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speech full of practical instruction. and meat ri.

speech full Of practical instruction. and most ri
umphant answer to all abolition projects;
You the men Of this State reprobate involuntary scr.
vitude and DESTROYS that II shall To exist any.
where In the world and especially In the United States
Be IL So Let US take up that sentiment, accept IL
scnay respect it as oneand reason IL along TO con
clusion, g0nt
You desire the abolition Of seryitudc, especially in the
southern States But can you reach it there Have you
legal to IL or the end Of its abolition by w
No il is beyond your power; you cannot legislate In
this respect for Carolina Mississippi any than
you for Russia Turkey VIII yon ON account Of IT,
dissolve the Union No, You have not thought Of H.
You are not members of what has been appropriately
called the Fools Coaes,doa sitting somewhere in
Ohio for the purpose OF arranging the dissolution of tho
Union VIII you break out Historically into revolution,
and undertake to invade the South In arms and thus to
set free its slave iuhabitant No. you have no such Inn
practicable and Dsurd thought Will you abandon your
selves bad temper ungoycrhabc wrath evings
and ytupcraton against all your ellowcitxens Of the
SOUTH and majority Of your immediate ieow-ci1ehs
at the NORTH No, that would you know, be coune
fruitful of no good but of much evil, and not
sonant With your OF right and wrong or your self
respect.
But would at least you say separate ourselves from
the unclcan thing. Aye but you, or, II You can.
will you You act upon il in way, not to any
great result perhaps, but to result In The way our
fathers preludcd the Of independence Are you disin
terested enough 10 make thorough trial OF that expert
ment 1t b TO buy from slave labor 10 sell to
it, TO sustain by nourishing it, and by nousng
yourselves will, it 10 cease to build and sail ships for
the transportation OF its products to cease to live by the
manufacture of its products to to its cotton
to eat its corn its fruits aud its sugar to smoke its to-
bacco, to drink its coffee When you have self
denial enough TO do that, then, and not until then II
to me, you will be entitled 10 claim superiority OF
conscentiousness them, who do no more to keep
slave labor in than you do and who associated In life
with 1T nsearably, sustain ii of necessity, and not like
you in the voluntary qualification OF TASTE caprice con
venience, appetite. ssa,e sl5as a
AnIf fynrxv nil In ntta al
disinteresedncss and denial what signal effect would
it producea You have the progress OF events IN France
and England to bear witness. 1t WAS in France that the
negrophat agitation had its beginning its first result
there was the devastation Of the rich colony of St Do
ingo and the reduction of that to its present state Of
tyrannc barbarism and comparative desolnton. Then
England took up the policy OF emancipation to the rs
result there of the decay and decline OF her colonies in
the West Indies and the augmented prosperity, In the
same degree of the Spanish colonies and Of Brazil There
after slave labor did not to flourish, and to do so
with aid of France and England by reason OF then
commercial relations with the sayeholdng countries Of
America
The next series Of acts in the view Of working out this
great problem elaborate attempt, on the part OF
England especially to substitute, in and
the products OF free labor in the place of those Of slave
labor In the earnest effort to effect this result the gov
ernment of England seemed for WHILE transferred from
the common sense statesmen OF st. Stephen TO the ys
ionary schemers of Exeter Hall. And now that we'll
meant undertaking has failed utterly that what with
the demand Of Europe for cotton, more sugar more
coffee, than existing slave labor in America can produce
France and England have betakcn themselves to cody
labor rs it is called the transportation OF Asatics TO
America to labor in cruel seryitude than ever
imposed on Africans. Nay, such u tire revolution
this subject that seriously discuss in Great Brit
ain the expedcncy OF going backward thousand years IN
the work of civilization and converting the rebels and
prisoners of of the Fast Indies into slaves to aber IN
the West Indies.
Meanwhile great cargces Of Asatics conveyed fm
the East to the West to be employed in colonial lehr
pfla nj mis-
the old middle passage from Africa afford no parallel;
and this by the two great commercial nations Of modern
times, according to whose law slavetadc il piracy
Great Britain and the United States. Have not ell read
of one of these great ships with her shpoad Of unhappy
coolies destroyed y them in mid ocean, they might
thus escape by death from the suings Of the voyage
and the tcrros of their future condition! Horid! Hoi
rid hIcseems, that the loud death-shriek Of that mass
of our fellow in the agony oftheir despair self
with fixed eyes and upliftcd hands, they
sink from sight into the boiling waters Of the deep
rings sharply in the STILL like the long wall Of
tumn wind through the trees of the forest, like the
muttudinous cry of beeaguered city in the hour OF
assault and sack like that of the sinful men Of old ssthe
rising denge swept over them on their last mountantop
of refuge from the Divine wrath And If the echo Of
that death-cr Heaven for vengeance the cupid
ty of age, does it not also give uteiance to low
voice. at least, OF remonstrance against the nisdrected
philanthropy of the agc OF all the jealous cfsrts OF so
many good to prescribe slavery and the slave trade
it the contamination that Las Casas undertook 10
relieve the aboriginal Americans by the transportation Of
Africans to America the Africans in America shall
he relieved by shifting the accumulated burden OF slave
labor from them to the Asiatics!
My friends it is easy task you perceive, to reform
the world to abolish ignorance poverty, vice and crime
Let him who is confident Of his virtue look up
ring brother within reacl and try the individual expert
mont. He will find it an arluous How much more
aruous then the task Of changing the social condition
and the habits Of nations and of whole Of mankind
What, then, you may saysball we sit down in hope
les apathy without striving TO do good No let us
tinuc to stye to do good, but with humble distrust
III our own wisdom tcmpcrltelyr charitabiy in the
spirit OF goodwill towards all men, and Of iiiril to
nome with presumptuous nfidcEoe IN our own
strength waiting hopefully but patiently the good
providence oi tiOd. ssgNt
THE CALIFORNIA STEAMER. "
Hon. Horatio Ming, the First Assistant Postmaster
General has received a teegruphic despatch from