The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-21

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government full of glory and honor. And then
to support the paraphernala Of Bureau corps for
tho ecemosynary benefit of all who pretend to
live by aims, to the amount Of Sl2, ,00O, ,UU0 You
may say, in certain Northern States all society is
| organized under corporations in somc form or
other, from village school up to banks and rail-
| roads with untold millions, whereby associated
| wealth may be brought tn act with moro vigpr and
| unity, aud through which it may more ctlectually
| own tho labor of tho country. Tho partriurchal
system, or the system i'll which individual capital
| its owned individual labor was tho only real check
to tho power Of associ tied wealth III the shape of
corporations. And NOW that system is broken
| dnwn, tho whole labor of consolidated nation
| will be owned by the capitalists OF the nation,
through the power of government, aided by the
unity OF associated wealth in tho shape of curpu-
| fatons. And thus the whole labor of the South
| will be owned, through the power of government,
change OF one system OF slavery for another. The
| European system is far more energetic and
cheaper, but it is moro hearticss and selfish and
| more grinding to tho iacc of the poor. The one
| system is moro truthful and processes less; tic
other is full Of professions OF humanity; but under
it all are educated to hypocrisy, to lattcry, to
tenn OF undsguised force; the other is q system of
| disguised fraud. The black race has never, as a
race been subjugated to tho European system OF
slavery; and i'll fact the black man, on ahy large
scale, was never known to slavery until after the
discovery or America. Tho Spaniards had every
| where in this country reduced the Indians To
slavery, and worked them i'll their mines with
| great severity, and under that system they we're
fast perishing ont, when tho good Las Cases
|
as they could endure tho heat and confined work
better than the 1ndians. Such is tho account of
| Herrera Negroes were thence forwarded, i'm
ported by the Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Eug-
lish, and afterwards by New England, iutu all
parts OF America as sIav"s. Egypt had been pre-
yiously supplied with negro slaves by dealers from
the interior of Africa but that only small scale
All tho slavery of the word previous to 15rl, was
| chiefly of the whito race The slavery Of the
OF sn the oa Testament wss who and it
| a descendant of Ham, because his descendants
were cursed by Noah to bo tho slaves Of slaves
They were slaves, but there is not tho slightest
evidence that they black. The only allu-
sion made in the Old Testament to the black
man is where it declarr that 'the leopard cannot
Abraham had three hundred and eighteen slaves
| or servants, born in his own house, who followed
him implicitly, and were counted as his posses
sions, and i'll the Valley OF Jehosephat fought
with him aud gained n battle The first fugitive
| slave We read OF being returned to her mistress
was Hagar and child at the well, where the
her mistress and obey her, &c. Slaves were then
made from prisoners taken in war, or "bought with
money" They, with their offspring, were the
property OF their masters, who could sell them,
nfict corporal punishment, and even put them to
| death. They were expressly authorized to bore
aetr theirs ears SO las as to know them Moses says
| and OF the children Of strangers that do sojourn
among you; of them shall ye buy, aud Of their
families that are with you, which they begot in
their land and they shall be your possession, and
you shall take them as an inheritance for you and
| for your children af er you, to inherit them ma
possessions; they shall be your bondmen for
| ever" Slavery afterwards existed throughout
Greece. Aristotle considered no house furnished
without slaves, considering them working
clsimed against slavery. Among them there were
| two kinds OF slavcs-those obtained by conquest,
and those purchased with money. 7 hose b1ught
were from the traders from tho Greek colonies of
Asia Minor and from Thrsoe, where parents sold
| their children. In Athens, at the height of
| her renown there we're far more slaves than
every day for slaves, called KukIas, because
tho slaves stood round in a circle to be examined
| he father Of Demosthcnes bpquea,hed slaves
who were makers of chairs, and others to his son,
az the friend Of liberty. Slavery existed in Rome
| from tho earliest days, and in immeus. bodies
some owning many thousands. In CIR, Gee it was
held to rest upon original difference in races:
| but in Rome this was not held. In Rome it was
said that in the luxurious days Of their profigate
pare for great feasts by fattening their fish on
slaves and yet many Of their aves were scholars
and writer's: Erasmus, the great author, was a
slave. But in all these countries there is no re-
| cord made of any slaves being negroes or blacks
IL was i'll America where the negro from the inte-
rlor of Africa was first introduced into slavery on
| large scale. The conscience OF the world was
first excited against the slavery of the black man:
but there was never any troubled conscience
about the slavery Of the sch6e man, although it
had existed in every age and country. Even in
modern ages, one OF the great exporters of slaves
was Britain, who sent numbers to be sold on the
continent. The Anglo-Saxons sold their female
| servants, and oven their children, to strangers
particularly to tho iIrish. This custom existed
| even after the Norman conquest. At q Council
| OF the Church held in London in 1102 canon was
| adopt d "Let no one from hencetorth presume
| to airy on that traffic by which men in England
| have hitherto been sold like brute beasts" But
| still the owning OF slaves was universal. The
| Britains supplied the market OF the Saracens
with slaves purchased from Slavonic tribes bor-
dering the Adriatic, and tho Musselman continued
| the traffic OF slaves taken from Christian nations
even down to our day. All commercial mari ns
| III modern times engaged in the traffic of Afri-
Cans, and Old and New England especially made
some OF their Iargcst fortunes from it. The black
| man WAS then introduced into slavery in Amerira
after the year 1911 after the cue man had been i'm
slavery for thousands OF years, without any holy
horror being excited against his Oppressors Tue
black man was thus brought from his original
| Forests and native habits, where he had been
doomed from the first dav OF his creation to live
upon the spontananenus productions around him,
and reduced to tho aris and occupations of clvl-
llzed life under tho prote citing care of the race
originally created expressly 'tIllers OF the
ground" Under this caro- and guidance the
habits Of the negro have been modified. In the
care OF the stronger race he has improved and
grown more rapidly iu population than he has
ever done bufOre. tie has been elevated III the
scale OF existence and been blessed with the coul-
FORTS OF christianity, such as he has mover known
before III the history Of tho world. Now, that the
strong arm Of his interested protector is taken
from him, his Il. ON IL Inevitable. He will sink
lpto his oriS inal state Of exist ence and 1.-Two the
wandering, migratory lite for which he Was
created, just the Imdian does, the white
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