Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-27
AFRICAN AND oIRoAss1AN SLAVERY.

The New York Times undertakes to ridicule
those journals which denounce the Circassian
Stare trade whilst sustaining slaresy AS it exists
in the South, against the assaults of the Free
sellers and Abolitionists, This manifestation
of prejudice and spleen is not to be wondered
at, for the Times has gone over to the Free
sellers and Aboltionists, although it still ad.
heres to its Wing ideas. It's editor was one of
the leading members of the Saratoga conven-
ton, and that convention was the most sec.
tional and fanatical since the adjournment of
its prototype, the Buffalo convention of ls4s.
1t is but natural therefore, that the New
York Times should be blind and bigoted as
we'll as insincere and fanatical. AS a journal
approaches abolitionism it loses its manliness
and candor; and when it embraces that infa-
nous creed it loses its decency and selfrespect
and becomes unable to reason fairly or respect
the truth. Surely that mind must be wofally
perverted which cannot draw distinction be.
tween the Circassian slave trade and slaUery as
it exists in the Southern States. But the New
York Times looks upon the Circassian STARE
trade with more tolerance than upon African
slacery. The Circassian father sells his young
daughter to the Turkish merchant, not for
honest labor, but to become a Turkish concu-
bine; and the New York Times, with its mouth
full Of philanthropic words and prating of the
exalted morality of the higher law, undertakes
to mitigate the enormities of the revolving
practice in order to assail the institutions of
the South.
The people of the South did not create
slavery. African chiefs sold the negro, and
the merchants of Old and New England bought
the negro into slavery. They created the insti-
tuition, and the people of the South cannot be
Justly charged with any greater offence than
that Of refusing to manumit their slaves. In
dependent Of the ruinous pecuniary sacrifices
which universal emancipation would entail, the
speedy destruction Of the African race would
follow such an undertaking. Slavery is the
only salvation for the negro, because it is his
natural state when brought into contact with
the white race. Left to himself, he has not
the power to advance. In Africa he is the same
barbarous and revolving brute to-day that he
was in the time Of the Pharoahs and he is
subjected there to a species of slavery ineffably
more cruel in its mildest forms than the worst
representations which have been made Of
Southern slavery by the fertile imagination of
abolition fanaticism. The substitution Of the
| American for the African master was bless.
ing to the negro and the continuance of the
authority of the American master is infinitely
better for the negro than the guidance Of his
own feeble intellect. Slavery is to him life in
the midst of comfort whilst freedom would
bring death by the slow process of gradual de-
cay.
The Circassian is white man. He is o
Caucasian-he belongs to that race which is
the superior race of the world. The Negso on
the other hand belongs to an inferior species
whose organization shows that he was made
for slavery, whilst experience shows that he has
made no progress except in a state of slavery
The mind which can see no difference between
reducing the Caucasian Circassian to slavery
and retaining the Heather African in slavery
must be enslaved TO some degrading fanati
cism, But the true ground Of comparison il
even stronger than this. The Turk does no
simply retain his Circassisn slaves, for there il
constant stream Of new slaves pouring int
the port Of Constantinople. These slaves wer
{ not rescued from savage heather chiefs VIII,
. had captured them in battle; but they wer
, bought from their fathers and their mother
( amidst the Caucasian mountains. Yet thi
!. picture of white fathers and white mothers sell
: ing their free white sons and white daughter
, into Turkish slavery is o more comedy pictur
to the eyes Of the New York Times than tn
: Southern negro contented and happy in tn
, condition which is best suited to his menta
J. moral and physical organization.
/ Rejecting on this fact, one would be led
d believe that there is something in Freesoil an
+ Abolition sentims.ts which warps the mind an