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

/ what q mockery TO her feelings for the Abolition
/ phlanthropistt 70 tell her that she is free! Offer
/ the home comforts and obligations Of our slavery
4 system to the free starving poor OF England and
1 how many thousands would voluntarily hy to the
refuge of such slavery to enjoy the liberties of our
negroess 1t is estimated that the number of eman.
| cipated negroes who have returned to voluntary
/ slavery during the past three years, is over two
| hundred-thns preferring home In the South Ia
| freedom in the North. or the 40 900 runaway ne.
groes now in Canada, who have been seduced
ent miserable fate of pifering pauperism, two
| thirds would return to-day, could they find the
means and be assured OF protection; for, as they
have since learned to their sorrow what ii freedom
to them without o home and the means Of sub
sistence!
Slavery with US, after all, is but question of
labor. The laws of nature and of climate regulate
slavery. The labor required to be performed in
our cotton, sugar and rice fields by exposure to a
hot Southern SUM- excludes the white man from its
tolls, because it exposes him to disease and death
while to the negro from his adaptation by nature,
it is but healthful and beneficial exercise. In
this point of VIEW negro slavery becomes not only
a necessary institution for the culture of the pro
auctions of our SOIL but it is the most humane and
benevolent system Of labor The Supreme power
has ordained and fixed the laws OF nature and
climate; they are immutable; and it is not in the
power of man to regulate or modify them. As
Carlyle says: "Whom Heaven has made slave
no parliament of men, nor power that exists on
EARTH can render him Free You may call the
Jamaica negro, or the runaWays in Canada free
but still they slavesuntit for freedom or self
governments and left without control or guidance
nature throws them back again to barbarism. We
are commanded in the 25th chapter of Leyitieus,
to take bondmen and bondmaids of the heather,
Z" and of them shall We buy. And the preaching
fanatic will find, in the 18th chapter Of Genesis
that the first angel whom God sent on earth, was
to an African runaway slave, with message of
mercy. 1t was to Hagar, the Egyptian bond
maid of Sarah. And San angel met her by
fountain in the wilderness and commanded her to
return to her mistress, though she had dealt
hardly by her.
But, sir, we now come to the most important
part OF his lordshps speech, as deeply affecting
the vitality of the Confederaey Of this Union and
the institutions of the Southern States. It is a
bold declation, and an open avowal, which are
worthy of the deepest reflection and consideration
His lordshp, in relation to Spain and this country
said
:. # there is anything that gives me pain on the
present occasion, it is in the first place. that our
example has not been followed by other countries :;
that Spain particularly, which is the worst of all in
many respects, Notwithstanding the influence which
We ought to possess-notb by reminding her Of bene-
fits conferred, but by simply noting to her that we
were fellow-laborers Of her independence Of France
that Spain, | say, notwithstanding our natural
and just influence, has not followed that example;
nay has not completely abandoned the slave traffic,
carried on in spite of treaties, as well as of all
honesty and honor. But by degrees truth will pre-
vail over even Spanish counsels, and they will lind
that their own best interest-indeed, would add
ing to Cuba the measure of emancipation. fHear,
hear.) grieve to say that our brethren our kins-
folk in America, furnish another exception to our
example; but of that would speak tenderly from
recollecting that America has acted admirably in
many respects, and even abolished tile slave trade
before we ourselves did it. Even in Georgia,
which is as devoted to the institution as they
are pleased to call it, as any of the Southern
States, it was fault, not theirs, that thep ever
had slavery, for we pressed II upon them, and they
refused it. They protested against it, but we de-
feated them and It il our fault that that institu-
ton prevails in those States But it is pleasing To
reflect that our reasoning and the reasoning of our
public men, as well as of our diplomatic agents,
may probably succeed there and in Spain also, so
that we shall see the end of that abuse, and sla-
very will be no more
There is installing this language, nor its i'm
port. While Spain is rebnked for her ingrattude
for past favors she is threateningy told that her
safety in the West Indies depends upon her ex-
tending the measure of emancipation in Cuba; in
timatng that otherwise, she is in danger of losing
the island to the United States. His lordship then
INDUCES in the pleasing reflection that the reason
ing Of their public men, as well that Of their di
plomatic agents will probably succeed in this
country and Spain, and slavery will be no more.
This, then, explains clearly, and without ambig-
uty or concealment, what his lordship means by
.tthe expected beneficial consequences \ that are
to result from the measure Of abolition. The con-
nection is complete, and the motive and object are
fully asserted, while it clearly indicates confeder-
alton with the Northern consprators in the q ire
pressble confliet.n Let us trace for moment,
this connection. We have seen from 1928 up to
1888, when England emaneipated her colonies in
the West Indies that AboIitionis ragged in and out
Of Parliament with unceasing violence. During
that period her efforts to agitate the question this
country were as increasingly employed by her EN-
lssaries in the Northern States, and which have
been kept up until the present crisis In the House
of Representatives, March 9th, 1926, Hon. Edward
Everett, in defining his position this subject,
then said: M
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or another, with greater or less departures from
the theoretic equality of man, is inseparabe from
our nature know of no way by which the form
of this seryitude shall be fixed, but by political in
stituton. Domestic slavery is not, in my judgment,
to be set down an immoral and irreligious rela-
ton | cannot admit that religion has but one
voice to the slave, and that voice is Rise against
your master., No, sir the New Testament says,
Slaves obey your masters and though know
full well that in the benignant operation Of Christi
anity, which gathered master and slave around the
same communion table, this institution disappeared
IN Europe-yetl cannot admit that, while it sub
sists, and where it subssts its duties are not pre-
supposed and sanctioned by religion. l certainly
am not called upon to meet the charges brought
against this institution yet truth obliges to say
word more on this subject. know the condition
OF the working classes in other countries; |
am intimately acquainted with it in some other
countries and have no hesitation in saying that
believe the slaves in this country are better
clothed and fed, and less hardly worked, than the
Of the Continent of Europe. Consider the checks
on population. What keeps population down?
Poverty, want, starvation disease and all the ills
Of life; it is these that check population all over
the world. Now, the slave population in the Uni
ted States increases faster than the whites, masters
included What, then, is the inference as to the
physical condition OF these two classes of society
This was the language of one of our soundest
and most patriotic statesmen of the North, at that
time, when we were not threatened with the
alarming consequences which the ''irrepressble
conhict' now presents. But can any one doubt,
from the facts now presented, of England's COM
plleity with the endeavors made to incte slave
population to Instruction and revolt, and thus lay
waste our Southern States by the same means
which We're resorted to as In the case of Jamaica
and through these means, by revolution between
the North and the South, to effect the dsmember-
ment of our glorious Republic2 Thus we see that
England lays her schemes for years, and follows
Learn to labor and to watt If she was really
actuated by benevolence and humanity alone in
her abolition scheme, why did she not free all her
slave colonies at once-why was the special reser-
yaton made in favor of her British East India colo
MES, where nnmitigated slavery prevails to-day :?
That very reservation tells the TRUE story of her
motives and policy. No, sir, there was neither
humanity, henevolence, nor Justice in this act of
boosted superiority and virtne--t was but for the
advancement of England's own selfish sordid in
terests, and the ruin of this country which she
still desires to accomplish Capitalists and COM
mercial men may be ncrednlous, but the fearful
sacrifices which England has already made and il