The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-16
HARPER & BROS.' ssQUBER CALL
FOR A CONVENTION

HARPER & Bros ssQUBER CALL
FOR A CONvENTION.n
I IHdrrer's Weekly, discussing the negro
conspiracy in Georgia, says the negroes
have been ''more inhumanly degraded sad
oppressed and contemporary mistrusted
than any class or race, They were slaves
more wretched than any, save those of
Dahoney, victims of slavery more mon
strous than any other, and yet were docile
and harmless" Do not the Harpers know
! that they only saw the institution in the
South as described by Mrs. Stowe and by
those who made bread and money and won
Office by exaggerating every evil and #FeRg
Of the system! 1t was no more wrong and
no greater social crimes or evils came of it
than are incident to slavery in great manu-
featuring establishments of New England.
/ Jesus Christ lived in the midst of dOatloi-
slaves, and though the Weekly before US
states that ''God has no attribute that could
take sides with the shareholders, - He surely,
when He assumed the shape of God on
earth manifested in the flesh no attribute
that condemned slavery or proposed its ex-
tinction. The blessed Weekly is not only
infinitely more phiIanthropic and sentl-.
mental than our Savior, but refers to the
''unspeakable dread of the Georgian ex-
STAKEHOLDER, when he Thought his victims
the freedmen-were about to settle long
accumulated debt OF vengeance" 1t hap
pens, on the contrary, that no Georgian
ever deemed himself -ssponsihle for the ex-
istence of slavery. He found the institu-
ton created by Boston and Providence
| good Dutchnan now and then importing a
| cargo 0. egroes-establishe for him,
and he never knew how to get rid of
it with safety to both races. That
was the great difficulty, and nobody
believes that the sword successfully cut the
Gordian knot. Recent events in Georgia
and in three or four districts of Mississippi,
where blacks, as in the Georgia district,
outnumber the whites as two and even five
to one, show that incolns scheme of beni-
ticence as put in operation may prove ruin
Gus alike to states and races, obliterating
at last all traces of American freedom.
Not only did the Dutch and Harper &
Bros. fathers fasten slavery on America,
and not only are they responsible for all
crimes and enormities of the system and we
only for personal wrongful acts of each of
US who were shareholders, but when Harper
& Bros. and their shrewd but exceedingly
good fathers, the New England and other
shareholders found the African slave trade
a property profitless and hired help"
cheaper, because only needed on New Eng
land farms two, ,or four months each year,
they enacted prospective emancipation
:. laws, and before negroes tasted liberty sold
the last of them to Virginia, Maryland, the
Carolinas and Georgia. They took gold,
and we, Sambo, and, as usually happens, the
Yankee got the better of the bargain. This
is an old story aud there is another as full
of truth which the Harpers should print now
and then. They are good Methodists, exceed
ingly devout, and love to print the truth,
and would not do gross wrong co their
Southern white wcountrymen in order
to pander to the prejudices of Radicalism,
tant, of which, in the South, they and
Birthstone Brooks of Arkansas are admira-
Bile impersonations. In order to induce the
good Yankees, Harper & Brothers fathers,
to assent to the abolition of the sl8ye trade,
; we of the South gave them an extension of
time in which it might be prosecuted, and
gave them the coasting trade and shipping
bounty and navigation acts. The Harpers
should read the journals of the convention
that made the Constitution, and of the first
Congress, and not rely for facts affecting
this question upon New England-made OF
Harper published history, alike full of abb
surd falsehoods.
But we were only going to show how
deftly that editor for the Harpers places
the negro leader of the insurrection beyond
the reach of possible suspicion. No sooner
) was he accused, say the Harpers, than he
wrote: 81 desire to set myself right-all
must obey the law,'' etc., and thus, in the
Harpers' eyes, Rivers is acquitted. 1t Is
, nice. Our courts should see how it was
done. 1t was conclusively" done say
: these godly men, the Harpers, and ''whitt
men," they continue, ''would do well tc
ponder. Such rumors have always beer
improved by the whites for the wholesale
S slaughter of negroes" Such allegations il
e the face of plain facts evolved before tn,
, courts last week in Georgia show how ut
terry regardless of truth are these grea
publishers. Negroes swore in, court tt
the details of the awkward plot tc
murder, rob and destroy and eve1
to appropriate the women of the country
a Rivers was leader in the scheme, so the
r negroes thought, and the poor creature
$ only needed capable leader. The Har
/ pers say it was only "queer call for ICON
$ vention." The darkies cannot pay thei
n poll tax, and, therefore, cannot vote, ant
plot death and desolation and fire an,
: sword and rape and ruin, and the Harper
/ call it "a queer call for q convention.
t Well, it is all over. The whites conducted
/ themselves most generously and wisel
:, and temperately. The negroes are on trla
= before the ablest judge in the Unite,
States, Herschel V. johnson, and we hop
It that all will be acquitted, and that ther
e may be no more plots, and that Grant AM
the Harpers viii let US have peace. Mean
. while, it would be wise for Cuffee to issu
= no more 'oueer calls, for conventions"
e IHE Duiias - -: -.
If nine indictments pending against numbe
% of our professional and business men. Ths
g this tax is unjust few VIII deny. Fo