Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-08-08
England and Slavery.

for more than halfa century in denounciug
slavery ana the slave trade. In vain did
the apologists of slavery suggest in its de-
fence the impraeticability of emancipation
after slavery had been Imposed upon tic
Unit6aStates and other countries, by the
sac3a tap,cs aari.of others. In vain they
appealed to the Bible for its Justification
in vain they referred to the condition. OF
savage barbarsm from which the negro on
the coast Of Africa had been redeemed and
the Improvement in his physical mental and
moral condition resulting from his enslave
ment-in vain they pleaded his physicalin-
capacity even in his most highly cultivated
condition, for self government and self-pro-
lection, as exhibited by his history in every
possible phase Of existence to which he could
DO subjected = lis idlencss, hiss Nloughtless-
ness oftto-molrow. IN vain they pointed TO
the protection Which the condition Of slave-
ry afforded rim against tic kecncr wits OF
other races and against his own evil pro-
pensities, to his superior happiness, when
: compared with any otiicr iaboring class on
carth-to the community of interest between
him and his master as contrastcd with the
discriminating war constantly wagcd between
the free laborer and tic capitalist, in which
the laborcr being the weaker party is always
crushed : 70 the neaec and plenty of the
slave in infancy, sickness and alaage, when
the free laborer is dismissed by lis employer
to.starva and,die. These arguments availed
nothing. The Bible itself was. denounced
because it could not be made to ce:Se tic
stakeholder, But now, in the midst Of these
denunciations, Europe has found there is a
deficiency in cotton, sugar, coffee, and 9TH
er slave productions. Her avaricc tips her
philanthropy the wink, and at once philan-
thropy, her eyes still streaming with sorrow
for the slayc-=hcr hrows still knit with
frowns and her mouth red with denunoiation
for the lave-driNcr, suggests to avarice an
ntallible cure for her wants and the suffer
ings Of humanity in the Coolie trade and
the african apprentice system. Had the
regions Of eternal torment been raked for an
abomination more dreadful than any which
had before visited tile earth, this last nVen-
ton Of hypocritieal abolition would have
turned up. A system utterly divesaadi Of
the least ray of mcrey-a system Of rapina
from which every fraction Of protection or
improvements is blottcd; out. The poor
wretehes are to be caught on their barbarous
shores with sole view to this ten years
labor-sold to greedy masters who take
them at the lowest price to make the highest
prolific work them to death if they can
if they survive, to turn them out unimprov-
ed sayagcs, to infest society or TO be whip
ped into laboring for nothing the rest of
their lives.
Whatever may be tie sneeulatioasof phi
losophcrs and the dreams of philanthropists
the MON Of sense must admit, that mankind
are fallible creatures-that each and all of
the race are endowed with an eye to self
interest, and that
"Whcn self the wavcring balance shakes,
IT'S rarely fiaht adjusted"
Now, what will be the interest Of the white
man as to his .iffican apprentice? As has
been stated above, that interest will Obvious
ly be to get ali the work out of him he cam
and even TO work him to death. Far differ
ent with the stakeholder The negro is
lis property AID he would add folly and
brutish stupidity to cruelty, who would in
juse so IS to reduce the price of that prop
erty. Why the slavc-hdtler should be kind
to the negro child is self cyidcnt--thcre is
property which increases in price at rapid
maize, and foy aa, casB life IN old are the ne
gro appeals to the iaiercst, the gratitude,
and The humanity Of his master. To NAL
tr cat the oil slave would discourage the
young one. lie would no longer look for
ward to case and comfort ia his latter days,
and every excuse would be presented him
for sullenness, idleness and desertion On
the contrary, the apprentice is from the first
told, that he must himseJ provide for his
age This is an indueemcntto work, and what
may not be the advantages which that in
duccmcnt lends to the capitalist for grind
ing him the more Zen years are the term
Of this apprenticeship, What cares the mas
ter what the manis after thecxpiraton of that
term. Who cares whether he dies OF not
unless, indeed, he can be reduced to labor
for nothing all the rest of his life, and to this
end his helpless condition most probably
will bring him,
In this connection, we may state as mat
ter OF interest, that a prospectus has been
published in the New York Day Book, by
Mr. Il. Adcano Barlow, for the purpose of
establishing a pro-slavery paper in Man
chester, England. NIr j. is an English
man, as certainly no American would ven
ture upon such hazardous undertaking -
We make the following extract from the
prospectus:
Ii is intended to discuss the nature of the
negro, and to Investigate the laws of his
wise and humane government without pela-