Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-01-30

ersbip over it would promote her interests in any
way, let it be warned by the fortune of the Kingdom
of Dude unless it defend itself or can claim
protection from some other power. England has al
ways acted upon the barbarous aphorism that might
makes right"
Her conduct in India has long ago attested the fall
sity OF her phlanthropic profession for the negro
in America. 1t may be that the altered tone of
don Times, is attributable in degree to increas
ed intelligence aud less prejudiced exercise of rea
son. We not ungenerous enough to think that
it is not But We neverless believe that is to be
ascrbed principally to the fact that English interests
are ascertained to have been retarded rather than
advanced by the antagonism Of the British govern
ment and the British people to slavery. The act of
emancipation in the Vest Indies is referred to now
not with boasts, but with sorrowful disappointment.
1t would seem strange to q monarchist that as the
domestic government of Great Britain grows more
lenient and LIBERAL the opposition to African slavery
nothing more natural. The white is freeest
where the black man is enslaved As long as man.
ua labor is essential to the culture of the products
of the EARTH as long society exists and governments
endure, there will and must be masters and SLAVES.
In Russia we find serfs. In India we find cases In
England we find lords and peasants. And in the
United States erery achite man is himself! sovereign.
He acknowledges no superior by birth, and knows
no inferior in class Of his own race The negro,
stamped with inequality by the hand of God is, in
this country, what the white is often in Europe
the slare of a master. There merit is made SUBJ
servient birth Here there is other inequality
Acknowledged than that which God has decreed be-
tween a superior and inferior race. And as Eng
land becomes more and more liberal in her govern,
men it is but natural that she should be less and
less prejudiced against negro slavery.
France is already engaged again in the African
Great Britain will initiate her example. The civiz-
ed world may then decide whether the Southern
States have not done we'll to retain an institution
whlct, FRANCE anu England have bvvu utfis1d by
necessity to establish in the nineteenth century.
From the London Times, Dec. 49,
New Plan to Supply the West Indies with
1t requires no great foresight to perceive that
great contest is approaching the subject of slave
nv and the slave trade. The battle of the negro
will have to be fought by the philanthropsts with
great dimnuton of prestige, the result of fasiied
predictions and blasted hopes The Broug CHAINS and
Wilberforces of the present day will have to adopta
somewhat BUNDLED tone. The manifestoes of Exeter
Hall must for be defensive and apologize, for
the world is wiser than when pulpit and plat
form resounded with indignan: appeals to humanity
five and-twenty years ago. The touching descrip-
tons of pnilanthropc novel writers will 60 for little
now as far as regards own colonies. Those who
are old enough may recocct the traditional portraits
of West India proprieors, their wives and children,
which are to be found in the "moral tales" of the
last generation. The owner of a Jamaica property
was always lying on a sofa, drinking sangaree, and
swearing lips and flashing eye told how much he
felt. The lady Of the house, always represented
faded beauty, with her brow wreathed with pearls,
was, of course, being famed by two female slaves,
whose delicate forms bore recent traces of the lash.
The youthful heir wandered about the house exer-
cisng whip given him by his mother expressly to
beat the little negroes with. A faithful and pious
Pompey, exposed to every kind of i'll usage, because
Dinah who loved him-oh, how fervently would
not listen to the unmanly proposals of Drive the
overseer completed the picture. By such represen-
tations these body of hard working and loyal
subjects England possessed, were held up to
obloquy and negro emancipation was effected with
out regard to the interests Of men who popu-
larly supposed to be revellng in ill., gotten gains
But politicians and the public, and the friends
of the slaves themselves have now begun to see
matters in clear light. Our own colonies are i'm
poverished but the of slavery is not diminished it
has only been transferred from US to more grasping
pitiless, and INSCRIPTIONS hands. Never the
prospect of emancipation more distant than that
foreign slave owners establishing monopoly of
all the great staples of tropical produce The islands
which in the old times supplied so much sugar, cof
fee and cotton, are going out of cultivation, while
Cuba, the United States, and Brazil, every day
extending the of their cultivation and the mum.
Der of their slaves So valuable indeed, is the slave
in Cuba that in spite of treaties and penal laws
cruisers blockades, thousands of Africans year.
Carrleu aCTOSS lue dtlautlC " WOTh Ou sugar
and tobacco plantations. The wealth Of the island
is such that in spite of disagreement, oppressive
taxes, and Spanish army of o. 600 men, its propri
etors among the richest in the world AS to the
United States, it is, indeed folly to expect any
change in that quarter. Slavery the North
American continent has extended, is extending, will
extend. As long as the supplies of cotton are be-
low the demand in all the markets of the world SO
long will slave labor be too valuable to be parted
with. 1t may be declared that the attacks of aboli
tionists and the interference of the North the
cause of this determination to uphold slavery; but
no sensible will believe that irritation and
obstinacy could lead to such great results. The
istence of slavery is economical question, and
long as the system is profitable we cannot doubt
that it will be maintained. Much the same may be
said with respect to Brazil, where the institution
prevails with features of cruelty unknown even in
the worst of times under English rule.
Now, to these countries we have given monopoly
of products which the chief basis of our industry
or among the chief sources Of our revenue. They
are becoming rich, powerful, arrogant, every day
less inclined to be guided by English counsels or
moved by English interference. With all the readi
ness which self-interest induces, they have learn
the arguments against limiting slavery and sav.
importation from our mishaps our acknowledged
failure from their prosperity, and from our de
pendence upon them. They have the law of nations
their side, and may quote it in answer to any as
serton of rights to interfere in the cause of hu
manity. They are free nations, and Africa is fire.
coast. Negroes are necessary to raise the cotton
sugar, and tobacco, which the world wants The