Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-06-14

8Of the thirty nine thousand Africans i'm
ported during these years into Charleston, the
people of South Carolina imported only two
thousand and six. The people of Great
Britain and New England have been the
most prominent in denouncng US for having
slaves; yet 1t appears that Great Britain inn
ported and sold to us nineteen thousand Fix
hundred, and Rhode Island seven thousand
nine hundred, of the thirty-nine thousand
slaves. Rhode Island, in order that she
might see that the auction block realized the
value of her importations, had in Charleston
eighty -eight of her trusty natives as the con-
signees of her cargoes. Now, let II be recol-
lected, that this was long after the constitu-
tion was In full operation In 1889, and just
before the entire prohibition of the African
slave trade took place In 1908, by the terms
of the constitution. When the constitution
was made, in 1887, South Carolina had pro-
hibited the importation of slaves from any
quarter into the State.
The zeal for the African with these people,
then was exactly what 1t is no,0-an affair Of
interest Then, they went to Africa--took
the negro from his counlrv-generally only
men and boys-and brought him here and
sold him to us. They made money by the
lessness to she constitution, and their unjust
Legislation, by taking taxes from us, and ex-
pending them for their benefit and enrich
ment and in order that they may keep us
down andset up power over u.s. under their
control, to enforce their unjust rule--with
mingled hate and avarice they profess love
for the negro--make war upon us--emanci-
pate the slaves they brought and sold us, and
are striving to organize them against us for
their own interest and party ambition.
In this cruel enterprise they have already
killed one-fourth of all the negroes in the
Southern States-more than all the whites
who perished in the war And nor they are
busy sending emissaries all over the South,
to array the black against the white popula-
ton, with the certain knowledge that If their
efforts succeed they are getting up war Of
races which will inevitably end in the utter
destruction and extirpation of the poor negro
from this continent. They delude him with
the idea that they viii make him the equal
of the white man that they will make him
rule the white man--that they will take
away the lands and houses Of :he white man
and give them to him. We have not doubt
that this is exactly the sort Of language that
they used towards their ancestors when on
the coast OF Africa, they got them into their
slave-ships aud brought them across the At
| lantic.
Excepting in two States Of the thirteen
Southern States, the white population Is
greater than the black; and in these two
States the races are becoming rapidly equal
lied from death and emigration. In the thir-
teen Southern States, there are eight millions
Of whites 70 three millions OF blacks. To
attempt To rule the white population by the
black in any CT these S,ates, Is the most
wicked aud cruel nonsense, too cruel to be
attempted by any people but those who are
attempting il. We believe, however, that it
will fail. 1t will fail, just as all their efforts
TO get up negro instructions during the wsT
failed aud the black race will have intelli-
gence enough Ia understand the designs o.
these old friends Of tlSirs, and strive to live
in harmony with those who have, with them
common country and common destiny