Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-05
County Ticket.
For the Intelligsncer.
AMOS KENDALL.

This old man has come down 10 US, from
former generation as a penalty on the
sins of this About two years ago he pub
lished tract, in which he made use of the
NEw TESTAMENT, to prove the rightfulness
of African Slavery in ;he Southern States.
1t is perfectly safe to,assert' that there is
not, In the whole New Testament, ono word
fairly applicable to the subject. The pro-
slavery doctrine is derived by Amos Ken.
dali, Bishop Hopkins and others of that
school, from the Epistles written by the
Apostles to the infant churches of their
care. But in all the provinces of the Ro-
man Empire to which Christianity had ex-.
tended in the Apostolic age, African Ne.
groes, bond or free, were as scarce as ma
tive Chinese in Ohio or West Virginia.
| The best geographer, at that time, in Rome,
had not the slightest knowledge Of any part
of Africa, except the provinces along the
| southern vOast of tho uSditaFpAnoAR- ThS
Roman Empire teemed with slaves. Their
numbers were reckoned by the million.
But they were blue-eyed Teutons, fair-hsir-
ed Germans, or active and volatile Keltsl
The hunting grounds for slaves were not
Congo or Angola, but the banks of the
Rhine and the shores of the Danube, the
habitations of our oVH ldHeestoFS, They
were captured in battle or hunted in their
forests with such alacrity that gluts we're
frequently experienced in the slave markets
of all the Italian cities, so that adult and
vigorous men were sometimes sold for less
than dollar of our money, often for two
drachmas, that Is about tWenty-eight or
thirty cents. OF course they generally
brought larger price; but 1t became a
maxim in the, stern economy of the elder
Cato, and other grim and grizzly ruEians,
that il was cheaper to buy slaves than to
raise them from infancy, They were treat.
ed with cruelty equal to that, at present
experienced, by the negroes in South Caro-
lima. If contempt could add to the bitter+
4 ness of their lot they endured II lin full
measuEeI EGreFe phi1osopheEs sunk them
to the level Of the brutes, and denied them
the attributes of humanity. Aristotle pro-
nounced its f.eVident truth, that nature
intended 'barbarians to be slaves. ia
truth" says Montesquieu with exquisite
j irony HWh hich is, no doubt, ,still selt'eTident
to the company of merchants trading TO
the coast Of 1Africa.Y "a a. or
1t may seem q digression, but have al
ways been struck with the auninquisitiye
spirit of the aucients, spirit which will
best account for their slow progress 10 civ
ilization. These Wretched men, the olRnk-
! Ii ing of whose chains and the mutmur oi
whose groans, at length went up to Heav-
en- and called down aFepgeanee on theiI
oppressors, which ought to -beR warning
! to all tyrants in evefy ago md every land
, were descended from the same great Aryar
! stock as the Greeks and Romans them.
. selves. They spoke different dialects o.
, the same great Indo- European language
which was common TO them and theil
naughty mssters. Any man who will in.
2 yestigate this subject, will be astppisheG
. at the very near affinity Of our old mono
d syllable Anglo-saxoh to the Latin of the
Augustan age. It does not requlre the
! Learning OF Porson or a Bentley TO MAKE
; the examination. Any man, who in hi
youth has spent 3 few years or even few
!, months at a good grammar school, is per
/. feotIy competaht for the task. Modern
: English Is out Of tho question, for nearly
a half of our present language consists o
!. words adopted from! the Latin since thl
! Norman conquest often without even 8
. change of termination, But in order t.
+ make the comparison, We must 60 bacl
. To that old original portion of our speech
which ouraAeestors possessed, when, thir
= ty-six centuries ago, they separated from
> 1.-The ancestors of Ih0 Greeks and Roman
on the spurs of the Himalays and the Hin
doc. Roosh. An Investigation of this sub
ieet will conSince any candid man, chat tn
TWO languages are radically the same, AM
that our ancestors and those Of tbs oil
Romans, at some period of remote anti
lquity, were one and the same people. Ye
without reference to the near eopsanguin
its between themselves and their boud
men, apparently without q suspicion of th
fact, those old Italian pro-slaTery bigoti
in their intense selishness, in their unteel
1 ing arrogance, went on buying and ssllin
aud building their slave dungeons The.
i, went on seourging and chaiutng and tor
turing their abiect slaves, until ,VengeAne'
ever memorablaS aSengeance-suchW was th
ail6tment of Divine instice-pro6eediu
from those very forests where they hA
hunted their victims, overwhelmed theI
in unmitigabls ruin. Now here "
4 escape all difficulty with the history Of goo
old Noah and his vineyard and bis thre
hapless sons. Ham snd his posterity Al
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