New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-30
HuGsfNG DELUsToNs.

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So far as the subject of Southern slavery is con
cerned, the English people, high and low, seem
determined to hing decisions and snares to sheir
bosoms for all timeto come. We have notable
instance in point. About the middle of last month
Earl Russell made speech at Newcastle on. Tyne.
Abiding to the warin this country, he said, among
other things: " Suppose this contest ended in the
reunion offs different parts, and the South should
agree to enter again, with all the rights of the
Constitution, shonld we not again have that ques-
ton Of slavery breughtin along with them? That
subject of slavery which caused, no doubt, the
disruption, we all agree must, sooner or later,
cease from the face of the earth"
One would suppose that the English people and
statesmen had Suffered enough of modification and
loss in their Abolition experiences to induce their
rulers to hold different language from the above.
They paid one hundred millions of dollars for the
emancipation of slaves in Jamaica, and what has
been the consequence! Why, the planters were
fained-the most fourishing and wealthy colony
belonging to the British crown became worthless
penury, wretchedness and desolation, took the
place of aff1uence, contentment and unbounded
prosperity-and the negroes, for whose imagined
benefit all this ruin had been wrought, have sunk
from condition of usefulness and growing civili-
cation and Christianity. to the lowest depths of
African barbarism-are lazy, thievish and shiftess
and thousands of them are not whit better
than their cannibal forefahers were in the ungles
of Africa.
These appalling consequences of misplaced
philanthrophy, which, while they have ruined the
island have degraded the negro, should have
long since opened the eyes of the British pub
lie and Government No doubt they believed
they were acting as philanthropists and Christ
ians when they passed the Act Of Emancipation:
but, as unerring and indisputable experience
has demonstrated that nothing but ruin to the
whites and moral and intellectual damage to-
the blacks has followed emancipation, they should,
as Christians and philanthropists, once more ele-
vate the freed negro to the condition of servitude
for which he is alone fitted by nature, and thus
make him useful, and improve civilize and Christ
anize him, as far he is susceptible of improve
ment and Contamination. Until this is done,
Jamaica will continue comparative DESERT and
the negroes win continue to sink in the scale of
humanity. WHIT. -
But neither losses, experience or elf-interest
can make John Bull comprehend correctly the
Institution Of domestic slavery. Sensible enough
in other points, heis as stolid as dolt in this
The reeleyation of the negroes of Jamaica to
bondage would enable England to obtain large
amount of cotton from that island, and to a
material extent render her Independent of the
crop of the Confederate States, while the status
of the negro would be bettered in every conceiy-
able respect.
Yet, in face of the experience of the past, the
lessons Of the present, and the prospects of the
future, we find Earl Russell addressing meeting
of Englshmen and, instead of advising them as
statesman and Christian should, telling them about
Southern slavery in this wise 80 Slavery, we all |
agree must, sooner or later, cease from the face
of the earth.'i Very well. When Slavery disap-,
pears from the Confederate States, through the |
process of emancipation, neither England nor Ea-
.ope will ever receive bale of cotton from the |
south, for there viii hardly be enough raised for
domestic purposes--the, Southern market will be |
Utterly destroyed to the world-and the negroes !
will soon become worthless, depraved savages, |
Ike those of Jamaica But the pious Russell, and |
he Christian Britons who were listening to him, |
would bring all these direful results upon us, upon
commerce and upon the negro, to carry out |
yretched theory they reduced to practice only to
miserable failure. Out upon such mo ok |
christians such Pharsaieal philantbropsts!
Well, we of the South have one consolation
hould the worst come upon us. When we fall. |
'ur enemies must fall also. Our destruction en- |
ures the destruction of the commercial and manu-
acturing fabric Of the North, and, to great ex-
emit, that of Europe. In this respect, the South |
filt prove the Samson of these latter days.