The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-09-03

truth of your allegations and where we
find you calumniate the Shareholders we
become their advocates against your cal
umny. You calumniate everyboc y--slaves,
Alb bolitionisrs and slaveowners of
constitutions, makers of iaws-everybody
| The Shareholders are not favoriteS of ours.
but we will DO men justice, and will not
permit you to impute an impossible crime
! to them.
SLAVERY AGAINST CHRISTIANITY.
If you be Christians at all, recollect that
slavery is opposed to the first, the highest
and the greatest principles of Christianity,
which teach US .'to love the great and
good God above all things whatsoever ;"
| and the next, "to love our fellow -men as
ourselves" which commands US to do un-
! to others we would be done by. These
sacred principles are inconsistent with the
horrors aud crimes of slavery; sacred
principles which have already banisbed
domestic bondage from civilized Europe,
and which will also, in Gods good time,
bapish If from America, despite the advo-
cacy of such puny declaimers as you are.
The Catholic clergy may endure, but
they assureGly do not encourage the slave
owners. We have, indeed, heard it said
that some Catholic clergymen have slaves
OF their own, but it is added, and we are
assured positively, that no Irish Catholic
| clergyman is slayeowner At all events,
every Catholic knows how distinctly slave
holding, and especially slave trading. is
condemned by the Catholic church. That
most eminent man, his holiness, the pres
ent Pope, has, by an Allocution published
throughout the world, condemned all deal
ing and traffic in slaves. Nothing can be
more distinct or more powerful than the
Pope's Remuneration of that most abomin-
able crime. Yet it subsists in a more
| abominable form than his holiness could
possibly describe, in the traffic which still
exists in the sale of slaves, from one State
in America to another What, then, are
we to think Of you, Irish Catholics, who
send US an elaborate vindication of slavery,
without the slightest censurs of that hate
full crime F! crime WHICH the Pope has so
completely condemned namely, the dia-
| boical raising ofsiaves for sale, and selling
them to other States.
IF you be Catholics, you should devote
your time and best exertions to working
out the pious intentions OF his holiness
Yet you prefer-Oh, sorrow and shame!-
to volunteer your vindication of everything
that belongs TO the guilt of slavery
BLACK ISFERIoRIrY DISCUSSED.
Your important allegation is. that the
negroes are, naturally, an inferior race
That Is totally gratuItous assertion on
your part. In America you can have nc
opportunity OF seeing the negro educated.
On the contrary, in most of your States it
lis cf!me--sacred Heaven crime TO
educate even a free negro! How. then,
can you judge of the negro race, when
you see them de>pised and contemned by
the educated classes; reyiled and looked
down upon as inferior? The negro race
has, naturally, some of the finest qualities.
They are naturally gentle, generous, hu-
name, and very grateful for kinduess-
They are as brave and as fearless as any
other OF the races of human beings, but
the blessings of education are kept from
them, and they are Judged of, lot as they
would be with proper cultivation, but as
they are rendered by cruel and debasing
oppression. 1t is as old as the DAYS of
Homer, who truly asserts that the day
which sees man slave takes away half
his worth Slavery actually brutalizes
human beings. 1t is about sixty years
ago when one Of the Sieiks, not far south
OF Fez, in Morocco, who was in the habit
of mulating white slaves, upon being
demonstrated with by European Power,
gave for his reply that, by his own expert
! ence, he found it quite manifest that white
men we're of an inferior race, intended by
nature for slaves; and he produced his own
bruaiized white slaves to illustrate the
truth of his assertion. Aud a case of an
American, with historic name-J Ohm
Adams-is quite familiar. Some twenty
five years ago-not more-John Adams
wac the sole survivor of az American crew
wrecked on the African coast He was
taken into the interior as the slave of an
Arab chief. He was only for three years
slave, and the English and American
consnls, having been informed of white
mans slavery, Claimed him, ami obtained
his liberation. In the short space Of
three years he had become completely
brutalized; he had completely forgotten
the English language. without having ac-
quired the native tongue He spoke
kind of gabble, as unintellectual as the
dialects of most of your negro slaves, and
many months elapsed before he recovered
his former habits ard ideas
1t is also curious fact, as connected
with America, that the children of the
Anglo Saxon race, and of other Europeans
born in America, were, for many years,