New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-30

and the destruction of two.thirds of the sugar
estates and threefonrths Of the coffee properties
then n cultivation, have at this day obliterated
very large proportion OF the Anglo-Saxon element
in the constitution of our population
This disastrous state of things is wholly attributed
to an absurd philanthropy in the emancipation
conferred upon them, while they look upon com
puision to work as d violation Of the great magma
chdttd Of their freedom. The Despatch of the 10th
September last contains fling at the Anti Slavery
Society, which is opposing immigration to the West
Indies, and thus charges it home at the point OF
the -bayonet: ssTruth, however, would scarcely
have suited the objects Of the Anti Slavery Society
It was necessary to employ once more the weapons
/ by which emancipation was carried.
These are some of the beneficial consequences
| that have been realized, together with the depre-
dation of property almost to worthlessness, the
utter ruin Of the planter, and the complete dena
4 turalization and Generalization Of the negroes,
4 while they have been compelled, in order to obtain
4 labor to establish the horrible, detestable, and
| inhuman traffic of the coolie slave trade Is this
/ his loriship's boosted superiority IN importance
/ and virtue of negro freedom over all other acts IN
4 the history of England's career? Yet in face OF
i these facts and incontrovertible truths, another
distinguished British statesman Lord John Russell
has thus described the object Of emancipat,oh
! Carving into effect the religious and benevo-
I lent views Of the nation at large twas their object
| to convert slaves into freemen, to rescue their
1 brethren of Africa from the lash of compulsory
/ toll and to establish them as christian men ON the
4 soil where they had been transported chattes
Or beasts Of burden. On this, the principal ques-
! ton Of all there is, am happy to say, no room
for doubt. None of the most inveterate opponents
of our recent meaures of emancipation allege that
the negroes have turned robbers or plmderers or
blood-tirst insurgents. What appears from their
statement IS, that they have become shop keepers
and petty traders, hucksters and small freehoders,
d blessed change which Provldence has enabled us
to accomplish"
Thus, according to Lord Brougham, the negro of
Jamaica has been elevated to the same footing as
the white, in point of rights and prlvlieges and,
according to Lord Russell, his brethren of Africa
have become christian men and set up for them
selves as merchants and traders But this is far
cical in the extreme. In the present state of the
British West Indies there IS but little to rejoice for
in the act of England's Parliament declaring these
poor creatures free. If it be called freedom to
send helpless creature forth upon the world,
homeless frendless and destitute, then, indeed, he
is free but it is neither chrstian-ike charitable,
nor phfIanthropical Freedom to the poor negro
meant that he was no longer to work-to be free
from compulsory toll s-(as Lord John Russell ex.
presses t)-that his only idea of freedom, and
so the negro understands it to-day. How then has
the condition of the slave in the British West In
dies been augmented or ameliorated BY this great
act of san absurd philanthropy" Why, as we
have seen, he has degenerated and sunk back again
into state of semi-barbarism. If the act had pro-
vided for their civilization, support and chrstiani-
cation, then there might have been some true phi
lanthropy in it I; but to turn him loose without
guardianship or protection, was far otherwise. The
tain in early life false philanthropy which in after
years. is sure to become bigoted and fanatical.
Lord Henry Brougham characterizes this act of
abolition :" as the great boon which Providence
had bestowed on the negroes and Lord John
Russell, 4 as a blessed change which Providence
has enabled US to accomplish The history Of
England furnishes us with nnumerable instances of
the folly and impiety of attributing to the imme
date interpostion of Provdencen the acts of
bigots and fanatics, which intelligence and enlight
eminent have since been made to wonder at. Where
is the British statesman to-day, who would be will
ing to abide by Englands ancient trial by the or
deal of walking blindfod over red hot plowshares,
and believe the result to be Del Jatdici,un
Judgment of God /?
Having seen the ssblessed change which British
statesmen, not Providence, have been enabled to
accomplish in the British West Indies, and the
great boom which English philanthropists have
bestowed on the Africans there let take glance
at the status and condition of the negro in our
Southern States under the present system of our
Institutions Slavery with us is but state of law
full bondage; it is institution far superior to the
old (right) system Of England Of that Of the nhu-
man monstrocities Of her present disguised African
and coolie slave trade system, because Of its Chris
tianization Our slave, according to Abolition phi
lanthropsts is only ehattel, or beast of burthen,
whose life is in the full and complete power of his
master, unrestraned by law. In this sense, there
is no slavery in the United States; but contradis-
tingnished from 1t, there is negro bondage patri
archal seryitude. Your right of property consists
in his labor for life, which you may buy sell but
he is protected in life and limb by the law much
as any white citizen. In Louisiana where the con-
dton of the slave has been represented to be
worse than in any other slaveholdiug State the
laws are very strict in regard to his protection If
he is cruelty treated he can be taken from his
ter and sold to another. M slave child under ten
years can be separated from his mother nor are
such children allowed to be brought to this State
without their mothers, under heavy penalty. The
slave who has acquired the right of being free at
future time is capable of receiving and holding
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Of capital crimes, he is secured all the privileges
and the rights of trial by jury before two justices
and ten Shareholders and in minor cases he is
tried before one justice and four Shareholders
There is constructive ittranlentre fdleads the
part of the negro bondman in the Southern States
to his MASTER while on the part of the latter in
consideration Of this seryitude or labor, com
plete moral and legal obligation rests upon him to
feed, elothe and maintain the slave in sickness and
health by as strong tie as the marriage bond of
the white man. which is frequently not SO regiously
kept. 1t is true, the negro bondman is not free,
but then his condition with us, according to his
status is far superior far more elevated physically
morally and religiously, and more true liberty is
enjoyed by him than the poor white laborer of Old
England or New England, where the shriekers of
freedom boast so much of their prerogatives.
Could these tender hearted Aboltionists but wit
ness for themselves the condition Of our slaves
the plantations and see the sleek happy, smiling,
contented faces of the negroes, well clad and well
fed, and listen to their merry, joyous field SONGS
bricks, or frame houses neatly whtewashed, look
ing like some New England village, and with every
comfort that could be desired; could these mis-
guided hnmanitarians and preachers of the gospel
witness the assembling of our negroes on the various
plantations on the Sabbath day. and their listening
to the truly pious and humane minister, employed
expressly by the planters for the Ghristianization
Of their slaves, they might save their tears and
sympathy for those nearer home. Let those who
anathematize slavery in our Southern States be-
come spectators Of the negro festivities during
present holidays-not such festivals as were but
lately enacted in Jamaica, nor such were at
tempted at Harper's Ferry-but scenes that would
make the starving poor and wretehedness Of Eng
land and our Northern States wish, aye, beg, that
they might become our slaves and enjoy such
happy homes and joyous feasts, rather than have
the vampire Of abject poverty and starvation feed
on their emaciated yitals, with the mocking boast
of being free! Look at that slave marriage scene
in the old manor house. The slave bride has been
decked by her young mistresssin costly attire the
slaves assembled to witness the nnptials, and wine
and refreshments are provided In whose noble
mans house in England, or in what brown stone
front in :. Fifth avenue,n would such a scene be
permittea2 How superior, them socially, is the
condition of our slave to that of the sauad wretch
edness atsurrounds the Abolitionist? But, again:
Cur negroes are allotted a patch of ground where
during their leisure hours, they plant and raise
their corn, melons and vegetables; they raise their
pigs and poultry-and when their master is in need
of turkey or dozen of eggs, he is obliged to pay
his slave the market price for them. The peculsu7
Of the slave, or his personal acquisitions are his
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