The true Democrat., 1854-10-25
61tracts from Mitchels Editorial
 on the Wise Letter.

OA IAS W1Se 1eCCet.
 The south has at last ceased to apologize for slavery,-to admit that it is an evil, and curse, ana an incubus, and all that-to timidly depre- cate the marsh Judgment of the civilized world on account of It. So much the better. That was all unmeaning sentimentality, and was de- rived from some of the widest ealimatias of the nrst french revolution and the balderdash of Anacharsis Clootz. It is pitiable to see even the masculine intellect of Jefferson SO ob- fuscated that he can write to Mir. Holmas of Maine, sentences of this sort-"On the subject of slaves, there is not man on earth who would sacrifice more than would to relieve us from this heavy reproach in any practicable way" This was merely an affected homage to the newly discovered principles of civilization
 Africans have always dealt in slaves. Be- sides the transatlantic slave-trade there are at this day, periodical caravans of slaves conducted northward from Soudan to the Barbary Strates and Egypt; and the Imaum of Muscat trades of 5O,OOO of his subjects (much to their advan- tage and his) every year to the ports of India, Persla andJ Java In fact, the export of negroes IS the only way Africans have to provide them selves with European commodities and Ameri- can notions. One Captain Canot an old slave trader has lately written his experiences, or more properly has got them written for him. And although the old sinner affects some touch of '" philanthropy" here and there, he tells some truths worth pondering
 For example England, with all her philan- thropy, sends under the Cross of St. George to convenient magazines of lawful commerce on the coast, her Birmingham muskets, Manchester cottons and Liverpool lead all of which are righteousl y swapped at Sierra Leone, Acra and the gold coast for Spanish or Brazilian bills on London. Yet, what British merchant does not know the traffic on which those bills are found. ed, and for whose support his wares are purchas- ed.' Again, "multtudes of our own worthy traders, who would hang shaver like pirate when caught, do not hesitate to supply him in- directly with tobacco, powder, cotton, Yankee rum and New England notions, in order to bait the trap in which he may be caught"
 As for "abolition,' it is time to have done with that nonsense. The example of sudden aboltions and emancipations which the world has seen are not encouraging and perhaps we look on the idea with greater adherence in as much as the first notable example of abolition ism occurred in Ireland-not with the best re- suits in the world. The Anglo-Saxons of Eng land, It IS well known, were great breeders and merchants of slaves; and Pope Gregory the first
 
 slave market of Rome, greatly admired the fair haired youth from that distant island; but even ages after they had become christians, this great Anglo-Saxon race regularly sold their children; and the Irish seem to have been their best cus- toners. The Irish Chiefs liked fair-haired hand-maidens; and the lists of tribute payable by minor chieftans to the kings, we uniformly find so many "tall, fair women or so many youths who knew no Gaelic" Sever says (his- tory of Bristols,) Slaves were exported from England in numbers that 1t seems to have been the fashion among the people of property in Ireland and other neighboring countries to be attended by English slaves" William of Mall mesbury, another English authority, describes the young slaves standing, tied together by ropes on the quays of Bristol, waiting shipment to Ireland; and Girald, Bishops of St. David's another Englishman tells us, that the English were accustomed through a common vice fthe nation, to expose their children for sale; and even before they were pressed by want of dis tress, to sell their own sons and kinsmen to the lrlsh" Thus 1t befel that when the Normans, after conquering England, invaded Ireland tow ards the end of the twelfth century there was large population of Anglo Saxon slaves grind ing corn and weaving wool for the Irish.
 Then come the foolish synod ofArmagh, con- vened in l169, to take counsel on the perilous state of the country invaded by these Normans. By some strange logic it was inferred that the invasion of Normans from England was judg- ment upon the Irish for buying Anglo Saxon slaves; and so the foolish synod unanimously decreed and ordered, that all the English thro'- out the Island, who were in state of slavery, should be restored to their former freedom.,- (Giraldus Cambrensis, Hi6ermia Erpuq, B 1.) Of course they joined the invaders, and helped to cut the throats of their former masters There is no transaction in all Irish history on which we look with greater dislike and con- tempt than this characteristic example of bamv benevosm on the part of the clergy of Armagh.