Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28
The 8ible aud Slarery.
ARGUMENTS FOR SLAVERY.
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ARGUMENTS FOR SLAVERY.
THE BENEFITS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY
BRIEFLY DETAILED.
w. The fourth general argument that
ace adduce IN defence of slavery, as an an
stitution amongst as, as dra'cn from the
benefits of 1t.
AS many of the opponents of slavery can
see nothing good or beneficial in african
slaccry, which as system we practice, it
is we'll to consider some facts in connection
with it, and thus learn whether or not the
fruits and results of it are all evil and only
evil. We aim to give an outline of the
benefits which can be traced to our system
of slavery.
l. 1t relieves the African of untold and
most appalling miseries in his native land,
amids6 the burning sands of Africa. No
man who has read the works of Mofat and
Livingstone and Barth, or even of Bowep
and Thomas and Wilson, can doubt that
the African at home, is more oppressed, de-
graded and imperiled, as to person and life,
than he is in this our own country. There,
three fourths of the population are in a
state of most deplorable personal slavery.
The masters, there, are allowed to intiict
the most barbarous cruelties upon the per-
son of their slaves, who have no protection,
as to their bodies or lives, from either law
or public sentiment. Not only are the
slaves starved, but subjected to the most ar
duous forms of labor. DR.. Barth tells US
he saw "three slaves yoked to sort of plow
and driven like oxen by their master" So
cheap and numerous are slaves there, says
the same traveller, that they are sold in
many of the provinces, for prices ranging
from one to thirty dollars.
The alarming extent to which slavery is
carried in Africa, the horrors of the system,
as there practiced, are facts which any can
did traveller discloses, and upon which we
need not enlarge Consider, too, the bar
barities that are prevalent there, as heaped
upon women who are reduced to the lowest
grade of servitude, and allowed to be op-
pressed by even the male servants. Their
limbs, their characters, their comforts, their
lives, are at the pleasure of the stronger
sex. Nor in most parts of Africa is there
any safety for either man or woman, but all
subject to the blood thirsty passions Of
petty kings and chieftains. But three
months since, it was automatically announced
that an GAfrican chief celebrated his birth
day bv the sacrifice of two thousand of his
subjects" Let this picture, which is a
bright one for parts of Africa, be regarded
as representing family the suferipgs of the
natives, and none can doubt that when sub
jected to American slavery they are relieved,
benefited and exalted, for thus they escape
thousand miseries falling upon them in
their fatherland.
2. The condition to which the slave sys-
tenn of our country, when not abused, sub
iects the negroes, is eminently suited to
their physical, intellectual and moral wants.
Being naturally strong and capable of great
endurance, their bodies are thus we'll adapt
ed to the burdens and fatigue of menial
service. Their color shows that summer
heat will not strip them of any beauty, nor
deprive them Of any physical property
which is priced by the white man. The
absence of any nervous irritability gives to
him, the negro, complete exemption from
those infammatory diseases, so destructive
in hot and damp atmospheres, and hence
the remarkable fact, that the ravages Of the
tropics, where slavery is profitable, and liza
Bile to be perpetuated, the yellow fever nev-
er reached the negro race. This same Pc
culiarity renders them, to a considerable
degree, insusceptible of bodily inconve-
nience, and even pains incident to the con-
dition of servitude. So, also, his mental
peculiarities are we'll met, by state Of
slavery like ours. We need not inquire as
to the causes of the negro's intellectual iu-
feriority to the Caucasian race, but "cer.
tain it is" says a distinguished writer, "that
the negro as we now find him, whether in
state of bondage or in his native wilds,
exhibits such a weakness of intellect, that
when he has the fortune to live in subjec
ton to wise director, he is, without doubt,
fixed in such state of life as is most agree
able to his genius and capacity" 1t is
we'll known that the negro is deficient il
Judgment, and even in powers of invention
but is Initiative, and by the aid of memory
can do what he has once learned by the di
rcction of masters hand and mind. He
is without foresight and very indolent, need
ing not only controlling power to provide