Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-02-20

towards extending the culture of that |
staple into new regions of domain where |
now it is not prosecuted for want of slave !
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THE NEGROES IN AFRICA.
We are permitted (says the Boston
Post) to make the subjoined extract from
a letter written by an officer of the United
States navy 10 friend in this city. The
writer is a son of late distinguished |
Senator from one of the New England
States, The letter is written from on
board the United States ship st. Louis,
and dated October Is, 1856, at " Little
Fish Bay, west coast Of Africa:"
4 * X = * "There is very
little variety upon this coast. Mig.
gersp slaves 7 'niggers' is the cry.
This town is, like most other places upon
the coast, made up Of a few people, called
white, and a crowd, amass Of miserable,
filthy, worthless, indolent niggers) ma
tives. IL Charles Sumner, Jack Hale,
or any other sensible man, who wishes
or is willing to be permanently cured OF
his mock philanthropy aud sckly senti-
mentality in regard to the universal ne
gro race, hehas only to take six months
cruise upon the coast Of Africa. If that
will not cure him, and convince him that
his sympathy for the three and half
millions of the happiest negroes upon the
face Of the earth is misplaced, then !
have only to say he is past hope and past
cure. Yis "a D. hre1
sH" As | live, / do not believe there is
one negro in ono thousand upon the
coast of Africa, who is as we'll off, NOR
ally. physically, or socially, as the worst
abused slave in the United States. Sla-
very here is slavery indeed, and of the
most horrible kind. Cruelty practiced
here by black slave-owners is heart-rend-
ing to witness. Some chiefs (black own
thousands; they sell. torture or kill them
at pleasure. Ninety-nine of every hun
dred negroes, slaves or free, even in
towns, would gladly exchange their con
dltion with the meanest, most i'll treated
slave in the Union. 1t is impossible to
picture the miserable condition of the
native African upon his own soil Civ
llization, or even partial culture, with the
mass of natives 10 iiiiiidica so perfectly
absurd that it does not admit Of thought.
With the combined efforts of a million
competent, honest, Industrious, perse-
vering, philanthropists; with millions Of
money yearly expended to the best posi-
bic advantage for million of years,
would not develop. one hundred native
Africans who would be Of any accountto
the world at large. So much for mig
gers Having soon ournegrocs at home
in our Southern States, and having seen
them here, regard the institution as
it exists there asa benign, nay, heavenly
institution, and our southern brethren
deserve the thanks of the whole Christ
ian world, for having nmclioratcd, in
such striking contrast with their brethren
here, three and half millions Of nc
Oroos - 4 Il ~ Il
You may imagine that, although never
democrat, | pray for the election Of Mr.. |
Buchanan, and mainly because upon this
negro question the democratic party is
right" 1ffhi'i ta ali
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LoyE.--I have seen bubble blown |
into itscircular and indcscribable beauty
On It's brilliant surface were painted in
Irritable pictures Of ightand life. Grace
full clouds tloated in the bosom of its |
mimic sky, and tiny sun irradiated the
little world, and cast all the magic Of
light and shade over landscape of the |
most bcwitching splcpdor, A creation
bright as poet could imagine, glowed
before me, but wave Of the air broke |
the spell of its transitory and beautiful
existence, and it was gone. 1t was like
the dream Of love, lfthcre is onahappy
being in creation, it is tho lover in the
luxury of his visionary aspirations
there is single blissful moment like
star sparkling in the shadowy armament
Of life, il is that which discovered long
affection TO be mutual. The |
moon, as she rides on in the infnity Of
space, has not greater influence upon
the ocean-tide than tho passion of love |
upon the tide Of human thought-now
it to settle down in state Of
tranquility-and now bidding
it beave and swell by the magic Of its |
viewlesspowcr Withoutit what would be
the world? AS creation without light.
Yet possessing it as we do, how does il
tho sobcrest plans of reason
--how the loftiest bulwarLs Of stern phi
losopby bow down and disappear before
the fragrance Of its BREATH IL is the
poetry Of thought when reason SAUNDERS
on her stately throne, or wanders away
in happy dreams. It is scarcely TO be
feigned, for il appears in perpetual halo
Of Soft and witclIing light, which dazzlcs
while il fascinatcs the minds eye IL Is
10 spirit whit sunshine is 10 flowers, /
Turing the fragrance from its bosom, aud !
bringing out all the energies Of its young
nature, or as the hand Of beauty to the |
slufnbering lutte, passing over Che silent
chords till it doth discourse most elegant
music. ~ ni
ADVANCE IN TEA.-Private adyices
from China have caused great excitement
IN the tea market Seven tllousApd
chests Of tea were sold in New " ork. o.,
the I7th instant, at prices higher than
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