, 1859-06-24


wives, whom be employs in carrying palm
oil to the coast, and thence new ram and
: tobacco back to the palace for their hus
band and king. This rum and tobacco are
/ the joint production of slavery and free.
dom. Slavery produces the tobacco and
, moasses, aud then we Yankees make the
rum and send them both in our vessels to
the coast of Africa to buy oil gathered by
women and carried on their heads in jars
5 from fifty to two hundred miles They are
, diven along by herd Of lazy men, and
, stepping carefully every minute under the
+ express condition that if one pot Of oil is
. spilled, one head of women and wife
, must be cut of to atone for it,
/ Now, is it any great sin to catch a set
Of these lazy fellows, that live ou the earn
, ing of their wives, learn them to work,
make them work, teach them to love one
another and to love their children, SO that
! their highest ambition shall no longer BE-
, to buy an extra number Of wives that they
may have few pickuninnes" (cbildren)
TO sell A wild African recently brought
) to Boston by merchant begged for an
old gun which he saw. When asked what
he wanted of it, he replied, ito buy a wife
and have pickannuies to sell" Is it any
, harm to yoke mp such men and work the
laziness and the brutality ont Of them
: Yes, but yon say there is a better way to
do it. There may be, but it wants the
evidence of a successful exeriment. The
Moravians once kiuded their alters of de-
vOtion all around the African coast, but
the waves Of barbarism have eXtingnished
them. Jamaica, in spite of devoted mis-
siOnaries, British philanthropy, and Amer-
can sympathy, is fast receding through idle
ness to barbarism. Half a million Of peo-
pie there in twenty years have not lifted as
many spades of earth as twenty thousand
Yankees ia California in one-third Of the
time II this half million had the twenty
thousand TO lead them and guide them and
plan for them, then that island, which was
once fruitful field, would not be going
back to q wilderness. The best thing that
could be done for Africa, If they could live
there, would be to send them hundred
thousand American Shareholders, to work
them up TO some degree Of civilization.
1t is charged that the life of the slave
at the South is sometimes at the mercy of
the master In Africa the immediate body
servants Of every chief, at bis death, are at
once beheaded and hurried forward to at
tend the new wants Of their old master.
Is IL wicked to buy these devoted victims
OF heathenism aud pnt them under the pro-
lection Of civilized, and often Of Christian
masters 2 Just in proportion as the price
Of these slaves is raised in Africa, Just to-
that degree is there motive to the heirs
to spare their lives SO far as Africa is
concerned, the slave trade was and is hu-
name in its operations its abolition was
the result Of sentiment, and not the deter
mination Of calm and deliberate statesman
ship. That il was not called for 10y the
condition Of the world nor by any deep
seated moral sentiment, is proved from the
fact, that the nation foremost in its abro-
CATION has now revived II on other shores
and under another name, adding to what
ever sin there is in the direct open slave
trade, the other sin Of hypocrisy and false
pretence.
Jamaica wants laborers, not because
there are not plenty of them on the island,
but because they will not work and the
same British philanthropy which stands
guard over the stalwart aud immensely
lazy son of Ham, brings in the feebler chill
dren Of SheH, and dooms them TO the same
bondage under another name
Honor to the sagacious and far seeing
statesmen Of Georgia and South Carolina,
almost the only consistent slave States inI
the Union; for they breasted the united
streams Of British and American fannti-
cism, claimed and maintained their rights,
and saved the South from barrenness and
desolatiOn, the North from q civil war, aud
the negroes from barbarsm. II more la
OOrers are needed for Texas, Central
America, parts of Mexico and Cuba, they
ought TO be brought, without objections, un-
der such hnmane regulations as are made
in other cases for the comfort Of passen-
gers. These laborers should come from
Africa, because they are stronger and
make better slaves than auy of the copper
colored races, because they are more sus-
ceptible Of transformation, aud their I'M
provement will be greater, aud, lastly, be-
cause they are more degraded
/ AS 70 SHc ihuuehc6 VI hluftIy on Tue
character Of the whites, that is quite an
other question; but SO far as the political
history of our country is concerned, it is not
easy TO see how we could do without the
Shareholders. See how their names shine
along and adorn the past history Of our
country Washington, Jefferson, the Ran.
dolphs, Bayard, PIekney, Madison, Mon
roe, Crawford, Rutledge, jackson, Cal
houn, Clay, Benton-blot out these names,
and countless host of others, from the
slave States, aud what blank is left in
our history Aud do you not find meu
from these States now in Congress, fully
the peers of any that you can name from
the North in siateSmanship, honor, integ.
rity, patriotism, and high moral aud relig-
iouS character? Do you not see some
bright and shining lights around you from
the South? | have read no speeches that
give more entire satisfaction than those OF