The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-11-10

But such labor they had repudiated eve.
| r"here. Nc, not everym ere. Not in
France nor in Great britain, where they
still hold sacred splendid thrones and pal.
my ar'stoeFaces amid starving laborers
only for outside ba,bariaus they ordained
! freedom and equality but failing in al
!helr schemes, and finding that, with all
their costly expenditures and high sound
'ng manlIcs,os, they hal simply ruined
their own colonies, and made themselves
The rassaIs OF the Shareholders, what have
they done! Why, renewed the slave
trade. Not in name. Oh. no. Exeter
Hall and the Parliament Houses sill
thunder execrs,ons against that; while
the co'onisi, under governmental pro,ec.
ton, and with English money, wrung by
taxation from her wages slaves, ,".are i'm.
! porting 10y hundreds % thousands CHI.
nes and,limdoo coolies, under conditions
compared with which, Al gcrine slavery Of
the last century Was merciiu! They do
not hold them MS we do our slaves. for
! better Tor worse, iii sickness and health.
III chilhood and old aye No; in their
7 prime of life they seduce them from their
homes, transport them To- distant and un-
wholesome cIimes; for the merest pittance
oi wages, consume their bost years in the
ScvereSt labors, and then turn them out
to die-tke direst slavery that brutal man
has ever instituted. France, less sensitive
having no Exeter llail-embr.. cinc the
same scheme, resorts TO Africa, and open
~ makes purchases, for SO they may be
! called lrom slave catchers nay, she bu,s
from the President of Liberia, tie far
famed settlement Of our own CuIoniza.
ton Society: buys 'he colonist-, our own
emancipa,ed slaves, who, sick of freedom,
prefer any formof slavery, and in their
desperation do not hesitate to make their
p'ous patrons in this country the laugh
ing stock OF the whole world.
Thus these two natioLs-France and
! England, whose adoption Of this aboli
ton crochet alone made it respectable
and lntinenilaI-have thoroughly reaoun
ced 1t, practically, and aliHos, in theory -
! The press OF England, perhaps tie great
est power OF the world. suslains these
movements while in France the news.
papers are openly discussing the ques
| tion Of importing negro slaves, by name,
into Algeria. think it may Le fnirlv
said that i'll Europe abolition has run its
course. Brougham, Palmerston, Russell,
and all the old political agitators, are
hanging their ha'ps upon the willows
Even the son OF Wiibeforce, the fanatic
approve OF coo!ie slavery, which we abhor.
But +ecenty the British Government
penly surrendered It's claim To the right
o' search-a claim Set up mainly TO put
down the African slave trade, aud with.
out which all attempts 10 do it will prob
! ably be idle. And there Is nothing to
surprise US IN all this, il we are correct in
our views of African slavery. Ifit is sus.
tanned by the religion OF the Bible: if
neither humanity nor sound philosophy
opposed il il, AS we are convinced, il is
Il social, political and economical beneti,
to the world, then ii was inevitable that,
sooner or later, the abolition crusade mus,
die out-and why not now?
! IL there is truth in what have stated To
yon-if the abolition fever has nearly or
quite exhausted itself in Europe-ii time
and facts have proved there that it is an ab.
surdIty-it seems to me we should not
! doubt that its career is about TO close here.
Such is nv opinion, however differently
those may think who Judge only by appear
ances, or take their cues from n2itating po-
liticians. | ask any one TO tell me upon
what measure or upon what man the aboii-
tonists of this country can ever again mus.
ter their legions as they did 10 1856 -
Kansas is squeezed dry. 1t slinks in the
nostriIs ef all people. They can do no
more there. Will they try "cry" against
the Supreme Court for the Drvd Scott de-
cison! What Is there in that TO inlame
popular sentiment II is always uphill
business 10 agitate against the Supreme
Court of the United States, which the north.
crn people have been taught to revere as
the buwnrk Of their liberties. Will they
demand the abolition of slavery in the Dis.
trict of Columbia? They have never been
able TO do much xith that. though they
have tried. That issue is n little too prac.
tical and too dangerous. Not many are
bold enough TO embark in it. They might
as well make the question of disunion ma
kediy. Will they take up the abstract, and
p'obably, never again TO be other than ab.
stract proposition "f no moro slayc States!
They have done it. They have already
split upon it The northwest will not take
it, and the free States, at bottom, all want
CubH. They love moIasses, and banker af
ter free trade with ,thatrich island. Where
then, are they 10 go, ! cannot see. They
do net appear TO see themselves. Will any
one state the practical question, If We offer
them none,--and we have none to offer
on which they are next to rally for the con.
quest of the Sonth =! The measure or the
mar Jt does seem TO me that this great
fire is dying out for want Of fuel. That
tins crusade, rs :nahy ersssades have done,
has exhausted itself, and that there Is no
argument or leader that can keep il alive -
Their Peter ilermits, their GodiIeys, their
Buldwins. their lion hearted Richards, " here
are they! IL seems that they will scarcely
even on their Louis TX, who shall lead
their last pions campaign and suffer mar.
iyrdom.
And let me say that IL the abolitionists
cannot unite The free States as a purely
ami slavery party in the presidential cleo.
ton of 1860, and fail again in 1864, we
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