Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-08-23

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be reformed, and the peoples money
will no longer be used to keep black
Republicanism alive.
A sssanins BLOW for ,he Aboiisionists.
These gentry, as we'll as the Re-
publicans" generally, were once upon
time very fond of copying the Lon
don Times, and holding up the senti-
ments of the Thunderer as another
evidence of the soundness of their own
principles. But those who have drawn
SO much comfort and consolation from
that paper will. we fear, have their
great rejoicings turned to mourning,
and be ready to declare, on reading
the following, that this leading English
journal has sold itself to the pro-sla-
very interests. The Greeleys, and
Garrisons, and Giddings, the Summers
and Weeds, and Wilson's, should call a
mass meeting at once, and dcnounce
the London Times, which now declares
that the best thing that can be done
for the negro is to give him good
master, who will take care Of him aud
make him work:
"There is no blinking the truth.
Years Of bitter experience-years OF
hope deferred, of self-devotion unre-
Quilted, of poverty, Of humiliation, of
prayers unanswered, of sufferings de-
rided, of insults unresented, of con-
tumely patiently endured-bave con-
WINGED us of the truth. 1t must be
spoken out, loudly and energetically,
despite the wild mockings of bowling
can't The freed West India negro
slave will not till the soil for wages !;
the free son of the ex-slave is as obsti-
nate as his sire. He will cultivate
lands which he has not bought for his
own yams, mangoes and plantains.
These satisfy his wants; he docs not
care tor yours. Cotton, and sugar, and
coffee, and tobacco-hc cares little for
them. And what matters it to him
that the Englishrnan has sunk his
thousands and tens Of thousands on
mills, machinery and plant, which now
totter on the lauguishing estate that
for years has only returned beggary
and debts. He eats his vans and
singers at 'Buckra.'
We know not why this should be-;
but it is SO. The negro has been
bought with pricc-the price of
English taxation and English toll. He
has been redeemed from bondage by
the sweat and travail of some millions
Of Woodworking Englishmen. Twcn-
ty millions OF pounds sterllng-onc
hundred millions of dollars-have
been distilled from the brains and
muscles Of the free English lsborer, Of
every degree, to fashion the West
Indian negro into free and independ-
ent laborer.' Free and independent
enough he has become, God knows ;
but laborer he is not and so far as we
can see, never will be. He will sing
hymns and quote texts, but honest,
steady industry he not only detests but
despises. We wish to Heaven that
some people in Eugland-neither Gov
eminent people, nor parsons, nor cler-
gymen-but some ust-minded, honest
hearted and clear>sighted men would
90 out to some Of the islands-say
Jamaica, Dominica OF Antigua-not
for month or three months, but for q
year - would watch the precious
protege Of English philanthropy, the
freed negro, in his daily habits would
watch him as he lazily plants his little
squatt'ng; would see him rs he proud.
~ rejects agricultural or domestic ser
vice, or accepts it only at wages
ludicrously disportionate to the value
Of his work. We wish, too. thew
would watch him while, with a hide
thicker than q hippopotamusauda bodv
to which fervid heat is comfort rath.
er than an annoyance, he droninply
lounges over the prescribed task on
which the intrepid Englishman, unin-
ured to the burning sun, consumes hi.
impatient energy, and too often sacri>
fees his life. We wish they would &c
out and view the negro in all the bla'
zonry Of his idleness, his pride, his in.
gratitude, contemptuously sneering q,
the Industry Of that race which made
him free, and then come home
and teach the memorable lesson O,
their experience to the fanatics who
have perverted him into what he il.
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