The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-10-04


Wnlch your Honors shall think most proper"
Inc trustees refused this petition saving that 'bedes
tne hazard attending that Introduction it would DESTROY
all industry among the white inhabitants and the Colony
would soon be too like its neighbours void of white nbah
tans filled with Blacks and reduced to be the precaros
property Ql Few equally exposed to Domestick Treach-
cry, ahd Foregn Invasion; and therefore the trustees
cannot be supposed to be in any Disposition of granting
TINS Request; and they have not before this sgnied
ther dislike OF It, this Delay to be imputed to no other
motives but the hopes they had conceived that time and
experience would bring the complaints to a better mind:
ANA the trustees readily Join issue with them in their an
peal to Fosterlty who shall Judge between them who
were te best friends; Those, who endeavOred to pre-
serve Tor them Property in their lands by tying up the
Hands of Their nthfty Progenors or they who wanted
power to mortgage or alien them Who were the best
friends TO the Colony Those who with great labour and
lost mad endeavoured to form q colony Of His Maiestvs
Subjects and prosecuted PrOestantS from other parts Of
Europe, had placed them on fruitful soil and strove to
secure them IN Their Possessions by those arts which nat
ury tend TO keep the Colony full of useful and indus
lous people capable both to cultivate and defend it. or
thoSe VINO to graty the greedy and ambitious views of
q lew negro merchants would put it into their power to
become sole owners of the province by introducing their
Bane1ul Commodity which, it is Wel-known by sad ex-
pe1ence has brought our neighbour Colonies to the brink
OF rum, by driving out their white inhabitants who
wee their glory and strength, to make room for the
Blacks, who become the Terror Of their unadvised
Masters"
At this time three men who have afterwards become
world renowned in the history of Methodsm inter-
ested in the Georgia Colony These We're John and
Charles Wesley and Rev Geo Whitfield All three of.
them went to Georgia Whitfield established an orphan
asylum near Savannah The two Wesleys were strong
aboonists, while Whitfield conscientonusy believed in
slavery and partially supported his orphan ASYLUM from
his profits upon slave labor
Whitfield therefore enthusiastically endorsed the petit
ton on the ground that slavery the best of
raising the negro from barbarism to civilization
Finally by of the urgent petitions of the settlers
IN $780, the purchase of negroes was allowed and Georgia
soon had iourshng and could hold her own
with the other colonies.
In 1863 it is estimated that about one sixth of the popu
ation Of the English colonies consisted of negro slaves
Every colony had some but by far the larger part were
owned South OF the PatOmac River
COLONIAL ALARM AND RESULTING DUTY.
The large number of negroes imported in the latter part
Of the Seventeenth Century commenced to alarm the col
Dnsts and they began to awake to the dangers of Afr
can slavery Though in 1869 they had given practical en-
to he mpoatons Of these negroes by the
Dutch they felt constrained to discourage the in
crease of dangerous population by subecting negroes
and alien servants to discriminating duties. Such duty
was levied by act in 1859 for three years ard was CON
nued in 170l This was not purely act as is
shown by the fact that rebate Of threefourhs of the
luy given when she negroes were transported out of
he colony within six weeks In 1904 and 1705 the duty
taken off of the apprentices and left entirely on ne
groes other slaves The excuse of revenue it is true
alleged and brief time limitations given to the
cts but these limitations designed to secure Eng
ands confirmation of the enactments and to stie criti
ism from those most interested nthe slave trade and i'm
)Ortaons The slavetradeS however protested vgor-
,usy and procured the Withholding of the kings assent to
many thirythree different acts passed by the Vr-
yina Assembly prior to 1872 to discourage the slave
rade. j
The duty on slaves at first put at twenty shiings
zach and fifteen shilling head upon alien servants but ii
vas by successive acts raised to five pounds sterling
read However the Importation of negroes remained I
practically unchecked and the only advantage that Virgin
reaped from such of these acts became laws was ann
Increase in the revenue. 1t claimed in 171S that
nough revenue had been received from the duty IL d
uors and slaves in the past eight years to build new
apitol help North Carolina in an Indian war, partially
rect church, povi for the public defense and still
nough remained from the for the last sixteenth
ears to have seventeen thousand pounds hand I
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