The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-04-13

Ale dUtlcNk luHdDNanLS CT Nnak country came
from Africa, The great painting of Sampson
grinding in the mill shows his PhiStine drivers
very dark. il not black. But you miss the point
of the scriptural precedent and ex ample for sa
very You prove, as YOU think, that the Ca.
NANTES were not black, and then jump at once
the conclusion that fthey were not black, they
must have been enslaved because they were la
boring men. This does very well to stir up
predjudice at the North but is it the TRUTH
The Israeites were permitted to enslave the
Canaanites not because they were labOring men
but because they were heather, and thereby 30
degraded that a transfer to the Jewish Common
wealth, where the true God was worshpped
was privilege and blessing.
This furnishes the parallel point on which A
merican shareholders rely with great confidence.
/ The Africans were taken from the most degra-
dcd heatheniSm, aud are here taught to worship
the true God; and in the opinion of every BIZ
BILE man, more OF them have been fitted for and
gone to Heaven from the thousands in America
than from the millions in Africa. DR.. Dwight
said, after long experience, and wide observation,
that he never knew but one lazy man converted.
And as God had some chosen people in Africa,
1t was necessary that they should be taught to
work in order to be converted But in the south
they are not allowed to read the Bible, Well,
in Africa they neither read it, nor hear Of it or
from it. Faith cOmeth bv hearing; and is il not
better to hear the truth than live entirely dest-
tutp of it?
You quote the eighth commandment as a pro-
hibition of slavery. This is singular. Were
your ancestors thieves? They brought, or as
sentel to the bringing of slaves to this country
1t is singular fact that while we boast 0 our
Puritan ancestry, the laws Of the present day
would hang half the men that lived a hundred
years ago as engaged in the slave traffic, direct
ly or Indirectly; and another law would impriS,
on all the men who lived forty years since. The
eighth commandment was given on he way out
of Egypt. 1t was the charter, the constitution
Of the Hebrew nation. All their other laws
were controlled hv the Decalogue. Well. now
what? Why. they had slaves hy divine per
mission under this charter. How coud they, il
the eighth commandment forbidS it? Bat are
the slaves stolen? Certainly not Americans. -
They buy them, pay for them, transfer them,
and provide Tor them, in the only and most be-
nevolent manner in which it can he done. AS
to the metaphysical abstraction that man cannot
have property in man, it has been contradicted
from the foundation of the world to the present
time. Holding, use and transfer are the ele
ments Of property, and this has been done by
men to men in all ages; and yet you say there
is no word in the good old Hebrew tongue that
conveys the idea Of property in man. When a
master inadvertently killed a slave no blood was
| to be she'd for he aCas lis money!" Does not
that mean. property?
1t cannot be den led that the idea of slavery
runs through all the Bible; it was stamped up
on 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 condition flarge portions Of
depraved race, and can readily believe that a
man may sustain the relation Of STAKEHOLDER in
| all good conscience, and with the entire Divine
appreciation. There are visiHe footp11nts Of Col,
3ts0pprobntton Of the Abo'tjmisna Of this country
| Look at the hockS Of unclean beasts and bird,
that have coMe up out of its train. lnfidelS
that curse God, abuse every man OF good char
acter, and then praise humanity in general to
counter balance their malignity and blaSphemy
! Out of the abstract rights OF man have grown
the more abstract rights of woman; and once
respectable wives call st. Paul Il cruSty old
bachelor and Abraham tyrant because Sarah
ohcyed him, and St. Paul makes mention ofthe
| fact. The second edition OF the rights of woman
is divorce affinity and universal concubinage
! We have far more of these immoral tendenc les
in the Northern States than they have in the
South. Is it not time to look at home?
The truth is, we have been wont to contem-
plate the condition Cfthe slaves at the South
| from awrong point OF view. We compare them
with races or nations more highly civilized and
their condition seems harsh and degradaded
one; but what were they when the Christian
nations took them by the hand and let them
across the ocean? American slavery has pro-
tduced and cultivated more African intellect
more social affection, more Christian emotion
in two hundred years than all Africa (Centra
and Southein) for two thousand years. Amer
lean slavery is a redemption, deliverance from
rican heathcnsm. "rhe dark places Of the
earth are full eff the habtationS of cruelty" anG
no part Of the earth is more filled will cruelty
than Africa. Treading beneath their feet one
Of the most fertile soils, they cultivate almost
nohing--live on fruits and nuts with few cat
tie and little commerce. They are in the first
place lazy beyond all hopes OF self. improvement
They will not work Now, God has ordained
the law of labor so surely, and SO universally
that if barbariins will not work, civilization vii
yoke them up and drive them into it. This i
fixed, sure as light and gravity. Why not
Why should one quarter Of the globe, one sec
ton Of the human family, do nothing for tn
race? If Ham will not bring timber for tn
ark, Shem and Japhet will drive him to it.
But A frica is not only a great wilderness o
loungers, but out of this idencss grow all man
ner Of vice. Work is salvation. Work regen
crates the earth and man. Work is progress
and without it nothing. The title-decd Of tn
earth to man had this proviso: "That he shouI,
subdue it and multiply upon it." Now if h
Only multiples, and does not sublue, he has on
! ly a Squotter seUerejgniy-no certified title I'll
he builds his house and tlls his farm. Hence
the Indian must be driven out--he will no
work on any condition, neither selEmoved no
driven by the hand Of another, and, there fore
J the last tomahowk Of the red man will 500
f hang as trophy in the halls Of the conqueroI
: Now, the African works patiently and We
| when driven to it--he will work on no otho
) condition. His climate is terrible protectio
from white invasion, therefore he must b
) transported and Taught to work, thereby civil
lied, thereby Christanized, thereby improve
! every way and perhaps by and by sent back T.
! yoke up and subdue his whole continent. &C
cordng to the pattern that has been shown hin
in this working bee hive of America. ID,
You touch in no very fraternal manner som
of the social vices ofyour brethren at the South
Perhaps if they deserved the stone, it shoul
! hardly come from Northern Land the gar
ments Of our cities are dripping with the wa
ters OF Sodom, and some of the Western State
sunder the marriage covenant with as littl
consideration as the most ruthless slaveholde,
, sensuality is not this hour producing as muc
J social degradation nor destroying as many live
at the South as at the North; but this is no
the point. What were the blacks socially whe
taken fom Africa? The King Of Dahorney ha
four hundred wives, whom he employs IN car
/. rying palm oil to the coast and thence new run
and tobacco back to their place to their husban,
J and king. This rum and tobacco are the join
production Of slavery and freedom SLAYER
produces the tobacco and malasses. and then W
: Yankees make the rum and send them botl