Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-02-02
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SLAVERY AFRICAN FREEDOM.

The Northern papers are still n'led
with the advertisements OF white ser
wants begging employment. The labor
ing poor Of the North are in a most de-
ple rabIe condition. The sleek, black, tat,
saucy negro upon the Southern pIanta''o"
is a prince in comparison with the poor
Of lii. North, where there are no soclal
distinctions save those which wealth
makes. In the South, 90 the other
hand. there are none but those indeI'bly
impressed by God himeslf on his crea-
lures. The only patent Of nobility is
stamped on the Caucasian brow. The
only badge Of infsriority. be who runs
NAV read in the African face. Ii there
is any class who ought, above and be-
You'd al others, to prize our peculiar IN
s,itmion, it is the poor white man III
deb,ed to it for the fact. that he is so
c,n|ly the equal Of other white man, and
the superior Of every negro. II the Union
survives, ADD Abo'itionism carries out,
as it. surely will. lis bru al programme
Of negro equality. every white man who
has means. will hte from the doomed
country AS Il pestilence, and woe unto
the unhappy wre'cl'es who. unable to
ESCAPE, remain to see their children earn
ing \ scanty substance as b~oot-b'acks
aud walters to the respectable eolored
families.
The slaves Of the South are the best
fed, best clothed and cared for, and the
least tasked laboring class j" all the
world; and in contrasting the condition
Of Southern slaves with that If Northern
s-rvitude, we should at the same time
contrast with the condition of the Degr"
in Africa, where he exhibits all the bru-
tai vices, heastly ignorance, and bloody
crucltips Of his race. MISSIONARIES have
long labored among t'em-hundreds OF
Jealous christians have entered upon
this great fed Of ignorance, idoIatry.
and cruelty, add sacrificed their lives to
a futile attemp, to redeem the African,
while scarcely al instance CAT be found
of his abandoning u Of his savage rites
or bloody customs. Their court yards
houses, streets. and market places. are
still paved with tie skulls Of prisoners
taken in battle. or of slaves sacrificed at
their f.asts or their funerals. Wives and
subjects are still offered as a bloody sa-
criice or buried aIiye with their chiefs,
husbands or masters-not ty scores at a
time only bnt by thousands-Phulan-
,hr"pis's for fifty years hsve vainIy sought
to Christ,aoiz. the African-who, in de-
iance alike Of prospect and example,
always relapses int, idola1ry, whatever
nay he his professions Of faith. Sunk
to the lowest conceivable grade of hu-
man bru'al.,y. exhibiting traits les akin
TO human affections than do many of the
beasts If their forest. there is no excep-
ton t.. the baribarous aud idolatrous pail
which rests upon pagan Africa. from
which no civilization Can awaken the first
ti'rob OF sympathy.
They know nothing nf sriencp-thev
are stupid and lszy--thev are happier,
more heightened aud Chri~,ianized il,
on, midst than in their naive deserts
They love he white man--cling to him
for protection rs the ivy cIings TO the
oak. The North bust be crazrd with the
widest and maddsst fanatirism, or they
wcuId not sever such a Union for such
Il race. Sir CO tao Southern slave is
better off than the African freeman or
The poor white man Of the North, these
devli>h fanatics can find many objects
more deserving Of their Philanthropy
Memphis Aronnche.