The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-12-05
English Interference with American
SIavery-rime 90 stop itg

GHyefsH papers duu LIHyHsH uuthots, GAP
ing wonderful and most holy horror OF the
African slave trade. and especially OF Afri
can slavery as found in the United States of
America. Forgetting that most damnable
species of slavery in their own most civiliz-
ed cities and districts, existing in the form
of starving, crushed, dePr aved ,ohits human
ity, that dares not raise its eyes to the COM
forts and enjoyments of our poorest slaves,
their sympathies and tears are showered up
on Africans in bondage in some of the
States Of this Republic, and their hearts
bleed-on paper-for that which never would
have been, but for the cursed tyrannical and
money grasping propensities of tie British
We are sick of this English sympathy for
"down trodden humanity" in this country,
and of their unceasing efforts towards assist
ing our Aboltionists in their trea sonabe
attempts at civil discord and agitation. We
are sick ofthis continual holding up by Eng
lish writer's, of Great Britain's emancipation
example, which never by any parity or possi-
biliiy of reasoning can give her the right to
advise us, or clothe herself with the imma-
culate holiness of disinterested and glo-
rious sacrifice for humanity's sake. She new
er did make such a sacrifice, and she never
will. The same spirit that authorized and
justified the expressions and horrors Of the
extension of her thraldom over the East In.
dian tribes, that slaughtered thousands Of
defenceless Chinese on the basest pretexts
few years ago, and now is crushing the
sweet Emerald Isle to the dust, is the same
spirit that will make humanity weep instead
of rejoice wherever the foul spirit may be
extended.
But let England and English writer's look
at home when they talk of oppressed human
ity-of slavery of the mind and of the body.
Let tears of blood be wrung from their eyes
when they see white men and white women
and white children, suffering under oppres.
sion and bodily tortures ten thousand fold
more damhable than the cruelest slave mas
ters in this country dare infct. And when
these English writer's talk of the curse of our
slavery, and of its debasing influences, and
of its wicke jness In the eyes OF Just God,
and of His punishment of the nation which
upholds it-let them ask-who established
this slavery!-who forced it on the colonies,
and when the colonies rebelled against the
further import alton Of slaves in their midst
as curse-were met by British statesmen
and by British laws with the words, "the
slave trade is highly beneficial and advan-
tageous TO the kingdom and the colonies!"
The British Government first established
the importation of slaves in the American
colonies by authority. The trade was legal
lied. Maryland, Virginia and Carolina an.
xiously ende Favored to stop this importation
for at an early dsy they realized it to be ,
curse. The first continental Congress which
had power to legislate, gave legal expires
sion to the well formed opinion of the coun
try, by resolving that no slaves be imported
into any Of the thirteen united colonies
To interdict England's slave trade wa
found impossible till America legislated TO
cd that slave trade which annually tore thou
sands of Africans from their homes AM
planted them in slavery for life, with al
their. posterity, on these shores. In ls49
all the ports of Africa were laid open to Eng
lish competition for "the slave trade" TO
"the slave trade is very advantageous t,
Great Britain" reads one of these statutes
A member of the British Senate, wrot,
in ls5O-"rhe British Senate have th
fortnight been bordering methods, to maxi
make more effectuGl that horrid traffic Of sell
ing negroes; it appears to US that six AM
forty thousand of those wretches are sold ev
cry year to our colonies alone" Think @
that, you English writers who are now en-
gagged is holding up British glory and Amer
ican ignomy to the gaze of the world.
All the efforts of Virginia especially, t
stop the Importation of slaves, were prompt
ly crushed by Great Britain, because tn
trade was advantageous to her! Oglethor
writes that himsif and friends settled tn
colony of Georgia, and were determined no
to suffer slavery there, but the British gov
eminent sanctioned it, and his efforts wer
vain. South Carolina was rebuked for seek
ing to prevent further imr ortations of slaves
In fact the policy of England was fully IL
lustrated by the Earl of Dartmouth's word
to colonist-"We cannot allow the colo
MES to check or discourage in any degree
frdfc so beneficial TO The GafiOns
For this and still more unworthy reasons
did England keep up this infamous traffic 70
over one hundred years. She planted tn
curse here, watered its seeds, and nurse
the tree, till its roots were SO firmly plante
In the earth aod its great arms in the sk .