Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-09-22

haustiblc abundance that we woul,
supply the iron wants of half tn,
world. But we have no adequate tar
iif to protect those interests from for
eign competition.
The North. good naturcd descend
ants OF the tribe of Issachar, chcerfully
pay 80 per cent. more for Southern
sugar than they need pay for the West
Indian article, merely 10 fill the pock-
cts of few hundred manufacturers in
Louisiana. But when we ask in re-
turn that the iron interests of the
North shall receive protection-why,
that is horse of another color.
In the halls of Congress, the negro,
his servitude and his freedom, are the
staple of three fourths of the speeches
delivered. The negro builds up and
plucks down-makes and unnakes
political men Mt will. 1t was the ne
gro who attempted massacre of Sum
ner upon the floor of the Senate
chamber, and then occasioned the pre-
mature deaths of Brooks and Butler,
the guilty principal and accessory to
the assault. The negro sentenced to
political death and dainnation most of
those public men who broke down the
Missouri restriction and passed the
Kansas Nebraska Bill; and he has just
begun to wreak his vengeance on SEN
ator Douglas, the leader of the gang.
| Does an American wish to relax his
features, stillened in the pursuit of
business, by an hour Of hearty and re-
creating laughter, he goes to see Sand
ford and Christic's Opera Troupe
where Sambo convulses his audience
with negro wit Does he wish to re-
gale himself by hearing the tones of
exquisite music, he listens to the far
farSsd negro melodies, which, strange
to say, constitute the only American
music we have.
The daughter of the New York mil
lionarie sings Old Folks at Home in
her fathers gilded saloon, to the mu-
sic of a $1,000 piano. And 'Oh car
ry me back to Old Virginny.' and My
Old Kentucky Home are heard at
eventidc in many happy cottage be-
yond the Mississippi, when the labors
of the day are over. Not only has the
negro cngrafted his minstrelsy upon
the taste of the American people, but
he has given his dialect to his opprcs-
sors. In other instances the conquer
or enstamps his style Of speech upon
the conquered, as was the case with
the Norman and the Saxon. But here
it is Just the reverse. The Southern
members of congress, ,ifthcywere black
ened and disguised like the performers
in Sandford's Troupe, might pass for
improved specimens of their own me-
grocs, so African is their dialect and
mode of pronunciation. We are far
from intending this as an afiront to
our Southern brethren, for, as Chry
sostom was not the first, so was he not
the last, of the golden mouthed Afri
cans. And nowhere in all the land
are there such displays of native ora
tory as among the plantations Of the
South. Kent's only model of fine
speaking was probably 'Old Ben.' the
negro preacher on his fathers farm in
South Carolina; and Senator Toombs
owes his characteristics to a similar
cause. 1t is not the climate of the
South so much as the negro that gives
the Southron his aflable manners, his
softness of voice. and his eloquence.
What name has attached more at
tention in courts, legislatures. Govern
or's messages, and on the stump. than
that of Dred Scott, the negro of Mis-
souri,? What parsonage has become
so worldwide and renowned in litera-
ture as Uncle Tom,' the negro? He
is now speaking the language of the
Magyar, the Pole and the Russian
rousing the sympathics of those dis
tant people in behalf of the down
trodden race in America. He has even
mastered the uncouth language of the
Welsh, and is now pleading the cause
of his brethren before that fiery peo-
pie, waking up the thunder of their
Indignation at the wrongs they endure.
All over America, all over Europe,
and in far-oT Asia, the negroes la
ment is heard in the plaintive Lam
guage of Uncle Tom; and humanity is
gathering together the elements of one
vast storm, which will soon burst up
on the head of the oppressor, and give
him in his turn taste of sorrow.
1t was the negro that formed the
rock upon which the Methodist Epis-
copal Church split. Bishop Andrews
had married gang of negroes with a
wife annexed, and wished, like other
patriarchs, to drive slaves, and be CON
sidcred good Christian too. But
Sambo invoked the shade of Wesley
and of Freeborn Garretson, and the
church divided. And because The line
of separation did not suit him, and the
Church North did break the yoke, ev-
cry Conference, Annual and General,
is converted into debating society, to
discuss questions which will ne-er end
until his claims as man and brother
are recognized.
1t is a negro that has stained the
glory of the American Tract Society,
and forced his managers to herd, in
opinion, policy and taste, with the n.
Y. Herald, Journal of Commerce, and
such like. Processing care of souls
including the whole world, they new
erthelcss ignored the case of 4,000,-
600 of American citizens. represented
In the halls of the National Legisla-
ture-only because they were negro
, slaves. Teaching the doctrine on a
million of pages, that fiery hell