Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-01-22
,,,, o For the Enquirer.

In the Senate OF the United States, on the 7th inst
Mr. Seward presented petition from the citizens Of
Canandagu',, New York. praying :or somc 'pructica
bic measure by which thu people Of the North NAV
co operate with the people of Tire South in the ean
gu'shmen OF slavery, by making .ir and honorable
compensation to slave owners for tho full value of
their slaves"
1t is very remarkable that the benighted natiye,r
Of the North should be prrnacious in their efforts
to destroy themselves Ii SOurhern shareholders
were 10 manunit their slaves with or without com
pensatio of all the miserable, daviis on EARTH the
poorer casses at the North would he the most misera
bio. Northern commerce and Northern manufac
lures would perish for the want of material to operate
upon, Ind every decent employment would be struck
at one blow, from the Northern poor man and poor
woman and the Psn'rn-singiag gentry who crowd
Inc neat temples Of New England and the free States
would be turned into iazarDni more equallid than
haunt the streets of Naples 1t s the combination of
capital aud labor in the Southern planters ands that
prevents the utter prosraon Of the price Of Northern
labor. II is The task.master's power alone that
makes any portion Of the African race con,ri
butte anything 20 the genera! stock OF produc.
tlor and wealth OF the world-and the masters
care and example has been tho only missionary
that has brought that british and depraved race
under tho influence of Christianity. Let any honest
Abolitionst read tho old and travels in Africa,
aud he must admit that force alone can break through
the bestail manners and customs Of thenegro race
No Christian man can honestly contend that
morality or religion can justify forbearance, by
o God and social duty, as the Africans now do
Take not the theory but the facts disclosed by the
Kew. j. Leighton Wilson hmself-and they all 90 to
show that enslaremen and labor alone regencrae
the African race. The only truly Christian negroes
on earth, deserving 10 be enumerated, live in the
slave States, aud they hav0 been and are rising
in the scale Of humanity rapidly. Unlike their mbru
ted brethren, of their father land, they contribute
their full share to the comfort commerce and wealth
of the world. II lie neither moral nor just that ignOran!
81 nah nafIn hall oil AuylI .
squHnder on their degrading lusts those thews ant
snews that are capable of contributing TO the pro
gress OF the world in civilization, morality and com
fort And had we'll let pharisaical n-ighbors
| know that We may be driven 10 give up the Union,
| but our institutions never. We have experienced
the value IN physical nnd moral point of view, OF
peculiar social orgsnzation-and we will neither sell
nor surrender our system, and of all earthly curses
most dread their pauper system. We approve our
practice, appreciate il fully, scorn their sympathy
and coutemn their oIicious and yain.giOrious ~.
| reference.
1t is fortunate thing for our institutions and the
world, that go many sensible men, nearly all anti
slavery, have penetrated the interior of Africa, and
thrown food Of light iu;o ,hst dark land OF pou
| ton and death There stands the negro Us he stood
| thousands Of years ago; ignorant, brstial, cruel
blood thirsty, naked, aad bound and roted up in po
| luton.
For three hundred yenrs, in modern times, haa
Christianity been knocking there for admission, and
yet she stands without, scurned and rejected With.
10, from Trpol the Cape OF Good Hope from the Red
Sea to the Atlantic, with here and there quss oasis
Africa is d moral and social deeert. Rspine, murder
lust, theft lying, ideness, superstition, cruelty, and
all manner OF degradation and shameless sIn, and
hopeless depraviiy and ignorance, cry out from eve
ry brake and bush, from every sfi-e Of grass trom
hill and dais from parching sanGs and sresm. and
| call upon mankind to break dow this hdeous mass
and scatter 1t to The winds OF Heaven. 1t is 10 re
store our home-Eorn slayes. our pIsy.matrs and
nurses, our trusty friends ard faithful servants 10
this horrible bsrbarism that the hewitched pharsees
| Of the North invoke ua. As well may they attempt
to turn the piping winds that dash the restless waves
upon their rock bound coasts into the soft South
winds that fan the blushiug flowers Of own sweet
| homes, rs TO hope to turn us the fools they would
have Us be- The negro Of the human family, and as
.uch il bound constitute. ard ought be made to
contribute hs full share TO the world we'll being II
is demonstrated beyond pcradyenure, that Of him
SELF and in himself, he ID incapable Of doing go, and
that he can and will do so only under the control
aud direction Of q superior and advanced race.
| Look back two hundred yelrs continent, and
We ees three starting One civilized and Chris
tian, two savage and pagan. The Christians ensaved
one aud not the other. What has heppeued1 The
free pagan has been nunIed down and pershed in his
| heaIhensm The enslaved pagan has increased and
prospered and has become Christian Which has
Jared bCs,l Which has the creates: to bless
his fortune? The Southern negro alone, of all his
race, Possesses personal comfort, moral advantages
and Christian enching; Gad to-day, is freer, wiser
happier, than either the Indian his brethren in
Africa. BY toll he has grown hardy; by instruction
precept and example, he bas becone civilized and
Christian man. and equals IN physical comfort, moral
culture, and Christianity, any ab0ring class on earth
I They as race understand and appreciate their con
ditiOD and are satyisd, albeit few restless ysga
bonds escape Nor'h to howl in lying chorus witt
| DR.. Parker, Ct id anne genus.
| SLAVE HOLDER.