New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-22
Truth Working Its Way.


The following extract from article in the London
Times, referring to emancipation and its consequent
ces, indicates very clearly that the truth is gradually
working a passage through the stubborn crust of
English prejudices:
The worthy men who extinguished slavery and
ruined our West India possessions are very touchy,
very obstinate very nconverbe on that tender point
1t is not business to deny them much justice and
truth on their side, or to stand up for the planters
who took line which repealed all reasonable advo-
cacv. But, confessedly taking that grand summary
view of the question which we cannot help taking
after quarter of century, the process was failure
it destroyed an immense property, ruined thousands
of good families, degraded the negroes still to,rer
than they ,cere, and, after all, increased the mass OF
slavery in less scrupulous hands, After many at
tempts at indirect Encouragement we have been
obliged at last to recognize aud admit persistent slave
owners to an equal rank in our commerce. Every
body who comes fresh into the question, uncompro
missed and unbiased admits the failure, and asks why
we did not attempt gradual Or spontaneous emancipa
tion if it was, indeed, utterly impossible to improve
the practice of slavery into something more like that
we read of in sacred well as classical antiquity.
The more these questions are asked, and the more
these douDts abound the more positive are the men
OF the past that they did right in their days, and that
they cannot be improved upon in our days
We are not yet disposed to give our respected
friend, Mr.. John Bull, much credit for philanthropy
in this negro business We don't believe he cares a
brass button about slavery anti-slavery, except
when his pockets are concerned. He thought, about
thirty years ago, that philanthropy would endow him
with good name throughout hristendom--would
draw the attention of the world off from his plumber
ing and enslavng acts in midland, accordingly,
set all the negroes his West India Islands Free 1t
is evident he has found the speculation runous one
or else his chief spokesman, the London Times would
not have yentured upon the foregoing grave admis
| sions
John Bulls shoes pinching his toes and aggra
waiting his He wants cotton and emancipation
has ruined his West Indian possessions, besides max
ing him complete dependent upon Southern slavery
for supply Of that indispensable article. That sup
ply is falling so far short of his demand that prices
have risen to so high figure as to threaten with
terrible depletion his plethoric purse He objects to
and groans against, such depletion. John is extremely
sensitive about the region of the pocket. Touch his
pocket and his false philanthropy vanishes into thir
air-he at once becomes very reasonable being.
/ We will just give Mr.. Bull a little sensible advice
| There is only one way in which he render hi
| West India possessions valuable, and make hmsel
comparatively Independent in the cotton line. H
should and must repudiate the system that has d.
graded the negroes still io,cer than they tcere" an
which has brought blight upon the aires isles tina
| gem the ocean, and he must elevate them again to
condition of servitude, under which condition alon
have they improved in the scale of humanity, bee
useful to themselves or to mankind. All other plan
and schemes will fail, no matter if every male an
female philapthropist in the United Kingdom takes
hand in framing them