The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-29
NO. 39l.
I'd the immigrants he SO much delights to vii


ify.
But, as he solicits attention to his statements,
We shall summarily dispose of them in detail.
Australia has refused admittance to immi-
Grants whom we welcome Australia has
refused admittance to convicts; so have we.
Australia has not refused admittance to poor
immigrants, in search of employment and
living: nor have we. But whatever the squat
tsrs and gold -diggers, and descendants of con-
yicss in that region, have done, is no rule for
us. Why does not the Examiner commend us
70 the example of the sublime civilization of
Japan!
." It does not deny that no immigrants do or
will come from Russia, Turkey or any other
country where the poor have homes and mas
tors 2" We wonder if this gentleman, who
writes 30 positively about all the world and
the rest of mankind is aware that Russians,
who are serfs, can no more emigrate than
Southeru slaves That Russians who are not
oqrls can emigrate only by special permission?
That in any case, the sparseness OF the popu-
lation takes away the motive to emigration?
That Mohanmedans, by religious preJudices,
and neculiar social institutions, are deferred
from emigrating to Christian countries, where
such institutions are impossible and no opportu-
mites are afforded for their religious worship?
And that the followers of the Prophet do not
cnsIave each other, that ines4inabe privilege
belonging prominently to wsat is called the
Christianity of the South +!
# does not deny that the experience of
free society has been a small one IN the extent
Of country in which it has been tried, short
one in the diminutive period Of human history
which it has occupied; and disastrous fail
IRE ~ the immense exodus of people from the
theatre of its trial proclaims trumpet-tongued."
Yes-we deny the whole statement, and
every part of it. The experiment of free So
cety" lrhe ridiculous phraseology of the En-
an,infr, for a State or nation in which the men
who work, are free,) has been tried over the
larger portion of Asia, embracing nearly half
the population of the globe; throughout Great
Britain and Ireland, with their thirty millions,
in the principal nations of Europe, Except
ing Russia in Mexico and nearly all the
south American States; and in the richest, most
Intelligent, best civilized, most prosperous and
most populOus States of this Republic. Indeed,
with the exception of Russia, whose Emperor,
80 profoundly admired by the Examiner, has
been steadily laboring to bring about the abo-
tion Of Serfdom Brazil; Spain, whom the
south execrates just now az the meanest, cruel
est most treacherous of all nations; and the
se5Ases in Africa, who are to supply the car
HNr Sba ell bro do ad a,,I
predicted by the Charleston SIandard-"t the
experiment OF free society" is going on all
over the world. AS to its being short one, D.
ii has been going on from time immemorial in
China, several centuries in Great Britain, sew
cal generations in Europe, and in our own
country, from the date of the organization of
our present Constitution. 1t is, at all events,
q good deal older than the experiment of trav-
cling by steam and sending messages by
lightning.
As to its being ga disastrous failure" those
whc. Ike the editor of the Examiner, believe
that the many were made for the good of the
few. will differ from those who seek the great
est good Of the greatest number. If Jamaica
we're owned by some thirty thousand slave
holders, holding six hundred thousand slaves,
we suppose the masters might be very rich,
and. ike Dives fare sumptuously every day.
The tables of exports would show the I'M
mense produce of coffee and sugar, and Jamai-
"a would be triumphantly pointed to by the
Examiner, as an example of the blessed work
ings Of Slave Society.
Bat when, extending our view beyond the
exports Of coffee and sugar, and the thirty
Thousand who pocket all the proceeds, clothe
themselves in fine linen, and dream life away
III yolaptuous ease, we see twenty times that
number Of human beings, men, women, and
children, doomed to hard labor in the burning
IN, and hard fare; subject to stripes and the
-tocks; denied the rites of legal marriage ];
working for 10 wages, working without hope of
Lettering their condition prohibited from
Earning to read or write; owning nothing, I'M
allie To acquire anything, unable to make
o4. .:act, helpless against injury forever below
insult; at the absolute disposal of master,
", 0, as caprice or interest shall dictate, may
;,afatc the man from the woman called
as wife, or the infant from its mother-six
hundred thousand human beings, treated as
age ANIMALS, subscribing alone the luxuries of
ilnty thousand, and forever prevented by
jacS from obeying the law Of progress stamped
iy ,iui upon human nature forever doomed
bg these to degradation infinite, helpless,
h"Felcss--what, then, are we to think Of " the
experiment of slave society,""
Now, change this system. Deprive the
thirty thousand of the power to use the six
hundred thousand, as they would use oxen and
horses. Make these working people free-free
to make contracts, to demand wages for their
woTk--to lay by their earnings-to purchase
little property-to marry and give in mar
rase-to rear quiet homes, in which they may
shelter their faTnilies-to educate themselves
and their children. Protect life, limb, and pro-
lefiy inthcir case, by the laws which bulwark
the thirty thousand who have so long used them
ior their own profit, and disposed of them, at
their pleasure. What are the results Children
are taken from the field and sent to school Wo-
men stay at home and become help meets to
their husbands. Little cottages spring up on
every side, and in the lots adjacent, men,
unable to command fair wages on the planta-
tons of the rich, raise enough by reasonable
labor to supply the wants of their humble but
eontented households.
Stocks, whips and human auction blocks,
disappear. Churches, schools, and acad-
emies, begin to be visible; and everywhere,
indications are abroad that Justice and Freedom