Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-06
from the New York Day Book.
SOUTH CAROLINA TO GARRISON, BEECH

SOUTH CAROLINA TO GARRISON, BEECH
Err & GO.
by you believe that the great God and Father Of
US all is wiser to-day than He was SIX thousand
years ago?
Do you believe that God did not pronounce the
great judgment upon Ham and his descendants
that servant of servants shall thy seed be forever
on earth?"
Do you not believe that God recognized and esta-
blished among His chosen people the institution Of
slavery, and no where, from Genesis to Revelations
condemns it as sinful?
Do yon not believe that there have been slaves
and slave holders in all ages of the world?
Do you not believe that since Gods curse upon
negroes that they have ever been low, dirty say
age, british set Of mortals and fit only to oe inc
Do YOU not know that Rome ]ourished as great
nation only so long slavery existed IN tue e"'-
pire?
Do you not know that the first slaves brought TO
this country from Africa were kidnapped ana soio
by the English?
Do YOU not know that New England had large
share in its traffic and its profits :!
Do YOU not know that Congress, about the
wear 1900, desired it's suppression, but was opposed
bv the northern vote because of the vast interest
she had in the matter, and in consequence ana TO
favor that interest the law did not take effect before
the year 1908?
Do YOU not know that New England at that time
had sixty-six vessels engaged in the traffic?
Do you not know that the oldest inhabitants in
South Carolina never saw a man whose father or
grandfather engaged either directly or lndlrec'
tly in the capture of African slaves?
Do you not know that such descendants are to be
found in every town in New England?
Do you not know that slavery is one of the esta-
blished institutions of the country?
Do you not know that in violation OF good faith
and the laws of the government the sons OF those
identical kidnappers again engaged in stealing
the property sold us by their fathers?
Do you not know that when liberated, they are
ten-foid more miserable than when in bondage?
Do you not know and feel that you care no more
for them, but like beasts you let them live and like
beasts they die?
Do you not know that the 10000 now trying to
have an existence in Canada are the most miserable
and degraded beings on this continent?
Do you not know that the law in every southern
State Furnishes any white man with death who muir
ders slave?
Do you not believe from the rapid increase. of ne
groes at the South, that virtue is not despsed
among them?
Do you not know that there are at this time 3d.
900 white prostitutes in the city of New York?
Do you not believe there is sufficient work for
philanthropy among the outcasts of New York city
and those niggers of Canada, without going mad
about "coored persons SO far from home?
Do you not believe the world could better spare
any other set of people and territory of land in the
wide, wide world than the slaves and territory OF the
South?
Do you not believe that slavery and cotton and
their concomitants, are the main springs to COM
merce, navigation, the arts and everything that
makes US feared and respected?
Do you not believe that the 100000 of slaves
at the South more happy, better civilized, better
fed and better clad than any 100000 of their race
| inhabting the earth
Do you not believe that there more protesting
Christianity among those 100000 than the whole
united race in Africa combined?
Do you not know that slavery has been abolished
in the British and French West Indies, and that the
races so liberated now with all the blessing of
liberty. ten fold worse off than when in survitude
Do you not believe that the too indulgent parent
is responsible, in great degree, for the degraded
conduct of the son?
Do you not believe that France and Great Britain
have long since discovered their mistake and would
be glad to see us likewise play the fool?
Do you not believe and know that yon are so ri
diculously simple as to desire the same thing?
Do you not know that you are, in consequence,
fast degenerating into fanaticism and folly?
In conclusion, you don't dare to deny single in
dividua one of the foregoing propositions, and as
you cannot, you obliged, like myself to conclude
that Abolitionsts the most contemplate set of
knaves and fools claiming citizenship any where in
genteel society. am, &C., &C.,