The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-23


getting married to black girls, and the planters
sons marrying black wives. This argument
was certainly paying fine compliment to black
women, and poor one to the white women.
Amalgamation-why, STAKEHOLDER would no
sooner give up amalgamation than he would
give his life. There is no adjunct of Slavery
that he so much fancies as amalgamatiQn.
Where did the colored population of our coun-
try come from? They are indigenous to our
soil in a certain sense. They do not come from
Africa. All these shades of complexion every
where-it tells the story of slave amalgamation,
and the audacity of Shareholders and of any
man who stands up anywhere as a STAKEHOLDER,
and denounces Emancipation as leading to
amalgamation, when the very first act of Sla-
very is to abolish the marriage institution tor
the sole purpose of gratifying the hellish lust of
their masters; and the result is, that we dare
not lift the curtain, and reveal to you the hor-
rors of the secret chamber; Sodom and Gomor-
rah legalized and enforced under the lash of the
driver and at the point Of the e-knife-Sod-
ON and Gomorrah all concentrated in that sim
gle word, Slavery volcano of lust and impu-
rity always throwing out its lava-tide of desola-
ton and death, rolling over the land, blasting
and blighting every green thing therein. Well,
the shareholders protest that the true way of
abolishing Slavery is to do it gradually they
profess to be in favor of abolition at last But
the Abolitionists could not get the shareholders
to specify any time when they would cease to
be shareholders. They acted, as we are told as
Charles James Fox did. He was notorious for
getting into debt, and quite as notorious for
never paying his debts. A certain Jew named
Solomon, whom he owed a considerable sum of
money, had come to him great many tiuaes
for it, but Fox would never set any time to l.ay
it. At last he came to Fox, and told him Il at
he was resolved never to leave him until ae
would tell him when he could have the money.
Fox found that he could stave it off no longsr,
and he said, well, Solomon, seeing that must
tx day, L will try to; and he walked back
ward and forward, rubbing his head. At last he
stopped Solomon said he, 1 have thought
OF day when we will settle. have thought,
Solomon, of the day of judgment; but, as that
Is likely to be busy day with both of US, sup
pose, Solomon, we say the day after. Laughter
and cheers. Well, the Shareholders said, do you
mean to strike down vested rights and rob US
OF our property? Give US compensation, full and
entire. These slaves are our property, we hove
bought them and paid for them, aud now you
talk about taking them, and giving us nothing
in return it is robbery. No, said the Engli III
Abolitionists, you knew when you bought those
slaves that you had no right to buy them; as we'll
you know that you have no right to keep theia;
ohu yOu PoiU JouT IuOHcy dI VeHIuTe, anu TtH
your own risk; and now it is time for compen-
sation to be given to the slave. In the name of
justice, [ pronounce your vested rights vested
wrongs. The shareholders said: If Slavery is
abolished, there will be less sugar grown; and if
less sugar, then chaos would come again with
out sugar, the universe would stop. Sugar was
the grand argument. The blood was forgotten,
amalgamation was forgotten, vested rights were
forgotten, Onesimus and the curse upon Canaan
were forgotten-only sugar, we shall have less
sugar; this was the climax of their objections.
We'll, to the argument. If their first oo-
lection were true, of course there would ie
nobody left to grow anything. But they roll d
this sugar argument as a sweet morsel und "
their tongues. 1t was, however, none the le IS
Ubiquitous because it sweet. Let us SIZE
how that lump of sugar is to be dissolved. In
the first place, there is less sugar grown than
before emancipation 30 be it. But there is
no unrequited toll Less sugar; no more fettess
and yokes and branding-irons. Less sugar
no longer any drivers and overseers. Less
sugar; no more fugitive slave hunts Less
sugar; no more slave instructions, and no
longer dread of them. Less sugar. but ro
longer driving slaves to determination. Why,
so horrible was Slavery in the West Indies. that
there was constant and most frightful de.
crease; so that, as Slavery was going on, in the
progress of time the entire population would
have been annihilated. Less sugar again-fsr
l like the objection; but no longer any slave
code, with all its atrocities. Mr.. Garrison read,
from the slave code of the Colonies, some of
the most outrageous laws A slave, striking
his master or mistress, and causing a wound,
suffered death. Less sugar but this abolished
fugitive slave was, if caught, branded for the
first offence, the second time he was ham
stringed, and the third time he suffered DEATH
Why, this was a code made by devils, and it
had gone to its home, the bottomless pit. He
would give single case Of cruelty. a woman
was stated to have been guilty of contumacy;
she would not darn stockings on certain &C.
casion. On the 22d of July she was put in the
stocks, and she was kept there for seventeen
days. The stocks were constructed so that she
could not get up or lie down. She was logged
six times, and red pepper was rubbed in her
one of the days she complained of fever, which
was then raging in the island, and she was
logged on the next day. She was then taken
into the field, where she had never worked be-
fore, and then whipped for not performing tasks
which she could not perform. She was fogged
one morning, and died in the field about no0a.
Less sugar but no more putting in the stool 9,
no more red pepper, NJ more hOgging to death.
Can these monsters be matched anywhere cat
of the internal regions7 They say there was
nothing grand in this emancipation, simply
because there is less sugar. There is no mo>e
burning of chapels, and planters no longer rise
against and expel missionaries. On one single
occasion, they destroyed G23,000 value of
chapels, put missionaries into loathsome dun
geons; and it was not until this was proclaimed
to the people of England, that trumpet blast
was sent from Lands End to John O'Groat's
house, that made Parliament and the Throne
trembie, and humbled Slavery to the dust. In
Missouri, there are armed men who were &C
any man who would not openly defend Slavery
a. an institution. We are here to rejoice over
the downfall of system so Ubiquitous and
horrible as this which have given to you in
these meager details. What a changed 1t is
like the passage from death into life, from the
cerements of the grave into the robes of heaven.
1t is the most interesting and the most mar
vellous transition that the world has ever wit
messed, in any age or generation and the cry
goes up still, from every part of the country,
pointing to Jamaica, There's less sugar ex-
ported than before Be it so; but then what
sugar is exported is clean and pure, and has no
scent of blood about it; and therefore one
pound of that outweighs all that was formerly
raised there by the blood of the slaves; and it
is all the more hateful to the people Of this
country, that West India sugar has no stain
about it. Less sugar but then we have mer-
riage and that is everything in civilized society.
Less sugar; but good schools and the Bible,
and free gospel churches, sacred to genius and
talent, springing up on the right hand and on
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