The true Democrat., 1856-03-11


 I man, Mir. Webster:
 That ocean which seems to wave with 1 gentle magnlhcence, to wait the burdens of a, honest commerce, and to roll its treasures witt d CONSCIOUS pride; that ocean which hardly in oustry regards, even when the winds have ruff ned It's surface, as a field of grateful toll; wha Is It to the victim of this oppression when ht Is brought to its shores, and looks forth upor It for the first time from beneath chains. anC bleeding with stripes? Whot IS at to him but ( aotde, spread prospect of sufering, anguiM anc deathY Nor do the skies smile longer; nor i. the air fragrant to him. The sun is cast dowr | rom heaven. An inhuman and cursed traffic has cut him off in his manhood, or in his youth rom every enjoyment belonging to his being and every blessing which his Creator intended for hm''
 In Mr. Habersham's periodical, "1'he Self instructor" IS an engraving, which illustrating lorcblv as It does, the contrasts of slavery in this country and Europe, is by no means the least interesting feature of that publication. It represents an interview between negro wo- man, slave" CD and newly landed Irish emlgrant, suffering under want and disease. The following conversation ensues:
 Ol'aah.-" Poor white 'omanl you sick ?"
 Enugrant.-" Poor and sick both"
 Otnoh-" ou run away from you mossa p Em'grant-"I haven't any master Pm free"
 Dinah.-" Free! What use ob be free uf YOU can't get muffin to eat. 1 sorry for you. for true. l aint got no money, but got plenty O. tater-here one'
 Here IS commentary upon abolition folly. The "poor black slave,' not with pocket full oi money, 1t Is true, but blessed with an abun- dance ot comfortable clothing and good whole some daily food, holding out her hand in cha rlCy to save rom starvation poor white, free, and independent citizen, with no "mossa" to take care of her. and muffin to eat" The one, slave to appetite, to pleasure, working, like her betters, from sunrise to sunset, and. unlike many of them, who sometimes work from dayllght to dayliglt, fulfilling simple a- lotted task, and then, free from cares of busi ness and the harassins anxietes of getting mo- hey and raising money, with no "famiIy ex- penses' account to post up and no six months small bills" to settle, no notes in bank to try to got renewed, no city and state taxes to pay. and m militia or jury duty to perform on pain ol the penalty of the law" retiring 10 a warm bed almost inside of the bars of the parlor grate. to snore away until next morning to unwake- able oblivion, with no danger ahead save the risk of going into dropsy from oversleep and gormandizing The other, heavily laden with all the ines;imable and inalienable rights and titles which freedom conlers upon her votaries. burdened with most of the privileges and re- responsibilities we have enumerated, without any earthly means of sustaining them, sick hungry, halt naked and desolate, holding out the sui pllcatlng hand to grasp cold "tater" the free will offering, from her culinary resources, of a poor nlsger in oppression and bondage plac- cd under taskmaster" and only few mo. n1nl is iact lo, "taskmaster was amusing himself in shooting crows out of the corn-lied, or dining with his neighbors at the club. Truly there are two kinds of slavery in the world, between which some future photographer will do the world an essential service in unsyaonynaizing eff we may be allowed to coin word ill the absence of one to sut,) viz: that which belongs to the we'll fed slave cf appetite, who has nothing to do be- tween working hours but to eat and sleep, and that which is the sad lot of the hungry, sick, and destitute sons and daughters of "Ffeelonn" who have no use for appetites and are glad to accept of a miserable cold potato from the ne- gro to save them from starvation.
 northern paper informs us that at meet ing of the American anti-slavcry society at Philadelphia, minister from New Bedford said, that when proclamation was made to pray for those who were dying from cholera in the south, he prayed that day, but his prayer was Good God, Thou hast commenced Thy good work; go On and ertermi9ate tue slaue o,0ner!"
 Ii this sel-rghteOus scribe, who feels so proud that he is not as other men are," had just opened his Bible, before making that very kind and Christian prayer, and turned to the 23d chapter of St. Matthew, he might have come across very similar to this: Wo unto you, Scrlbes and Pharlsees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows houses, and for c pretence, mule tOng prayers; therefore, ye shall receive the greater damnaton." And again. "Wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tlthe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted tue 0eigltier matters of the hao udg- ment, mercy, and faith" * x "Ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which appear 6ea,.- tJM omt0ard, but are within full of dead mems bones, and all uncleanness.'' Ye serpents, ye generation cf elpers how shall ye escare the' -. But we will spare the feelings of the tende,-heartea parson, who, by this time, must recognize himself as the original of the portrait we have given of the blind Pharisee, who with pious horror strains at the bare idea of owning a slave, and at the same breath swallows Me burner whole at one gulp.
 Peter Parley's" " Pictorial History of the Unit ed States devotes an instructive chapter to the history of slavery in the country, and the
 
 efforts of those who first introduced it to pre- vent its further extension southward after they had pocketed the profits of their own enter prlslng eXertiOns-See page 22O.
 "The history of slavery in these States is at once curious and instructive. The royal ord. nances of Spain, according to Bancroft, author lzed ne gro slavery in America early as 1901. In 1oO3 there were such numbers of Africans in the island of Hispaniola, that Ovando, the Spanish governor. entreated the king that their importation might be no longer permitted
 "The first slaves brought to the United States were landed from a Dutch vessel at Jamestown, about the year 1919. They were twenty in number. In l645, ship belonging to John Keyser and James Smith, sailed for Guinea, to trade for negroes; but a cry was raised against them that they were malefactors - and murderers.
 ct is true that the articles of the early New England confederacy class persons among the spells of war The remnant of the Pequod h. dians in Connecticut, the captive Indians made by Waldron in New Hampshire a remnant of the tribe of Annawon, and even the orphan children of King Philip, were all enslaved In Virginia and Carolina for one hundred years, the Indian tribes were not secure against the kidnapper.
 "But, however ready the public mind was to connive at the slavery of the Indian tribes, the importation of African slaves to Massachu- sets early regarded as an offence against God and man, and the slave trade was at length forbidden under the penalty of death. In 1645, negro, who had been enslaved near Ports mouth, was demanded, by the general court of Massachusetts, that he might be sent back to Africa.
 "For many years, the Dutch were the prin- cipal means of bringing slaves to Virginia; but at length others became involved in the traffic, and they were introduced, in spite of the laws, into all the colonies. The assembly of Mary land even passed an act, for encouraging the importation of negroes and slaves
 'In 17O1, the 'Guienea company for trans porting slaves into the Spanish settlements af
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