New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-22


Abiding to the fact that, in consequence Of glut
IN the market Crcassian virgins be purchased at
less than the price Of horsefesh in the Turkish slave
marts the St. Louis Leader makes the following per
tinent remarks: 4
II Tins appears that the most beautiful maidens Of
the purest and noblest white race the most genuine
Caucasian type, are sold in European markets for
about twenty-four dollars, without phliantnropic
sigh while all Exeter Hall rebellows with wrath and
sympathy, because, In the United States Hottentot
wenches nationally destitute of all the more delicate
sentiments OF their sex are tracked at about forty
times chat price, or about si000l For the former,
not even the easy tears OF her Grace Of Sutherland
trckle while for the latter the conventional sluices
Of all Albion and of threefourths Of America set
agush Is all this compassion but cheat, all this
noisy humanity a mere humbug
Is the being bought and sold no wrong except to
negroes Have white folks none of the much-re-
sounded Rights of Man Or is that innocent on
European shores. which Is SO criminal on American
and Africani What has become OF that famous
word Of indignation, out of maudlin Cowpers verse,
against US, that we found our brother guilty Of
skin n Is not this very like finding our sister
guilty Of a skinf' But white men are slaves abund.
antly in Turkey yea and often for the purpose Of
being made ennchs in addition. In Russia they are
equally ehattel personal, of mobiles and princes,
and
Looted BY thousands as a meet reward
For the first ccur,ier in the Cars regard
Numbered by hordes, a human capital,
Where, this WHILE Is the British lionl Why does
he not roar If he don't choose 70 roar why does
not loud-tongued, long-eared Exeter Hall bray TILL
she makes him roar or if she won't stir him up and
set him on, why do not our own immitgable Free.
soiiers, that will " hold no compact with slavery, =
below to the Hail. to bray to the Lion, till he roars
He won't she won't; they won't. First, as afore-
said because Of that guilty skin second, the lion has
gIaat regard for philanthropy, but very profound
esteem for his own breeches pocket twould hurt bis
trade to NEEDLE with Turkish Russian slavery to
NEEDLE with African and American helps his traffic
As for Exeter she has spent her whole estate of fe
lowfeeling upon brother Ebony, and has mt penny
left to fling 70 her Circassan sister, IT'S pretty much
the same case with Freesoilism; besides which, she
finds shrieking for Kansas much likelier presiden
tial speculation than would be the Russian or Crcas
sian which are, indeed, horse of another color.
Sound reason for the difference these people make
against their color against nature, and against
the comparative end0wments Of the master race as
measured with the servile, there is none but that
will not hinder them from finding others, perhaps
only the likeler to take for their being false.
They will answer, for instance !" that these girls 60
not into bondage but life Of and luxury, and
become wives to their buyers
This is sometimes true, but seldom Usually these
fair children have precisely that lot which, though
but Imagined to US in marble, has made the tale OF the
Greek Slave seem TO oil so deeply pathetic. They
are at the very dawn Of their beauty torn from all
they love, borne captyes into foreign land, ex-
posed (often naked) in a market for sale TO every
filthy old Turk or his 6lthier eunuch, made concu-
bne till their charms are past or the masters fancy
changes then reduced to out the rest of life as
menials and drudges. In word, the slavery of the
blacks knows no form Of misery like this of beau
tiful and proud race besides all which, il Is to be
remembered that in her short reign OF favor, al
the first Jealous suspicion she il put into sack and
dropped with certain stones into the sea.