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

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with increased cruelty ny reason of the
fault of the friends of abolition, then in
deed, the slsveholders must be truly Sa
4 tanic race. Their conduct, according to
you, is diabolical. The Abolitionists COM
nit an offense, and the unhappy negroes
are punished The Abolitionists violate
the law of property. and the penalty OF
l'heir crime is imposed upon the negro
Oan n NJ thing he more repuRnant to every
idea of justice Yet this is your state
ment.
We, on the other hand. utterly deny the
truth of your allegations and where We
! find you calumniate the slavehnlders we
become their advocates against your calum-
ny. You caIumniate evPrybody-slayes.
Abolitionists. and slaveowners-fr"mrrs of
| Constitutions, makers of oflaw|-every body !
The siaveho;ders are not favorites of ours,
but we will do men justice and will not
permit 20 uto impute an impossible crime
to them.
You tell us, with al air of triumph, that
| public opinion, in your country, is the
grea, lawEiVer. If it is so, how much
does it enhance tie guilt of your conduct.
that you seek TO turn public opinion against
the slave and in favor of the STAKEHOLDER
that you laud the master as generous and
humane, and disparage, as much as you
can, the unhappy slave; instead of inHa-
encing. as Irishmen ought to do, the puh hlic
mind in favor of the oppressed. You car.
ry your exaRgeratious to a ludicrous pitch,
denotinR your utter ignorance Of the his
tory of the human race. YOn say that
"the negro Is really inferior as a race
that Slavery has stamped it's debAsing in
huence upon the Africans; that between
him and the white almost q century would
be required TO elevate the character of the
one, aud TO destroy the autipathies of the
other" You atfd-we use your own words
1.-THE very odor of the negro is almost
insu fferahle to the white; and however
much humanity may lament it, We make
no rash declaration when we say the two
races cannot exist together on equal terms
under our Government aud our instita-
tion."
We quote this paragraph at fall length.
because il is replete with your mIschieVous
errors and guilty mode of thinking.
In the frst place, as to the 'Udnr of the
negroes, we are quite aware that they
have not rs yet come TO use much OF the
otto of roses or eau de cologne. But we i'm
pInre of your fastidiousuess to recollect
that multitudes of the children OF white
men have negro women for their mo-
thers; aud that our British travellers
complain in loud and bitter terms of
the overpoWering stencil of stale tobacco
spittIe, as the prevailing 'odor" amongst
the native free Americans II would be
perhaps better to check this nasal sensibil
ity ou both sides, on the part of the whites
as well as of blacks But it is indeed, de. |
plurauls hat yon RnntiId uaA Isadi"-nrls
assertion of that description as ode of the !
inducements to prevent the abolition of |
slavery. The negroes would certainly smell |
ut least as SWEET when free, as they now do, |
Being slaves.
Your important allegation is, that the
negroes are, naturally. an inferior race =
That is a totally Rratuitous assertion upon
your part. In America you can have no
opportunity of seeing the negro educated.
On the contrary, in most of your States It
Is crime-sncred Heaven crime to edu
cate even free negro! How, then, Can
you judge of the negro race, when you sre
them desptsed and contemued by the edu
Gated classes; reviled aud looked dow
upon as inferior3 Tue negro race has,
naturally, some of the 6nest quaiities.-
TheyaAre naturally gentle, generous, hu
maue aud very grateful tor Kindness. They
are as brave aud fearless as any other OF
the races of human beingsi bat the bless.
logs OF education are kept from them, and
they are judged OF, not as they Routd be
with proper cultivation, but As they are
rendered ny cruel and debasing Oppres
who truly asserts that the day which sees
u man II slave takes away bait his worth.
Slavery actually brutalizes human beings.
Il is aDout sky years ago when one ofthe
Shicks, uoI far south of Fee, in Morocco,
VINO was in the habit OF accumulAting
white slaves-upOn being strongly r. mon
sIrated with by an European power. gave
or his reply that, by mis- owu experience,
he found it quite manifest that white men
we're Of an Interior race, intended by ma
ture for slaves; and he produced his own
brutalIzed white slaves TO illustrate the
truth of his assertion. Aud case OF AN
American, with historic name-John
Adama-is quite familiar: Some twenty.
ave years ago-nUt mUre-J hn Adams
was the sole survivor of an American crew,
wrecked, on the African Coast He vas
taken Into the Interior as the slave of an
Arab Chief. He WAS only for three years
= slave, and the English aud American
COusuls having been Informed of n Whi'e
mans slavery, claimed him aud obtained
his liberation. 10 the short space of three
years be bad become completely bruIarz-
ed; he had completely forgotten the g
Iish Language, without having acquired the
native tongue. He spoke kind Vt Rnbole,
as uuintellectuaI as the dialects Of most of
your negro slavee; and many mon h+ elaps
cd before he recovered his former habits
and ideas.
Il is also q curious fact. rs connected
With America, that the children of the
Anglo Saxon race aud of other Europeans
boru in America, were, for many years,
considered as degraded and infe,io Glaze.
Iudeed it was admitted, as If it were an
axiom, that the native born American was
in nothing equal to his European proReni'
tor, aud so lar from the fact being disput
ed, many phiIOsophio d'ssertauOns were
published endeaVOring to account for the
alleged debAssment. The only doubt was
about the cause OF it, Eob0dy doubted, )"
to use your own words, " that the native