Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-19
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The following, from the Chazlesss Dsaecat, -eoo-
|. tains wholesome and punsent truth Our friend
Yates may be little TOO severe upon some persons
who manumit their slaves and send them to ! fee
State or to Liberia but thereican be no doubt that
all attempts 10 elevate the negro race leaving it to
ITSELF whether in this country Or linpAfaca hsve
thus far failed There are persons who sre honest.
y and religousy Of the opinion that they ought to
hberats their slaves and some them do 20 during
their lives, and some Of them by win. That this
opinion is An erroneous we entertain doubt,
and We are gratifed to observe that the cases in
which i Is entertained and put in practice sare
But, with our Charlotte contemporary, we have no
respect for that assumed philanthropy which exhib
its itself the bed of death. Admitting, for argu-
ments sake, that it is just to the community and to
the slaves themselves thus to manumit them, and
that the act proceeds from the owner as one of
kindness and mercy, it comes At too late period to
proptiate the favor Of Heaven, if indeed poor NOR
tai can presume to essay such thing; while as a
simple performance Of duty it has been too long de-
layed to merit the regard consideration of the
intelligent and right-minded portion Of society. The
true condition of the negro is that of slavery, of
dependence on the white race. Every step which
is taken to separate him from his natural guardian
and protector, the white man. is absolutely injurious
to him and to his descendants; in proof of this
We have only to point to the condition Of the
called free Africans in both the saveholdng and
s:avehoding States and in Liberia. 1t is noto-
rious, general thing, that the free negroes in
the slaveholding States more vicious and less
respected than the slaves and that they have fewer
friends and treated with less kindness than their
brethren in blood who have masters to care for and
protect them. We say this is so as general thing,
for there are free persons of color among us who
are respectable, and who deserve respect in their
places in life account of their sobriety integrity
and industry; but these are exceptions to the rule
In the free States and in Canada free negroes occu.
Ply the lowest position in society," and their boosted
freedom amounts to little more than a license to
control their own time, and to be dscountenanced,
neglected, and, especially during seasons of search
ty, to beg or sarve. In Liberia too the experiment
Of freedom to the African presents picture BY no
means inviting to the philanthropist encouraging
to those who founded and are aboring to build up
that colony The latest intelligence from that quar-
the inhabitants, and that they continued to be har-
assed by the surrounding barbarian natives of their
own race And we saw it stated some time since,
that these free Liberians had actually reduced .
number of their own race to bondage! Having
taken some of them in war, they could not liberate
them for fear that they would attack them again,
and so they retained them as servants Withdraw
the sustaining hand of the white man from Liberia
for ten years, and the first voyager to its shores
thereafter would find nearly the entire population
which survived, reduced to AFFECT want and given
to the barbarian customs of their African fore
fathers. There now in Africa not less than one
hundred millions of this race living in total ignor-
ance of civilization, engaged in bloody wars, and not
greatly superior in mental to the ourang-
outang which shares with them the ownership
of those vast and comparatively unexplored re-
gions. They are just what they were when they
descended from the loins of Ham, with the maledc-
ton of Heaven upon them, as servants forever of
the descendants of Shem and Japhcth. They have
invented nothing, they have learned nothing, they
have achieved nothing of q nature to elevate their
race in the scale Of humanity. Night broods over
| them perpetually. There is no hope for them as
civilized or as Christianzed beings, save through
Tue Wnte Wdn anu thSG uope uepaTtS whenever
the attention and care Of the superior race are with
drawn. Yet we hear no expression of sympathy
from the abolitionsts for these millions of barbara
| ans in Africa; all their sympathies are exhausted
upon three millions of the same race in the Southern
States who are enjoying the blessings of the Gospel
| and the benefits of high state Of civilization!
The article of our Charlotte contemporary is as fol-
| lows:
DENOMINATION FAnuRE.-The news from Ii
IBERIA, where large numbers of emancipated negroes
have been sent from this country, is of discourage
ing kind to those who engaged in establishing
colony there. The negroes, after they land in Ii
IBERIA, are not capable of making living by their
| own management or they are too lazy to work-the
latter cause predominates in most cases. The fact
is but few of the coored population of this country
possess energy, industry and capacity sufficient to
take care Of themselves after being set at liberty.
| Those persons who have been giving their money
for building up a colony in Liberia, will soon find
that their aims have done good 1t will not be
long before the whole colony of negroes will degen-
crate into barbarsm, idleness and misery of the
| worst kind -.e 7'--- .--.'. - - 80
We frequently hear Of some one dying and leav.
| ing 80 or 100 negroes to be sent to Liberia. We
have no doubt their owners, in most instances while
living, worked them nearly to death. half starved
| penurous and iteral in his intercourse with his
fellow man, until he amassed fortune then, in Or
der to have something placed to bis credit in that
book that will be opened at the last day. he eman.
cpates his poor, decrepit slaves, ard directs that
they shall be forwarded to Liberia. The last act Of
that person is the browning sin of his life and if
the devil shakes him for any one misdeed morefb
another, it will be for sending his negroes off to
| starve and die in free State or free country.
| To chaot and opnress the moor while living then