Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-14
LORD BR0UGHAM AND SLAVERY IN
GEORGIA.
Rev. Z. w. Howard, ono of the editors of til,
Southern Cul,ivator, says:

Rev. Z. w. Howard, ono of the editors of the
Southern Cu,ivator, says:
Our attention has been called to paragraph
which has appeared in number of newspa pers
in which Lord Broug ham is represented as saying,
in substance, that slavery was forced upon Geur.
sa, while colony, by the mother country. His
Lordshp is in error, and the error is one which in
the present state Of public opinion as to slavery at
the South may do harm. We are perfectly famil-
lar with the facts Of the case, having examined
the original documents relating to it, in the State
Paper Office in London.
Slavery was prohibited in Georgia at its settle
mept, by the Trustees. The grounds of its pro-
hibtion. as stated by the Trustees, were pruuen-
tial-nct. moral. General Oglethorpe, himself,
owned a plantation Of negroes in South Carolina,
at the time he at the head of affairs in Geor-
ga. One of the motives in the settlement OF Guor-
gia, was to establish strong force in favorable
position to check the advance of the Spaniards
from Florida Another was to give home and
employ yment to numbers of white persons in Eng
land and On the Continent, who were the victims
Of misfortune. Another was to introduce the
growth Of silk and wine, both OF which were sup
posed to require degree of intelligence not az
tainable by negroes. The introduction Of slaves
was deemed incompatible with the ends proposed
by the founders of Georgia.
The colonists very soon ascsItained that this
prohibition was fatal to them. Carolina f0urished
Georgia langushed For years the colonists pc
tiioned to be allowed negroes. Instead Of in
creasing in numbers, Georgia in l740 was reduced
too aiyth nf ire formnr ponulafiop rha
sons most influential in inducing the Trustees at
last to allow the introduction OF negroes, was the
celebrated George Whitfield. We present an ex-
tract from one of his letters, as pleasant theme
of meditation to the abolitionists. God is deiy-
sring me out of my embarrassments by degrees
With the collections made at Charleston, have
turchased a plantation and some slaves, which
intend to devote to the of the Bethesda" (the
Orphan House"
The nighlanders at Darien, and the Mo-avans
at Ebenezer were averse 10 the introduction Of
slaves--they constituted but small proportion Of
the popuiaton-the rest were most eager to be al
lowed their use. After years of petition, in the
year Of LAG, the law against the introduction Of
slaves was repealed. The effect of this repeal was
magical. All the interests Of the colony prosper
ed, and its advances were rapid beyond comparl-
son.
The introduction of negroes into Georgia, in
stead of being compulsory measure of England,
was an act OF necessity, suggested by the painful
experience Of the colunists. White labor had
been tried and found to be practically useless in
the climate of our sea coast, The African alone
was fonnd capable Of enduring our almost African
sun. This chapter OF Georgia history contains a
pregnant lesson of instruction. 1t teaches the ab.
solnle necessity to US Of The Institution Of slavery