New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-02
speakipr Of with Constantinope-an there is great
deal with New-0rleans.


saves-sod by their lords ana masters-soid Is sad
ea b. ftcsr parcufs; the internal political and social
npcy Of Cirrasa is feuda system OF the moss ID
ing kind under utica tie many are ertaroei oy we Is0
nd te reGk oppressed By fe strong and fAe fHfer
fs # human Hc rtrther social or tlnHg, hare no er-
,sesCc The only wonder is that their very superstition
docs not operate against the prevalence OF their slavery
and leir slave trade for by law Of the Moran no ano
eGCn is allowed 10 onslay6 one Of hs own fath aGd
hence the Moslerl negro Kingdoms OF Soadan supply me
slave trade al the expense Of Their Pcgan SUBJECTS OF
ueehbors whom they sell TO the Moorish traers The
cra. proportion Of the slaves which the CrcassIan sell
are cifls-hesu,ful gentle tin i'd girls, who find really
marker at Constant.Dope, and bring high prices. Under
the sensual system Of lsnGe as indeed. under all false
sysems hi, Is natural consequence. Erry other reg-
ION but CbrisidHtv dbGadOIs roman 10 as siGre.
TO the Christian religion alone has been well observed
do European women owe the liberty they enjoy and
from the liberty of women that OF nations has followed
accompanied with the prescription OF many inhanan sa-
aces dused over other parts OF the world sach as sav-
ery, seraglss, and eanuchs
If "eyery other religion but Christianity abandons
woman to man as slave, then this is not a Chris
tan country, and above al The Journal Of Commerce
is heather. For in America beyond parallel is
women abandoned as a slave. No other civilized
country of twentyfour millions can show one.sixth
Of its women slaves but this The holy man is very
much afflicted because Circassians sell their
own daughters though on this point he
is not quite sure; but suppose 1t is SO:
mans children and in selling your own Will The
Journal respond, will "he hide behind his cotton
"bacs and shirk the question Whatever doubts
there may be to whether the Circsssian gentlemen
sell their own daughters, respecting the 'impersona-
tons of the hgh-born aristocracy of Virginia and
other southern States there can be no doubt. One
account says that in Virginia onefourth of the slave
population is of mixed blood; another says that two
thirds are mixed; cannot state exactly which Is
correct or whether the truth lies between the two IN
being one half (perhsps The Richmond Examiner can
erghten us ~ but call it One-tourth, and here we
have evidence that their own daughters not counting
sons are sold and if Crcassa is yet behind us In this
particular branch of feminine traffic. the Russo
Turkish war may open her eyes 10 the practices OF
Christian countries, and she may learn from the
United States We should never despair OF the In
fuenee of Christian examples.
While on this topic let us suggest that The Jour
val Of Commsree should publish the article we have
quoted from in its country edition. with the following
as an explanatory note:
AF.IR FrGIrIyT.-The editor Of The Vermont Tribune
gives a thrilling account OF fugitive slave who has
Just been passed through Vermont to canada ne says
She is 20 years of age tall weormed and OF far more
than ordinary intelligence able to read ueny, member
of the Methodist Church. and the daughter OF her MASTER
she running away from her own idtner, hunh
lchrist fEaston Nd because he hal sold her to south
Caroinian for 81 100 This uihn had sold his own gssn
and blood for much hard cash ana but for 'daughts
.brewdness and heroism would have been lingering
the price Of blood. Charlotte the fugitive ran away lay
seCreed in the woods eighteen days found trend IN Is IT.
timore who sent her 10 Quaker in Philadelphia by rai'
road by mode dare tell lest it should involve him
in rou6e Her long exposure and dreadful journey to
Phadt phia brought fever from the effects oil whch
she had not recovered when here at ST. Adams From
Philadelphia Boson b. thence to Maine, and then
TO avoid BLOODHOUND SOutherners who were on her
track she turned her steps this way avoiding her pursur
ers with address and inning excellent trends
an the wav good accommodations the L. X. r., with
the given her here she went on her way to the on
Is land whore she could breathe free God protect and
guide her.
A certain clergyman, one John Wesley, pronounced
Slavery TO be the sum of all vanies." Mr.. Clay
once stated that the average life OF slaves after enter
ing upon the sugar plantations was only five years.
and on the cotton plantations only seven. Now the
sum of all yillanies finds its large figures in sys
tenn and not in the trade of Circassian women, who
are shut up in barems and lead stupid inert luxur
Gus sort of life, giving birth, however, to Turkish
subjects and not to slaves, the victim of the white
mans lust does in this country. On the whole it
canno. be doubted that the condition of the Circas
sian-bon slave is paradsaca compared with that OF
the southern sugar cotton slave killed oil by hard
ship in five seven years; and # the Christianity OF
the commercial pattern of The JOurnat be all that
is in store for her through the new intercourse
opened with Shsmyl, she had better stay heather.
But though The Journal may seek to put out the
light here and uphold Slavery Of all shades-the tenth
degree of admixture not mitigating its terrors or cru
eties-aId may drive through column of cant
the Circassisn slave trade peace offering to in
suited humanity, yet its commercials thirty pieces
cannot forever purchase the man and the woman of
the South. The day of rescue is approaching and to
brighten splendidly and rapidly than moles can
apprehend. Among the evidences Of this fact, read
the following from The SpartanJurg Is. c. Journal
upon the influence of mechanics, emf grants from the
North to the South:
"A large proportion Of the mechanical force that migrate
TO tie South, tqsteod ot 6ssiag they
generally teortess, HHPr'Hcpltd cGss-e"ems to our
peculiar Institutions and formidable barriers to the
cess of our native mechanics Not however with
other class who migrate sOuthwardwe ttdt class
kHorn as Rrckants-taey are generally tntigeqt and
fruSfW0rty and they scOm tIH 10 dtsc0rer their true
teTtst. They Lecoe shareholders and landed Dr0pretor
and in ninety nine out OF hundred. they
batter qualified 10 become constituents Of Institution
than certain class of native born, Who from
want Of capacity perfect droles in society," continually
carpng about slave competition and their INABILITY
quire respectable position and employment when in fact
their natural requirements and ambition does excel the
wisdom Of the molethey never look beyond the point of
their aspire TO anything beyond the capacity OF
drudge in society.
The intelligent mercantile class who come among us
from the North and settle, are generally ,Gtaa5e dc2HS
t0a 10 society, and every way qualified TO sustain
Institution but the mechanics, most OF them sts to
socfy, dan among the Stare p0puidtoH, and
acy form combination against the interest of the slave
holder, against the laws of the country and against the
peace OF the COmmonw ealth.
And now for more extract from Southern su-
thorty on this subject, The Charleston Standard:
The nucleus of free labor that is slowly forming upon
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