Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-09-05

vding for the health and comfort of the children and
the sck-a large portion OF whom would die il their
mistrcsscs lived the other side of the ocean, or ii
they had no mistresses to take care of he
the free negroes of the West Indies and ou North
ern Stutcs.
Negro slaves increase faster in Yircinia, MARYLAND
Tennessee Kentucky and Missouri than they do in
.1us,.ra. hiabana and Mississippi, because the es-
.;es H:y s.Aaer in the former than in the latter each
slave coming directly under the supervision of his OF
her master and MISTRESS
On small plantations, in the latter States where the
propretors reside on their estates the increase is fully
as great as III any art of prolific Virginia. As far
as the common comforts of life concerned, in re-
gard to food, clothing and lodging, the accommodate
tons are better Ill Louisiana, Alabama and MISSISSIPPI
pi, than In the Northern tier Of slave States. But
these cannot compensate for the absence OF the mas
ter and mistress. Their presence makes tho govern
ment patrarchical-their absence converts II into II
despotism; but after all, not as severe dcspotism
that which l5i,O0U,00U Of nominal frcemen sub
jected to, belonging to the East Inrn Company-thc
largest slave proprietor in the world. The Honora-
BILE East India Company's subjects nre like cattle
grazing by the wayside, having the liberty Of going
up the road or down. but every other liberty fenced
in against them. Thief in the waters, the birds OF
the air, the wild gamo aud fruits Of the land are not
inaccessible TO prisoners in ui than they are
10 the inhabitants of those VAST countries in Asa,
which England and lrennd's tyrants, under the dis
guise of merchants calling themselves the East India
Company, have plundnrcd and Notwithstanding
vast prison where hundred aud fifty millions of
human beings have the liberty of starving or work
ing for ptnnce of wngus iisuicleni alter nll laXcs
and expenses paid 10 purchase shoes for an equal
number of American negro slaves. In America we
have day set apart, the 18th Ui July, for the gloril
cation Of those republican principles which are fill
ing our land with rapidiIy progressing population
Of civilized and Christian people III the full ENJOY
nCnt of all the comforts Ot lite. Let any Onc how
ever, read the two volumes written by Malcolm. n
tal ri. Nnu nj lu
travelled through British Indiu. listen 10 the cs
mury of the ten Mississippi oversccrs whom Captain
Baylcs an officer in the East India Company, SER
vice enticed TO India to oversee some of the Conpa-
nvs cotton plantations twho left i'll disgust, not hav
ing the inhurnany tn make laborcrs work whose mas
tiers failed to furnish them the necessary food and clo-
ng,) and he will the incccssy nt setting apart
one luv in the year day tibulHron, towccp over
the ills tha. humanity suffering at the hands Of British
abntoniss. Thus, while according +" the last ccss,
1913 are born day i'll the United States over and above
the decrease from DEATH ladr!ing six millions 10 the
population i'll ten yearS,) upwards of 'HItO day ac-
cording to Malcolm and the best authorities, have
been dying in British India under the government Of
their abolition masters, over and above their natural
increasc-diminishing the population i'll It.. it
teen millions at least Never did British crown Off
record greater or more important TRUTH than did
Mr.. Allison, the able historian and satstica', i'll s
work entitled "l'rincip. of Popuutoa,' when he
penned the lines: "Tic despotism Of the East has de-
stroyed more than all the freedom nj the West has
created the dcpopulatiun ot Asia has more tnan
counterbalanced the increase OF Europe nnd the
growth of the transatlantic world. ~ D0wicr.J
In setting apart the 4th Of July 10 glory over re-
publican progress, ought not to set apart day 10
weep over the millions of human beings in Asin,
whom the tyranny Of British ubOonlsts arc sending
out of the world more than twice ns inst us the i'll
creusc of the American population When British
aboltionsts send their agents here to preach against
that patrarchical form of government existing among
us, called negro slavery ought they not be ,nadc tell
both wings and democrats, what they have done
with the million aud half OF missing negroes import
ed slaves into their West India Islands, and the i
teen millions that have vanished in their East Indian
possessions, daring the last ten years, before our
ears to receive instruction from them II British
abolirionsn, on its first advent into our country
had been called 10 stern account for lis in!sdccs III
Van Dclnan's Land. where il hus swept the negro
almost from the tnce OF the earth, and Tor Tho
wrongs il il irtcting upon humanity III lr"lani, In.
din, and everywhere else Ill the range of hs P"wcr
we would not now have seen n large portion "i ;hc
people of Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts
III open rebellion against the Constitution, laws ana
authority Of the United States; nor would We have
the democracy OF the great State oi New 1"rk-
helpless hopeless pOwcriess-betwecn the upper ana
neither milestone Of lIarl-Shell and SoftShrll grind
ing it into dust and nncs. But if Connecticut, YER
mOn:, Massachusetts,, Western y. York mud the CHI"
Reserve will continue 10 be the dupes OF BrE,l 10
Icy, and force upon the country dissolution u iic
Union, it 10 but right und proper that one of II ,1n
sequence, Of di.union which their blind faHhiicisn
has disqualified them from seeing, should bc mace
known 10 them in udvancc-anG that Is, that tie
South would be compelled, in sclt-de"nce. to revir
The African slave trade Il grand"r and more cx'cn
sive scule than the world hns ever Witnessed. ticn
Felix Huston, in some ab" paper, hn- pro cd be-
yOnd Il doubt, that negro SAVES III war; 1.-THE morc The
beter urc un element of inviucihlc strength. and n"i
of weakness aboiit!onists vaimly suppose. All our
wirs prove it. The history OF the Revolution proves
that WaShimgtoa's uliny in PENIS, ,!va'na and New
Jersey, AT the most gloomy period Of the war; when
the Government had neither money nor cr' dit, was
kept together and supported with provisions, mad,
while the war was going on by Virginia ncgrucs and
that Burgoyne's captured army was sent from the
North into the heart Of the slavcholdng rcgIon lor
saf.kccpng. Our presen; Shareholders are 10: nr'-
incrous enough to contend ngaiist the combined "r-
mics of the non.slnvchoiding States and Grc"t l'"i'
tain. Tic South could, ana would if driven t. t.'e
wall, .aisc an army, if needs he, Of any numi -
men, IN addition to her own citizch sOdicry.
LAKE. Boz f-Sr.