The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-10-22

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xaseslsxawv the Afrscans.
The pieas aad phiianiAfople efforts Of the French
eovernmsns tor the eoaytss.eq Of the Ahio.s bal.
barians are being crowned eth eonsiderabis SEC.
cess. Msssrs. Regis. OF Masssilses. smiasnt sae
desost freaeh isymeu, inhsmed with love Of
eoiors4 soais, some time ago contracted With ths
evsngsiisai Napoleon III, TO pluck ten thousand
heather lao Lsands from the burning, and u
hsiag sL.sa wi,nis the saving innueaess Of the
gospel Accordingly, missionary ship, thu stella'
was dispatched souse months ago to the coast Of
Africa, sld the work OF converting The Leathsn
vas eoina.slced IN The most Jealous maansr, ths
energetic missionaries Inviting them, without die
tinction af age or SEX TO enter the foil, and, IN
f.es con- sliiag tLea, Ia coms 10. The result was
that largo number Of Pilgrims turned their back,
npon their native City Of destruction, aai went
forward asder the guidance Of the betty Regis q
the heavenly city in Guadaloup.. Upon the way
many OF them perishod from pestsnce, ass ravated
by the crowds whom the eloquenos Of the Freseh
missionaries had induced to forsaks their Original
bsrbsfis1p bat It IL pleasing TO reflect that they
were brought within the pale of salvation before
departing this lifs which could not have happened
but for the ef,rts of the French govern
ment. The "Stoila" has just made another voyage
and has again arrived at Gusdsloupe with sever
hundred ransoned heather, in excellent health
and eight hundred more have come by another
ship, whose arrival 10 welcomed with great jubi'
lation by the Guadaloupe papers. none OF whon
pious souis. dilate upon the Circumstance that III.
Island will now make six thousand more hogs-
heads Of sugar. increasing the revenue OF the colo
nv by two millions Of francs, but, on the contrsr.,
dwell only upon the spiritual aspect of The case.
exprss sing with holy enthusiasm their rapturous
JOY that fifteen hundred savsges, ~ho would other
wise have been damned, now in q sar way OF
salvation.
Whilst France 10 thus hopefully converting the
heather, the efforts of philanthropical Engiishmen
10 similar direction DO not seen to meet with
brilliant success. Jamaica 10 stretching out her
hands ia the most imploring style, 10 every direc
ton where there is q black or yellow soul to bt
saved, but meets only with chilling indifference,
or q contempsuous refusal. Hindoos, Chinese, ano
Africans, alike turn a deaf ear to Jamaica, and
they cannot procure even the amiab'e sepoys, the
convicted felons of England. or the free negroes
America to come to their ark Of refuge and b.
saved from destruction. Undismayed by these
repeated disappointmeDts, jamaica has besough'
the British Government to instruct the officers OF
its African squadron to land on the eoastof Africa,
storm the barracoons liberate the captive heather,
and bring them for the benefit of their souls to
the Jamaica plantations, where they can be con-
verted ut other expense than their daily labor
for the pious planters, and have their bodies fed
aud clothed as we'll ~ their souls Nay, the ia
maica svapgsIists have eatrcated that II the Gov.
ernmsnt will do nothing, they themselves be
permitted to send agents to the African coast.
with money in hand, and outbid the Cuba and
French missionaries. who at present are mohopo-
liking the conversion of the heathen, ard greatly
disturbing Dr.. Livingstone's sordid arrangement
fer the worldly civilization Of the savages. and
the cultivation of unsanotifed cotton.
Seriously, whilst the African Slave Trade has it's
appalling horrors, It lacks one element Of Satan
ism to cap the climax CT infamy, and that Is the
disgusting bypocrisy which chaTacterizes the vo-
luntsry immigration schemes Of the British and
French colonies. Would they say-We need labor;
We will have It, these lazy savages must be made
to sarn their bread by the sweat of their brow,
and We will compel them to do it-nsnkind would
give them credit for frank ness and audacity Blu,
10 dsuouncs the benevolent and elevating institu
tion of slavery In America, as the most horrid
hibition the world has ever seen Of injustice and
cruelty, and then to plumber Africa of its mi.era.
Bile Inhabitants, under the pretenee Of voluntary
immigration aud heather evaugelizstion. Such
disgusting and blssphemous bypoerisy is enough
to excite the scorn aud detestation Of all enIghs-
ened Christendsm, especially, coming ~ it does
from two nations, whose government of slaves, be-
fore they nomInally abolished that institution
was 80 remorseless in Its tyranny, that Jan aica
and st. Domingo, and every other slave cole ny
they possessed, presented an almost unbrohen
succession of servis instructions, volcanic erup-
tions aud explosions of oppressed aud abused hu-
mainly, which shook and overthrow social and
political frameworks, that might have stood to
this day, If the masters and proprietcrs had pos,
sessed the smallest spark of that Christianity
which they are now SOLICITORS to impart to the
heather.