Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-07-15

make cotton. The best cotton labor
in the world is there, and it can be
had better in the free than in the slave
state. Happily for the philosophy as
well ss the happiness Of mankind, on
the very spot where the question could
be fairly tried. the free-labor has been
found more profitable than the slave.
The question is settled. The remarks
of DIR. Livingstone on this subject are
SO interesting that we quote a para
graph for our readers, most of whom
have not seen the large and authentic
work of Livingstone.
Speaking of Sugar and Slavery at
Loando, he says: while here we Wis
tied large Sugar manufactory be-
longing to lady, Donna Anna da
Sousa. The fat alluvial lands on the
banks of the Seusa, or Bengo, are well
adapted for raising sugar-cane. and
this lady had a surprising number of
slaves, but somehow the establishment
was far from being in a hourishing
condition. 1t presented such a con-
trast 10 the free-labor establishments
of the Mountains, which have since
seen, where, with not one-tcnth of the
number of hands, or such good soil, a
man of color had, in one year, cleared
so, 900 by single crop-that quote
the fact, in hopes it may meet the eye
of Donna Anna The fact is, that
Providence is opening up SO many
ways to wealth in Africa, and that
too by free labor, that there is no
longer need Of urging men to go there.
any more than to California or Aus
tralia. Ii is only necessary to make
known and establish the facts we have
stated, that the tide OF commerce may
flow in. 1t is commerce and practical
arts only that Africa needs just now,
to accompany the missionary and the
Bible to the rc-conquest and regenera-
ton of that long dark and devoted
country.
The practical arts of spinning and
weaving cotton seem to exist in Afri-
ca precisely where they were left by
the Egyptians three thousand years
ago. DIR. Livingstone says the mode
of spinning and weaving in Angola,
and, indeed, in South Central Africa.
is SO very like that of the ancient
Egyptians, that wood cnt from Will
kinson's Egypt, is the best representa-
ton he can give of it. The fact is
suggestive of the great problem Of
Egyptian civilization. Was the inte
rior of Africa then possessed of the
arts of Egypt? or did the Egyptians-
like the Anglo Americans, put forth
colonies, and cngraft themselves on
other countries? Or did these distinct
tribes derive the rudiments of civiliza-
ton unknown 10 each other from the
same common origin? or, finally, did
the Portuguese. who are slow to adopt
modern improvements, bring the early
arts here? Such facts, like those Of
the monuments of America, suggest
problems which history does not solve.
and philosophy seeks in vain to unrav-
ell. In place of this, we have the great
and inestimablc fact that new world
of wealth, and arts, and peoples, is
about to be embraced in the religion
and civilization Of Christianity. 1t is
not in vain that Mungo Park gave his
life away in the wilds of Africa; that
Lander voyagcd on the Niger; that
Jesuit Missionaries gave instruction to
the dark minds on the Coaneza; that
Barth has traversed the sands and
plains from the Mediterranean to Tim
buctoo, or Livingstone traced in fever
and suffering, (alonc Of al. white men,
the Of the Zambesi.
The seed sown in weakness will bs
raised in strength; the path trod by
the lonely traveller will be retraced by
the footsteps of commerce, till cities
rise and empires are formed. The lit
tie spark of knowledge which the
Missionary dropt in thick darkness,
will be lit up till, like the Aurora. it
rises gloriously over the whole hori-
zon. We arc no longer at that period
of civilization when the light shines
only in spots. The centers come to-
gether; the circumference glows-the
whole surface is illuminated; and we
must prepare to behold the whole
globe soon filled with light which
belongs now to the favored and the
few.
Hon. r. i. stanton on the English
Juggie His speech at Leayen-
worth.
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