Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1859-02-24
THE FREE NEGRO QUESTION.
LETTER FROM COL. C. w. JACOBS,
OF WORCESTER COUNTY.
TCoNCLUsION.1

,o1sen the negro race was enslaved. All au-
thentc history concerning them as people.
speaks of them as sldUcs. The fact existed
far back of time to which the memory of
man extends Nor have we any record ev-
their enslavement. It is sufficient for our
purpose to know that in their own native
Africa they mere born and held as szaues,
and the bringing Of then, here did not 1aahe
them slarcs-it only perpetuated the true
normal condition in which they were found
We can afford to leave the rest to God and
: his providence, without torturing our minds
to pry into the deep mystery of his ways.
This country after its discovery, was ap-
portioned between England, France, Portu-
gal, Spain and Germany, and all of them
engaged largely in the African slave trade.
It was called the slave-trade because they
aoere bringing slarcs from africa, and not
because the bringing of them here made
them slaves. At the date of our revolution
ary war in 1776, such thing as systcmat-
ic negro freedom was not dreamed of. All
those nations held large possessions here,
and all had them well stocked with slaves.
Modern rose-water philanthropists and inf
del sophists had not then made their appear
ance. England, who had been foremost in
the slave-trade. had now lost her thirteen
colonies and her slaves too; and soon dis
covering the rapid strides we were making
in agriculture, manufactures and commerce
and that civilization and christianity opcrat-
ing upon our slave population, made them
reliable aids in developing our immense re-
sources-determined to frustratc, if she could
not destroy, our rapid advancement in wealth
and power. To this end, George Thomp-
son, an ex-member of Parliament, came O.
yer to this country in 1882, established
presses, and employed agents, and formally
organized the New England abolition socie-
ty.
In 1888 England, being fully enlisted in
this crusade against us, bought all the slaves
on the Island of Jamaica for $100, 900, 900.
and apprenticed them out to planters till
1888, when they became absolutely free
this step on her part was necessary to effect
her object; she could then say to US, aha
I am holier than thou, initiate my example
or will prescribe and denounce you as a
barbarous and unchristian people. We did
not follow her example and she has de-
nounced and abused us ever since, because
we would not ruin ourselves and slaves, as
she has done in Jamaica. Finding she could
not scduce us to our ruin, and still steady
in her purpose to effect the object in one
way or another, England Or the abolitionists
of England, have continued to send over to
this country large sums of money to control
the press as far as possible, and to aid gen
orally in fomenting strife between the North
and South. It is this money that publishes
abolition papers, gets up abolition meetings,
makes abolition speeches, organizes abolition
parties, and sends abolition agents through
the South to steal our slaves. It was this
money that organized Kansas aid Societies
bought Sharps' rifles, and caused tears Of
blood to flow at the mere mention of Kansas
in 1856. It was this money to the amount
of $158, $50, aided by $3S, 1862 from New
England, making in all $196, 912-that in
duced Thomas Garrett of Wilmington, Del
aware, to expose his books at the anniver-
sary of the New England Abolition Society
in May 1857, held at the City Assembly
Rooms in New York, and there show by re-
cord where he and his agents had stolen
from Maryland and forwarded to the free
States 1859, of our slaves It is expected
by New England and Old England aboli-
tionists that this money will sever the Union
Of these States and plunge us into civil
war--the very end for which it is contribu-
ted. [ know there are many abolitionists
in our land who never had any of this mo-
ney; alas !-poor soft headed dupes, they have
been hooked without bait, and are playing
second to game they know nothing Of
I need not follow this part Of the subject
further than to say, have authentic docu-
ments to sustain the truth of every thing
stated above and vastly more.
Slavery then, being the true normal con-