East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-11-22
Aboliti0n.-.1ts Reasons and Results.

Abolition---Its Reasons and Results.
"Tho numerous statements which
purport to prove the moral and intel
lectual aptitude Of the emancipated
slaves may be dismissed as simply in
credible. Philanthropists ought to
understand that If liberated South
ern slave were really fit TO share in the
Government OF the Republic, he would
furnish an unanswerable- apology, not
only for tho system in which he was
trained, but for the slave trade on
which the institution was originally
founded. Mr.. Wendell Phillips him
self would scarcely propose to admit
heather African savage to the cleo
toral booth; and experience has shown
that neither missionaries nor traders
can make perceptible impression on
Indigenous barbarism. The distance
by which the freedman is separated
from the Ashantee measures the ben
efits of American slavery; and If the
colored population is now worthy of
sovereignty, the cotton plantations mist
hare been the most efficient schools Of reh-
gion and morality ,ehich hare hitherto been
established on earth. II scrapuloas con-
science wouM feel the urgent duty Of hid
mapping the remaining population Of Gen.
trat africa, to pass them through the
process whieh has refined and suJlmated
their happnr kinsmen beyond the atlantic.
1t is not necessary to answer moro
seriously foolish women and eileminate
rhetoricians who affect to vindicate
the equality or superiority of de-
graded race. There may be some
anomalies in republican system
which exclude from all share of power
third Of the Southern population |;
! but wise statesmen are rather anxious
for results than studious of theoretical
symmetry, and it is always easy to
furnish sound reasons for measures
which are found to be practically ex-
podient "-Loadoa Saturday Rer'ep.
1t has always been palpable to those
who have looked at the proceedings
impartially, that the war which, for
the last forty years, has been carried
on against slavery in the United States,
has been prompted, not by feelings of
love or sympathy for the negro, but
by feelings of hatred toward his mas
ter. Abolition originated in Puritan
ism, whose destructive spirit is abhor-
renee Of all who, i'll any respect, differ
from itself Intensely charitable
toward its own vices and crimes, it
compounds for its indulgence in thom
by an equally intense adherence of
all whose short -comings are of diff
ferent character; and making its own
unstable creed t!L.e standard of all
goodness, it is as prompt to prosecute,
and as relentless in its prosecutions
for matters of difference, as its patron
saints were in the days when they
burned their grandmothers for witches
and whipped naked Quaker women AT
the cart-tail in the streets of godly
Boston
This war; while it has inflicted in
calculable wrong and misery upon the
master, has inflicted greater and more
permanent evil upon the scrvile class.
The horrors of negro slavery, exag-
gerated as they have been by Adolf
ZIONIST writers, bear no comparison to
the horrors of negro freedom. The
once happy, contcntod, comfortably
clothed and fed negro population OF
the South arc now dying with cold
and destitution. Homeless, country.
lastand tor,ocrn, w " provide, and nc
economy to preserve, they are passing
away 10y hundreds and thousands, the
victims of intolerable misery the
saddest spectacle that, for many ages,
the world has presented.
The despicable cant of the philan-
thropic class about negro suffrage and
negro elevation, is continued simply
to keep the eyes of mankind, and their
own, turned away from the awful
actuality. There is no probability OF
negro suffrage. There is about the
same prospect of the ADM, sion of the
horses and oxen of the country to
political franchises as of the admission
of the negro. The one feels tho want
of such franchises, and is about as
capable TO use them properly as the
other. The negro is perishing for
bread, and the philanthropist benevo-
lently offers him a spclling-book, and
cheers his expiring moments with the
PROMISE "a ai,vvv. 80 ---
If the education and improvement
OF tho negro was thing really de-
sired, nothing else so adverse to his
prospects could have been done, as the
breaking of tho relations which OK.
listed between himself and his master.
If the negro of America is any better
fitted to perform the duties aud meet
the responsibilities of citizenship than
his African ancestor, he owes it to
slavery. Compare the deai negro of
the Abolitionist brave, ambitious, pat
riotic, with the actaal negro as he
exists in his fatherland, and to what
is the former indebted for his superb
ority but to his servitude? What has
philanthropy done for his elevation ?
The philanthropist Of tho United
States has driven the negro from the
best home of which he was capable,
and the best seminary for his i'm
provement. A comparison of the re-
suits Of two centuries Of slavery with
those of three years Of freedom will
show this so conclusively that there is
nosAbolitionist in the land who dares
face the exhibit.
These are the views which intelli-
gent men of other countries are be-
ginning to entertain. Tho inconsis-
tency of tho pretense that the negro
was degraded by slavery, becomes APP
parent even iii the claims set up for
him by the philanthropists. If he is
fit to become sharer in the Govern
ment of this country, how did he ac-
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