The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-08-13
EUROPEAN REVIVAL OF riiE SLAVE TRADE

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In 1891 i,nf,crn long struggle the british patlia
men. enacted TINT negro slavery should censc In
the lIriisl, do,nions, ui'l appropriated tho sum
"T SlOO,OOO, 600 To be expended n "cetlpei,sn.
ton" ntnong the prUprictors of estates IN tho
West In'lirs. Subsequently, tho French Goyorn.
m"nt abolished snvery, but without dcc,ping il
necessary I" draw on The public treasury 10 re-
imbnIsc tho plnniers. The result is mnttcr or
public notoiicty. The African race, freed from
. the necessity of labor. yielded TO their natural
lrcdspo>ition Of nuc,ion, were content tosAidle
i'll II state of mpl.." aziu"Ss and, for the most
part, used us much industry ny would procure
for them the more necessities of nature. If they
did work IL was only by fits and sturts and their
Ideas of compensation were so cxtrnvasunt, that
after repeated trials, most Of the West India
proprictors found themselves unable to meet the
expense. Nearly n quarter Of q century Inns
elapsed since the experiment was commenced
For II long time past. the majority of sugar and
| coffee plantations in the British colonies have
scarcely been cultivated Mt ALL The idea was
| cnicr ainc,l (hut soon nbontuncd as impracticI-
| bc) OF employing European labor, hut the cost
was tcrriic-for it included the sacrifice of hu.
man life. In warm tropical climates il is utterly
impossible that white labor be employed.
The African race, md that race only, are
| capable Of working under the heat Of those re-
| gions. The white man speedily sinks under it.
Therefore, it is limited 10 one race only.
When William Gladstone was Colonial See
! rotary of England, he sanctioned the introduc-
ton of Co"ics into the West Indies, thinking
! that the free labor of born in and adapted
for hot climates, would he advantageous In point
of fact, this WAS slavery under new name and
| ph;slS. We hav some curiosity tu know the pro-
portion, per cent Of the Cuolc free -laborcrs who
returned TO their native place. Most of them,
| we suspect. were I" used up" before tho term of
| their free scrvitudc WAS ended.
| Considerable sensation arose in ENGLAND tlu-
ring the past month"; in consequence of the an
hounccncnt THAT i'll Martinique, an many as 100
"irrc' negroes had been imported from Africa,
to serve as apprentices, for Ten years, witt, lib
cr'I to return home when the decade had cX-
! Pirrd--hy that time in all probability the &c free
apprentices Will have cHpiredalso, for the actual
necessity, as Il matter o: prcuniary interest, Ito
say nothing of common humanly,) which com
l,"ls Southern planter to avoid ovcrworxing the
slaves, his property, will not exist here. The
principle will, most probably, be TO get the full
| value OF thor wages ont of Them As to negroes
! l:'om Africa going anywhere, at their own free
WI ami pleasure, the idea is imply absurd Such
| lhIngS us free negroes d" not exist in Africa
lhey are tie goods and cllattc!s of petty native
! chiefs, WHO, 1T so r.l:clI :, head, paid down in
cash, c"wrcs. or goo,ls- .uld dispose of their
| own wives and children, as free apprentices" :"
in,rrr"gatcd, in Parliament ON ;his question
Lord lalincrstun admitted that he had " received
information sometime ago that the French had
an m "iier from firm at Martinique, 10 supply
! th"m with Zoo free negroes. They could not
ultimately become slaves, but they must undergo
an apprenticeship, that they might not dcecner-
! ale mi" the slave trade us far as capital was con
crrncd. lie had communicated with tho French
| government and had received an assurance that
! the contract should not 90 to the renewal of the
Save trade, and the every means should he taken
! to secure the humane treatment of the labor
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Lord Granville, and other members OF tho CaLi
net did not take the matter quite cooly as the
Premier did. They protested that if this xhonh{
tend, To revival of the Slave Trade, they would
hc III arms agains: II. Brave words but al
most at the time That they were being uttered
the self same thing WAS doing done, in the Is
iand "l Trinidad, ono "f the British colonies a
large cargo Of African free larborers' had hccn
landed ihcic-ccrany without any opposition
from the loca! Eyr:ulivc-and there was n gem
"rhl 1er!'nS "f satisfaction, all over the Island, at
| the prospect of its coffee and sugar plantations
beng again Brought into profitable cultivation.
Thus the matter stands. The wedge is intro
duced. The :. free lahorcrs,' worked within an
inch of their lives will probably have cause to
envy the condition Of their race in our Southern
Statcs-/HH"hItA;" Press.
Lo";~ N"J.oh'"" q" IT, T"iicI .S;a,cs-Inn
work once written hy Louis Napoleon, before his
accession 10 power, he said. in ii chapter, "On
| Governments in Generul:"
/ 81 speak IT. with regret, I can see but two
governments al this day which fulfil the mission
That frovidcncc has conlidcd to them they are
| the two coloss ut the end Of the world one ut
the extremity OF the old world. the other ut the
extremity OF the new. Whilst our old European
| centre Is us volcano, consuming itself in its
crater, the two nations of the East and the west
march, without hesitation, towards perfection :;
the one under the will OF !: sngl" individual, the
other under liberty.
"Providence has confined TO the United St5ics
OF North America the task Of pcopng and civil
izing that immense territory which stretches
from the Atlantic to the South Sea, and from the
Nort: Pole to the Equator. The Government,
winch Is only simple administration, has only
hitherto been called upon to put in practice the
old adagc, haisxcr tairc, laissc. passcr in order
to form that irresistible instinct which pushes
the people of America to the W cst.'
The only other government in the world which
TO the writer's opinion fulfilled its mission, was
isuSsia, to the imperial dynasty of which, he
said, was owing all tho vast progress which, IN
a century and hall, has rescued that empire
from barbarism Such were the opinions which
Louis Napoleon held Of the United States and
Russia before lie attained his present position-
1t would be an instructive lesson to have another
chapter " oil Goycrnments in General and the
United States and Russia in particular, from the
Emperor Of FTance-Richmond Dispatch.
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Northern and Southern IrarrL-Thc Northern
papers are plainlively dep:oring the absence of
visitors from those usual places of fashionable
resort. NeWPort, saratoga, &c. i lie tlue OF tray
cl has besn largely diverted this season from
those places by tho Southern people to the Vir-
ginia and other Southern springs This diversion
of the current will increase-the migratory fash
ionab!es will cease to spond their money and
time i'll those sections Of the Union in which they
cannot travel unless insultcd in railroad cars, aL
hotels and other p!aces by the presence and i'm
perincnccs of different race, for whom social
equal is claimed. Even when this more offensive
form of intrusion does not occur, remarks are
INDUCED in reference to slavery, that render con-
tact anything but pleasant. The Southern peo-
pie are beginning to appreciate, morally and po-
cuniarily, those reunions which bring them into
proper social sympathy. They nre ceasing 10
build up Northern towns and villages by liberal
expenditure. Agitation has made association
distusteful. II the people Of the North will admit
TO their coterics, their college halls their lecture
rooms, their watering places. those who nurse
sectional luminosity and pander to abolition tastes
! they must expect that Southern people will not