The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-20

them, aud provide for them, In the only and most -.
oient manner Ia which it can be done. AS 10 the 49,
physical abstraction, that man cannot have pronerts
man, 1t has been contiadicted from the f~oundation oGh4
world TO the present time. Holding, use. anl t.n.t
are the elements of property and this has been dom h,
men TO men Ia all ages and yet you say that there i no
word Ia the good old Hebrew tongue that CONVEYS Al,
idea Of property in man. When a master inadyertent.
killed his slave, no blood was 20 be shed, for os ,on AZ
money" Does not that mean property
It cannot be denied that the idea OF slavery mn. III
through the Bible IL was stamped upon the cntirs a.,
tory OF the Jewish nation, and upon the history ofeysT.
vigorous nation upon the face of the earth indeed
strongly suspect this is the normal condition ol hr,a
portions Of a deprayed race, and 1 can readily belIeye ne,
a man may sustain the relation of slayebolds, IN nv
good conscience, and with the entire Divine approia,io~
There are giiAe footprints Of Gods hsapprolfioa Of n, 49,
hoaism Of has country. Look at the tocks of undran
boasts and birds that have come mp out Of its train. In
fdels that curse God, abuse every man of good ohaaa.
ter, and then praise humanity In general to counterbsl,
ance their ~malignity and blaspheiny. Out Of the alsta,
rights of man have grown the more abstract rights
woman and once respectable wives call ST. Paul aornstv
old bachelor, and Abraham a tyrant, because Sarah obev,J
him, and Paul makes mention Of the fact. The seconJ
edition of the rights OF woman is divorce, 'afipity enI
universal concubinage. We have far more of these i'm
moral 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 IN,
condition OF the slaves at the South from a wrong noini
of view. We compare them with races or nations moro
highly civilized, and their condition seems a harsh and
ucStitlcu Onc u Wndl were they when the (hristian
nations took them by the hand and led them across thp
ocean American slavery has produced and cultivated
more African intellect, more social affection, more Chris
tian emotion in two hundred years than ali Africa lCep.
trail and Southern) for two thousand years. American
slavery Is a redemption, a delivcranco from African
hoathenisln. "The dark places of the earth are full of
the habitations OF cruelty and no part OF the earth il
more dark or more filed with cruelty than Afioa
Treading beneath their feet one Of the most fertile soils
they cultivate almest nothing live on fruits and nut,
with few cattle, and little commerce. They are in te
first place lazy beyond all hope of SELF improvement
They will not work. Now, God has ordained the law of
labor so surely, and so universally, that IL barbanans
will not work, civilization will yoke them up and ddya
them 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 II
Ham will not bring timber for the ark, Shem and Japheh
will drive him TO it.
But Africa is not only a great wilderness of loungen
but out of this idlencss grow all manner Of vices. Wok
is salvation. Work regenerates the earth and man
Work is progress, aud without il nothing. The tile
deed of the earth to man had this proyiso TINT bo
should subdue il and multiply upon il, Now, il he only
~multiplies and does not snbiue, he has only a so,any
sogsregnty-no certified title till he builds his house and
tils his farm. Hence the Indian must be driven out
he will not work on any condition, neithc, sclf-moved
nor driven by the hand of another, and, therefore. the
last tomahawk of the red man will soon hang MS a trophy
in the halls OF the conqueror. Now, the African work.
patiently and well when driven to il; he will work I'm
no other condition. His climate is a terrible protection
from white invasion, therefore he must be transported
and taught to work, thereby civilized, thereby christian
lied, thereby improved every way, and perhaps by.and.
by sent back to yoke up and subdne his whole continent,
according TO the pattern that has been shown him In tIs
working bee hive of America.
You touch in no very fraternal manner some of the
social vices of your brethren at the South. Perhaps II
they deserved the stone, it should hardly come from a
northern hand; the garments Of our cities are dripping
with the waters af Sodom, and some of the western States
sunder the marriage covenant with as little consideration
rs the most ruthless STAKEHOLDER. Scnsuality is not at
this hour producing rs much social degradation nor ds.
troying as many lives at the South us at the North: hit
this is not the point. What were the blacks socially
when taken from AficaY The King of Dahomey has four
hundred wives, whom he employs in carrying palm oil to
the coast, and thence new rum and tobacco back to tho
palace for their husband and king. This rum and TO.
bacco are the joint production of slavery and freedom.
Slavery produces the tobacco and molasses, and then We
Yankees make the rum and send them both in our yes.
sells to the coast of Africa to buy oil gathered by women
and carried on their heads in jars from fifty to two hun.
bred miles. They are driven along by n herd of lazy
men, and stepping carefully every minute under the ex.
press condition that il one pot of oil is spilled, one head
ola woman and a wife must be cut of to atone for il.
Now, is it any great sin to catch a set of these lazy l.
lows, that live on the earnings of their wives, learn them
to work, make them work, teach them to love one an.
other and to love their children, so that their highest
ambition shall no longer be TO buy an extra number of
wives that they may have q few s'pickaninnies' Ghil-
dren) TO SELL A wild African recently brought to Dos.
ton by n merchant begged for an old gun which he saw.
When asked what he wanted of it, he replied, .oto buya
wife and have pickaninnies to sell.' Is it any harm to
yoke up such men and work the laziness and the brutal
ity out of them? Yes, but you say there is a better way
to do il. There may be, but It wants the evidence of a
successful experiment. The Moravians once kindlcd their
affairs of devotion all around the African coast, but the
waves of barbarian have extinguished them. Jamaica,
in spite of devoted missionaries, British philanthropy, and
American sympathy is fast ~receding through idleness to
barbarisn. Half a million Of people there in twenty
years have not lifted as many spades of earth as twenty
Thousand Yankees IN California in one third of the time.
If this half million had the twenty thousand to lead them
and guide them and plan for them, then that island,
which was once n fruitful field, would not be going back
to a wilderness. The best thing that could be done ft
Africa, if they could live there, would be to send them
u hundred thousand American shareholders, to work them
up to some degree of civilization.
1t is charged that the life of the slave at the South Is
sometimes at the mercy of the master. In Africa the
immediate body servants of every chief, at his death, are
Mt once beheaded and hurried forward to attend the new
wants of their old master. Is it wicked to buy these de-
voted victims of heathenism and put them under the pro-
lection of civilized, and often of Christian masters Just
in proportion MS the price of these slaves is raised in AZ
rica, just to that degree is there n motive to the heirs to
spare their lives. So far aus Africa is concerned, the slave
trade was and is humane in its operations its abolition
was the result of sentiment, and not the determination
of calm and deliberate sta esmanship. That it was not
called for by the condition Of the world nor by any deep
seated moral sentiment, is proved from the fact, that the
nation foremost in its abrogation has now revived it on
other shores and under another name, adding to what.
ever sin there is in the direct open slave trade, the other
sin of hypocrisy and false pictence.
Jamaica wants laborcrs. not because there are not
plenty Of them on the island, but because they will not
work and the same British philanthropy which stands
guard over the stalwart and immensely lazy son Of Ham,
brings in the feebler children of Shen, and dooms them
to the same bondage under another name.
Honor to the sagacious and far seeing statesmen Of
Georgia and South Carolina. almost the only consistent
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