The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-04-23

driven 10 III ; ne Will WORK Oh no OluGr COu~
dition. His climate is terrible protection
from white invasion, therefore he must be
transported and taught to work, thereby civ h
ilized, thereby Christianized thereby i'm
proved every way, and perhaps, by-and bye, I
sent back to yoke up and subdue his whole
continent, according to the pattern that has
been shown him in this working beehive Of
America.
You touch in no very fraternal manner
some Of the social vices Of your brethren at
the South Perhaps if they deserved the
stone, it should hardly come from Northern
hand the garments of our cities are drip,
ping with the waters of Sodom, and some of
the western States sunder the marriage GOV
enant with as little consideration as the most
ruthless stakeholder Senslality is not at
at this hour producing as much social degra-
dation nor destroying as many lives at the
North but this is not the point What
were the blacks socially when taken from
Africa The King Of Dahomey has four
hundred wives, whom he employs in carry
ing p1lm oil to the coast, and thence new
rum and tobacco buck to the palace for their
husband and king. his rum aud tobacco
are the joint production of slavery and free,
dom Slavery produces the tobacco aud
mol Sos, and then we Yankees make the
rum ard send them both in our vessels to
the coast of Africa to buy oil gathered by
women and carried on their heads in jars
from fifty to two hundred miles. They are
driven along by herd Of lazy men, and
stepping carefully every minute under the
express condition that if one pot of oil is
spilled, one head Of a woman and wife
must be cut of to atone for it.
Now, is it any great sin to catch a set Of
these lazy fellows, that live on the earnings
of their wives, learn them to work, make
them work. teach them to love one another
and to love their children, so that their high
est ambition shall no longer be to buy an
extra number of wives that they may have
few pckaninnies' (children) to sell? A
wild African recently brought to Boston by
a merchant begged for an old gun which he
saw When asked what he wanted Of it, he
replied ito buy wife and have piclanin-
nies to sell" Is it any harm to yoke up
such men and work the laziuess and brutoli-
tv ont Of them? Yes but You say there is
a better way TO do it. There may be, but it
wants The evidence Of a successful expert.
: mcut Tho Moravians once kindled their
altars OF devotion all aronnd tho African
IN coast, but the waves of harbarism have eX-
tinguished them. Jamaica, in spite Of de-
voted missionaries, British philanthropy, and
! American sympathy, is fast receding through
,s idleness to barbarsm. IIalf million peo-
Y. pie there in twenty years have not lifted as
" many spades of earth as twenty thousand
.. Yankees in one third Of the time. If this
a half million had the twenty thousand to
ID lead them and guide thom and plan for
m them, then that island, which was once Il
IN fruitful field, would not lie going back to a
+. wilderness. The best thing that could be
n for Africa, if they could live there, would
=. be to send them hundred thousand Amer.
ot lean shareholders, to work them up to some
IN degree of civilization.
i 1t is charged that the life of the slave at
N the South is sometimes at the mercy Of the
90 master. In Africa the immediate body SER
70 wants of every chief, at his DEATH are at
ct once beheaded and hurried forward to attend
os the new wants of their old master. Is it
ID wicked to buy these devoted victims of
d heathcnism and put them under the protec-
+ 'rn of civilized, and often Of Christian mas
N ters Just in proportion as the price Of
:. these slaves is raised in Africa Just to that
nj degree is there motive to the heirs TO spare
W their lives. So far as African is concerned,
k the slave trade was aud is humane in its
operations its abolition was the result of
~ sentiment and not the determination of
,e calm and deliberate craftsmanship. That it
'e was not called for by the condition of the
re world, nor by any deopseated moral senti-
ment, is proved from the fact that thonation
Ie foremost in its abrogation, has now revived
m it on other shores aud under another namo,
adding to whatever sin there is in the direct
=. open slave trade, the other sin Of hypocrisy
G, and false prctence.
ID Jamaica wants lab0rers, not because there
D) are NOT plenty Of them onI the island, but
y. l+-a1se seY %ill not wofla; and, the same
M ilfi ih phiIas sthropy which stands guarJ
.b over the stalwart and immensely lazy son o
ID Ham. brings in the teeblev children OF Shen
re and dooms them to the same bondage undel
,g another name
lo Honor to the sagacous aui lar seeing
IN statesmen of Georgia and South Carolina
lie almost the only consistent slave States Il
~ the Union; for they breasted the unite,
ov streams of British ana American fanadcjsm
he claimed and maintained their rights, auC
" saved the Sonth from bauenness and desc
on nton, the North from q civil war, and th'
it. negroes from barbarism. If more laborer
bv are needed for Texas, Central America, part
,o of Mexico aud Cuba, they ought to b
ug brought, without objections under such hu
,er name regulations as are made in other case
We for the comfort of passengers These labor
ers should come from Africa, because the
,ss are stro, ger and make better slaves tina
all any of the copper colored races, because the
rk are more susceptible of transformation, an
is their Improvement will be greater, anC
tie lastly, because they are the most degraded
10 As to the influence of slavery on II
,on character of the whites, that is quite anoth,
lot question; but 80 far as the political histor
of our cnuntrU Is concerne1 If ia NOT easy