Litchfield enquirer., 1867-09-19
The International Anti Slavery Confer

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 The Anti-Slavory Conference, on assom- bly composed of the principal Anti Slave lately, put forth Q statement of such facts as have boon decisively proved by cxpcri- ence regarding tho effects of that system and of its abolition, among which VIC find the following:
 Slavery, founded upon tho protoxt of converting and civilizing inferior races, leaves tho slavo ignorant and debased, while it plungos tho mastor into sloth and corruption; it kills the spirit of enterprise; it is excessively costly; md it is not sui ted to become transitory condition, preparatory to liberty. Of emancipation, they speak in tho following confident yet temperate language:
 It is proved that half measures do no good that systems of apprenticeship, of lbcrating children, of gradual emancipation, havo mperillcd property, tho domestic circle, and public order have loos- ened every tic, without breaking or replacing them; have excited impationce, uncaslness and suspicion, and that immediate, definite, and radical cmanci- patton has everywhere proved the only means of
 
 timo satisfying justice and roconciling the races. It is proved that emancipation in the colonies oi Great Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, and IIOl- land, although preceded by a period of unscttlo- ment fottorod ill q material point of view by the increasing competition Of the products of Ell- rope and of slave countries ntcrfcrcd with by one sided measures, accepted with rcpugnanco by the shareholders would not or have not becn able to accommodate themselves to the enlarged system of labor and have failed to pay sufficient rate of wages; where governments have not taken ade- quate measures for tho diffusion of religion and instructios, and for the prevention of vagabond- ago, that it has succeeded best whero tho antecs- dent relations bctwoon master and slavo were sat sfactory, and where tho proprietary body has been intelligent and energetic, Governments far-seeing the family circle respected, and public worship have been secured to tho enancipated.
 Good or bad results, ill short, have fol lowed emancipation in proportion to the liberal or illiberal treatment of the freed man. Whenever he has been treated like man, he has prospered; it is only whom, as in Jamaca, overy effort has been made to keep him as nearly as possible in his old servils condition, that emancipation has proved anything like failure.
 The Conference further affirms that the slave-trado can only Do suppressed with tho suppression of slavery, that tho present system of coolio immigration is nearly as objectionable as slavery itself, and they Ere turn grateful thanks to tho Almighty Crea- tor of free man for tho restoration to iber- ty of 4,O00,O 900 slaves i'll tho republic of tho United States of America, and for tho emancipation of 23.OOO,OOO sorfs in the Russian Empire"
 Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Egypt-three Catholic and two Mahometan are the only nations, who have any claim to be termed civilized, that now permit slavery. Brazil will probably soon emanci- pate. Spain and Portugal will dos so when ever they arrive at any respectable home government. Of Mahom mechanism not much can be expected. Altogether, an OK cellent outlook for Liberty and Liberals, bad enough for Slavery and MT. Thomas Carlyle.