Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-10


connected with his state of Slavery.
We next refer to your declaration tha
the the two races, y'L the black and white
cannot txist, on equal terms, under yOul
Government aud your institutions Thi'
is an extraordinary assertion TO be, mad.
at the present day. You allade, INDEED. u
Antignn and BermuiRs. But we will K.
you TO where the experiment has been sue
cessfulIy made upon large scale-namly
10 J 'maicA.
There the two races are on a perfect
equality iu point of law. The laW does
not rscuguiIs Ihs slightest Distinction
between the races You haze bOr
rowed the far RrrAtrr part of your address
from the cant phraseolOgy which the WesI
Indian sIMvehnlders, and especially those
Ot JAmsics, made use of before em 4nci
p4tILn They used TO assert, rs you do
now, that abolition mennt destruction; thai
to give freedom to the negro would be TO
pronounce the assRssi alton of the whites;
that the negro, as soon as free, would
massacre tnelr former owners, n d desire y
their wives and families. la BhbVt yOui
PROPHECIES of the destructive Effects OF
emancipation are but faint aud foolish
echoes Uf the prophetic approximations of
the British slave owners. Tney might.
tons, because the tmRuciPa ton of the ne
groes was then an untrird experimrnt'-
But you-you are deprived of any excuse
for the reHssertion ut disprOved cAlum
ny. The emancipation has taken place
the compensation given by Euglaud was
not gwen 10 the negroes, who we're the
only persons who deserved compensation.
II was given to the so called ''owuers." l.
was an additional WrOng-au additional
cause of irritation to the nUgrOes but,
gracious Heaven how nobly did thar good
aud kiudly race he negroes-falsify the
calumniOus apprehensions of their task
masters Was there one single murder
consequent on the emHnciparIOnf Was
there one riot-oue tumult-eVen one as
sault7 Was there one white person inJur
ed either IN person or in proPerty1 Was
there any property spoiled or laid waste
Tue proportion of negroes IN JAmacia to
white meu is as 300 to 60, or 8 per cent
Yet the most perfect tranquility has fol-
lowed the emancipation. The cfiminal
courts are almost unemployed; nine teuths
Of the ills are empty and opeO universal
tranquility reigns. Although the Landed
have made use OF the hArshest
landlord power to exact the hardest terms
by way of rent from the negrots. aud
have also endeavored TO eXtort from btm
the largest possible quantity of labor for
the smallest wages, yet the kindly negro
race have not retsliated by one siugle act
o violence or vengeance; the two races
exist together, upon equal terms, urdpr
the BRUSH government and under BrH.sh
~.
d. shall Eea seJ sbnt The Britiah Cos
ernmeut and British institutions are pre-
ferable to yoursH The vain aud vaporing
spirit of mistaken Rppuhlicauism will not
permit you to avow the British superiority.
You are bound. however, reluctantly, to
admit that Superiority or else to admit the
falsIty of your 0wu assertions. Nothing
san. / truth, he more ludicrous than your
declaration in favor of Slavery. It. how
aver. sometimes rises to the very border
'f blasphemy. Your words are "GOd for
Did that we should advocate human bond.
age in a'y shape"
oai shame upon you'll How can yon
lake the name OF the AL Good Creator
.hus 10 vHinl What are ynu doingi IL
not the entire of your address an advocacy
IF human bondage?
Another piece of Stiffness You aileRe
hat II is the AbolitionIsts who make the
slave restless with his condition, aud taAt
hey scatter the seeds Of discomfort. How
:GT you treat US with such cOn'tmPt as to
l>e assertions of that kind IN your uddress1
dUw can you thiuk We could be so devoid
If intellect as to believe the neRr would
1Ol know the miserIes OF Slavery which he
eels every hour OF the tour and twenty,
Unless he were told by some AbOlitioni5t
hat Slavery WAS u miserable cOnditiOn1
Thrrs 10 nothing that makes uj think so
BADLY of you AZ your strun of ribaldry tn
the AbDliIiOnIsts.
The q. SIRE to procure abolition, Is, tn
tseIf, n vir ue aud deserves our love tor its
charitable disposition, as IL does respect
Ind veueratiUn tor its courage under 10
aVUrable circumstances. Instead Of tbe
'ibAldry of our attack upon the Abolition
sts, you ought to respect and countenance
urm, it they err by excessive al, they err
n righteous aud n holy cause. fOa
would do we'll to check tbeir errprs and
their zeal within the bounds of
ItricL proprieIy. But you had the Eenu-
ue feelings Ut Irishmen, you never would
ufOuud their errors with their virtues -
% truth we much ear, Or rather We should
- ndIdiy s,y, We readily. believe that you
IItrIbuts 10 them imaginary errors for 20
DIher reason than they really possess Que
,rlillant Virtue-nauely, the love of hu-
n ian freed ON IN intense perfection.
again, We nave 10 remHTk tnht yoA eAak
.etAte exceedingly when you stale that
hete are fifteen millions of the white poPu,
alton in America whose security aud hap
,luess are connected with the maintenanGe
4 the system OF negro Slavery. o. the
contrary, the system of Slavery iDHicts
lothing but mischief upon the far greater
,art of the inha ab.tauts of Ameriea. The
,uIy places in which Individual interest ts
with Slavery are tue slaVehold
ng States. Now, in those States, almost
ViIhout an exueptiou (if, indeed, there be
my exception). the people of color greatly
'xeeed the whites; and thus, even u An
injury were to be indeed on the whites oy
irprIving them of their slaves. the adVan
ages would be most abundAuily counter
balanced and compensated for 6y the in
iuirely greater number of persons who
would ihas be restored to the greatest Of
human biessiuRs-personal liberty. Thus