and perhaps the cotton and sugar plan
.ratiohs you'd have been emptied of black La
'borers, 20 work the gold mines. This, say
Mr. Wise, Would not hare diGased star
Sposoer, but would rather hare concentrate.
the siarGs all, comparatively, az one State
tSei.Mus hare zoedkened ats federal st,engtJ
sa the Usion;- and flee gears Of their labo'
.in the goid mines gould hare enriched mas
'ters 80 tkat t4ey could more ably emancipatt
tkemsh t3e esSeof that time, than they could
nou. selrihemr.Eof a FIJI market price and
-wh4 emancipated, there was all Polynesia
SlI. the isles Of the Pacific before them for
colonization iRaps pleasantest place for them
On eaeh-' - s
.EpseSvre, Mr.. Wise thinks fanaticism de,
fsssed its own e9sis in excluding slavery from
California. Mr.. Wise denounces the militia
rTssurpation of Gen. Riley, who, from the
sSp proclaimed "a territorial government,
.&s To the third question, he replies that the
ssls"e has no natural right to escape, for his
Social are his natural rights, and the law of
his social being forbids his chance to escape
ZIG the fourth question hc answers, that Their
Is not a better provided body Of laborsrs. on
1ea5th than lhe slaves and that Slavery no.
where insthe United States is severe. To The
fifth question heyfres An-emphstic negative
Aud he adds. We can free them as fast and
faster, than they can be colonized in some
land of better promise to Them,
Mr.. Wise concludes his capital letter, bv
invoking DIR. Adams to put Boston philan.
thropy at removing the beam ont Of its own n