The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-05-26
|, VOICE FROM NEW ENGLAND.

Recently The Hon. Owen Lovejoy, Al.
c., delivered speech, in the House OF
Representatives, supposed to be well cal
culated to please Northern fanatics, as in
It the South, with her peculiar institu-
TONS" was handled without gloves. The
brother of the Hon. Owen Lovejoy, Jo-
seph G. Lovejoy, has since written re-
ply to his relatives speech, and sent it
to the Washington Union, for publication.
From the following extract it may be in
ferred that there is an entire harmony
among "Joseph and his brethren on the
slavery question:
1t cannot be denied that the idea Of
slavery runs all thDugh the Bible ; it was
stamped upon the entire history Of the
Jewish ration and upon the history of
every vigorous nation upon the face of
the earth; indeed | strongly suspect this
is the normal conditioner large portions
of depraved race, and | can readily be-
lieve that man may sustain the relation
of Shareholder, in all good conscience and
with the entire Divine Appreciation
There are risibie footprints Of Gods disap-
probation efM abolitioaism ofthis cam
try. Look at the flocks of uncIean beasts
and birds that have come up out of its
train. Intidels that curse God, abuse
every man of good character, and then
praise humanity in general to counterbal-
ancc their malignity and blasphemy.-
Out of the abstract rights of man
have grown the more abstract rights of
women; and once respectable wives call
st. Paul a crusty old bachelor, and Abrs-
ham tyrant, because Sarah obeyed him,
and Paul makes mention of the fact
The second edition of the rights of wo-
man is divorce, affinity" and universal
concubinage. We have far more of
these immortal tendencies in the northern
States than they have at the South. Is
it not time to look at home!
The truth is, we have been wont to
contemplate the condition of the slaves
at the South from wrong point of view.
We compare them with races or nations
more highly civilized, and their condition
seems harsh and degraded one; but
what We're they when the Christian ma
tons took them by the hand and led them
across the ocean American slavery has
produced and cultivated more African in
teilect, more social affection, more Chris
tian emotion in two hundred years than
all Africa Central and Southern) for two
thousand years. American slavery is
deiverance from African heathenism.
" The dark places of the earth are full of
the habitations of cruelty" and no part
of the earth is more dark or more filled
with more cruelty than Africa. Tread
ing under their feet one of the most fer
tile soils, they cultivate almost nothing
live ON fruits and nuts, with few cattle,
and little commerce. They are in the
first place lazy beyond all hope of self
They will not work.
Now, God has ordained the law of labor
so surely, and SO universally, that if bar
barians will not work, civilization will
yoke them up and driiethem to it. This
is fixed sure as light and gravity. Why
not Why should one quarter Of the
globe, one section of the human family
do nothing for the race If Ham will
not bring timber for the ark, Shem and
Japheth will drive him to it.
But Africa is not only great wilder
ness OF loungers, but out Of this dIeness
grow all manner OF vices. Work is sal
walton. Work regenerates the earth ana
tilan. Work is progress, and without it
nothing. The title deed of the earth to
man had this proviso that he should
snbdue it ana multiply upon it. Now, if
he only multipIies and does not subdue,
he has only sqaatter sorereignty-no
certified title TIL he builds his house and
tills his farm. Hence the Indian must
be driven out he will not work on any
condition neither self-moved nor driven
by the hand of another, and, therefore,
the last tomahawk of the red man will
soon hang as trophy in the halls of the
conqueror. Now, the African works pa
identity and well when driven to it he
will work on no other condition His eli
mate is terrible protection from white
invasion, therefore he must be transpor.
ted and taught to work, thereby civilized,
thereby christianized, thereby improved
every way. and perhaps by-and-by sent
back to yoke up and subdue his whole
continent, according to the pattern that
has been shown him in this working bee
hive of America.
The Nert Presidential Election.