The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-12
Negro Oivill.u,len din ,he sou,h.

Negro Civilization an tho eouth.
We cannot forbear this occasion TO re-
MUD the philanthropistsso whatathey
Fpwetbe Southern Statss of theI.Union.
An the first plaoe; ihe.cheapest and best
ftlot6ing for the poor chat is known. In
the second place. the expectation Of
valnes which bring specie into the United
States, and sustain the credit Of the pa.
ton by payment of import duties. In
the third place. Ivy having taken such
savage slaves as the author quoted has
described, and taught them to speak the
English language, comprehend the
scheme of Christian salvation, and re-
spect the laws of morality and order;
made them to know the art Of industry,
made them consumers of millions of dol
lars OF manufactures, and employed them
to produce the comfort and lnxnries of
civilization. These things have been
done and given in exchange for the SER
vices of savnges who knew nothing but
idolatry, want, bondage, concubinage
and tribal war. Providence has wrought
out this problem of African civilization
in its own way. It has employed the
agency OF those who wished chenp sugar
tobacco and cotton, and of those who
would hire their ships to conduct the
slave trade. 1t has caused the African
savage slave to be placed in the manual
school of Southern cultivation. The
labor OF the savage slave hus thus been
exchanged against the schooling, moral
and industrial, of q superior race. The
result is before She world The African
savage sluve of 1863 has been changed
into the American freedman of 1869,
fitted, in the opinion of those who use
him, to legislate aud govern those to
whom Providence had committed him.
Are not. then. the services thus rendered
by the Southern people to humanity and
civilization estimable? We have no in
tention to send in bill against humani-
ty and civilization for this tuition. The
claim has been already repudiated. 1t
has even been enhunced by the coufisca
tion of the values invested under the
sanction Of law. But worse than all,
those who first protested against this de-
volution OF slavery upon them, and next
turned it to the profit of others more
than themselves; those who have brought
the negro African slave to the condition
proper to make an American freedman.
are denounced rs q criminal people,
This cannot alter the facts of which we
speak.
The influence of Amercan slavery in
the reformation of the African negro
slave is the more striking when we re-
member that all efforts to improve his
condition III his own country have utter
ly failed. For many centuries Portugal
and Spain have tried the reformation of
the African ut home. The Roman Church
has made it missionary field for ages.
The Christian religion has been pl mt ed
centuries ago in Abyssinia, aud bishops
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from st. Peter. Yet the state of govern
ment, OF popular right and of social mo-
rslity is as low in Abyssinin US anywhere
else, while slavery is the common law,
and slaves the common currency of that
country. Lieutenant Harris, who visited
Abyssiuia on mission from the British
East India Company, gives the prices
current of slaves in that country, the
equivalent being cotton cloth or bullucks.
He mentions one slave that had belonged
to fifteen or sixteen different mnsters
and had apparently been traded for nj
the way from the Western coast of Africu
to the Northern. So slaves are not only
used i'll Africa for labor, but us currency
Tor circulation, and bills of exchange.
AT a later period, Great Britain tried
the effects of colonization in Africa Al
the close Of the revolutionary wnr with
her American colonies, sho was some
what encumbered with the remnant oi
8. 600 slaves carried off by her fleet and
army. Many of these were sent to Sierra
Leone and elsewhere on the const of AT.
rica. The philnnthropists of the United
States snbst quently adopted similar
idea, aud founded the colony of Liberia.
Neither of these enterprises have made
the slightest impression upon domestic
slavery in Africa, or effected any mate
rial improvement in the condition of the
savages who inhabit it. The people Of The
Southern STATES can thus prooe hH the,
hnue. in one century. done more To cioiiist
and christianize Africn saoage siares Mu,
nN the professional phihtnhhropists Of botl
hemispAeres huDe, since the difh IF Christ
DeBow's Reoie,1.
| WoN'T ABOLISH THE INCOME STAx.
Congress will not abolish the income
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