Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-01
Tor the ALEXANDRA GAZETTE


SOliiOQny OF Canaan. The SON Of Ham.
NORFOLK, March 30.-I was 3 wsyward
and wandering boy. | was instigeted by
the Devil aud my own wicked heart and
committed sin against COD and humanity
the enormty of which has never been sec
onded, either in sacred or profane history.
The outraged Majesty OF the universe, in
stead of blotting me out OF existence pro
nounced the awful curse Of eternal servitute
upon my unhappy offspring. They were
gradually driven from the circles OF civiliZa
ton into the dark, torrid junges of Africa.
There for thousands OF year6 the weak have
been enslaved and oppressed by the strong,
and they have become so aDmallZed and
hesotted that they are Do5 unlike the wild
beasts of the forest, save in form. They are
q prey to their animal passions and appe-
tites, and when hunger incites them they
even excel in low animal giuttony the beasts
of the field and sley and eat one another.
Thus, for ages, have they lived, ignorant Of
the God who made them, lost to every NOR
al seuse mere serfs and slaves and obedient
to their lusts ana passions-God has go fixed
his mark of vengeance upon them that IN
the color of their flesh thes reflect tie dark
night and degradation of their souls All =!
wretched one, that should have brought
such curse upon my lineage and made them
the most degraded of beings.
The white men Of other lands finding my
descendants in such an enslaved, degraded
and beastly condition, and seeing that tor 8
shining bit of glass or brass, red handler
chief or worthless trinket Of any kind,
mothers would sell their offspring, they
conceived the idea Of engaging in such
barter, and bearing them far away to Amer
lea and selling them TO citizens OF that coun-
try to fell their forests and cultivate tneir
fields. The Puritan Fathers of New Eng
land led the van in this lucrative traffic,
aud great part of the United States be.
came the home of my people. | looked
with tie deepest soicitude upon the manner
in which they were treated in their southern
home, whittier they had drifted. Though
almost universally in slavery, was delight
ed to find that they were almost universally
treated humaney and justly. Wherever
there was al exception to this rule, 1t was
In the person of some penurious Puritan or
ansrchistc foreigner. who did not under.
stand the nature, and hence the manage
mant of my people. Procuring them as
| goods and chatels, they used them alone for
present pecuniary profit, and hence often
treated them with cruelty and nhumanity.
Such conduct among warm hearted, gen.
erous southerners was rarely ever witnessed.
Nv people are unlike all other peoples
and races or earth. They are essentially
carnal. The great end and object of their
existence is to crafty their carnal appetite5
and passions. And when these are unre'
strained by supreme authority they rush
into the widest excesses, and will be obliv'
ious of all consequences in the present satis-
faction of appetite or indulgence OF passion.
But when they are kept In restraint-When
their time is closely occupied in Wholesome
toll. under strict discipline, and their ap-
petites are gratifed with plain, nutritious,
simple food-they are the most docile, ODE.
dient and often kind and atectionate OF
people. They improved under such discl-
pllne as this to wonderful degree in intel
ligence, morals and religion, and in few
years became SIS far superior to their wild
brethren In their old African home as their
masters were to them.
In this state they were liberated from the
authority and restraint of their masters and
turned loose as the nations wards" and ell
eyated to the giddy height of fully enfran-
chised citizens. Alas alas! what a wrong
was done to their masters, what calamity
was thereby inflicted on my people
Removed from the kindly restralnst OF
humane, and often, too indulgent masters,
they have sought their highest enjoyment
in the mere qualification ofsensual indulgen.
cies. They often lapse into Incidence and
inactivity. and neglect to provide for them.
selves or families. When pressed by want
and hunger they see no improperly IN
stealing. Others, impelled by their unre-
strained, natural lusts, are guilty of rape
and all other sensual excuses. They learn,
| not to improve their minds, but to increase
their facilities for carnal indulgences.
They work without system, merely from
the pressure of present necessities. all
moral sense is obltersted, and the sanctity
of the marital relation is contemned and
they run riot in adultery, fornicatlon and
incest They rush in hordes into the church.
es to use the mantle of religion as cloak to
conceal their immorslities. They hate the
whites, who have done them no wrong, and
teach their children to despise them, be-
cause they are in the way OF their lustful
nassions. and obstruct the qualification of
their licentious indulgencies All their
thoughts. feelings and impulses centre in
self and education, politics and religion
are pr0stltuteu 10 ils Sratiucauion. ihey
would wreck schools, governments and
religion, if, upon their ruin, they
could erect highway to their IN
restrained sensual indulgences. Oh! my
naonle what wrongs have been done you in
the name of liberty! And when look down the
vista of time, and behold the elimination of your
unbridled licentiousness wall in bitter anguish
over any unnamed sin which invoked such Bit
ter curse from heaven upon you and upon me-
And when see you instigated and encouraged BY
timentality of "Uncle Toms Cabin" or the fend-
ish soul of old John Brown "still marching on
tnrn nv face away and shut my eyes upon the