Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-08-10
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slyt I.S,
The Hebrew Pralmist gives it as one Of the chnrac
teristcs of the wicked that they feared fear where
10 fear was In somewhat The same sort il the ter
rnr-rcal or fnncicd-which the Abnlitonists of the
North entertain, pretend 20 entertain. in relation 10
the eXorb,tant enormitcs of slavery. One Of the
rankest Of these s,ncr of the protest OF the
three thousand New England clcrgymen against the
Nebraska billion short trip to the South, was fully
convinced that the 'rawhead and bloody bones
which his fnncy u,l worked up, while in tho classic
shade. Of the modern Athens WAS, after all. very
harmless affair when hc nearer tho scene Of lts
action II is thus always with folly and rashness aud
blind infatuated Zeal. The man of the mountain In
real parsonage, his gigantic proportions are very
realities, until actual observation and dlssec
tion OF his parts have wrought the conviction that
the giant is, after all, thing Of mis.-an optical
Illusion and nothing more.
Something like this is every day experienced b.
the Sorilerner who for even, leaves his
home TO eI"y few days recreation or business II,
tho South-who comes 10 and learn the essential
advantages and pccuiariIies OF the institution ni
slavery. Wedo not expect such nh To take such
extreme ground f:iond Fi;zhugh has taken in
his very excellent work on Free Society-but we do
xpec; such nbscrvcr - modify, little extent
hS notions N regard 10 slavery and slave labor,
which long course uf reading in The Tribune, and
-: scrmoEzing in an;i.savcry pulpts, has engcmder-
ed. Entertaining thi- opinion, are always happy
to give distant mud Norihcrn observer the fairest
opportunities 10 "-rc arc,' i'll or
der that lie may carry home with him good
report That slavery ms its ills, s fact unaucs;iun
ed. But thcae merely incidental aud tran.,ory:
WHILE in its essence, is real and positive good 10
racc of men trained, QUA has bcen from the gross
est barbarism, tu species Of civilization and refine
ment. Place, side by side with each other, the Fir
gina negro, with Il well developed brain and erect
statue with gleams Of intelligence aud activity
and, witha, christian man, and n nRve African,
fresh the interior oc his country and you have
specimen of the advantages which slavery has secured
10 the former, and of the disadvantages attending
freedom in state of barbary. The contrast Is Il
lust and striking one. 1t is idle to talk OF clvlilzuS
and hrisanizing worse than brute race BY allow
ing them to approach into connct with civilization
in any other than OF servitudc. We believe
that American slavery las done more, in two hun
Lrcd years, To elevate the African, Ill the
scale Of civilization than all the missionaries,
uuassiscd by such all agency, would have accom-
p!i.hed in Il thousand. Indeed, viewing the question
in its mere rc.io-economic view, We should incline
To the opinion, that the very best thing that Christian
ministers at the South could do, would be TO bring
more of these native Africans under the operation I"
civillzng iniuenccs-that they might fill the posts III
society for which Heaven aud nature designed them
until they are tit TO govern themselves and nave
enrncd somewhat OF the obligations and duties OF Il
Christian Iilc II is no, remark able that such state
mcnts Us these should surtc the philosopher Of the
Tribune His mental vision has SO long been con-
fined to the narrow and restricted circle OF his own
peculiar dealings and his follies and he has written
80 much! aud So loudy against American slavery
and American OPPRESSION that he really fancies there
is terrific giant in the form Of the slave power feed
| ing upon the vi,as and Cutting over the manscd
corpse Of the union Of these States. He rcrites the
citation with which this article opened: The wicked
feared fear where no fear was"