The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-25
For the Union.
ABOLITION DELUsIoNs. No. s.
The g Cause cf Humanity"

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There certain people who believe in steam doc
torng ignorant stupid and vulgar fellow, toe
lazy work to get his living by honest MEANS who
takes up "doctoringn by steam knows intuvely, by
some occult means other how them. child
il often happens perfectly WELL is exposed to this fellows
notice. and he informs the mother that she has he
toms ghttu disease which, ii not attended to in
time, will certainly kill her
OF he at once commences his manipulations,
which end in the death of the child and unfrequeny
several children in the family thus actually muir
deed but the parents with undoubtng confidence in the
skill of the "docor" have even the slightest suspi-
cion of that 1t the doctors medicine, and not
the disease that destroyed their children The disease part
was assumed something nosoo be questioned sus-
pected or even to be thought Of otherwise they would
readily the real truth of the maerhat the death
was the legitimate and necessary consequence Of the mcdi-
cine given and disease had nothing whatever do with it.
The acause of humanity people in this cir
clethat the siave trade disease wrong SIM
piracy and all that, Assumed something not to be
questioned to be thought Of or talked about; and the at
tempts to break up it get rid of ii
what the results what the expenditure loss of life or
how many negroes killed why, in the of the
steam doctor supposed to be the yrulence of the
disease ITSELF and the means like the manpulaons of
the Guack, escaped detection.
For two hundred years British merchants carried the
"Afrcan slave trade with great Pious and
present time engaged largely in it without thought
Of sinunes Indeed the church. md the whole religious
world were rampant in its favor; il deemed to be nj
most santike go to Africa and bring these miserable
heathens within the circle Of Christian minstratons They
said land truly if Christianity is essential to the salvation
Of these negroes then il is duty go TO Africa and bring
them here for it is perfectly childish TO think of making
Christians of them there and until the breaking out OF the
American revolution scarcely whisper was heard
either against the morality the expedency of the Afri-
slave trade.
From this date however and this radical revolution in
the trade and well the political affairs of
the British empire widespread and almost immediate
change of opinion occurred in regard TO the African slave
trade The North American colonies cut off from the
pre the sources of this trade great extent also
cut Off and British capital found outlet in the then
rapdly-growing British possessions in Hindosan. From
few faint murmurs against the African tradcthen mild
denuncaion of the "hocr then thou from the shatter
ed of British purtanism but always keeping pace
with the growth of English investment in 1ndiaat last
the tory hatred of America found vent in Wilberoroe
Of the eanest and bgots of the time when the
whole British opinion became consolidated and blew a
blast loud and long and ferocous the wall of the tiger
against the slave trade nomnay, but against American
repubcanism In reality, From the appearance OF Wiber-
there longer any discussions in regard to the
nature of the itself There still considerable
capital invested in the plantations of the West Indies
which had sufficient influence with the government 10
tard for some years the final governmental announcement
that SINFUL but the whole public discussion
the question Of expedency, while oil assumed as matter
not be questioned that the African trade which few
years before held up by this public rs some
thing peculiarly Chrisan-ke and reputable the p-
bodment of every thing vile and wicked Dr. johnson and
Wilbeforce especially the latter seem to bare presented
the subject the dotc and bgoted old King and the tory
rulers of the day in that powerfully Impressed
them and as soon as they could release themselves from the