The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-09-17
From the Free Church Portfolio.
THE NEGRO.

1t is very curious to observe how, in the
religion, the politics, and the literature of
the nation the despised and outcast negro
occupies the most prominent position, and
has become the observed of all observ-
ers." Had there been no negroes in Afri-
ca, the history of the last twenty five years
in regard to the three departments named,
would have been far different from what
it is.
The negro was the prinUDa mobile of
the Florida war, which cost us forty mil
lions of dollars. Sambo ran off from his
Georgia master, and sought liberty among
the everglades and protection among the
savages, which he could not enjoy in the
place of his birth. The United States Gov
eminent, which has long been the servile
tool of the negro-drivers, at the instance of
the latter, declared war against the Semi
noles, with view of getting back the run
Always and breaking up their haunts.
A negro was at the bottom of the Mexi-
can war The South, seeing that the free
States of the Union were likely to outnum-
Der the slave States, because the territorial
possessions were chiefly north of the Mis-
souri, line, resolved to procure territory out
of which they could make slave States, SO
as to keep up the balance of power in the
Senate of the United States. The Govern
ment therefore declared war on feigned
issue with the Republic of Mexico, and, at
a cost Of one hundred and fifty millions of
money, procured California and New Mex
leo. 1t was then that the tide in the affairs
of shareholders turned For the first time,
though not the last, they missed a figure in
their calculations, and California and New
Mexico are both devoted to freedom.
Lord Napier's recall from Washington
by the British Government and his Danish
ment to the Hague originated in the ne
gro The short-sighted Englishmen, i'm
agining, like some of his predecessors, that
the slave-breeders and their abetters at
Washington were to be forever the control
ling power of the country, courted their
smiles by pouring contempt upon his Eng
lish principles, supposing that he was
thereby promoting English interests. But
he has found out before now that if the ne
gro is despised and down-trodden in Amer
lea, he has got the ear of Queen Victoria,
and is powerful enough to effect the recall
of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary.
1t is the inevitable negro that has blown
out and chilled the furnaces of Pensylva-
MIA, and stopped the rolling mills, and
spread desolation among her iron in
terests We have coal, iron-ore, and lime
stone in such inexhaustible abundance that
we could supply the iron wants of half the
world; but we have no adequate tariff to
protect those interests from foreign compe-
tition.
The North, good-natured descendants of
the tribe of Issachar, cheerfully pay 30 per
cent more for Southern sugar than they
need pay for the West India article, mere
ly to fill the pockets of few hundred SUI
gar manufacturers in Louisiana But when
we ask in return that the iron interests of
the North shall receive protection, why,
that is horse of another color.
In the halls of Congress, the negro, his
servitude and his freedom, are the staple
of three-fourths of the speeches delivered.
The negro builds up and plucks down
makes and unmakes political men at will.
1t was the negro who occasioned the at
tempted massacre of Sumner upon the floor
ofthe Senate Chamber, and then occasioned
the premature deaths of Brooks and But
Ter, the guilty principal and accessory to
the assault. The negro sentenced to po-
litical death and damnation most of those
public men who broke down the Missouri
restriction and passed the Kansas Nebras-
ka Bill, and he has just began to wreak
his vengeance on Senator Douglas, the
leader of the gang
Does an American wish to relax his fea-
lures, stifened in the pursuit of business,
by an hour of hearty and recreating laugh
ter, he goes to see Sanford and Christie's