Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-27

LETTER OF Hon. HENRY a. WISE. We referred
! yesterday to Interesting correspondence peIWeen
! Rev. DIR. Adams of Boston and Hon. H. A. W Use
DR.. A propounds in his letter the following
At the South heard you, sir and Your opinions
spoken of with great respect as REPRESENTING III III
side of the subject 1t would strengthen me iu'
| in my aim to do good to kno" your oplIloho VII
few points, viz: c., ,,,o
population of the United States? 49,
2. What is your conviction with regard 70 t the
,roct;caltv and usefulness to all concerned OF the
colonization scheme? ],
8. IF slave asserts his liberty and runs away, DO
you feel that he ought to be recovered or LAS III "
/ natural right to escape if he chooses
f. Does slavery west Of Georgia and IN the oootll
west differ much as severity from that in the cas-
! tern and central States?
| s. Is emancipation desirable or possible 10 any
view of it. if the blacks to remain mere " mere
did John Randolph's slaves find refuge at las AFTER
! being driven out by several free States!
! Mr. Wises reply is splendid production cogent
in It's reasonng original and striking IN ltS lustra
tons vigorous. manly and eloquent throughout.
We regret that have not space TO lay before our
readers such synopsis of 1t as viii do usnce 10
its unanswerable argument, commanding eioquehce
and lofty tone
He begins by enlightening DR.. Adams as to the
feelings and relations of the South in the matter OF
slavery. He shows that slaves are sacred as prop
erty by the moral as we'll as municipal Jaw, ana tnC
the interference of the North can only ALLEVIATE the
affections of patriots, which alone the Union
rests His answer to the first question is admirable,
repcte with sound sense and playful wit Mr. wise
does not profess to know the design OF Providence
Nevertheless he has no doubt some wise end was IN
view in bringing At leans from worse state OF sia-
very in their country to mllder one here, ana
from faganism to Christianity. In two centuries,
49, 675 of them in the United States have been set
free ami the Slave States have liberated more than
the Free States. The following passage, showing the
effect of American slavery upon the African Is SO
strong and striking that we must give 1T entire:
There {, 204, 313 slave population IN the United
which arts,
moral blessings are worth all the municipalities, pow
crs and peoples of all Africa, without excepting the
Dutch, Portuguese and English settlements there,
from the Nile, through Timbuctoo, to the Cape OF
Good Hope In the very words would repeat this
proposition thousand times to emphasize it and
show l mean literally what | say that the desce'',
daatS 9T Jrica Roao here IN 10 :d"ge, IN the United
States are masSe, a'h0le areH'th ct leoPte IN
s0{ly coATart, morally, enlightenment, ChTtStl4"f-
ty, anil actHoE personal freedom, acoTth more tAdn
their mother coutry entire, not erctpt!ng me E"T0-
PednS there cohGtnea ec'th the mattress! inns Is no
boast but fact which challenges comparison! This
is enormous result. Nothing short of the power
of God could have effected this Prodigious result
upon four millions of human beings IN so short
a time as that of two centuries. Gods churches III
the southern States of this Union have done this
ard all, by operating both upon the masters
and slaves The Methodist and Baptist churches
have been the great apostles among these Gentles
And thus | add another proposition, to wit: Mdt
startry -Imc lean slarery in the Unitc States has
been TIE most efficient missionary among the heathe
in the last ttco centuries Not by going to Africa
and raising affairs there at first bat by bringing the
fathers here and preparing priests to go back to AZ
RIGA and bear the Christian torches through the dark
ness of her night.
The answer of Mr.. Wise to the first question is |
The destiny of the slave population in the United
States is towards Africa. The second question is |
answered by the reply of the first. Looking to the
ends of ultimate colonization, and what he considers
the true policy Of the States home, Mr.. Wise would
prohibit by law the future emigration OF the free |
colorcd population from the slave to the free States.
He expresses the opinion that marke revolution
would have been produced if slave latur had been
permitted in California. He thinks Virginia, North
Carolina, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee and Ken
lucky, and perhaps the cotton and sugar plantations
would have been enptied to black laborers, to work
The gold mines. This, says Mr.. Wise, 9 w ould not
hire INFUSED sure poacer but would rather Aa"e con"
'entrated tile stdres a compartments an one State
Union aDd fire gears Of their tabor IN tie gold
mines 7cOuI hare enriched masters so that they cOuM
more ably emancipate them at the end Of that time
Inn they could sell them for a .tuU market
,rice; and when emancipated, there was all Polyne-
SHALL the isles of the Pacfc-before them for col
,nzation in the peasantest place for them earth"
Therefore, Mr. Wise thinks fanaticism defeated
is own ends in excluding slavery from California.
len. Riley, who, from the emp proclaimed a ter
itorial government, &c. To the third question, he
epes that the slave has natural right to e,
or his social are his natural rights, and the law of
lis social being forbds chance TO escape. TO the
ourth question he answers, that there is not bet
provided body ofaborers earth than the slaves,
nd that slavery nowhere in the United States is
evere. To the fifth question he gives an emphatic
negative. And he adds 1--WE free them as fast
md faster, than they be colonized in land,
# better promise to them"
Mr.. Wise concludes his capital letter, by invoking
Dr. Adams to put Boston philanthropy by removing
he beam out of it's eye, of furnishing vessels
nd cargoes to the Brazilian African slave trade;
o teach the philanthropists to be charitable to
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