Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-02
Slnvery and Ciyilizntion.
The New York Tribune thus pcryerts his
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slavery as utterly Incompatible with high
civilization
The New York Express, always ready TO
meet this peryeitero Of history aud pretender
of scholarship. at every turn, reminds him
That Egypt in her paimicst days, when
lhrhos went up .nd the gigantic temples on
the Upper Nile, and when letters FIRST start
ed from her nurseries # instruction toward
Greece was "a slaycboding monarchy
Greece, the Greece OF the days of Peri
c!cs, Ihemistocles, Demosihenes--theO Greece
that created The Parthenon and the Temples
of the Acropoiis-was sla' eholdlng De
mocracy or Republic.
Rome, too, in her palmicst days when
Cicero spoke, when Virgil wrote his Epic
when Horace, ovid Salu7t, Martial. Tactus,
and Seneca lived. was saveholdiug era.
The highest civilization Of Egypt Greece,
and Rome, was n the strongest era Of slave
ry. The civilization and slavery, whether
slavery be right or wrong, were perfectly
Compatible. Gibbon shows us that the de
cline and fan Of the Roman Empire began
with the abolition of slavery
Lot the Tribune put this Express tobacco
i'm It's pipe and smoke it, Moreover, how
would cotton and rice be cultivated without
negro slavery? And without negro slavery,
gracious Heavens we should have no Tri-
bunc, and then, what would become Of the
civilization. Christianity and dcccncy of the
age ?-Htcdaoud Dispatch
The Greeian and Roman slaves were white
Mony Of them were freed for their faithful
service ard became men Of wealth and dis
tincion. The slaves Of the Egyptians were
whites and Ethiopians It is well known
that the Jews a proud and noble race,
hough conquered, were for long time held
in bondage in Egypt They did not remain
slaves always, but redeemed Themselves final
| " by a heroic movement The original in
habitants Of Great Britain whence in part
the much and Justly hoa,tful Anglo-SaXon
race sprung were for long period the
meanest of slaves. They wore collars on
their necks with the names of their masters
upon them. The wild Camanches and Apachcs
own white slaves to-day and numerous Mex
icHn slaves. There have been white slave
held 10y the wild Indian uibes of Oregon
and Washington In Africa there are chiefs
who make it business, and have for ages
past, to conquer certain tribes of their own
race, reduce them to captivity and own and
sell them as slaves
So far then as the mere precedent is con
c,rned, slavery has existed both in civilized
and in savage countries, from time immemo-
lial. A nation may be highly civilized and
own slaves or not own them. 1t makes 10
particular difference, one way or the other,
for refinement and art and science do not de
pend on any abstract question as TO the NOR
ality or immortality of holding human hiPeds
inclined to curl li,tlc too closely. a
white compile ted or dark Completed slave
has been found in the history Of the world
equally seryiceablc, except in those warm
climates, adopted 10 the culture of cotton
| md sugar, where the black slave is more ca
pabe Ia those regions China coolies viii
do just as well, with the exception that they
are not physically able TO turn out quite SO
much work They bear tho heat well enough
but they are not so strong as the negro.
The English were a highly civilized peopl,
in the days when slavery was an institution g
The country, and they are highly ciyilized
people now that slavery is abolished in tbeiI
domiajous Russia has long been great ota-
pire, but it will hardly 90 to destruction, be
cause OF the recent abolition Of scr.dom OF
slavery, for the terms, as applied in that di
rcc'ion, are synonymous.
The fact is, precedeuts can he found foy
slavery and agai,.at it, and the arguments
either for or against slavery, on the score OF
The civilization which is to be made or narred
by it, are about equal
Is THE Clrr-IIon C. L. DeLong has been