Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-07-16

society insufferable." 1T is conglomera-
tion," says u Democratic paper in Alabama,
"of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives and
small-fsted farmers" &C Free farms," says
the South Side Democrat, " free labor, free
society, free will, free thinking, free children,
free schools, all belong to the same brood Of
damnable isms!" -..... ...
But to resume our historical view of slavery:
With the settlement of our country came
slavery. Even the illustrious Columbus stoop-
ed to acquiescence in the barbarity of the
age, and sent five hundred Indians to Spain
to be sold into bondage. r -,.--
Then came black slavery to prevent the en-
slavement of the Indians, who from their weak
er constitutions died rapidly under its suffer
ings. .......
In Virginia we find again the Anglo-Saxon
in state of servitude. White men were
sold for the costs of emigration. The terms
were five and ten years, and during those
periods the condition of the white was in no
wise better than that of the blacks. They
were sold for forty, fifty and sixty pounds
Their supply became regular business .
and class of persons nicknamed "spirits"
used to delude young persons, servants and
idlers, into embarking to America as to a
land of spontaneous plenty.
Like negroes" says an historian, "they
were to be purchased on ship board, as men
buy horses at fair"
"lnthe visciitudes and wars England, Scotch,
English and Irish were each in turn shipped
to America and sold into slavery. In 1856
one thousand prisoners condemned for par
ticipating in the instruction of Monmouth,
were so disposed Of They were slaves for five
or ten years and their condition differed in
nothing from that of black slaves. In fact
they were not so highly esteemed, their price
being but 91O while negro was worth 920
Let our foreign-born citizens recollect that
slavery is not confined to the unfortunate of
any race or color. Let them recollect, let
our people recollect, that wrong is universal
and illimtable; that evil can never be
practiced against another, without danger to
ourselves
This sword hit is the sharpest, and cuts through
The hand that yields it."
If the world is taken with reHux on the SUBJ
iect of African slavery and if from being an ex-
cused and palliated evil, it rises the dignity
of an institution and claims to divide the con-
tinent with freedom and intelligence, who can
say how soon it may apply its hateful princi-
Piles to the unfortunate of our own race
Nor would such a result be so strange as
may at first sight appear. We have already
shown that the Southern mind inclines
to such views That they have no re-
spect for the white laborer and would willing
ly consign him to state of servitude. tits
also an undoubted fact that the lapse of time
and the licentious intermiXture Of blood in
the slave states, has produced vast number
of people who although held as slaves are al
most entirely Of European blood. We have
all of us seen the advertisements in Southern
papers describing run-away-slaves as being SO
white as to readily pass for white men. We
also know that the increasing number of such
"white slaves" and the facility with which
they escape has led to a prevalent habit in
the South of stamping the word SLAVE
across their faces. We also know that in re-
peated instances children of purely white
blood have been kidnapped from northern
cities and sold into slavery. With all these
facts before them can my foreign-born fellow
citizens doubt that the institution of slavery
has no respect for the rights of the whites >
that the principle of the evil is the same
with that which prevailed when the shores o.
Greece were lined with beautiful women wav
ing their white arms and tempting the white
traveller into the tolls of perpetual bondage
when all the marts of Europe were alive witt
slaves of white origin; when Englishmer
were sold as slaves lin Ireland, Irishmen il
England, and both on the continent.
IGNATIUS DONNELY.