Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-08-30
stunning Blow ar inc AholilionIsl.

The following article from the former
head quarters Of Abolitionism. ought to
be printed in large letters and pinned to
the coats Of all the Stewards, Greeleys,
Garrisons, Summers, Wilson's and Weeds
IN the land. 1t is from . recent number
Of the London Times, and proves that the
best thing to b done for the negro is to
give him d good master. who viii make
him work.
"There is no blinking the truth. Years
of bitterHexperience -years of hope defer
red, Of selfsdevotion unrequited, Of pow
efty, of humiliation, Of prayers unansWer-
ed, of suferings derided, Of insults unfe.
scented. Of contumely patiently endured
have CONVINCED us ofIthe truth. II must
be spoken out, loudly and energetically.
despite The wild mockings of 9 bowling
can't, The freed West India negro slave
win not Till the soil for wages the free
son Of the ex-slave is as obstinate as his
sire. He will cultivate lands which be
has not bought for his own vans, man
goes, and plantains. These satisfy his
wants he does not care for yours. Cot
ton, and sugar, and coffee, and tobacco
The cares little for them. And what
matters it to him that the Englishman has
sunk his thousands and tens ofthousands
on mills. machinery and plant. which
totter on the languishing estate that for
years has only returned beggary and
debts. He eats his yams and singers At
Buckra.' $50
I'VE know not why this should be- ];
but it is so. The negro has been bought
with price-the price Of English taxa
ton and English toll. He has been re-
deemed from bondage by the sweat and
travail of some millions Of hard-Working
Englishmen. Twenty millions Of pounds
sterling one hundred millions Of dollars
have been distilled from the brains and
muscles Of the English laborer, Of every
degree, to fashion the West India negro
into 4 free and independent laborer. -
Free and independent enough he has be-
come, God knows; butlaborer he is not;
and, So far as we can zee, never will be.
He will sing hymns and quote texts. but
honesty. steady and industry he not only
detests but despises. # We wish to Heav-
en- that some people 10 England neither
government people, nor parsons. nor cler-
gymen-but some just minded, honest
hearted and clear-sighted men, would go
out to some Of the islands--say Jamaica,
Dominica or Antigna-not for a month or
three months, but for q year awould
watch the precious protege Of English phi
Elanthropy. the freed nsgro,ia bis daily
habits would watch him as he lazily
|plsnts his little squattings would see
HIM as he proudly rejects agriculture OF
domestic service, Or accepts it only at
wages ludicrously disproportionate to the
value of his work. We wish, too, they
would watch him while, with a hide
thicker than that Of a hippopotamus and
abody to which feryid heat is a comfort
rather that an annoyance, he droningly
lounges over the prescribed task on which
the intrepid Englishman, uninured to the
burning sun, consumes his impatient en-
Eergy and too often sacrifices his life. We
wish they would go out and view the
gro in all the blazonry of|his idleness, his
pride, his ingratitnde, contemptuously
sneering at HE industry Of that race,
which made him free--and then come
home and teach theEmemprable lesson Of
their experience to the fanatics who have
perverted him into what he is.