St. Mary's beacon., 1859-04-07

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abuse every man OF gDoi character, anil then
praise humanity in general 10 cuunterbalance
their maiignity and blasphemy. Out Of the
abstract rights Of man have grown the more
abstract rightS Of woman; AID ohce respecta-
ble wives call 81. Paul erusty old bachelor,
and Abraham a tyrant, because Sarah obeyesl
him, and Paul makes mention Of the fact
! The second clifton Of the rights Of woman il
divorce, affinity" and universal cOncubinage.
We have Tar more OF these immoral tendencies
in the nsFtheFn States than they have atelhe
SJuth. Is is not time to look at homer
The truth is, VIC have been won't to cuntem-
plate the condition nf the slaves at the South
/ from a wrong point Of view. We compare
them with races or nations more highly
! civilized, and their condition seems q harsh
and degraded one; but what were thev when
the Christian nations took them BY the hand
aud lesl them across the ocean? American
slavery has produced and cultivated more
African intellect; more social affection. more
Christian emotion in two hundred years than
all Africa Central aud Southern) f,r two
thousand years. American slavery is re-
demption. dcliverance from African heath
enism. The dark places Of the earth are
full Ot the habitatIonS Of cruelty" and no part
! Of the earth is more ,.ark or more filled with
NIuGHS africa. ITtSSsliGl2 DeIlGatn tnclf
feet one of the most fertile sni!s. they culti-
vate almost nOthiue-live OH fruits and nuts,
with few cattle, and little commerce. They
are in the first place lazy beyond all hope Of
self improvement. They will not work.
Now. God has ordained the law Of labor so
surely, and ~ universally, that if barbarians
will not work, civilization will yoke them up
ani drive them 10 IT, This is fixed. sure as
light and gravity Why not? Why should
one quarter of the globe, one section Of the hu-
man family DE- nothing for the racc ? II Ham
will not bring timber fT the ark, Shem and
JaPheth will drive him 20 IT,
But Africa is not only great wilderness
vt l"unSers; but out Of this idlcncss grows
all manner Of vice.. Work is salvation-
Work rcgenerAtcs the earth AID man.
Work is progress and without il nothing The
title deed Uf the earth TO man had this pro-
viSo; that he should subdue it and multi
ply upon it, Now, il he only mutiplcs
md does not subduc, he has only a sqmatter
sorereigRty-no certified title till he builds
his house and tills his farm. Hence the
Indian must be drivea out he will not
work on any cOEditi"n, neither sclf-moved
nor driven by the hand If another, ard.
therefore, the last tomahawk Of the red man
will soon hang A. a trophy in the halls Of
the couluerDr. Now. the African works pa
tieutiy and well when driven tu il lac will
work on no other condition. His climate is
\ terrible protection from white INVASION
therefore he must be- transported and taught
~ work, thereby civilized, thereby christian
lied. thereby improved every way, and
perhaps by-and-by sent hack 10 yoke
up and sUbdUe his whole continent,
according to the pattern that has been
shown him in this working beehive Of Amer
lea.
You touch in no very fraternal manner
some of the social vices Of your brethren at
tie South. Perhaps if they deserved the
stone. il should hardly come from north.
ern hand; the garments of our cities arc
drippin. with the waters Of the Solom, ami
sorEe Of the western States sunder the mar
riage covenant with as little consideration
us the most ruthless STAKEHOLDER. Sensuali-
ty is not ut this hour producing as much
social degradation nor destroying as MANY
lives ut the South rs At the North but
this is not the ponit. What were the blacks
socially when taken from Africa? The King
Of Dlhomy has four hundred wives, whom
he employs in carrying palm oil to the
coast. and thence new rum and tobaccn
back to the palace for their husband and
king. This rum and tobacco are the iont
prmiuCtion uf slavery and freedom Slavery
produces the tobacco and moaSses and then
we Yankees make the rum and send them
both ia our vessels to the coast Of Africa TO
buy oil gathered by women and carried on
their heads III jars from fifty to two hun
drr,! miles. They are driven along by
herd Of lazy men, aud stepping carefully
every minute under the express condition.
that il Oh" pot Of oil j. spilled, one head Of
a woman and wife must be cut of 70
atone for it,
Now, is il any great sin 10 catch a set
Of these lazy fellows. that live on the earn
in.s 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 NJ longer be a.
buy an extra number Of wives that they
may have few 'pickaninncs" (children) TO
sell A wild African recently brought 20
Boston oy a merchant begged for an old
gun which he saw. When asked what he
wanted Of it, he replied, "to buy a wife
and have pickaninnies to sell" Is il any
harm 10 yoke up such men and work the
lazineSs ard brutality out Of them? There
may lie, but it wants the eyiience Of a sue
ceSsful experiment. The Moravians once
kindled their affairs Of devotion all around
the African coast, but the waves Of harbaT-
ism have extingushed theta Jamaica. in
spite of devoted missionaries British philan-
thropy. and American sympathy, is fast re-
ccding through idlencss % tarbarism. Half
a million OF people there in twenty years
have not lifted as may spades Of earth as
twenty thousand Yankees in California in one
third of tho time. If this half million had
the twenty Thousand 10 lead them and
guide them and plan for them. then thai
island. which was once fruitful feld, would
not be going back 10 a wilderness. The
best thing that could be done for Africa. If they
could live there, would be TO send them a
hundred thousand American SHAREHOLDERS. 70
work them Up to some degree Of ciyiliza-
ton.
Il is charged that the life Of the slave a,
the South Is sometimes at the mercy of the