Year: 1859




OF prayers unanswered, OF contumely patiently
endured--ha7e convinced us of the truth. 1t
must he spoken out, loudly and energetically,
despite the wild mockiugs Of "howGng can't"
The freed West India negro slave will not till
the soil for wages; the free son of the ex slave
is as obstinate as his sire. He will cultivate
lands which he has not bought for his own
yams, mangoes, and plantains. These satisfy
his wants de does not care for yours. Cotton,
and sugar, and coffee and tobacco--he cares
little for them. And what matters it to him
that the Englshman has sunk his thousands
and tens of thousands on mills, machinery, and
plants, which now totter on languishing es
tate that for years has only returned beggary
and debats. He eats his his yams and singers
at "Buckra."


We know not why this should be; but it is
so. The negro has been bought with price
the price OF English taxation and English toll.
He has been redeemed from bondage" by the
sweat and travail ofsome millious ofhard- work
ing Englishmen. Twenty millions of pounds
sterling-one hundred millions Of dollars-haye
been distilled from the brains and muscles of
the free English laborer, ofeyery degree, to fash
ion the West India negro into "free and nde-
pendent laborer" "Free and independent" G.
nough he has become, God knows; but laborer
he is not; and so far as we can see, never will
be- He will sing hymns and quote texts, but
honest steady industry, he not Only detests but
despises We wish to Heaven that some peo-
pie in England--neither government people,
nor persons, nor clergymen--but some just
minded, honest hearted, and clear sighted men,
would go out to some of the islands-say Jamai
ca, Antigua or Dominica--not for a month or
three months, but for a year--would watch the
precious protege oil philanthropy the free
negro, in his daily habits; would watch him as
he lazily plants his little squattng;woud see him
proudly reject agricultural or domestic service,
or accepts it at wages lud icrously dsproportion-
ate to the value of his work. We wish, too,
they would watch him while, with hide thick
er than that of a hipopotamus and body to
which fervid heat is comfort rather than an
annoyance, he droningly lounges over the pre-
scribed task on which the interpId Englishman,
uninured to the burning sun, consumes his inn
patient energy and too often sacrifices his life.
We wish they would go out and view the ne
gro in all the bazonry Of his idleness his pride,
his ingratitude contemptuously sneerng at the
industry Of that race which made him free, and
then come home and teach the memorable les
son of their experience to the fanatics who have
perverted him into what he is.--Londo,s Times
! We give place to the above article not only
on account OF the information it contains on a
subject interesting to all mankind, but for the
purpose of commenting it to the attention of
all our readers, and especially to that class Of
the community who are honestly looking for
ward to slavery emancipation in the United
States as consumation Of the greatest moment
to the permanent peace and happiness of the
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manufacturer read it; let the man oflcsure,
who relies on the general prosperity Of those a.
round him. read it; and above all, let the great
laboring classes, who literally earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow, read it. Nay, let
the canting fanatic read and ponder, and let pc :
litical demagogues blush with shame when they
reflect how many honest and well-meanng per-
sons have been led astray by their "cunningly
devised fables" in regard to the "poor slave"


But one word to those who, by false alarm,
have been frightened from the democratic par
ty, and have taken refuge in the arms OF black
republIcanism You, once good and true dem
ocrats of Maine New Hampshire, Connecticut,
New York-what have you gained, or are like
ly to gain, by joining the republican party?-
What would you gain were that party to ac
complsh what some Of its ablest and most in
fuential leaders really seek to accomplish-the
abolition of slavery in the South? or, in the
event of failing in this, the dissolution OF the
Union? Why take alarm at this demagogical
cry about slavery? Why meddle with the sub
ject? But say you, the democratic party, sup
ported by the power of the Administration are
for leaving the subject alone; or, rather, they
are for leaving it where the Cincinnati Conven-
ton solemnly and without dissenting voice a.
greed it should be left-with the States where
| it exists, and in the Territories with the people
'acting through tie legally and fairly express
ed will of a majority of actual residents" there
Of which Territories, "whenever the number
of their inhabitants justifles it," are to be al
lowed "to form constitution, with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality with the
other States" This is where the democratic
patty has placed the subject. 1t is by faith
full adherence to the principle thus laid down
that the agitation in Kansas has been subdued;
and on this broad and firm platform, based up
on justice, equality and right, the democratic
party will continue to stand.


Let all democrats, then, be united; and when
we speak of democrats, we appeal not only to
the great body Of the party who have always
renamed firmly together, but to those who
from honest convictions, but without sufficient
reflection, have been temporarily separated from
their old friends There are many such in the
States above mentioned, as we'll as in other sec
tons Of the Union, whose sympathies, we are
assured, are with the democratic party and
who now see that in listening to the represen-
tations ofthe opposition they have been deceiv-
cd, and have no alternative but to turn back,
or become thoroughly affiliated with an unscru.
pulous party, to which they have been nearly
their whole lives opposed. They now see that
the Administration is faithfully and ably ad-
minstercd, and that all this abuse of the Pres-
dent is but a repetition of what his democratic
predecessors have all had to suffer, in whose
defence they were ever proud to bear part
Washington Constitution.





0J-In time of health prepare for sickness is
the true principle. Nothing is more preposter-
Gus than to think that, because at the present
time we may be in health, disease will never
overtake us. How many have gone forth to
their business in the morning and returned be
fore the close of day to lay themselves down
upon beds of sickness, from which they have