V* «* v I: j.°-n» *, **\ ^ V • * ' ^ «f» A> «*\k ^cy •4? 'i^:* ^ •j*y ♦♦"V <. A>-^ J' THE FACTS; OE, AT WHOSE DOOE DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? WHO PROFITS BY SLAVE LABOK? WHO INITIATED THE SLAVE TRADE? WHAT HAVE THE PHILANTHROPISTS DONE? THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED, GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," " YOUNG AMERICA IN WALL STREET,' " SPREAD EAGLEISM," " YOUNG AMERICA AND OLD ENGLAND." * NEW YORK: R. M. DE WITT, 160 & 162 NASSAU STREET. LQNTDON: TKUBNER & CO. LIVERPOOL: ADAM HOLDEN". to %J^/l^f^jC^^r^^^i / Aristotle the pupil of Plato, was a pro-siavery man, and Cato was a. large slave-owner. Paulus Emilius, under a power of attorney of the Roman Senate, sold 150,000 of the Epirus cap- tives to the the slave-dealers of Rome. The object of Julius Caesar's invasion of these islands was only to procure slaves for the Roman market. Asiatics and, Africans were vended in all the marts of Europe by Christians 1 After building their palaces on the profits- of the slave trade, the Venetians passed a law forbidding a slave ever again to so step on board an argosy of Venice. England is equally virtuous after she has enriched herself ! Jefferson must have got his absurd " Free and equal" clause, in the Declaration of Independence, from Pope Alexander III., who wrote in the 12th century, " Nature having made no slaves, all men have an equal right to liberty." If nature does not make slaves, she has been a long time engaged in manufacturing apprentices, serfs, and paupers ! But there is one thing to her credit which I cannot say of the Buxtonian philanthropists, she minds her own business, and makes money by it. 24 the facts; or, I am glad to find that England was not the Adam and Eve of original slavery. Before Europe there was Africa. Before Africa there was Asia. The Sclavonic races derive their name from being slaves. But Exeter Hall should remember that white men did not in- vent negro slavery. As Hebrew enslaved Hebrew, and Greek enslaved Greek, so the negroes enslaved their own people, as more civilized Anglo-Saxons still virtually make slaves of Anglo- Saxons. Are the pulpit abolitionists aware that when the Saxons in- troduced slavery to England, the " the price of an able bodied Englishman was only four times that of an ox V* Are they aware, when reviling Americans, that the noble Scots taken on the field of Dunbar, were sent and sold as slaves in New England ? Do they know that the royal prisoners at the battle of Worcester, in spite of Henry Vane's remonstrances were shipped to America and sold into slavery ? During two centuries the red-men of the West were sold in Europe as slaves. " Columbus," says Washington Irving, " sent five hundred Indians to Spain f and the account sales showed better returns than shipments to Australia now-a-days do. Charles V. realized large sums by granting licenses to the Flemmiugs to sell slaves. Are the ebony emancipators aware that Philip Y. and Queen Anne divided profits on the 144,000 negroes sent to America under the Asiento Treaty ? Aud when Englishmen become loyally national and proudly conscious of their possessions in the East, does it ever occur to them that the profits of the African slave trade furnished them with the original capital to plant the acorn of their Indian Empire ? See " Bancroft on the Slave Trade." The Caucasian, the Ethiopian, and the American races were on the American soil at the same time. While the Pilgrims were landing in the North, a Dutch man-of-war carried the first AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 25 slaves to Virginia. (Query, were they the F. F. Vs. ?) The red man is disappearing from the hunting fields ^ the black man improves and multiplies on the plantations, while the energy of the white man of the West arouses the jealousy and the amaze- ment of Europe ! The American Indian was not civilization-proof. He was the Zebra of the horse tribe, the African was the donkey, and the Anglo-Saxon was the Arab steed ! while the mule represents the type of the mulatto. England's ideas of free trade were once concentrated upon free trade in slaves ; now it is free trade in opium. Then it was degrading the body — now it is debasing the mind. Free negroisra, Free opium, Free rum shops, Free magdalens; but taxes on newspapers, taxes on button paper, taxes every- where on knowledge. Paying two millions for education, half of which she receives by taxing the chief medium of education — Paper ! This is as inconsistent as the wail for the negro. Anti-slavery clubs are mutual admiration societies. Notice the working of the Emanci- pation Act on the people. This is the account current : A feio African trad- ers receive for 800,000 slaves sixty millions ster- ling. The many English people are taxed to enrich a few merchants and bankers in England — £20,000,000— which tax ruins the planters of Jamaica. Now, did not simple justice demand, that Great Britain, rather than rob the overtasked masses who derived no profit from the slave trade or labor, should have extorted the sum from those who had made their fortunes in the infernal traffic ? England allied herself with Russia against France ; then she becomes an ally with France against Russia ; now she is voting £10,000,000 to get her navy in order and Lord Cowley has gone to Vienna to complete her arrangements for changing again. 2 26 THE FACTS ; OK, She is equally consistent on the slave question. No, I will do her justice. It is not noble England, but some of her ignoble leaders that misrepresent America. The alliance between England and America is an alliance of the people. The alliance between France and England is an alliance of governments. I will do the English the justice to believe, that with all their faults they love an American — better than (I was about to remark, as much as they hate) — a Frenchman. Lord Brougham is a great man — a shining light in England — so brilliant as a lawyer — so brilliant as a statesman — and so much a favorite with and devoted to the fairer sex ; could he not accomplish more good on the Social Evil question, than he has ever, or can ever achieve on the slave question ? In introducing so many inconsistencies, I hope that I shall not become as inconsistent myself, by jumping from point to point so rapidly as to confuse my readers. If I have done so in this sixty-mile-an-hour essay, and they feel really sorry, I forgive them ! My desire is to remind England, on this slave topic, that it is not what we have been taught to believe is one of an Englishman's noble characteristics of fair play — to continually taunt Americans with holes in their elbows, after time has patched up their own. Admit that slavery is a wrong, would not freedom be a greater wrong to those incapable of taking care of themselves ? Their Egyptian life was dark as midnight, in comparison to the noonday existence of a southern plantation. In Africa they lived in misery — in America they are in comparative happiness. In their native land they were slaves, as were their grand- fathers and great-grandfathers before them — slaves that were fed to be eaten or slaughtered for the amusement of their con- querors I But in America their fortunes have changed. There, in infancy and in old age, in sickness and in health, they are cared for, sheltered, and clothed ; neat cottages are provided for them, wholesome food is furnished, suitable garments are supplied, and AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 27 if disease overtakes them, physicians are at hand to administer to their sufferings. You may say that self-interest guarantees all this. Even so ; is it not better than African wretchedness ? Better than the free negro of the North, who may die in want ? Better than thousands of white men in this great land, who, were it not for the sentiment — the natural repugnance to the word slave— would be glad to change places ? Besides, what is there in life that self-interest does not prompt ? You seldom see drunkenness among the slaves, while the free negroes brutalize themselves with drink ! The free negroes con- tract vices that the slave would scorn. The slaves are not allowed to drink rum. Therefore, the strong law of the planter improves the morals of the slave. Policy concurs with humanity. The law compels the master to protect the slave. The owner is a commissioner of poor-rates in the infancy, illness, and old age of the slave, paying their rates out of his own pocket. The institution of slavery in the southern States gives honor to the man and chastity to the woman when compared with the barbarous habits of Africa. In all the instances of freed slaves where farms were furnished and money until the land yielded, they have turned out failures. I would as soon think of allowing one hundred children to regu- late their conduct in the world as one hundred negroes freed from wholesome rule. Is it not in Sacred Writ where it is laid down that every man shall do some good to himself or his neighbor ? In Africa the the slave would do harm. In America he carries out the Divine rule, and under his present life he is obliged to support himself, and in doing that, he is made to grow rice, sugar, corn, and cotton for his fellow-man, thereby conforming to the great law. If any one doubts that the slaves are happy, let him visit them while at their meals, or their cottage fire ; let him join in their plays, and see the joy of their dances — notice their glee when the master returns. 28 THE FACTS J OK, There are thousands of planters who never permit the word slave to be used on their plantations : the negroes are spoken of as servants. The Texans have just passed a law permitting any negro who had purchased his freedom, and wished to return again into bondage, to do so — choosing his own master, who must agree to give him the necessaries of life in return for his labor. Do not be surprised when I tell you that, though this law is not two years old, some 103 free negroes have voluntarily returned again into slavery. My authority is a wealthy planter at present in London. He gave me more instances of those who wish to return than those who wished to leave. What, I ask of the abolitionists, is a truthful, common-sense emancipation scheme, and a sound, practical plan of freedom ? Point it out, and I may join them. I want them to admit facts — not distort them — admit first, that the Englishman is superior to the negro — admit that slavery in America is better than freedom in Africa — admit that slavery was forced on the Americans by Englishmen — admit that Emancipation has not brought the expected results — admit the wrong of risking war between two civilized nations on account of a ship-load of slaves — admit that there are many white laborers in England who have less comforts than the black men in America. I want those who abuse America because of her slaves, to admit the injustice that is done to America, by laying all the crime at her door — if crime it is, to improve the moral and social condition of barbarous races. Rest assured that slavery is a matter of race. You cannot make a white man a slave under many generations ; neither can you reverse it with the negro in less time. With Mrs. Grundy, I believe in blood. Can you grow an oak in a flower- pot ? Tame an eagle in a canary's cage ? or a tiger in a rabbit warren ? No. Neither can an Anglo-Saxon be made a slave. It is simply a matter of brains. The most intellectual must govern. The negro must always remain a servant ; yet Exeter- hall would elevate him to mastership, always forgetting that AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 29 what is contrary to the law of races is contrary to the law of God. Such advocates would make all men fat or all lean — they would have mountains levelled — valleys filled — no short people, no long people, but everything on a dead level. This would be contrary to nature. Roman noses, and pug noses, French noses and flat noses, would all, under their system, be reduced to the emancipation shape ! What has been will continue — you cannot change in days that which centuries have formed. Thought is born of experience ; satin is made from the mul- berry tree ; and it requires hundreds of years to change the negro. What has been accomplished by the African race ? Is there any evidence of genius, of capacity, or power, on that Continent ? No, not one relic ; yes, I will not do them the injustice of omit- ting the monument of African skulls, erected by the King of Dahomey to his wife's memory ! But there is nothing else. By way of parenthesis, you must permit me to take a note of "Audi alteram Partem's" letter, in the "Northern Times" of Saturday, where Young America gets rapped over the knuckles for his "foul aspersions" against the slave-trade, and "base assertions " against the anti-slavery party. " Audi " writes well, but with the old-fashioned abolitionist pen. Before I commence dissecting him, I must ask "Audi" one favor— that he will not quote Latin. Like most living men, I have a ghost like dread of a dead language. Webster delighted in getting off a Latin quotation, and Brougham macadamizes his speeches with Greek and Latin. I can rattle through many of the living tongues ; but so many people have been poisoned by uneducated apothecary boys, by not understanding the Latin labels, I have come to the conclusion that Greek and Latin 30 THE FACTS ; OR, ought to be erased from the educational system ! It is an old fogy institution to most minds — few understand it. Who ever read " Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy " but some rusty Eugene Aram student ? I agree with Holmes, " That our poor English striped in foreign phrase, Looks like a zebra in a parson's chaise I" (This slight deviation on education is also in parenthesis). "Audi" is clever — and puts strong questions. In response to my saying that the anti-slavery party did not understand the true bearings of the matter, he asks : " Did not Granville Sharpe, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, and the noble army of British abolitionists, from George III. down to the pre- sent, understand the question — the practicability, the justice, and Christian duty as a nation that had sinned, to abolish the inhuman, soul-destroying, God-defying, abominable, piratical, system, the African slave-trade ?" Of course they understood it, as " Audi " understands it, in theory — not in practice. " Their own friends, and, in some cases, relatives, were actually engaged in it all the time." The same class of men advocate missionary enterprises to Christianize the heathen : one of the most absurd movements of our latter days. It is expensive going away so far, when so much can be done to Christianize civilization (?) at home. The followers of those good men are equally anxious to abolish the opium culture and the opium trade ; but the Dents, the Jardines, the Lindseys, the Eussells, and the Heards engaged in the mind-destroying, body-corrupting traffic, are too many for them, and Lord Elgin breaks down objections of the Chinese Cabinet with cannon-balls. To-day the opium trade is legalized ! The slave-trade paid. Liverpool, London, Bristol, Glasgow, earned money in it. Commerce is all-powerful. Although Wil- berforce's resolutions (May, 1189) were supported by Burke, Pitt, and Fox, the African traders made their voice heard at the AT WHOSE DOOE DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 31 bar of the Commons, and defeated the bill ! Even some seven- teen years later, when, by inflaming the people's minds by recitals of its horrors, a vote was obtained to abolish the traffic, Liver- pool had 111 ships, of 25,949 tons burden, engaged in it ! It is well known that, after that date, British subjects carried it on, under cover of the Spanish and Portuguese flags ; and it was not finally stopped till Lord Brougham, in 1811, passed a bill punishing with fourteen years' transportation any subject found connected with the importation of negroes ! Vide Bandinel. Wilberforce was well aware that the English merchants, be- tween the years 1100 and 1186, had imported six hundred and ten thousand Africans into the island of Jamaica alone! No wonder he was horrified at the brutalizing commerce — he knew its atrocities — so does " Audi " — so do I; but neither of us know how to wash out the stain that England has blotted America with. Will the abolition party famish the soap ? Will they form a fund — an emancipation fund — out of the profits that have been made, to assist us in eradicating the diseases of our ancestors ? "Audi" continues: u Did the whole civilized world, together with ' Young America,' under- stand the question when they unanimously declared the slave-trade piracy? Were the British anti-slavery party ignorant of the peculiar institution, when the whole nation rose up as one man, and demanded its total aboli- tion throughout the British dominions ?" Yes. Young America understood and stopped it. It was one cause of the Revolution. George the Third wanted more taxes, and to sell us more slaves — so Young America just bowed him out of the country 1 The emancipation of slavery in the British dominions forced a monopoly in favor of the southern States, and in doubling and trebling the value of the negro, offered to avarice a premium to carry on the illicit trade and renders emancipation impossible. 32 THE FACTS ; OR, The Virginia Legislature by one vote preserved slavery. The negroes were a burden at $200 to $300, before the growth of cotton — at their present value no voice would be tolerated in that State for emancipation. Abolition is a beautiful idea. Its results are less enchanting. What advantage, asks McCulloch, is derived from " turning a laborious, well-fed slave, into an idle, improvident, and perhaps beggarly freeman?" He did not believe in the anti-slavery party's "substituting abuse for reasoning — assertion for inquiry — prejudice for principle." Demosthenes, in his second Philippic, said " a slave was better off in Athens than a free citizen in many other countries," — and I can assure " Audi " that in our day a " a slave is better off on the American plantation than the free negro, by the roadside, in a Jamaica sun." Do the abolitionists imagine that Africa would have been improved if the slave trade had never existed ? The exposure of infants — human sacrifices — cannibalism — the wholesale slaughter of war prisoners, gave way to the profit of the slave trade. Yet I abhor the one as much as the other! Another quotation from " Audi's " letter : " How stands the question in ' Young America ?' Did not Anthony Benezet, Dr. Rush, Dr. Franklin, John Woolman, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and the Anti-slavery party in the United States, understand the question, when negro-slavery, in 1776, reigned pre- dominant in the thirteen original States?" Most assuredly these men were up and doing. They forced England to give it up. They set the example. Those who had slaves recommended their neighbors to emancipate ! Washington confessed his desire to do something regarding it, but said, "it could not be done without legislation." Washington was a slave-owner, so was Jefferson. But it was too much for either to liberate their slaves during their lifetime. I was last at Mount Vernon in 1850, and saw Mr. John Wash- AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 33 ington's slaves hard at it in the corn-field, "fat, ragged, and saucy." No wonder, Edward Everett writes for the " Ledger;" no wonder the Mount Vernon Society wish to purchase the estate, for Plymouth Rock and Mount Vernon are our nation's monuments. Another paragraph from " Audi " : " Did the Anti-slavery party in America understand the question when they went on, conquering and to conquer, till they abolished chattel sla- very in seventeen out of thirty-two States ? Does Cosmopolitan believe that the Young American Anti-slavery party understood the question, when, thirty years ago, there was not one open avowed anti-slavery United States senator, nor representative in the National Council? Now there are twenty-five anti-slavery senators, and one hundred representatives r and ere long, by God's blessing, if the anti-slavery element in the United States will only remain true to their highest convictions of duty, they will soon have a clear working majority in the houses of Congress, with an anti- slavery President to enforce the law of universal freedom." Is " Audi" aware that six of the original thirteen States are still slave States ? That climate, soil, temperature wrought the change ? That north of a certain line, where free labor can be employed, he will find no slaves ? That every new northern State will continue to elect two anti-slavery senators ? and every new southern State two pro-slavery senators ? He says, that the increase of free States is remarkable. Is he not aware that the augmentation of slave States is equally so ? Does he forget that the slaves have multiplied in far greater proportion ? Later on I will show him a table, if I can find one, giving the proportions. Here it is — I find what I want in the American Almanac of last year. The table is valuable as a reference ; and it will give " Audi " the ratio of increase since the nation's birthday. 3* 34 THE FACTS ; OR, SLAVES IN THE SLAVE STATES. STATES. 1790. 1800. 1810. 1820. 1830. 1840. *1850. _ _ _ _ — — New Hampshire, 158 8 — — — 1 — Vermont, 17 — — — — — — Massachusetts,... — — — — — — — Rhode Island,.. . 952 381 103 48 17 5 — 2,759 951 310 97 25 17 — New York, 21,324 20,343 15,017 10,0S8 75 4 — New Jersey, 11,423 12,422 10,851 7,657 2,254 674 t236 Pennsylvania,... 3,737 1,706 795 211 403 64 — Delaware, 8,887 6,153 4,177 4,509 3,292 2,605 2,290 Maryland, 103,036 105,635 111.502 107,398 102,294 89,737 90,368 203,427 345,796 392,518 425 153 469,757 448,987 472,528 North Carolina,.. 100,572 133,296 168,824 295,017 235,601 245,817 288,548 South Carolina,.. 107,094 146,151 196,365 258,475 315,401 327,038 384,984 29,264 59,404 105,218 149,656 15 501 217,531 25,717 280,944 39,310 Georgia, — — — 41,879 117,549 253,532 342,S44 Mississippi, — 3,489 17,0S8 32,814 05,659 195,211 Louisiana, — — 34,660 69,064 109,588 168,452 244,809 — — — — — — 58,161 — — 1,617 4,576 19,935 47, mo Tennessee, 3,417 13,5S4 44,535 80,107 141.603 188,059 239,459 Kentucky, 11,830 40,343 80,561 126.732 165,213 1S2.258 210,981 Ohio, 24 — 32 3 — Michigan, - 135 23T 168 3,011 190 117 10,222 747 25,081 3 331 58,240 87,422 Missouri, Wisconsin, — — — — — 11 — — _ 16 _ California, Dist. of Columbia, — 3;244 5,395 6,377 6,119 4,694 3,687 607,S97 893,041 1,191,359 1,627,428 1,998,318 2,487,355 3,204,2S7 * No slaves are returned in the Territories of New Mexico and Oregon ; in Utah, 26 are returned. t Apprentices by the State Act to abolish Slavery, of April 18, 1846. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 35 Taking the increase in the slave population from 1850 to 1860, in the same ratio as from 1840 to 1850, it will be 28-j-f per cent., making an increase for ten years of 923,342, showing the total number of slaves in the United States, in 1860, to be 4,121,555. Does "Audi" not observe by this the same increase in slavery ? Murray was a full-blooded Anti-American Englishman ; he went to America ; he examined the question ; he came home disgusted with the misplaced philanthropy of the Beecher Stowe party. I met him in London society, and he admitted that Englishmen did not understand America or her institu- tions. In his interesting and clever work, " The Slave and the Free," he shows up some of the inconsistencies of the Ebony Party. No wonder the slave-owners tighten the bonds. He says : First. The national spirit of man rebels against wholesale vituperation and calumny. Secondly. The obstacles (still speaking of the abolitionists), they have placed in the way of giving the slave simple education, by introducing most inflammatory pamphlets. Thirdly. The questionable sincerity of their professed sympathies for the slave, evidenced by the antipathy they exhibit toward the free negroes, and by the palpable fact, that he is far worse oif in a free than a slave State. For " Audi's " benefit I quote from page 389, by the same author : " I unhesitatingly declare that the emancipation of the negro through- out the southern States, if it took place to-morrow, would be the greatest curse the white man could inflict upon them !" The evidence examined before the Committee of the House of Commons says, some abolitionists examined declared they feared the negroes when free would be a nuisance to the State. 36 the facts; or, "Slavery has its evils, but," write Michaelis and Grotius, " It has also its advantages." The negro is a man in body, but an infant in mind. You are about arming, said Mr. Canning, the intellect of a child with the limbs of a giant. Emancipation must be gradual, not imme- diate. It is a question of circumstances, time, place, and men. Homer said a freeman lost half his value by becoming a slave. In our day it is just the reverse. The Romans enslaved their own blood — hence Homer's comment ; but in America there are two races — hence my comment. Will not the abolitionists admit that the Christian slave is a peg higher than the African savage ! Do they not consider a Virginian negro better taken care of, better in body, better in mind, than an English pauper ? Have they forgotten that, notwithstanding the millions shipped to America, England has to-day one-fourth as many paupers on the registrar's record as America has slaves? Ship-load after ship-load have been poured in upon us without apparently lessening their number. I remember chartering the ship "President," and sending her to New York with a cargo of the Marquis of Lansdowne's paupers, and I also remember the thousands it cost the firm for bonding them there, and in paying the State for their support. Bad as is American slavery it has none of the atrocities of the serf- dom of the India ! Englishmen initiated American slavery in a carriage and four, while the Indian slavery was a barefooted action, over sharp stones. The Parliamentary Committee told of atrocities in India that curdled the blood, they were so bru- tal ! I allude to the Commons' Committee to inquire if it was true that natives of India were tortured to make them disgorge the revenue. It is useless for me to introduce the evidence here ; but the curious had better refer to Hansard. American slavery is fully equal to Indian freedom. Ryots work for twopence per day. Slaves sometimes earn four shil- lings after they have finished their work. AT WHOSE DOOK DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 37 Englishmen must read up on America. The moment they give fair play to reflection, they will reject the one-masted, one- eyed, one-horse abolition hobby. I wish it were possible for every New York packet to bring over five or six-hundred negroes to Liverpool, for the next six months ; it would not only improve freights, but would give the Anti-slavery people on this side a specimen of their " African free-and-equal " brethren. Some 50,000 American negroes, scattered judiciously over the kingdom — some surrounding the Duchess of Sutherland's car- riage — some waiting Lord Brougham's exit from the Lords — others in the wake of Lord Palmerston, going to the Commons — a lot of them on the flags of the Exchange, among the cot- ton brokers — another batch in Hyde Park, and some in Trafal- gar Square — I should enjoy it much, because then the abolitionists would understand the question, besides having a taste of the negro's Eau de Cologne quality ! Cannot this be arranged ? If slaves are too hteh for the experiment, try free negroes. They are plenty enough and cheap enough. Observe what De Tocqueville writes — speaking of the free negro of the North. " Yes, he is free ; but he can have neither the rights, nor the pleasures, nor the labor, nor the affections, nor the altar, nor the tomb of him whose equal he has been declared to be. " He meets the white man upon fair terms, neither in life nor in death." And yet the Wilberforcian poet writes : " Bondage, is winter — darkness — death — despair, " Freedom, the sun, the sea, the mountains, and the air." The anti-slavery party mean well, and earnestly desire eman- cipation. But it is all talk — all mutual admiration proclama- tions. Having sworn so often the horse was eighteen feet high, they believe it to be true. The ape's affection for its young is 38 THE FACTS J OR, sometimes seen in hugging it to death. So the anti-slavery party pursue their mania to the injury of the slave. There is an old proverb that speaks of a certain place being paved with good intentions. But music will not cure the tooth-ache. The fact is, the curly-haired philanthropists have dwelt so long upon the theme ; thought so much upon the cruelties of slavery ; imagined so many brutal acts on the part of slave- owners that they really are sincere in their belief. The mind bent on one thing becomes diseased — it is a natural principle. A man was bled to death in Paris all by imagination. An alarm clock awakes you the first day, but sleep five minutes the next and you cease to hear the alarm ; so it is with the conscience. The mind will become glued up — caked. That is now the trou- ble with the anti-slavery people ; their mind is caked. " lie who hath oue hog, fattens him. He who hath one son makes him a fool." So he who hath one hobby, rides it to death ! The Exeter Hall disciples forget that all feet do not fit the same shoe. That the pleasures of the rich are the tears of the poor. They should see the working of the old adage in Jamaica. Remove an old tree and it dies. I doubt if abolition keys will ever open Paradise to the slave. Having replied to Audi's philippic, I resume my argument by asserting that the African has done nothing to mark his equality with the Anglo-Saxon race ! What, nothing ? No arts, no sciences, no manufactories, no agricultural improvements, nothing for literature, nothing for religion ? No, not anything, and this too, in a continent more thickly populated than America, or England, or France ! The Asiatic shows works of utility; the European is always inventing; the American's energy never ceases ; even the wretched Austra- lian transfixes game with a Boomerang — but what has the African done ? In Africa, you may say, they have no opportu- nity — but no such excuse will apply to America. In our north- ern States the census of 1860 will show the free black population to be some 500 000 ! Many of these negroes have been educated AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 39 in northern schools, some in northern colleges. They have mixed with the whites, and benefited by their civilization, yet what have they accomplished ? Sidney Smith's strictures on American books, would apply to the Africans — where are their historians, their poets, their ora- tors, their artists? What works have they completed that should place them on a level with the American or the English- man ? There may be a few instances, but they are very rare ; and in such cases, any energy, or genius, or intellectual vigor generally arises from the white blood in their veins. Frederic Douglass is a mulatto. I know it is a difficult matter to convince against settled con- victions. Yet no one ought to judge without reflection. Two generations have prejudiced Englishmen against Americans. I am in hopes that the rising one will not think so badly of us. If the English people will think as well of the Americans as the abolitionists do of the Africans I shall be satisfied. One can hardly keep his patience in looking over the Parlia- mentary debates, and reading the arguments of Lord Palmer- ston. Lord Brougham said last week that he had devoted some sixty years to the subject, but, notwithstanding his experience, he failed to reply to the eloquent speech of Lord Malmesbury, where he justified himself in giving up the right of search. Lord Clarendon " believed the American Government was fully as desirous as they were themselves honestly to put down the traffic." Lords Shaftesbury and Oxford cannot much longer mislead the English people on this question. How often I have listened and read the thrilling scenes por- trayed by the anti-slavery statesmen, on the " Horrors of the Middle Passage !" How little their audiences reflected — one moment's thought would have told them that, if the British squadron which costs some £1,000,000 every year — (a sum equal to the sum received from duties on education by taxing newspapers !) had been removed, the trade would have been 40 THE FACTS ; OK, carried on in emigrant ships of suitable tonnage, properly manned and well provided with provisions, instead of the miser- able one-deck craft, where the slaves were all covered and smoth- ered the moment a cruiser came in sight. For half the deaths of late years on the African voyages, and two-thirds the misery, you may thank the British squadron on the coast, which England found to her cost (like her West Indian Emancipation Loan, and the regiments placed there to keep down the negroes) has proved not only a grave to her capital, but a cemetery to her soldiers and her sailors 1 Who was it said that two governors were always required at Sierra Leone ; one was going out alive while the other was com- ing home dead ? America must have eighty guns on the coast by the arbitration treaty. Already we have expended $800,000 a-year for seventeen years, or $13,600,000 1 For what ? To keep down the slave trade, and oblige England's slave guardians ! The money would have been better invested, if spent in educat- ing some of the three millions out of the five millions of children in England and AVales, which the returns show receive no educa- tion whatever, for certainly she has not stopped the slave trade. And so long as money can be made in the inhuman traffic she cannot stop it. The year of the treaty some 30,000 negroes were exported from Africa per annum ; in 1843, 55,000. In 1846, it rose to 76,000, and in 1841, to 84, COO ! and this in spite of twenty mil- lions spent by England and America, since 1842, in trying to check it. The taxpayers should inquire into it, and ask the anti-slavery lords if it is not about time for them to acknowledge the error of their ways and means ? All this time slavery has been carried on in all quarters, under a change of name. Out of the 28,171 Chinese imported, 4,124 have perished, and few of the remainder will ever reach again their native land ! The record is chilling, for the mortality is terrible. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LEE? 41 While Lord Paltnerston has closed the Portuguese and Bra- zilian slave markets — ruined the West Indies, and created a national feeling of dislike against Americans — the African slave trade has flourished, in spite of the Spanish treaty — and poor Jamaica has been allowed to perish under Exeter-hall philan- thropy, while Cuba and Porto Rico have flourished under the guano stimulation of England's purchases of slave-grown sugar — a direct premium on slavery. Are the abolitionists really in earnest ? If so, why not let charity begin at home, why not reduce theory to practice ? Why not, like Mrs. Dombey, make an effort. Let me take up one or two more of their inconsistencies. When a Brittish cruiser, after smothering half the slaves, over- takes the slaver on the coast, do you not think it would be a good time to take the poor middle-passage creatures, who are alive, back to their dear fathers and dear mothers — their dear friends in Africa ? Most certainly you do. But are they car- ried back, we ask ? No, on the contrary, are they not packed off to the West Indies, where they have the honor of serving some 28 years as apprentices ! and who pockets the money ? Does not the master get forty years instead of twenty-eight out of them by over work? Have any ever returned to their native land ? None from England ! but America, much-abused America, takes a slaver, and selects her finest war-ship to con- vey the slaves back to Africa. It was only the other day that the Niagara war-frigate landed the slaves on board the Echo on the Negro Coast ; and I am glad to see the universal cry of shame, both South as well as North, at the slip-shod laws of Georgia regarding the slaves on board the Wanderer. I think the speculation was political, not commercial. But, in either case, it is disgraceful to our coun- try. These are the men who put on the livery of Southern Rights for the selfish purpose of making money. Fellows that would make money in any way. 42 THE FACTS ; OR, Cuba is the slave mart. Slaves pay, and Cubans grow rich. How is the trade to be stopped ? Captain Carnot gives an account of the sales of slaves sold in Havana, in 182T : Sales and net proceeds of 217 slaves in Cuba $81,000 Outward disbursements at Havana $21,000 Homeward disbursements 6,000 Inward disbursements at Havana including hush money to government officers 13,000 Net profits on the voyage 41,000 — $81,000 Letters continue to pour in upon me as these papers are in course of publication — some congratulatory, some the reverse. Some say, what he has said is true ; others, that we knew it all before. One man thinks I have no right to compare England a centuary ago, with America now — of course not — nor have I done so. Another wants to kuow the object of raking up the past ? Simply to inform the children of England that negro slavery was an imported article; and that England, not America, was the importer ! Another asks — Are you, or are you not, advocating slavery ? I tell him to wait for the concluding article. This morning I received the following from one of the leading journalists of London :* " Stop your letters on slavery ! They are out of place in England. Take my advice ; it is as unwise to defend slavery in England, as it would be to attack Mahomet in Arabia, or Buddha in Thibet. Besides, what good can you do ? I am right in this matter, depend on it — so hold your hand." I am not defending slavery, but America against the odium England showers upon her, on account of that curse which she introduced into our country. Charles Mackay, Esq., LL.D., editor of the "Illustrated London News." AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 43 Probably thirty thousand African slaves run the gauntlet of the British cruisers last year and landed in Cuba ! And of the seventy-one cargoes of Chinese slaves, nearly twenty-nine were under the flag of England — that flag which has sheltered slave ships off and on — "for a thousand years, the battle, etc." Campbell was an abolitionist ! The Cubans are wide awake. The Spanish Governor-Gene- rals get as rich in a few years as the British army and navy con- tractors ! Slaves from Africa, slaves from China, and slaves from Yucatan ! Yes ! Colvin, the American Consul at Deme- rara, says, "'that Cuba stole last year, 1,500 free Indians from Yucatan, and is now working them in slavery !" Oh, these Cubans ! They are almost as bad as the English merchants were a half a century ago. Why does not England enforce the Spanish treaty first and stick pins in America after- ward ? Mauritius is a 100,000 hhds. of-sugar-per-annum colony. She is England's pet producer. No wonder she prospers. At the commencement of last year she had 142,000 slaves. I beg Lord Brougham's pardon — 142,000 coolies ! The Friend of China, commenting on the action brought re British ship, " John Calvin," at Hong-Kong, in March, 1856, as k s — "Were they really Englishmen who told the poor Coolies that they should embark against their will ? — that said, ' You have taken an advance, and go you shall V Did Englishmen say to the kind-hearted magistrate, ' We will give them no investiga- tion ; we have them, and we will keep them. Say naught to us of the children's indentures ; we have them — their flesh, their faculties, their liberties — all are ours — and go they shall — away with them V " "Yes," says the " Friend of China," "they were English- men !" Mr. Day says the Coolies were submissive, " even when borne down by fever, and dysentery, and dropsy — they were submissive — most submissive !" Captain Thornhill adds ; " The way I kept them submissive, 44 THE FACTS : OR, was by stationing men at each hatchway, with muskets loaded, and bayonets fixed." This is only one picture. A few months before, I saw the slave-pens at Macao — the revolting examination of the slaves at Swatow — and shuddered when the captains of the /ree-slave ships told me of the number that had jumped overboard that morning, when they learned that they had been betrayed ! The swollen corpses on board the " Waverley n at Manilla, some two hundred and fifty human beings, when the captain took off the hatches, reminded me of a scene I once saw in Trafalgar dock, of a lot of cattle taken out of an Irish steamer that had weathered the gale, although the bullocks were smothered. The sight was sickening. The extent of this disguised slave traffic with Cuba may be seen by glancing at these government returns. Years. °*3 6 CO * . £ a tt a fcJD© 13 IS -^ O S w .11 — si 6 Per cent, of Mortality. 1847 1853... 2 15 4 6 15 28 33 13 979 8,349 2,375 6,544 10,467 18,310 32,809 lu,2S3 612 5,150 1,750 3,130 6,152 10,116 16,414 6,799 571 4,307 1,711 2,985 4,96S 8.547 13,385 6,027 41 843 89 145 1,184 1,569 3,029 772 6.70 16.37 2.23 4«3i 19.24* 15 51 IS. 45 11.35* 1654 1855 1856 1858 1858 1859 Total, 116 90,216 50,123 42,501 7,622 15.20 Av. The Spanish ship, Ogneredo, and British ship, Duke of Argyle (the Duke is an abolition leader) brought the first two cargoes in June, 1847 — forty-one died — only 571 were landed ; seven thousand died out of the fifty thousand imported. A mortality of fourteen per cent.! The shipments of coolies have occupied one hundred aud six- teen vessels, under the several national flags as follows : — Thirty- seven British ; seventeen United States of' America ; fifteen Spanish ; fifteen French ; fifteen Dutch ; six Peruvian ; three AT WHOSE DOOK DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 45 Portuguese ; three Bremen ; two Norway ; two Chile, and one Danish. Dr. Arnold says that the old system of English slavery was far kinder than that now existing of hired servants. We might apply the remark more pointedly to the Coolie trade. For a thousand pounds of law we do not get an ounce of love. So the English abolitionists give the Americans a bushel of advice without a pint of consistency. Love asks faith — faith requires firmness, but firmness must be consistent. America is not the worst place in the world. There are dark streams of sorrow even in happy England, where so large a portion of the working classes cannot write their names. Gray was not speaking of American slaves, but English laborers, when he wrote : " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Kich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Dull penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul." Lord Morpeth told the young men of Leeds a few weeks since : " Every information that had lately been received from the U.S., tended to show that a crisis was approaching. The leaven was fermenting, effer- vescing fast and hot ; the struggle was becoming more fierce, more intense, more pervading. Had not some of them lately read instances of treat- ment of slaves, which transcended even the usual depth and blackness of horror?" * " In the rice swamp, the sugar plantation, and the slave mart, where the slave still toiled and bled, and was sold afresh." What will the noble Earl have, emancipation ? Does he wish another St. Domingo massacre ? Does he not believe that if the slaves were left to themselves, the southern plantations would become a wilderness ? Can the negro grow cotton, and sugar, and rice, and tobacco without a master-mind to guide him ? Perhaps the Earl of Carlisle would suggest some way to raise a 46 THE FACTS ; OR, fund, so that his seed-cucumber theory can be reduced to practi- cal use ? Look at the money expended on that absurd colonization scheme of Liberia. COST OF COLONIZATION. The following table, prepared for the " African Repository," will show the annual receipts of the American Colonization Society from its organization to the present : Tears. Receipts. 1841 $42,443 68 1812 32,898 88 1843 36,093 04 18 14 33,640 39 1845 56,458 GO 1846 89,900 03 1847 29,472 84 1848 49,845 91 1849 60,332 S4 1850 64,973 91 1851 97,443 77 1852 78,1)10 27 1853 82,458 25 1854 65,433 93 1855 55.276 S9 1856 81,384 41 1857 97,384 84 1858 ....61,820 19 $1,532,849 38 The Maryland State Colonization Society has received since its organization, $309,759 33 The N. Y. State and Pa. Society, during their inde- pendent condition prior to 1840, received 95,640 00 The Mississippi State Colonization Society, ditto, 12,000 00 Making a total, to the beginning of this year, of $1,950,238 71 Years. 1817-9 1820-2 Receipts. §14,031 50 5,027 66 1823 4,758 22 1824 .. . .• • -4,379 S9 1S25 10,125 85 1826 14,77'.' -'4 1827 13,294 94 1828 13,458 17 1829 20,295 Gl 1830 26,683 41 1831. . 32,101 58 1832 43,065 08 1833 37,242 46 1834 22,984 30 1835 36,661 49 1836 33,096 88 1837 25,558 14 1838 10,947 41 1839 51,498 36 1840 56,985 62 All this expense, and for what good ? The world laughed at a Eepublic of civilized Freuchmen, yet the Colonization Society considered that negroes were equal to it ! Change the form of the negro's head, put in more cubic inches of brain, bring him to America, and then expect improve- AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 47 ment; take away the white blood in Liberia, and like Herodotus's great negro colony of Colchis, or the historical colony of Masroe, it would fade away. As it is, the white men have died off like cattle with the mur- rain in their unfortunate settlement of Sierra Leone. Out of one hundred whites, forty have recently died of the yellow fever, among them six Roman Catholic clergymen. Bishop Bonwer of the Episcopal church is dead ! All on board the schooner Bronte, died. Look at the African Mission record. Out of one hundred and seventeen white missionaries to northern Africa sent out by the English Weslyan Missionary Society, fifty-four died in the field — thirteen in three months, twenty-three in six months, and thirty-nine within one year of arrival. The same mortality followed the exploring parties. Mungo Park fell at the head of his band of thirty-eight — all perished. The Liverpool Company of 1832-3 lost forty out of forty-nine whites. The expedition of 1842 out of one hundred and forty-five, lost forty-two 1 Nearly all the blacks lived, while the climate was fatal to the whites. Perhaps the noble Earl would (after raising the fund, a sim- ple matter of one-half the national debt of Great Britain), like to send them to Liberia ? Eight thousand ships would be required, each to accommodate five hundred negroes ! Suppose you put it to vote, how many slaves would leave a garden like America to go to a desert like Africa ? Suppose to-day all the bonds of American society were broken, who would reconstruct it ? Who would naturally be master, the white man or the black man ? So long as the Anglo-Saxon has more brains in his right hand than the African has in his head, the white man most assuredly will rise again to the top. Where two races dwell on the same soil, one must rule. Bancroft writing of the slaves when brought to America, says 48 THE FACTS J OR, that they had " no common language, no abiding usages, no worship, no nationality." They were savages, dependent upon the white race for civilization. Turn the tables, as most of them are born in America, would they not be equally ignorant of language, and be cast on a shore among their countrymen, who would sell them off again to the highest bidder ? As the herd pounce upon the wounded deer, so negroes rejoice in the misery of their class. No ; the noble Earl should admit that the slaves are happier as they are, till some practical plan is discovered for their emancipation. The Africans have been, and must continue, servants. Nature's laws are indestructible. The Creator first made the inanimate world — then the vegetable kingdom — then the ser- pent tribe— out of them came the fish, then the fowls of the air, then the brute creation ; but His master-piece was man ! He divided the world into climates, and peopled it with his children. I believe, with Agassiz, that the world was peopled by nations, not in pairs. As there were degrees in vegetable, ani- mal, and mineral kingdoms, so he instituted degrees in the human race. The Caucasian was first, the Mongolian, the Malayan, and the American followed ; then he made the African, finishing off with the lowest type of man — the Australian ; then the baboon, the ape, the monkey, and so on through all the varieties of nature. I should have reversed this classification — improvement went upward from the monkey to the Cauca- sian. Africans cannot be changed but by mixing with the whites. When they begin to change color, they begin to show that change by self-reliance. It was observed that the blacks in the Boston schools to the age of fourteen advanced in about the same ratio as the whites — but then, says Lyell, the improvement stopped. Negroes contract the vices, but do not profit by the virtues of the white man. Man by nature is indolent, and the African likes nothing so well as to sleep like a dog in the sun. AT WHOSE DOOK DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 49 " A black man is a jewel in a woman's eye," is an English proverb. It is not so in America. The black stewards of the American packets stand at fifty premium in England, but are seventy-five discount in America. Why is this ? most likely a question of supply and demand. Were the English at all accustomed to seeing blacks prome- nading Regent-street, as we often see them on Broadway, their views might change. You should see the sable Dianas, and charcoal Yenuses, crino- lined, silked, and satined, to an extent that nauseates you, pass- ing the New York Hotel, on a Sunday afternoon ! What is more disgusting than a negro fop ? or a negress coquette ? aping all the absurdities, without adopting any of the dignities of the Saxon race. England sees slavery three thousand miles off, through dark glasses ; she knows nothing of its realities. No works from the anti-slavery party speak of kindness from master to slave — no books written about their Christmas presents — their new year's gifts — their wedding parties — their funeral ceremonies — not a word about attentions when ill — no picture of their merry-mak- ings — no description of their attachment for their masters — no bright side to the negro's existence— all, all is darkness and despair ! I met an English gentleman yesterday, who some years ago saw several slavers taken into St. Helena by the British cruisers. At night he was attracted by loud shouts of laughter, the sound of music, the clapping of hands, and all the demonstrations of gladness. Imagine his surprise when going to the place to find that the gaieties proceeded from the captured slaves ! There were eighteen hundred in the cave, and such barbarian antics — such savage joy — such chattering of tongues — spoke of anything but misery. 3 50 THE FACTS ; OR, Without intellect, without industry, without civilization— how can such creatures exist without some stronger mind to guide them? Where do these slaves go, when taken ? Will some honor- able member explain ? They never go hack to Africa ! What are the negro's talents ? I answer — music, mimicry, and sleeping in the sun. I wish an Exeter-hall delegate could be introduced into a negro dancing-hall, after an animated Virginia reel ! The Thames last year was nothing in comparison ! The leopard will not change his skin, nor the negro his odor. The underground railway stock has fallen. The Canadians are suggesting how to shut out the negroes. No wonder — when their poorhouses — their hospitals, and their prisons are so extensively patronized by the Free Blacks 1 There are now some forty thousand of these poor creatures in Canada, disgusted with freedom in a cold climate — 40,000 at $1,000 each is forty millions of dollars of property belonging to southern planters. England would go to war with any nation for half that sum ! I have been in Canada — I have seen some of these runaways. I have also been on the southern plantation, and I consider the negro is better clothed and more contented in the warm South under slavery, than in the cold North under freedom. Do you not believe it ? go with me to that paradise of Canada, so far as soil is concerned, Essex and Kent counties, where the negro lives — go with me to the townships of Walden, Colchester and Gosfield, where runaway slaves most do congregate — and what do you see ? Comfort ? no — improvement in the Negro race ? no — the Quakers purchased the land for the society in Walden, believing that the negroes' prosperity would be advanced — the result has made them heart-sick — no wonder. How strange it is that Quakerism and Abolitionism should be dying out together ! Look into the township of Buxton — -you have there a thou- AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 51 sand runaways — deteriorating under the fostering care of the " Elgin Association." Buxton would hardly be proud of his namesake were he to see the squalor of the settlement. Lord Elgin would be disgusted to see what use they have made of his name. Broken windows, old hats, dirty cottages, filthy streets — half-clad, half-starved men, and greasy, waddling women would meet their astonished gaze, instead of a trim, happy colony. The " Elgin Association " was formed at Toronto — five thou- sand shares at ten pounds each, gave them nine thousand acres of land. Ryley, a Missouri slave, was one of the pioneers — Mr. King was the founder. He liberated his fifteen slaves and lives in the desolate spot. With him charity began at home. The Canadians were, however, as indignant at the formation of the colony as the Ohio citizens were at the liberation of John Ran- dolph's negroes. The caste among the southern negroes is as marked as in India. From coal black to light brown, some fifteen shades — I do not remember their names ; but it is no unusual thing to hear a negro call another a " white nigger ;" a "poor man's nigger ;" a " fifty-dollar nigger." A slave despises nothing more than a poor white man or a free negro ! The slaves look down upon the Irish and German laborer with supreme contempt. Many of them adopt the names of their master's family ; and the slaves of the wealthy sneer and disdain to associate with the slaves of the poorer planters. There is an aristocracy, an upper-ten-dom in the pecu- liar institution ! The masters often give them the chance to purchase their freedom, and it is most amusing to hear them depreciate them- selves. If their master values them at a thousand dollars, they insist upon their being only worth half that. Were you to offer the slaves freedom to-day, seven-eighths, if left to their own choice, would, never leave their masters. What do they know of the White Cravat sentiment ? Slaves 52 THE FACTS ; OK, have sense enough to see that the free negroes are not so well provided for as themselves. Why should they change comfort for want ! Depend upon it, the curse of slavery is on the master, not the servant. Look at the impoverished estates of Virginia, and observe how the hand of industry is withered by the enervating laziness of the negro. How many planters there are who would like to rid them- selves of the system ; but how ? There's the rub. Who will pay them ? and where are the slaves to go when free ? To the North ? No. The North would soon pass pro- hibitory laws. Ohio is nauseated with them already ; they hang round the cities — loaf about the streets — but never show self- reliance. Where do you find the half-million free negroes of the North ? and what are their occupations ? Are they not ser- vants, waiters, barbers, cooks, most of which are employed by white men ? The negro is without self-reliance. I spoke of Buxton and the Elgin association — But take other negro colonies — the Dresden Settlement in Dana Township. The original purchase was to have been 20,000 acres, and the colony named " Wilberforce :" but the plan fell through. One fourth of the population of Chatham are negroes. Five miles from there you find the Moore Colored School. Then there is the Round settlement, as it is called, and New Canaan Bap- tist Creek. In Windsor, in Essex Co., you have the Refuge Home Society, established in 1852 — a two-thousand acre lot — and intelligent Canadians assure me that nearly all the schemes are failures. Sheep-stealing and rape is more frequent than virtuous deeds — the slave arrives a beggar — robs and goes to jail — after that, he is ready for anything. There are thousands of acres of land, that can be bought for a song in the West. Do you ever hear of negroes opening up any new country ? — combining for any worthy object ? having any scheme for improving themselves ? AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 53 Three millions of white men defeated the finest armies, over- came the first generals, and threw off the yoke of the first power of the world, not a century ago ! To-day there are four millions of slaves in the United States — possessed they the capa- city, the courage, the genius of the Saxon race, would they not rise as one man for liberty or perish in the struggle ? [Professor Allen is not a negro. I have been much enter- tained by his lectures at the Hope Hall. He is clever, and has the good sense not to spice his discourse with abuse of America. He never was a slave, and he deserves commendation for work- ing his way to a Professor's chair in an America College. I like talent, no matter what the color — our white blood in his veins is his passport to success. He quartered the caste — First Sambo; second, Mulatto; third, Quadroon; fourth, Whitem&n — and some from all these classes are slave-owners. He spoke of one wealthy Sambo who owned a large plantation. Amalgamation will abolish slavery, but you cannot make a white man in a day. The chairman, last evening, at the close of the lecture, in com- menting upon "Young America's" articles on slavery, after in* stancing Mr. Allen's severe handling and narrow escape from the Philistines of western New York, because he married a white lady, as compared with the freedom with which the Aboli- tionists could be attacked in England, and slavery advocated at their very doors— asked " Young America " if he did not think free discussion on this side had a wider range than liberty on that ? No ! First — I have not advocated slavery, but simply took the field against the favorite as a matter of debate. The abolitionists have had it all their own way for a quarter of a century ; and it amuses me, and cannot harm them, to put on the gloves, in order to try their mettle. Second, the treatment which the Professor received has been occasioned by the con- tinual interference of the Anti-slavery party. Wheu robbers are in the house, it is natural to hide the spoons. When tho 54 THE FACTS ; OR, French press talk too plainly, Napoleon puts on the screw. When disease is on board, the ship is quarantined. So, when Abolitionists carried the sentiment of Emancipation to the point — " Slaves, rise, and slay your masters !" schools were closed, churches were watched, incendiary tracts were prohibited, and self-preservation occasioned that caution which was portrayed last night. For all the Professor's afflic- tions I blame the party represented by Mr. Jeffery and Mr. Steinthal. Should the in-coming Cunard steamer bring advices that some wealthy planter had willed these gentlemen a thou- sand slaves, I should like, as a matter of curiosity, to see what course they would pursue with the valuable bequest 1] Benezet, the Pennsylvanian Quaker, considered the negro slave fully equal to the white man. Dr. Foure the clever French physician, made the same statement from his experience at Hayti. Sir John Herschel asserted that the Hottentot slaves of the Cape of Good Hope were equal in every respect to English- men I It is surprising that such distinguished authority can be found to testify so directly in the face of nature, of history, of facts. The Roman novelist Petronius, living under Nero, describes three vagabond literary men on board a ship in the Levant — two of whom discovered that they had robbed the owner, a mer- chant on board. Dreading revenge, one of them says : " Eumolpus, being a scholar, has certainly ink with him ; let us, therefore, dye ourselves from top to toe, and as Ethopian slaves we shall be at his command without fear of torture ; for by the change of color we shall deceive our mariner." But Geiton exclaims in reply, " As if color alone could trans- form our shape ! for many things have to conspire that the lie AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 55 might be maintained under any circumstances. Or can we fill our lips with an ugly swelling ? can we crisp our hair with an iron ? and mark our forehead with scars ? and distort our shanks into a curve ? and draw our heels down to the earth ? and change our beard into a foreign fashion ? Artificial color besmears the body, but does not change it." The negro appears to have the same peculiarity in our time. This state of feeling was only brought about by a few earnest me n — clever writers, clever speakers — backed up by Quaker energy, Quaker perseverance, and Quaker money. All the tricks of bar-room politicians were resorted to. Whips were found in sugar hogsheads, manacles, handcuffs, chains were brought out. Engravings still hang upon the walls of dowager abolitionists, showing "Uncle Tom" in his mutilated condition. These pictures were hung up alongside of Raphaels, Murillos, and Rubens. Such books as Hildreth's " White Slave " were distributed, with coarse cuts of slave-drivers' cruelties. The African Institution was founded in 1801. Of the sixty- two noblemen and gentry forming the first committee, only three survive, — Lords Brougham, Lushington, and Lansdowne — three of the most distinguished of living statesmen. Wilberforce, that year, tried in vain to make the negroes grow cotton in Africa ; of course he failed. In 1833 he made another attempt : of course he failed again. The negro must have a master. Had the British philanthropists shown the same enterprise in endeavoring to raise African cotton, as their brothers and friends, the British shipowners, were exercising in catching slaves and dispatching them to the West Indies, they might have been as successful in the one case as the other. Clegg of Manchester, after trying for fifty years, with deserving perseverance, has accomplished the importation of one small shipload ! Rather dis- couraging, after the labor of half a century, to get but 146,047 pounds of cotton. The Manchester people, as usual, got up the mutual admiration reception to Dr. Livingstone ; and the Doc- 56 THE FACTS ; OK, tor gets a good round sum of money, and deserves every praise for his industry, his courage, and his energy ; but his expedi- tion in search of cotton among the negroes is as absurd as to fit out expeditions for Sir John Franklin. I read nothing in Livingstone's or Bath's explorations to convey different conclu- sions than derived from following in the path of Mungo Park or Clapperton. The negroes are an inferior race, and it is simply absurd to place them on a level with the white man. " The first white man," says Voltaire, " who beheld a negro must have been greatly astonished ; but the reasoner who claims that the negro comes from the white man astonishes me a great deal more." Roberts, McGill, Lewis, Benedict, Teague, Benson, of Liberia notoriety, may have shown their heads above the common herd of their countrymen, but we must wait for the rising generation before we give them credit for benefiting their race in African colonization. From Sennaar, in the east, to Senegal, in the west — Ashan- tees, the Kroomen, or the Mozambiques — from the Congo to the Niger — from the Hottentot to the Nubian — I have seen nothing in my roaming — read of nothing in my reading — heard of nothing in talking of the African, to lead me to indorse any of the wild statements of Exeter Hall, that the negro is the equal of the Saxon race. The African negro race was ruled by the Foolah race — as mulattoes govern in Liberia. 'Twas the same in Hayti — the mulattoes governed till the blacks murdered them. Jefferson, the author of the Free and Equal clause, says, in " Notes on Virginia," " Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration, never saw even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture." The essay of James Grahame, Esq. — the letters of Sir George Stephen — the works of Clarkson, Buxton, O'Connell, Gurney, and all the Wilberforcians in a body, to the contrary notwith- standing. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 57 . What a strange falling off in sentiment to allow a quarter of a century to elapse between the abolition of the slave-trade and the emancipation of the slaves ! The instructions to the Exeter Hall lecturers have the Spur- geon smack to them. Public opinion was acted upon by all kinds of exaggerations. Stephen and Buxton both admit to issuing proclamations and sticking them over the bills of the pro-slavery party in the night-time. A bill-poster, if caught at it in our day, would be given in charge. All this while slaves were being packed in the Barracoons — transported over the " middle passage " — landed in Cuba under the British guns — and from Cuba found their way into Jamaica and the other islands. That was the case at that time, and is now. Twenty years ago Don Pedro Blanco was the Rothschild of slavery at Gallinas. His bills in payment for English consign- ments, on England, France, or the United States, were as good as gold in Sierra Leone and Monrovia ! There is many a man living in London who will remember the excitement occasioned in 1809, when the Commercio de Rio was seized at Gravesend, just as her fittings had been completed for eight hundred slaves ! Examine the manifests of the African vessels that are now fitting out in British ports. Look closely at the details ; and prove, if you can, that much of the cargo is not for the pur- chasing of slaves. If not, where do the Spaniards get supplies for the five hundred slaves that are dispatched every week from the African Barracoons for Cuba and Porto Rico ? Who can dis- pute but that five thousand negroes are on the ocean this very day, kidnapped in Africa, for the slave markets of the Spanish colonies ? And that Birmingham makes the articles for that market. Canning's resolutions of 1823 were ineffectual. These instruc- tions went out to every slave colony, but were of course disre- garded : 3* 58 THE FACTS J OE, " Religious instruction was to be provided ; Sunday markets were to be abolished ; slave evidence was to be admissible ; slave marriages were to be legalized ; slave property was to be protected ; manumission was to be facilitated ; families not to be separated by will, nor slaves from the estates to which they belonged ; arbitrary punishment, and the corporal punishment of females were to be abolished ; the driving whip was to be abandoned ; and savings' banks were to be established." These regulations could not be forced, any more than British cruisers could arrest the slave traffic. The English — the Irish — the Scotch — the French slave-owners in America, have the reputation of being the worst taskmasters. Because the standard of labor they are accustomed to is greater than what the planter expects from the negro. The reports speok of British cruelty in the Mauritius that well may occa- sion horror : " Slaves were murdered piecemeal, roasted alive in ovens ; flogged, starved, dismembered, tortured, and slaughtered. Suicide and infanticide were the daily recourse of parents ; mothers killed their children from humanity, and killed themselves from despair. And the decrease in the slave population was supplied by daily importations from Madagascar and the Seychelles, unchecked by our cruisers, and unheeded by the local authorities." And all this only thirty years ago ! This was in the Mauritius — not "civilized America !" But from these facts the abolition- ists judged of American slavery. The slave population of that island was 60,000 when Brougham passed his bill in 1811 ; yet in 1829 all of " this vast number," Buxton ascertained, " had been exterminated, and been replaced more than once !" Think of a lady destroying the sight of her slave by thrusting red hot knitting-needles into her eyes ! while her neighbor roasted her slave to death in an oven ! This was British, not American cruelty ! This was English slavery j and no wonder Buxton suppressed AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 59 the facts so long. Such things could not occur in America ! Yet Americans have been judged unheard — unseen — and this is an Englishman's idea of fair play ! How few are aware that in this enlightened age, even in Cumberland, men and women sell themselves as slaves for so much per annum. I mean as servants. Did not William Thompson, the Scotch weaver, who travelled on foot through the slave States, state, in his description of negro slavery, that the separation of families did not take place to such an extent as with the laboring poor of Scotland ? The Americans are acknowledged to be the kindest slave- masters in the world. The Northerners are more severe than the Southerners. Why ? Because they have been accustomed to see a white man do a day's work. Indolence makes them impatient, and it requires time to make them familiar with the dilatory habits of the negro. An able-bodied American for hard labor is worth half-a-dozen Africans. Gibbon says that arithmetic is the natural enemy of rhetoric. For every one slave imported into America — such is the cherish- ing care of the master — ten have been produced ; while for every three transported into the West Indies only one now exists ! The good-natured lecture which " Non-Prejudice " delivered to " Young America," in the Northern Times, of Monday, deserves a passing notice. Agreeing with me in so many things— admit- ting the strength of my facts on slavery, if not accepting all my opinions— he falls back upon the time-worn argument of the equality of all men. That equality I deny. There is no equality in mankind. As one brain is larger than another brain, so one race will command and govern another race. Let me quote a paragraph from this letter : " * Young America ' says, ' the Africans have been, and always must be, servants ; nature's laws are indestructible.' Certainly nature's laws aro 60 THE FACTS ; OB, indestructible ; but a dogmatic statement like that does not prove that it is one of nature's laws that Africans must always continue servants. Our natural sense of justice, and the constitution of the United States, tell us that it is one of nature's indestructible laics that all men are born free and equal. And ' Young America ' knows very well that if he, instead of having been born a smart, go-ahead Yankee, had come into the world a miserable, helpless fellow, with no self-reliance, fit only to do what he was told, that he would not have considered that a sufficient justification to his neighbor for taking him and making him his slave, even though his neighbor might assert 'that he required some stronger mind to guide him,' and it was entirely for his good." Let " Non-Prejudice " change the word slave to servant and it will sound less harshly. Servitude like happiness is only comparative, — good is com- parative, — so is evil, — so is light, heat, air, — all are comparative. Liberty when mistaken for license — servility when mistaken for civility, is as bad as to place the servant in the master's chair. The Creator made the world to suit himself, — not Exeter Hall. His tenants were of his own choosing. Having a taste for colors, as shown in the rainbow, the dolphin, the flower-garden, and the forest, he carried out his fancy in the color, shape, and capacity of man. In nature, large fish swallow little fish, — large trees draw the sap from little trees, — large oceans drink up the rivulets — so that race that possesses most governing power, rules. The negro never was governor. American slaves sing psalms, quote Scripture, and have fewer crimes than any other race, — but mark the contrast in Africa ! "What have missionaries accomplished there ? The example and constant intercourse with the white man has improved the negro's life in America, but no such result has followed Dr. Livingstone. A black hen may lay a white egg, and a black plum may be as sweet as a white one, but no such analogy applies to the African. A wild horse will not breed a tame colt. I remember hearing Drummond or Thompson, I do not remember which, say in Parliament, in debate on the slave question, with great emphasis : " Were a man to attempt to make me a slave I AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 61 would kill him 1" Now that is all buncomb — who would try ? Can any one make the honorable member's hair curl ? face black ? nose flat ? Of course not, and it is equally absurd to speak of making a negro slave out of an Anglo-Saxon. As the churning of milk maketh butter — as the wringing of the nose bringeth blood — so such Parliamentary nonsense on the slave question breedeth contention with the Americans. Let the negropolist explain " the way of the eagle in the air — the way of a serpent on the rock — the way of a ship in the waters of the sea," before he tries to raise the negro above the kitchen. The African has been, and will continue to be a one-masted frigate. "Non-Prejudice" must not expect to raise a breed of short- tailed kittens by cutting off the tail of the old cat ! A candle lights others, but consumes itself : the anti-slavery party reverses the proverb. They expect to reap grapes by sowing thorns. When two Sundays meet — when a frog has hair — then the mist of slavery can be dispelled with an abolition fan ! Since Ham rejoiced at Noah's intoxication — since Judah dishonored his child — since Moses broke the Commandments on the mountain — the negro race has swept the house, made the fires, done the cooking, and always gone out to service. Tribulation worketh patience — patience maketh experience — experience bringeth hope. — Hence, Edward Everett believes " that American slavery is to be the ultimate civilization of Africa." The slavocrat presents his com- pliments to the negrophobian, with this scriptural advice : " Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee." British statesmen know as little of America as Macaulay's New Zealander does of London bridge. Members of Parliament sel- dom allude to the United States, but when they do, they are groping in the dark. Roebuck would show more force in his anti-American feeling if more accurate in his statements. Last 62 the facts; or, year I corrected him in the " Times" as to the number of States in the Union, and the other day I found him equally wild in his information, and consequently sent this letter : TO THE EDITOR OF THE "TIMES." Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool, January, 21, 1S59. My dear sir — Observing the following inaccurate statement, on my arrival in the Asia yesterday, I am emboldened by your courtesy on a former occasion again to ask permission of you to correct Mr. Roebuck's statistics on the United States: Extract from his speech at Sheffield.. " Times" Report, Jan. 14. "I am told to look at America. Look at America, sir. Are there not six millions slaves in America? and does not the Declaration of Indepen- dence of the Republic state that all men are born free ?" The " American Almanac " of last year gives the slave population at different periods : In 1*790, under Washington, 697,897 " 1800, under Adams, 893,041 " 1810, under Madison, 1,191,364 " 1820, under Monroe, 1,538,064 " 1830, under Jackson, 2,009,031 " 1 840, under Van Buren, 2,487,355 " 1850, under Fillmore, 3,204,089 And taking the same ratio of increase, in round numbers there are in 1859, under Buchanan, 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, or fifty per cent, less than stated by Mr. Roebuck ! Yours, etc., " Young America." "Don't you think you had better wind up your letters on slavery ?" writes a friend to-day. " The cream of the last was not quite so thick as usual — with allopathic words you are administering homoeopathic ideas — your tight rope is getting slack ; your brandy has a watery flavor. I am afraid you are running the thing into the ground." That is just exactly what I have been trying to do ; but into English, not American ground. My words may be soft, but arguments based on fact are hard to AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 63 withstand. I should have wound up before, but letters, like the above, put a writer on his mettle. Let me open one this morn- ing from Paris. This time " Belle Brittan " assumes to lecture me : " Your letters on slavery are incoherent and rhapsodical ; your arguments, if properly arranged, would be overpowering. But you lack system ; an argument, to be effective, must be built up like a pyramid. Drive your nail straight home." How strange it is — this fancy which some have of endeavoring to remodel others. One man snubs me for doing what another recommends. Those who prefer that pulpit style of firstly, secondly and thirdly, better adopt it. My style is my own, and as I have not written on my forehead, This is a Junius — and as these letters have been thrown off, without elaborate prepara- tion, from day to day, as the subject extended, I did not expect to be criticised as an essayist. A young English planter, long a resident of the southern States — recently from Manchester — after mature deliberation, in the following letter, assumes to have razed my argument to the ground. I copy his comments entire: My dear Young America, You ask me, as a slaveholder, what are the weak points in your " slave papers." I will give you some. Why, my dear fellow, the whole idea is a weak one — cui bono ? what do you expect to accomplish by them ? Surely not to convert John Bull ? Are you not a sufficiently keen observer of character to know that this amiable individual is by nature and education not open to argument ? Logic passes him by like the idle wind ; satire enrages but does not con- vince him, and the tu quoque style of which he accuses you, bounds from the density of his mental epidermis like musket balls from the back of a hippopotamus. You are fighting a windmill. This is the general charge of weakness against you : Specification the first. You attempt to prove the rectitude of slavery from the Bible. You are very far behind the tactics, and ignorant of the position of the enemy, if you do not know that the anti-slavery party have long since thrown the Bible overboard. This was done some six years ago, when the divine orgin of slavery was most clearly proved by some distinguished 64: THE FACTS J OK, minister of the Christian Church in the South. It was announced to dis- ciples of the new school, by one of their high priests, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, from his pulpit, in words like these — " The Bible has been proved to uphold slavery — granted — then I say, perish the Bible, but perish slavery!" This was the inauguration of the " higher law." Hear also what the arch-angel of anti-slavery, the Rev. (?) Theodore Parker said in his pulpit (God save the mark), " If the Saviour of mankind himself, (not however denominating him quite so reverently) were to issue a warrant for the rendition of a slave fleeing from his master, and send St. Paul to execute it, he (Theodore Parker, minister of God's Holy Word) would resist it! !" You see, therefore, that what the Bible says is of no sort of consequence. Specification the second: What's the use of telling the Englishmen that they inflicted this curse (or blessing) upon us ? Slavery does not exist in England now (by that name), therefore it cannot be right. It docs exist (in name) in America ; therefore it must be wrong. Don't you know that to some minds nothing is harder to forgive than a benefit conferred. Leaving out of notice the Episcopal See of Manchester, built, nourished, and enriched by the profits of slave labor, because all that is comparatively new ; why recall to the placid minds of some of the portly and philan- thropic gentlemen who roll solemnly through Castle street, Lord street, Bond street, and so out into the country, in their stupendous coaches, who remind some of the dignified merchants who discuss Cotton and Consols on the London, Bristol, and Glasgow Exchanges, that the foundation of their fortunes was the African slave trade ? They do not own slaves now, — they make atonement every day for the sins of their fathers, by abusing us who do own them now, and who have Christianized, fed, and clothed four millions of them. Their consciences are as immaculate and un- wrinkled as their cravats. Why disturb them? See how much better an example is set you by the Manchester magnates. Mr. M.P., who buys from me Sea Islands cotton at two to three shillings a pound, and never asks me whether the length of staple he so much prizes is or is not produced by using worn-out negroes in the light of guano ; or the illustrious John Bright himself, Quaker, Philanthropist, and Reformer, whom I am proud to reckon among my very best customers for short-stapled kinds. He never lectures me about my antecedents. There are several other specifications of my charge against your articles which I may bring forward hereafter, if you are not, as I anticipate, already demolished by these. A Hereditary Slave-owner. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 65 The moment a Northerner speaks of slavery, some Southern planter is sure to find fault with him — admit that you are right on some points, on others you are wrong. First, wrong in taking such clever men as Parker and Beecher at their word, when said word was spoken in the moment of anti-slavery excitement — spoken earnestly, it is true — but I can but think without reflection. The Bible is the basis of all human knowledge, and to speak lightly of its divine precepts, is to dis- avow them. Second, wrong in supposing that John Bull is not open to conviction — once prove to him that you cannot crowd two quarts into a pint pot — that two and three do not make seven — I say, the moment, by fair argument, you convince him, John Bull is every inch a gentleman. The more I consider his peculiar temper, the more I respect him. Leave Jonathan and John alone over a good round of beef and a bottle of good Port; let them discuss, as we are dis- cussing, these national questions; Jet them smooth down, as they surely will do, the rough places in each other's temper; let Jonathan mind his own affairs, and not enlist troops in Eng- land for a Cuban expedition; let John devote more of his time to home charities, and not buy cotton with one hand and abuse America for growing it with the other; let Jonathan cure him- self of that odious habit of spitting, and John give up his filthy custom of taking snuff ; let both remember that the two nations united can dictate to the world, — Charles Mackay divides it between them : Take you the west and I the east, We'll spread ourselves abroad, With spade and trade and wholesome laws, And faith in man and God. Eemember that it is filibustering John who makes the proposal to peace-loving Jonathan. 66 THE FACTS ; OR, Take you the west and I the east, We speak the self-same tongue, That Milton wrote, that Chatham spoke, That Burns and Shakspeare sung. England and America have statesmen in common, poets in common, commerce in common, almost everything in common — everything but the slave trade. That, England, with her Euro- pean neighbors, must be responsible for. America was not a party to the debasing commerce. Mary Howitt's " Popular History of the United States of America," is most ably reviewed in the " Literary Gazette;" the critical reviewer reproves the clever authoress for " shirking v the slave question. He wishes to hear her speak of " Sims, of Dred Scott, and the negro martyrs, — the Nebraska bill, — the Missouri Compromise, and Noah Worcester, the founder of the Peace Societies." The truth is, Mary Howitt saw the change that is on the age, — aud knew how useless it was to revile America for England's crimes. Let the talented editor of the " Gazette " visit the slave States, and he, like many of his coun- trymen, will follow the example of the historian he censures. Slavery is an open sore. Time, and time only, will discover the closing remedy. In America slavery is profitable, but England never made it pay. Her policy was short-sighted. When Holland gave Great Britain Guiana, in 1803, it pro- duced 46,435 bales of cotton, and some 10,000.000 lbs. of coffee. Three years before, the United States only produced 40,000 bales ! the quality being 20 per cent, poorer than Guiana ! There is another interesting fact showing England's treat- ment of her slaves, and suicidal policy with her West Indian colonies. In 1808, Great Britain only imported from the United States 13,000 bales of cotton, while British Guiana, and other Western Islands sent her 103,511 bales ! Is not this a signi- ficant fact ? Does not England see her mistake ? Suppose the increase had been pro-rata — where then would have been the American cotton and susjar States ? AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SDT (?) LIE? 67 Thirty-two millions of acres in the 100,000 square miles in Guiana is cotton soil — 500 pounds the acre soil at that — while our southern States seldom get over 300 lbs. Humboldt says one acre in Guiana will produce equal to 30 in England, and yet see the disastrous condition of the plantations ! When America forms societies to improve the condition of England's paupers — when clubs and subscriptions are started in the United States to arouse public opinion in England, so that some more severe penalty than kalf-a-crown a week can be en- forced for the maintenance of an illegitimate child ! — when George Thompsons visit this country to agitate the social-evil question — the Americans will have no objections to Englishmen continuing to din into their ears the terrible sin of selling their own blood! — but they should remember that we value it at more than half-a-crown a week. Every man can tame a shrew but he that hath her. The abolitionists are always loading cannon to shoot larks. Their minds, like their chimneys, need an occasional sweeping out, they get so sooty on the black question. They remind me of the near-sighted captain who, observing a fly spec on his chart, took it for a guano island, and beat his ship round it all night ! I hope by this time, that English children, should this ever fall in their way, will not grow up with the idea that Americans introduced the siu of slavery ! Americans were not its founders — nor were the Europeans. The Africans were the patentees of the institution of negro slavery. Italy learnt the art from Africa. Delos was the great- est slave mart of antiquity. Ten thousand were sold in one day ! Did it ever occur to the African philanthropists, when travel- ling in Italy and Greece, that most of those beautiful columns they admire so much were made by slaves ? When hearing Kean hiss through his teeth the words of Shylock, " You have among you many a purchased slave, which, like your asses, and 68 THE FACTS ; OR, your dogs, and mules, you hold iu abject and in slavish parts, because you bought them," I could but remember that slavery was not au American weed. Eeforms must come from within, not forced from without. Three hundred years ago partition law was public law — a nation like an individual can be corrupted. England commits a crime in educating her children in utter ignorance of America. But there can be no hope without a future — no memory without a past. So we will remember the good and hope for a change. America is stronger than the rock of Gibraltar. There never yet was a place but that had been taken — save America. France has had thirteen governments and twelve constitutions since America's Independence. The United States has had but one. Cook, the actor, to whom Kcan's father erected a monument in New York, was equally severe upon the good people of Liverpool, when he growled from the stage — " You have not a brick in any of your warehouses but what is cemented with the blood of a negro !" America sometime may erase the stain — England never can. Emancipation is a dangerous experiment. The latest effort was on the west coast of South America. In January, 1854, General Castilla emancipated all the slaves in Peru. What is the consequence ? The sugar, the rice, and the tobacco crops were nearly all lost, and the starving negroes fled to the highways, where murder, rapine, and outrage is reported by every incom- ing packet. The American captains tell me you cannot go from Callao to Lima with safety. The ship Lammergeier arrived at Callao last December, with a cargo of framed houses, imported by the Peruvians, because carpenters or laborers could not be obtained since the abolition act. What did the negroes do ? They burnt a portion of the frames, took possession of the ship, and threw the balance overboard in spite of General Castilla's mili- tary force. A.T WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 69 The West Indies did get some payment for their slaves, but thus far the Peruvian planters have not received a penny. Formerly, it was no unusual sight to see a caravan of forty mules, the 'head of one tied to the tail of the -other, laden with two bars of silver valued at £1,000 each, from the mines to the coast, all under charge of one Peon ! Now, they are obliged to have a file of soldiers. Peru once grew sugar for exportation ; now, she imports for her own consumption. Ecuador is in a similar position. The Granadians at Panama amused themselves some two years ago by cutting off a Calfornian train. Ever since Dr. Johnson's celebrated toast, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negro slaves against their oppressors," to the recent denunciations against the Americans-slavery has flourished, and the planters become enriched— all because England has been paying such heavy subsidies to them in her purchases of cotton, sugar and tobacco ! Stop the cotton importation for twelve months and the price of the slave the first year will drop to five hundred dollars- continue the prohibition the next year and he will fall to two hundred dollars-and keep it out of the country the third year, the negro would not be worth the nails in his coffin. I appeal to the most intelligent officers of the African squad- ron on the slave coast if the results of the Exeter Hall cry have not proved it to be, however sincere its advocates may have been, the greatest humbug of the age ! The negro will always be a negro. Providence ordains that talent shall not be hereditary. "Physiognomists," said Colonel James to the electors, " say that blood perpetuates disease, but God says it cannot perpetu- ate talent." Horace had ability, but he never shook off his serfdom. Maecenas's patronage-the favor of Augustus-and the friendship of Virgil were not sufficient to prevent the con- tempt heaped upon him, because so unfortunate as to be the son of a freed man. His position was something like that ot 70 THE FACTS J OR, the black lawyer in Boston — the white lawyers would not allow him to be present at the banquet. Senator Foote, in reply to Senator Seward on the Cuba Bill, eloquently asks : " Does the Senator imagine, then, that he can devote seas and shores in America, as mild and beautiful as the ancient Mediterranean and the gar- dens that surround it, to the exclusive dominion of negroes, — driving the white men to struggle forever with the ice-bound streams, the pitiless snow- drifts, or any of the barriers with which winter would encompass or chain our enterprise ?" The " Times " places the difference between the dependent state of the poor whites and the slavery of the blacks, on the ground that one is voluntary, the other not. By this argument then the soldier who would desert is just as much a slave as the black. There are probably as many slaves who will not take their freedom as there are soldiers who keep to the ranks. The slaves cling to their masters from affection, while the soldier or the operative remains solely for his food and raiment. What do they care about their officers and employers, or even their Sove- reign, beyond the protection or support which directly or indi- rectly they afford them ? How will the sallow, ill-dressed, half-fed collier, farm laborer, or factory hand compare with the sleek and jolly-looking negro ? The slavery of the army white man is more abject than that of the black man. The law obliges the one to place himself in the ranks to be shot down, and if he refuses, objects, hesitates — if he dares to desert, or show the least insubordination, he is strung up, and put under the lash ! The whip is applied oftener on the Saxon soldier than the African slave. Augustine called poesy " the wine of demons !" Bacon says, " the mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." What often appears mountains in the distance to the navigator, proves to be vapor as you approach AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 71 — so the cruelties to the American slave have often been the creation of fancy. Brantz Mayer, in dedicating " Captain Canot's Twenty Years on board a Slaver " to N. P. Willis, says : " Men are often too much in a hurry to do good, and mar by excessive zeal what patience would complete. The cypress is a thousand years in growth ; yet its limbs touch not the clouds, save on a mountain top ! Shall the regeneration of a continent be quicker than its ripening ? That would be miracle— not progress." Henry the Fourth wished every peasant had a fowl in his pot on Sunday. The slaves live on the fat of the land, even on week- days. In one of the States 200 lbs. of pork are allowed each slave per annum, besides his other rations. Olmsted got reviewed in the "Times" for his valuable volume describing life among the slaves. The slave always partakes of his master's bounty. He shares his prosperity ; and in adversity he must be equally cared for, for self-interest guarantees good condition. In England the pressure of public calamity falls upon the poor — upon the working-classes, — not so on the plantations. The planter suffers — not the slave. As many cases of cruelty occur among free men as among slaves. The selfishness of human nature is the best security against brutality. Jefferson said that slavery was worse for the white man than for the black. Any one must admit, who has observed, that a free black, or a poor white, is not as happy at the South as the slave. Uncle Tom only lived in the imagination of the talented novelist. There are brutes in all countries, — but public opinion at the South supports the slave against a cruel master. When a slave marries a free black woman, his master, from humanity, often has to support the children. The slave-owner's treatment is the test of his virtue. If 72 THE FACTS J OK, vicious, his cupidity controls him. In mutilating his slave, he injures his own pocket. The abolition game is almost played out. Have you ever seen the used-up prize-fighters mimicked in the circus ? How, with eyes half shut, or entirely closed, they stagger up to time ; how they flounder about, striking to the right and left — now here, now there — hitting nothing, seeing nothing — force all gone — strength exhausted ? So the Exeter Hall champions light up occasionally, and hit out in the same promiscuous manner (as witnessed in the late delegation to Lord Derby, and the Anti- slavery Convention at Albany, in the United States) — the by- standers equally amused in each case. As the British Parliament represents so many pounds, shillings, and pence, and so many acres of land — according to Mr. Blight's statistics, having little regard to the millions of working-men — so the few leaders of the anti-slavery cabal have given ideas to our cousins of England regarding America, that are ungenerous, unfeeling, and untrue. England should commend, not censure, America's progress. If she thinks us wrong, she should pity, not despise. She does not, and will not, and cannot, understand us until she thinks for herself. Zeal without knowledge, is the offspring of folly. The " Times " abused us for a generation. Its political editor, Mr. John T. Delane, went to America some three years since. I saw him on his return : and what I was most rejoiced to see, although his visit was a brief one, was that his views of the country had entirely changed. Wise men change their minds — fools never do. From that day the "Times" has treated America with nobler sentiments. On the Slave question — the Mexican question — the Cuban question — the "Times" is gradually turning public opinion toward the United States — endeavoring to untie the knot its former policy had drawn so firmly. Let Americans receive their share of the stigma of slavery — if it is a stigma — but not take blame that belongs to others. AT WHOSE DOOK DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 73 America does not require England's advice on this question, any more than England does America's regarding the " social evil." When the poor drayman's horse dropped down and broke the cart, the crowd, as usual, showered any quantity of sympathy upon him. A Frenchman, standing near, said, " How much you pity ? You talk— you feel bad — you no pity. I feel same way. / pity man ten dollar." England's abolition sympathy will be better appreciated by a few five-pound notes, as a nest-egg for the emancipation fund. If liberating the slave is lending to his Maker, the investment will pay better than Consols. The Broughamites promise like a merchant ship — they should pay like a man-of-war. Words come like hailstones, but nothing else. Old bees yield no honey. War with the white man — peace with the black — is the Palm- erstonian doctrine. When the Pharisees brought to the Saviour the woman taken in adultery, to see whether he would execute the Mosaic Law, He wrote upon the sand, " Let him that hath no sin, cast the first stone ;" one by one they sneaked away, — the woman was left alone. He told her to " go and sin no more." England rebukes America with as bad taste on this slave ques- tion. Lola Montez, after leading the most remarkable life of any woman living, as gay as it is romantic, astonishes the world by her cleverness in lecturing our wives and daughters on the ques- tion of morals ! A man who has made his fortune in selling rum, gin and brandy, must be a bold man to come out as a temperance lec- turer. So it seems strange to Americans to see England abhor the monster that she created ; with royal tenderness she cherished the nursling, but strives to strangle the full grown giant ! See what she is doing even in our time. Read these extracts from 4 74 " Anti-Slavery Kecollections," addressed to Mrs. Beeclier Stowe, and dedicated to Lord Brougham by Sir George Stephen (p. 41) : " Strong and extensive as the abhorrence of the traffic was at home, there was a large and powerful body who loved it as dearly as their trans- atlantic mortgagers and debtors. The slave trade was to Liverpool then what the emigration trade is now. Manchester and Birmingham manu- facturers lived by it. • London and Glasgow merchants grew wealthy by West Indian consignments. Two-thirds of the plantations were held in fee or in security by English houses ; and these men, one and all, knew, like your Legrees, that buying was cheaper than breeding. Identified in interest, they lied in common with the planters ; and to make their lies pass current, they gave turtle dinners, rolled in splendid equipages, sup- ported public charities, railed at saints, bought rotten boroughs, and always voted with the ministers. It was more difficult then than now, to tell the honorable member for East Retford or Shoreham, that ' he lied in his throat,' and yet honorable members did lie, and indorsed any falsehood and contradicted every truth that came from a sugar colony. "Then, again, these men banded together like the Forty Thieves; they sold their votes in the lump, they had their own whipper-in, and were flogged down to St. Stephen's in a body to support Government at a division; but it was 'for a consideration,' and that 'consideration' was, hostility to anti-slavery saints; through thick and thin, through dirt and filth political, they would wade knee-deep so long as they were duly paid in pro-slavery coin." England cultivated, with Parliamentary care, the lucrative germ, but is nauseated with the fruit. She burns down our house, and then gives an alarm of fire. Disease is the tax on pleasure. The sins of the father are entailed upon the son. When mankind rule lust, temper the tongue, and bridle the belly, England can give the cold shoulder to American slavery with better grace. An offender never pardons, says the proverb. Will not England be an exception ? In 1708, the committee of the House of Commons reported : " The African slave trade is important, and ought to be free." The same committee reported, in 1711, that the "American AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 75 plantations ought to be supplied with negroes at reasonable rates." The next year Queen Anne congratulated Parliament upon her " success in finding, in Spanish America, a new market for slaves." In 1729, George II. granted supplies to the African forts, for the protection of ships engaged in the slave trade. The petition of the Liverpool Merchants, in 1145, reads : " The African slave trade is the great pillar and support of the British plantations in America !" Between 1700 and 1750 the British ports were filled with slavers. During this short period 1,500,000 souls were kid- napped in Africa — one-eighth of which perished on the voyage ! The bed of the ocean beneath the slaver's track is paved with the bones of the negro ! The slave trade party was all powerful, and dictated laws to England, as the opium party have done to-day. 11 Commerce first, Christianity afterward," was Lord Elgin's reply to the missionary. Under William and Mary the Commons resolved to open the trade in negroes, "for the better supply of the plantations." You will find this upon England's statutes : " The trade is highly beneficial and advantageous to the king- dom and the colonies." Kings and queens derived pin-money from it, and royal decrees gave it support. A century of successive ministries voted for it and encouraged it. In 1727, South Carolina made complaints to the Governor against the "vast importation of negroes." Governor Ogle- thorpe would not have them in Georgia. "If slaves were brought into the State, he must leave it." In 1749 — only ten years before Robert Burns was born — the royal restrictions were removed from the trade, and it was opened to public competition — for, reads the statute, "The slave-trade is very advantageous to Great Britain." 76 THE FACTS ; OR, It was about this time that Holt and Polexfen, and eight other judges decided that " negroes were lawful merchandise." This decision was made in order that England could have the entire trade to herself, as specified in the treaties. The law of insurance in the United States places slaves as freight, paving general average, and not as passengers. I again repeat that it is morally wrong to educate the child- ren of England in such gross ignorance regarding America. Every child that can read should have an opportunity of knowing that England cursed us with the disease before she taunted us with ineffectual remedies. Walpole says there is nothing true in history but dates. Englishmen enjoy facts. Here arc some more forty-shillings-in-a-pound truths. First, England sent to America convicts ; then Charles II. sent out a shipment of Dissenting Quakers (are the Gurneys aware of that ?) ; then the Lord Jefifery Redemptionists ; then African slaves. But the convicts, the Quakers, and the appren- tices were also sold as slaves. In 1101, my native city, Boston, instructed her representa- tives " to put au end to the period of negroes being slaves," and the first Continental Congress resolved " that no slaves be imported into any of the Thirteen Colonies !" Bancroft estimates that, during the century previous to 1776, three millions of negroes were imported by the English— two hundred and fifty thousand of whom were thrown into the Atlantic Ocean ! Contemplate, for a moment, that British ship- owners have thrown into the sea more than half the population of Liverpool, in African captives. President Madison said that the " British Government con- stantly checked Virginia's endeavor to stop the slave traffic." The Earl of Dartmouth, the very year before the American Congress of 1776 abolished it, wrote to the Government ageut, on behalf of the Ministry : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 77 These tell-tale statutes fasten the crime on England. She may dodge — she may shrink — she may turn at every corner — but there are the records. The facts are registered in the archives of the nation. England prowled over the ocean, like a roaring lion — seeking what commerce she could devour. She got a taste of the slave- trade, and, wherever she sailed, like Caesar, " she came, she saw, she conquered." I am indebted to my friend, Mr. Gillilan, for a copy of that original work by his talented young relative, " Dore," where the clever author, writing of the blacks, thus makes Jonathan soliloquize : "Unfortunate inheritance, I would you were all on the coasts of Congo ! For you, my children quarrel ; for you, false philanthropists become martyrs ; for you, the press of Europe studiously sow the seeds of dissension in my happy family ; for you, they dare bandy about the word Disunion, that its hateful sound may become familiar to the ears of those on our beloved soil who but lately banished the thought of it even as high treason; for you, happy as ye are, thousands would see the land reeking with blood and ruin. Abstract principles would snatch the bread from your mouths, as well as from the mouths of myriads more, to carry out an idea — to free you on the spot from bond- age, to make you the slaves of misery !" After admitting that slavery in the abstract is wrong — that he had no right to enslave his fellow man, Jonathan continues : " But if I have the slave already, and if he has lost his capa- bilities of self-government, and even of self-protection, by long generations of inherited servitude, or, indeed — which is more nearly the truth — if he never possessed such capacities, then I have a very great responsibility upon me, and commit a crime by immediate emancipation under a romantic idea of abolishing one." Still, speaking of his black boys, he says : 78 the facts; or, " Ye compose nearly an eighth of my population, and, believe me, ye are happier than the lower eighth of any nation on earth. " Could ye go over the world and see those sad lower eighths — yea, and in some places a few of the higher eighths — ye would thank God for your position. " My black boys, a book is yet to be written about those lower eighths which live in countries whose highest eighths weep over your miseries as they weep over plays on the stage, which will make your blood curdle with horror ! Ye have to work, it is true ; it is our universal curse ; but your work is not harder than that of the majority of mankind, and, unlike them, you have no trouble or thought for the morrow. Ye have plenty to eat and drink ; ye have a kind doctor and attention when ye are sick ; ye have a good bed to lie upon at night, while that sad eighth of which I speak have either none, or lack some of these things. " My black boys, if you had seen, as I have, a cargo of your brethren landed from Africa on the shores of Cuba, you would think there was a great deal more difference between you and them than between them and monkeys ; beside them your faces shine with the superior lustre and intelligence that distin- guish the white face when placed beside your own. It was a wicked thing to take you away from your own country, but it has raised you infinitely in the scale of being ; it has made you less a slave than you were before, and it may yet be the means of elevating and redeeming your whole race. " My black boys, the world is full of misery, of which you can have no idea. Your greatest measures of human trouble being the pain of a whipping, which the majority of you never felt even, but may have heard of, and not having known the sweets of liberty, ye do not even long for it any more than ye long to be in Africa or Boston, or any other land of which ye know nothing and never think. Then I truly think that ye enjoy life as much as at least one half of the human race. To be sure, a few of us look down from our high stations, and, placing our- AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 79 selves in your position, wonder how ye can be happy, or, rather, how we could be, under like circurnstauces. Judging in this way, every man below the king is miserable in the king's eyes, though happy in his own ; and perhaps that is a right belonging even to slaves — to judge of their own happiness. " My black boys, do not believe those your best friends who shed most tears in your behalf. There are tears which assuage none, and there are dry eyes which wipe away tears. The luxury of tears is as necessary to mau as the luxury of smiles ; and those with whom life is a continual sunshine seek this luxury as they do others, driving in carriages to enjoy it in theatres on cushioned seats, and with accompaniments of music, dress, gas, and suppers, whereas they might have had more real cause for tears nearer home. Or they view the stage at a distance of 1,500 or 3,000 miles, and the actors are black, and they perform their parts so well under the master direction of a Stowe that the amphitheatre of a world weeps — weeps in com- fort at a distance, while misery in every shape is pleading for pity and succor at their doors. But tara ra ra la la goes the music, and ten times ten thousand cambric handkerchiefs dry sympathizing eyes, and crack goes the whip, drowning — the crack of that single whip, at a distance of thousands of miles — drowning the groans of myriads of human beings who can not be heard because they happen to be of an unromantic color — white, and at an unromantic distance — near home, and because the audience don't go to the play to dispense charities, but to have a good cry. And you might say to this audience, How much untruth may be conveyed by an improper way of represent- ing truth ? And you might suggest to them that, as life is not very long, it would be better to cease crying and commence doing; and that, since the relief of the misery of mankind is the grand object, at present, with all benevolent minds, it would be more systematic as well as charitable to begin with the most miserable first, just as a surgeon attends first to the wants of 80 THE FACTS ; OR, his most dangerously-wounded patients. But then, my boys, it would be long before your turn would come ! " Still, I wish ye were all in Congo, instead of increasiug upou my hands at the rate of more than 70,000 annually, or in more rapid ratio than any other race on earth, which at least shows how easy your condition is. "But I assume the responsibility, as my son Jackson said. I will keep ye and take care of ye until some one can give satis- factory evidence of being better able to do so than myself. If the world cannot take care of the poor and wretched now at their charge, what will they do when 3,000,000 more are thrown upon their charities ? " So, my black boys, as long as you have a good dinner with- out the trouble of seeking it, a good bed, and plenty of fresh air, believe that your masters are your best friends ; and after picking cotton all day iu the field, don't go home and pass sleep- less nights, making your brains as kinky as your hair in trying to decide if Philip Francis were really Junius, or if the man in the iron mask was the son of Louis XIV. and the Duchesse de la Valliere, or if his mask were velvet instead of iron." Professor Ampere, member of the Academie Fran9aise, was at Cuba and at New Orleans. He was disgusted with slavery, but saw " no more than the first day any practical means of immediate deliverance." He approves of amalgamation — I do not — mulattoes are physically inferior — although white blood makes them mentally superior to the black. The mulatto is vicious, untamable. He chafes in harness, and becomes a cruiser beyond Rareyfication. Dore suggests what I have before touched upon — stop the sugar and the coffee — Charity begins at home. Two centuries hence he thinks that the world will say that "the greatest blessing that ever happened to Africa was the slavery of a portion of her people in the United States." AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 81 British tourists from America formerly spread before their readers a report of slave advertisements. Not a hundred years ago they would have found as many as they had space for iu the journals of London, Liverpool, and Bristol. Here is a sample, which I copy (page t6) from the " History of Liverpool," in the year 1116 : " To be sold by Auction, at George's Coffee-house, between the hours of six and eight o'clock, a Fine Negro Girl, about eight years of age, very healthy, and hath been some time from the Coast. Any person willing to purchase the above, may apply to Captain Robert Syers, Mr. Barkley Hodgetts, mercer and draper, near the Exchange, where she may be seen till the time of sale." Let me add another pargraph from the same page. " On Thursday, 12th of June, 1766, a journeyman-plasterer, in a drunk frolic-, sold his wife to a sailor for thirty-six shillings and a gallon of beer, at an ale-honse in Rosemary-lane. He had been married to her only a fortnight. The woman, who seemed nothing loath, walked quietly away with her purchaser, a fiddler playing before them. In the same year the slave trade was in full vigor. The merchants in Liverpool were deeply embarked in it." Is this horrible wife-selling custom eradicated from page of English history even now ? If not, it is time it was ! The same work (page 85,) states that as late as 1800, the Liverpool docks were packed with slavers, most of which had painted on their sterns — "allowed to carry three hundred slaves." The grievous extent to which the " merchant princes " of Liverpool carried this horrible traffic can be estimated by the statistics which I have given from the custom-house records. For every man, woman, and child residing in this populous town, three negroes lie buried amid the shells of the Atlantic bed 1 For every individual in this great port, one negro has been 4* 82 THE FACTS ; OK, landed alive on the plantations of America ! Equal to one- half of the entire population of Australia survived, but thrice that number perished before the Liverpool shipowners realized their profits ! England administers the poison, and in a wild state of excite- ment sends for the doctor ! " Take the money out of his pocket," said Fagin to the Artful Dodger, " but don't break the law I" The abolitionists, like Samson's foxes with fire-brands at their tails, (read in the original Hebrew bundles of wheat, instead of foxes) have seriously damaged the crop of good intentions that was growing up among the planters. Coleridge thought that people who were always mourning over the condition of their neighbors were generally unhappy in their own marriage relations. The cock in the fable preferred one barley-corn to all the precious stones in the world. So Americans would like acts of charity, not honeyed words. There is a Spanish proverb that says, " the cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull." The Romans conquered Egypt without resistance ; but when a Roman soldier killed a cat in Alexandria, the people rose up and tore him limb from limb. Who can be surprised that slave- owners sometimes go past the bounds of prudence ? They despise Isms. — Do you find Shakers or Quakers at the South ? No. Socialists, Rappists, Fourierists, Durkees ? No — you would as soon meet an abolitionist — Luther sainted — Leo canonized — and Paris may license Lorettes, but slave-owners alone must be outlaws of society ! I never saw a thumb-screw, chains, manacles, the nine tail cat ; burning, maiming and such words are the abolitionists' stock in trade. Ninety-nine facts may make a falsehood, but the hundredth added or alone gives the Truth. Would the English give back the land to the ancient Briton ? Would the New England abolitionist restore the country to the AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LEE? 83 Red Indian ? How then expect the southerner to give back the property that was left him by his sires ? Depend upon it, American slavery tames the savage — enlightens the ignorance, softens the ferocity, and civilizes the barbarity of the African negro. He is indifferent to personal liberty, and is wanting in domestic affection. Like a gasping fish upon the beach, abolitionism is making its last throe. The candle bursts out afresh just before the light is extin- guished. The fever disappears, and the patient brightens a little while, before the breath leaves its temporal home, — so the Anti-slavery party, in their recent declarations, show evident signs of being on their last legs — like a Liverpool pilot in a fog — they are sailing round and round the "Bell Buoy." Everybody is partial to his own art, own books, own house, own country — so the Emancipationists love their hobby as them- selves. Every mother thinks her baby best. The world declines being fooled any longer — the Abolition ostrich gains nothing by hiding its head under the cloak of Coolie emigration. The world is improving. Barbarism is dis- appearing — cannibalism is going out — mastodons are of the past — ravenous animals are growing scarce — poisonous weeds and roots are hardly to be found — hogs are getting fewer and fewer-— the devil himself has been deposed 1 — and I trust the day may not be far distant when negro slavery will be only a matter of history ! The editorial comments on the "peculiar institution " in the " Northern Times," and " Non Prejudice's " second letter in Fri- day's paper, contain some points that I will touch upon. The editor indorses Mr. Grattan's opinions 1 so will most English- 84 THE FACTS ; OR, men who see slavery only as a "sentiment." Of two evils choose the least. Is not slavery preferable to civil war ? Can the slaves be emancipated without bloodshed ? Most statesmen think not. The sympathies of Christianity are Africanized — there is none for their own blood and race. The recapitulation of the main evils of slavery in " civilized America," are thus summed up : "1st. The breeding of slaves for sale like cattle, and the consequent encouragement to their rapid increase. " 2nd. Their total ignorance, and comparative want of useful instruc- tion, religious or secular. " 3rd. The barbarous and brutalizing floggings. " 4th. The separation of families. " 5th. The abandonment of the free blacks by their former masters, from whom they have purchased their liberty, and by the white popula- tion in general making them objects of contempt and loathing to the eman- cipated. " 6th. The domestic slave trade, between breeder and dealer, and be- tween State and State, openly legalized in America, while the same trade is pronounced by law to be piracy if carried on in Africa or the high seas." If the South refused to buy the slaves of the District of Columbia, we should hear no threat of emancipation on the border. Admitting that picture exaggerated and over-painted, as he has made it, look at this which you copy. The one was slavery in America — the other is slavery in Eng- land. " That poor workmen are basely treated by their employers, that ruf- fians cruelly beat their wives, that wives and mothers poison their hus- bands and children, that our peasantry are uneducated, and our manufac- turing classes immoral, are all undeniable and melancholy facts. The arti- ficial state of society in England, the inequality of fortunes, the super- abundance of population, the short-sighted pride of aristocracy, the ava- rice of wealthy manufacturers, the sectarian virulence of portions of the clergy of all creeds, the subserviency of many among the gentry and AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 85 the middle classes of the domineering great — these are among the causes of evils which are admitted and deplored. Parliament is busily employed for their redress. Our most eloquent authors and speakers wage an un- ceasing war against the prevalence of those abuses in our social system. Numberless societies exist for their amelioration. Funds to a large amount are subscribed to carry out the various projects of improvement. No body of men of any influence, no individuals of either sex, venture to palliate the existence of these ills ; nor does any one object to the inter- ference of foreigners, whether exerted in England or elsewhere, in point- ing out, or devising remedies for, our abounding defects. But were those blots upon our boasted greatness ten times more disfiguring than they are, were our priests more bigoted, our peers more haughty, our commoners more cringing, our parliament less active ; did the sempstresses work their worn fingers still closer to the bone, or sordid mill owners drive their operatives still faster to exhaustion, or were all their vices inherent in our nature, and inseparable from civilization a thousand fold greater than they are among us, could all that combination justify slavery in America?" Justify slavery ? of course not. But we can put the saddle on the right horse — England is the party of the first part as well as the second. Save the sentiment, one system is as bad as the other. The only difference is the color. When Mr. Grattan wrote these views, I am surprised that he did not moralize on England's hav- ing stamped this iniquity on our country. Why does he remind us of the crime, and forget the real criminal ? Is it for friendly- motives ? The cotton manufacturer is virtually the real protector of sla- very. He gets the lion's share. If it be an evil (for the sake of argument), that which is opposed to wrong is far from being right. There is one thing, however, the cotton dealer must soon learn, and that is that New Orleans, not Liverpool, in future will rule its price — the times are changing. " The hatred of an enemy is bad enough ; but no earthly poison equals in its intensity the hatred of a friend." Mr. Grattan wishes America to admit the wrong of slavery, and English sarcasm will cease. America will admit the wrong 86 THE FACTS ; OR, which England forced upon her, but claims the right of manag- ing her own business. He did not show in the foregoing quota- tion of misery in England, that America was always dinning it into England's ears. Not at all. America has heard of the success of the party who got a good living by giving strict at- tention to his own affairs, hence allows England to take care of her own people. America simply demands the same right. He concludes the paragraph thus : " Could southern slaveholders be acquitted at the bar of public justice for maintaining, or cotton buyers at the North for defending it ? Or should Englishmen be debarred from publicly denouncing what they all abhor? The fact is that it cannot be defended nor palliated; and what is worse, there is but small chance of its being soon remedied, and none that I can see of its being finally abolished. Admitting all this, we in England would be quite satisfied if Americans admitted it as well. If a bold and straight-forward sentiment of anti-slavery existed in the United States, if what is undeniable as a fact was avowed to be an abomina- tion, and if means were adopted to abate it ever so insufficient, or with results ever so remote, the reproaches of Europe would cease, sarcasm be still, and America be cordially met and cooperated with on the broad road of philanthropy. But as long as the country which boasts of liberty che- rishes slavery in its very heart, as long as the States which are really free fraternize with those that hold bondage as a privilege, and man an article of barter and sale ; as long as the spinners of cotton make common cause with those who grow it, and while both combine to crush the gene- rous few who fight the battle of emancipation, so long will the voice of the old world be raised against those obnoxious portions of the new." You see he still makes no mention of England's sewing the stripes on the flag — not a word of her buying the cotton — not a line about its early history or present growth. As usual the thirty-nine articles of the abolition faith are all indefinite ! The man who cannot see on the plain will not improve his sight by going on the mountain. Watts says, " Memory depends upon the temperature of the brain." From the low state of the mercury, there must always have been a storm in the abolition mind. In passing through AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 87 the slave States, Mr. Grattan must have luxuriated on one of his own country jaunting-cars — where you only see one side of the institution ! "It is ignorance, and not knowledge, that rejects instruction ; it is weakness, and not strength, that refuses cooperation." So is it envy, and not generosity, that stimulates abuse ; jealousy, and not affection that characterizes the Grattanite sentiments. " Envy keepeth no holidays." Perhaps I cannot do better than introduce a letter, just at hand, showing a southerner's disgust at the abolition treatment of Mr. Randolph's slaves : " London, March 19, 1859. "My dear Young America: "I have just read the first numbers of 'Young America' on sla- very, in the 'Northern Times.' While there are some points in which I do not entirely concur, the treatise is faithful and forcible, and in the main, worthy of high commendation. Its perusal has given me great pleasure. " Especially are you right in ascribing the clamor against slavery to the ' sentiment, and not the fact.' Nor is this true only of the Exeter Hall votaries. It is applicable equally at home, in our own free States. The fanaticism that grows so rank and gross in those sections, is not always the offspring of ignorance — here, you justly charge it to this cause. There, it is the coinage of wicked brains and wicked hearts for wicked purposes. These are the political demagogues — the leaders, who disease and corrupt the well-meaning and honest, but ignorant masses, by pandering to the morbid and sickly sentimentality of their weaker minds — they are simply common swindlers of public opinion. The fanaticism here, in old Eng- land, if not the offshoot of our home production, is at least, fertilized by it. " There are three kinds of men that are " abolitionists " in the common sense of the term— Bad men— Mad men— and Ignoramuses ! The last have our toleration, however they excite our disgust. The second have our honorable and sincere sympathy. The first, being the common enemy of man and all good things, deserve our word-knife to the hilt! It is these who beget the false and misnamed philanthropy, that waters the earth with crocodile tears. " There are Englishmen too that belong to this last party ; of such is Mr. Grattan, who, I observe, is receiving your terrible consideration in 88 THE FACTS ; OR, another Liverpool journal. Judas Iscariot was ' short,' and earned thirty pieces of silver. He had at least the manliness not to live and spend it. An English writer— of good name, and it should be of gentle blood — breaks the bread and drinks the wine of a generous host, and then libels all about him. To what end? ' Thirty pieces of silver!' Aye, and lives to spend them ! Comparisons, are sometimes fearful, as well as odious ! Of such also is Charles Dickens, but not ' of such,' may we hope, ' is the Kingdom of Heaven!' " Now, I am a conscientious believer in slavery. I believe in the moral, social, and religions health of the institution. I believe it, under our system in the United States, to be a blessing to both races — elevating the superior, and ameliorating, in all respects, the condition of the inferior. But I protest I am not a fanatic. I do not quarrel with those who differ with me. Some of the purest men, and most earnest patriots in our country are opposed to slavery. Such men have my highest respect, for they are defenders of right — of justice, and would not ruthlessly wrest from their brethren in equality, that which is their own legally recognized property. This is the most beautiful feature of our Governmental system — thirty-three States, their equal rights and sovereignty intact and unshorn, revolving around a great common centre ! " You have clearly shown, that the meddlesome interference of ' aboli- tionists ' at home and abroad, is the most cruel thing th?t could be done for the slave for whom they profess so much sympathy. It forces upon the masters a necessity for stricter discipline, and renders a happy and contented being miserable and wretched. Verily might they cry aloud, * Save me from my friends.' Coming from a free State as you do, the manly defence you are making of the institution of a portion of your country, proclaims you the true friend of the slave, as well as of the master. The gratitude of both are due to you. " But I will give you an illustration (that may be at least interesting to you, while you are upon this subject) both of the contented condition of the slaves in the South, and the genuineness of the philanthropy of these dear lovers of the negroes : " ' John Randolph, of Roanoke, Virginia's eccentric but great statesman, died some twenty-five years ago, possessed of a large estate, real and personal. Comprised in it were about 400 slaves, derived mainly by in- heritance. The health of Mr. Randolph was habitually delicate— indeed, I suppose he never had a well day during three score years and upward, that were alloted to him. There were periods, however, when his sufferings were intense, affecting both mind and body, and the former so seriously, that it is at least doubtful whether it were not unhinged. This, added to a naturally eccentric nature — not uncommon to men of great genius — made AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 89 him do and say, oftentimes, very inconsistent things. It is not surprising, therefore, that with so large a property, and without any heir of his body (though two half brothers to whom he was devotedly attached) this eccen- tricity should have manifested itself in making a disposition of it. The consequence was, he left several wills and revoking codicils, as contra- dictory one of the other as the peculiar condition of mind at the different periods when they were made. As one of these wills — not the last — eman- cipated his slaves, and stipulated that they should be removed to a free State, providing also the means for the purchase of lands for their per- manent settlement, a protracted litigation ensued. After many trials and re-trials — decisions in favor of this will or that codicil — it was finally decreed that the will emancipating the slaves should stand. Under its provisions, the executor proceeded to the State of Ohio, and purchased a tract of land for 30,000 dollars— the sum decreed by the court to be fur- nished from the estate — upon which the negroes were to be settled. There was, perhaps, no portion of Ohio which was more characterized for its philanthropic interest in the unhappy slave than this selected — and naturally if not wisely — by the executor. Having paid for the land, secured the titles, and made other preliminary arrangements for the exodus of the 400, from the home of their nativity, the day came for their departure. I would not stir the kind souls of Exeter Hall to pity and to tears, by de- picting the heart-rending incidents of that parting scene ! It is enough to say, that to those poor creatures it was the bitterest draught of their lives. But the inexorable decrees of law must be obeyed, and the once happy and joyous slaves go forth bowed down in sorrow, and in woe, under the far more galling yoke of involuntary freedom ! " ' Upon their approach to the lands purchased with their own money for their settlement, an organized hostile demonstration was made to their coming — the Philanthropists were up in arms — literally in arms to oppose their well-beloved slaves, released by Virginian law from their bondage, taking possession of their newly-purchased and fully paid-for homes ! The law carried the day — the settlement was effected — most of the poor creatures sickened and died — and some even successfully petitioned the General Assembly of Virginia to allow them to return — and that is the fate of the four hundred ! ' " Madame Roland, casting her last earthly glance upon the Temple of Liberty, passionately exclaimed, ' Oh Liberty ! what crimes are committed in thy name !' " Abolition philanthropy — where is thy blush? " Excuse the unexpected, and perhaps unacceptable, length of this letter — also the haste, so evident, with which I have been forced to write it. 90 THE FACTS J OE, Accept my sincere thanks for your good work, and the thanks of my brethren in the South — may I not say — of every true American? " Your friend, Old Virginia." Mr. Levy of Savannah, told me that Theodore Randolph, the brother of John, emancipated three hundred and fifty negroes, and left money for their support till the farms he parcelled out on the Roanoke yielded sufficient for their livelihood. Mr. Randolph's nephew told him some years ago, that not one owned a foot of the land at that time, and all turned out vagabonds. In consequence of this his opinions changed. It was natural. The negro becomes demoralized by freedom, morally as well as physically. 11 Old Virginia " writes like a Junius. His pen stings. He is too severe on the abolitionists. They deserve much, not all, that he says. I cannot agree with him that they are " Bad-men, Mad-men, and Ignoramuses." They were neither bad, nor mad, but ignorant of the subject. Like Jonah's gourd, the sentiment grew to sickly fi eight. It was the black-eyed monster that made the negro-meat it fed upon. The abolition cradle soon became larger than the King of Bashan's bed; it was made within the sound of bow-bells. A French mayor levied a tax on all beggars for a poor fund. The abolitionists were equally consistent. None of them would pick the thorn out of their black brother's foot and place it in their own. Silver may represent Love, iron symbolize Knowledge, and gold typify Wisdom ; but the abusing of Americans is not emblematic of charity to Africans. " Old Virginia " misunderstands me if he considers me an advocate for perpetual slavery— I am not, I want to see free- dom sound its trumpet so that it may be heard in the uttermost parts of the earth. Out of Thompsonian-ism sprung Allopathy — Allopathy was succeeded by Homoeopathy — and Homoeopathy must soon withdraw in favor of Hydropathy; so cannibalism was followed by slave trade — slave trade was succeeded by in- troducing among the slaves Christianity— and the next state is AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 91 freedom : the creator has arranged it, and Nature declines going into details. "Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and imbaseth it," is Baconian philo- sophy. Under the latter I place the negrophobist's affection for the negro! as Sydney Smith said, when proving Canning's unfitness for office — 11 Butterflies cannot teach bees how to suck honey." Abolitionism was a hot-house plant — a nine days wonder. It was fashionable, but just now it is a little out of date. Negro- mania has gone to seed, nay more, it is undergoing decomposi- tion. Like Pharoah's lean kine, the negrophobists grow thinner and thinner. Vice and misery are the children of ignorance. So misrepre- sentation of America grew out of abolition exaggerations. Polygamy was once sacred, now it is secular. Negro-mania was once a party cry, now it is begun to decay. The world has opened its eyes, — a leaf close to the sight may obstruct a distant mountain. So this Exeter Hall movement has prevented the English people from fraternizing with their blood relations in America. How can they love black strangers better than white kindred ? The abolitionists were always picking up pawns on the chess board, and always getting stalemated. They played badly notwithstanding they packed the cards. All colors are the same in the dark. So in the ebony closet white Americans appeared like black Africans to eye-glassed Europeans. It became a fashion to abuse America. Let us change it and be friends ! I was astonished to find that in Constantinople dcgs were sacred to the Turks,— in Cairo that cats were cherished by the Egyptians — In Canton that vermin were protected against harm by the Chinese beggars !— in Calcutta that reptiles were not molested by the Hindoos ; but none of these strange habits are so surprising as the fact that negroes are allowed the first class 92 THE FACTS J OK, seat in the abolition mind, while Americans are stowed away in the luggage van. Abolitionism was all the fashion a quarter of a century since. Old maids drank it with their tea ; old bachelors ate it with their soup ; school girls curled it with their hair ; school-boys spun it with their top ; babies drank in the sentiment with their mother's milk ; it helped statesmen into power ; furnished matter for the journals ; and, at one time, absorbed public opinion. Not to be an abolitionist was not to be in fashion. What do you say for changing the sympathy from compara- tively happy slaves in America to unhappy negroes in Africa ? Make it fashionable to praise America and abuse Africa. The former country has a better army and a better navy than the latter, in case of any trickery on the Continent. Make it as fashionable to treat an American merchant as well in fact as you do an African slave in sentiment. Fashion can do anything, even to making England like America. Fashion permits a lady to denude her neck and bosom, but it would be horrifying were she to expose her ankles ! — how much more elegaut she would appear if fashion would take about four inches from the bottom of the dress and sew it on the top. Even Eve w r as shamed when she saw her nakedness, — hence the fig leaf which so astonished Adam ! Claudius Caesar could not by royal decree, reverse the letter F in the Ptoman alphabet, nor can Kussia's Emperor reverse the Style; but fashion can make Englishmen like the Americans as much as England likes America's cotton. One short leg on a Queen introduced high heels on shoes ! One broken arm on a royal lady gave the mode to the pillow sleeves ! One straight jacket on a lunatic Princess gave the fashion of corsets ! Large feet on a Christian sovereign was the cause of long dresses ! The appearance of an imperial Prince introduced crinoline ! Verily fashion is all-powerful. England directly abolished slavery, while indirectly she encou- rages it. AT WHOSE DOOK DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 93 " The pond that, when stirred, does muddy appear, Has mud at the bottom when still and clear." Lord Melbourne, one of the ministers, said, the night the Emancipation Bill was passed, if he could have had his own way, he would have let it alone. He knew that " relieving a man of his crutches would not cure the gout." Some Spanish proverb has said that — "To return evil for good is devilish ; to return good for good is human ; but to return good for evil is Godlike." Will the negrophobian take the hint ? I have read somewhere of a traveller in Devonshire, who wish- ing to rest his horse at an inn he saw in the distance, entered the lane, and after riding on for some time, was surprised to find himself no nearer, — he continued, however, but could but notice the sameness of the trees, the familiar look of the hedges as he trotted on ; the longer he rode the further appeared the inn. No one but himself was on the road, yet he saw the print of horses' feet. He examined more closely as the footmarks increased, and was astonished to find that the tracks were made by his own horse ! He had entered those famous lanes in Devonshire, which like the maze of Cardinal Wolsey at Hamp- ton Court, allured him continually over the same ground, always moving, but never meeting the goal. The Anti-Slavery party during my life-time have been on the same wild goose chase — always in a Maze — always in the Devonshire lanes — always crying wolf— but with eyes in the back of their heads— and ears ever closed — could neither see the true state of the case, nor listen to the voice of reason. The snow ball of abolition was no bigger than an apple when they commenced to roll it ; but now they cannot see over it — or through it— or around it. They are in a Maze. What is the use of having a minute hand on the clock, when the hour-hand is gone — or what is worse still — when there is no pendulum ? 91 THE FACTS ; OK, " As an ape is the more hideous for its resemblance to a man, so is superstition for its resemblance to religion " — or false phi- lanthropy for its resemblance to true benevolence. The tendency of the human mind to exaggerate has been for- cibly shown on this slave question. "You are always talking of the rights of negroes," says Coleridge in his Table Talk, " As a rhetorical mode of stimu- lating the people here I do not object, but I utterly condemn your frantic practice of declaiming about their rights to the blacks themselves. They ought to be forcibly reminded of the state in which their brethren in Africa still are, and taught to be thankful for the Providence which has placed them within the means of grace." Negro slavery is a civilizer; emancipate the cotton States and you drive the negro further south. Central America, Nicaragua and Mexico are yet to be civilized through the instrumentality of the negro. Always rowing against the flood — never thinking of the ebb — the abolitionists at last find their theoretical craft high and dry. Forgetting that mortification follows inflammation — and amputation succeeds mortification — they naturally feel disgusted to see themselves standing like a chicken on the snowbank, on one leg ! One grain of wheat in their quarter of chaff would be a relief ; but like the missionary in China and India, they are continually waiting, like Micawber, for something to turn up. The old proverb saith — " If each would sweep before his own door we should have a clean street." Be ye consistent ; look at home ; balance your own books. The emancipate-at- any-price party pass any number of appropriations in their aris- tocratic parliament, bat forget to vote for the mutiny bill. They remind me of the resolutions of the Irish committee : Resolved — That we have a new jail. Resolved — That the new jail be erected where the old jail now stands. Resolved — That the old jail be not removed till the new jail is built. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 95 They are continually pouring water into a rat-hole. Jefferson's declaration clause contains the text for all their preachers. Here is a letter, at hand to-day, addressed to "Young* America," " As Thomas Jefferson once said on a certain occasion, that errors of opinion must be tolerated, whilst truth and reason are left to combat with it ;' so with regard to negro-slavery. It therefore becomes the duty of every lover of his country's honor to see to it, that the Jeffersonian prin- ciples should be the only tests by which intelligent philanthropists and Christians can discuss this question, so as to bring our beloved country (the United States) back to the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence, viz. : ' That all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Then, sir immediate and unconditional emancipation shall, as a sequence, become the rigid of the slave, and the duty of the master. " My ostensible object in writing you this note, is to propose to you the following questions for public discussion, time and place to be arranged hereafter : " Is the negro a man? If a man, should any invidious distinction exist, whether in Church or State, to divest him of social, civil, and religious liberty?" My memory furnishes me with a quotation or two from the same "Free and Equal statesman" — page 112, Tucker's Life of Jefferson—" That the elder son could have no claim, in reason, to twice as much as his brothers or sisters, unless he could eat twice as much, or do double work." He believed in all children of honest parents being " Free and Equal." He went further, and believed in all Churches being " Free and Equal," and initi- ated laws, and carried them in order to make them so. When visiting John Adams (the American Minister in London, in 1786,) he was presented at Court, when George III. did not directly insult him, but treated him with great coolness. Wri- ting; home at that time, he said, " England's hatred is deep-rooted and cordial, and nothing is wanting with her but the power to wipe us and the land we live in out of existence. Again he says — 96 THE FACTS ; OK, "American reputation in Europe is not such as to be flattering to its citizens. Two circumstances are particularly objected to us — the non-pay- ment of our debts, and the want of energy in our Government. They discourage a connection with us. I own it to be my opinion, that good will arise from the destruction of our credit. You observe he had also ' Free and Equal ' views on financial affairs." His residence abroad seems to have given him " Free and Equal " opinions on European politics as well. Page 240, same author : " If all the Sovereigns of Europe were to set themselves to work to emancipate the minds of their subjects from their present ignorance and prejudices, a thousand years will not place them on that high ground on which our common people are now setting out. Ours could nut have been so fairly placed under the control of the common sense of the people, had they not been separated from their parent Btock, and kept from contami- nation, either from one or the other people of the old world, by the inter- vention of so wide an ocean." Writing from France (page 282) just before the French Revolution, he said : " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.' 1 Barere quoted the same idea a short time after in the French Assembly. Retiring from Washington's Cabinet at fifty-six, he played the usual game that statesmen understand so well when most desiring office, retiring from public life. Cincinnatus is the stock example for such disinterested parties. Jefferson in 1794 retired to Monticello, where he resolved " never to take another news- paper of any sort." Yet at the same time he was attacking Washington's administration as fiercely all the while as Lord John Russell is Lord Derby's, and for the same disinterested ob- ject. If the English abolitionists have not got enough of his AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 97 " Free and Equal " creed, I will make one more extract, written in his retirement from all public turmoil. Speaking of the French, hoping.that they will triumph, he hints that the disgrace of defeat to the invading tyrants is destined, in the order of events, to kindle the wrath of the people of Europe against those who have dared to embroil them in such wickedness, and to bring, at length, kings, nobles, and priests to the scaffold — which they have been so long deluging with human blood. I am still warm when I think of these scoun- drels. What do the abolition nobility of England think of such "free and equal" sentiments as these ? Returning to my correspondent, who commenced by holding Jefferson over my head, and ended with asking me if I will dis- cuss, in some public place, these questions — " Is the negro a man ? If a man, should any invidious distinction exist, either in Church or State, to divest him of social, civil, and religious liberty ?" I beg to say, most decidedly, that I will not discuss said questions in public — except with the pen — but with that I think in these articles I have covered sufficient ground, and stated my points in such a manner as to bring any intellectually pugilistic abolitionists away from the tea-table into the ring — for from the first I have challenged refutation of my arguments as a matter of debate. Yes — the negro is a man — so is the Esquimaux — so is the Australian— so is the Patagonian — at least they have no tails. Observing an ourang-outang in a menagerie, one negro said to the other, " Sambo, dat surely are a nigger !" " No, dat isn't a nigger ; he look like nigger, but he isn't." " If dat war a nig- ger, he'd speke," responded Pompey. " Ah, yes," replied Sambo, " Dat's one of your cunnin' niggers — he no speke — 'cause when he speke, white man put hoe in his hand." This is no fiction. The slaves grow up like children — their minds do not develop with their bodies. Holmes says the negro's idea of luxury on a hot day is con- 98 THE FACTS J OR, veyed by dividing a water-melon — feeding on the pulp — placing one half on his head and sitting down in the other ! The Honorable Miss Murray, speaking of the peculiarities of the negro character, says (page 3Q4), " Adeline, at Lynchburg, saw my sketch of the black cook on board the Links canal boat, at which she burst into a loud laugh, and exclaimed, ' He very like a monkey, missus — we very like monkeys \ m Yes, the negro is a man — but his race has always been in bondage, and will so continue till the negro shows self-reliance. Hannibal was not a negro, although I have heard an aboli- tionist claim him. " Who were your ancestors ?" some quid nunc asked the dark-featured Dumas: " My grandfather was a negro, my great great grandfather was an ape, my race commenced where yours left off," replied the witty novelist. The ants are not strong, yet prepare meat in summer — the locusts have no king, yet go forth in bands — the spider taketh hold with hands, and reacheth the king's palace — the beasts of the field often show more self-reliance than the negro — yet he is a man ; but a higher power than man has fastened upon him the badge of servitude — feeble humanity cannot explain these things. One of the most remarkable facts in the guide book of the Naturalist, is that this war of colony extends to insects. The white ants all the world over, writes Darwin, make slaves of black ants. They imprison them, and keep them in an abject state of serfdom. They are the barbers, waiters, slaves of the more intellectual white tribe. Observation at any ant-hill of the two species will corroborate this assertion. The Creator made an animal, and when finished created another to destroy it. This applies to birds, fishes and insects. The human race in nations are continually at war — each man against his neighbor. There is war and bloodshed between black and black in Negroland. There are tears and happiness between white and black on the American plantations. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 99 " In every part of the universe," writes Archbishop Whately, " we see works of wise and benevolent design ; and yet we see, in many instances, apparent frustation of this design. We see the productiveness of the earth interrupted by unfavorble sea- sons, the structure of the animal frame enfeebled, and its func- tions impaired by disease, and vast multitudes of living beings exposed, from various causes, to suffering and to premature destruction. In the moral and political world, wars and civil discussion, tyrannical governments, unwise laws, and all evils of this class correspond to the inundations, the droughts, the tornadoes, and the earthquakes of the natural world. We cannot give a satisfactory account of either. We cannot, in short, explain the great difficulty, which, in proportion as we reflect attentively, we shall more and more perceive to be the only difficulty in theology, the existence of evil in the Universe. The negro is a man, but a serving-man. Thus far slavery has done them more good than freedom. Slavery in America is civilization. Freedom in Africa is barbarism. I have a case in point. Two emperors have recently given up the ghost — the one politically, the other mortally. Two great kings have departed — both were negroes ; both were once slaves ; both were black as the ace of spades. Both proved themselves men— save the bright side of human nature — for their vices, not virtues, were most prominent. Both these kings ruled many millions ; but misfortune has overtaken the one — death the other. The Duke of Marmalade and the Earl of Watermelon have engaged apartments for the fugitive Soulouque— late Emperor of Hayti — at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, in Paris ; and eight hundred negroes have been cut up, butchered, burnt, sacrificed over the dead body of Dahomey, the Slave King of negrolaud 1 Yes, the negro is a man 1 and, while replying to the question, a few particulars of the life and death of one of the most pro- minent of that race, may prove the truth of what I have written 100 THE FACTS ; OR, in these pages — that the African is sensual, brutal, indolent, savage, in his barbarian state, requiring the strong intellect and moral power of the white man to develop his power, and compel him to work out the destiny of his race — through American slavery, to Christian civilization. Straight is the road, narrow the way. " It was not the Romaus that spread upon the world, but the world that spread upon the Romans." It was iiot the Americans that spread upon the slaves, but the slaves that spread upon the Americans. Themistocles, the Athenian, when asked to play on the flute, said " he could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town into a great city." The abolition party can fiddle, but they cannot retard the progress of Christianizing savages ; nor can they make a great nation into a little colony. They aim at nothing, and always hit it. When they miss they fire again, and succeed in hitting it where they missed it before. Is a negro a man ? The " Daily News" of the 28th ult. de- voted a leader to the obituary of a distinguished negro — a rep- resentative man ! I cannot do better than to copy a part of it. " We have this morning to announce the death of a Sovereign. A black, woolly-headed potentate was he, it is true, but nevertheless a nota- ble Monarch — a trained and experienced warrior — a king whose deeds re- sounded far and wide. He had a court, a nobility, a treasury, an army, and a policy ; he had shed more blood than greater kings, and had ambi- tions of his own ; he raised his state to external importance, made treaties, concluded alliances, and brought himself within the vortex of European diplomacy. In his time, too, he had thwarted, by his conduct and mea- sures, the policy cf England, and incurred the displeasure of Lord Palmerston, who opposed his proceedings, threatened him with chastise- ment, resisted the extension of his dominions, and supplied the smaller communities, whose independence was assailed, with arms and munitions of war. Latterly he became an object of attraction to France. Louis Napoleon sought his friendship and commercial intercourse, sent a mission to his capital, and presented him with brass field-pieces wherewith to astonish his subjects. English travellers, functionaries, and naval officers, AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 101 too, visited him, were hospitably entertained, despite international differ- ences, and, returning, after fruitless discussions, from his Court, published narratives of his dreadful deeds, that have given him a world-wide name, and enrolled him amongst the monsters of humanity. It is the demise of Gezo, the Slave King of Dahomey, that we record. The exact date when the event occurred is not given in the letters before us, but the news is brought with such particulars, by the last mail from the West Coast of Africa, that no doubt can be entertained that Gezo is gathered to his fathers, and that his son reigns in his stead." Some think facts are appearances — that appearances are delu- sions — that a man of fact is a man of fiction ; — no matter — is a negro a man? asks my informant. Yes — Dahomey was a negro — or rather Gezo is his name. He was a negro, and to show how much of a man he was, I again take the scissors : " Gezo deserved the odium and detestation which he so abundantly obtained ; all the more, that he was both able and sagacious. For upward of five and twenty years he supplied all the demands of the Span- ish and Portuguese slave dealers who infested the Bight of Benin, ravaging and devastating the interior far and wide by his slave hunts to obtain victims for his European customers. lie organized and led these internal forays and cruelties on the largest scale Africa has known, and annually sold without remorse or scruple his own countrymen in tens of thousands for exportation. His horrible cruelties arrested the progress of Africa, fed the wretchedness and mortality of the Middle Passage, and by depo- pulating Negroland, promoted the immense material prosperity of Cuba and Brazil. His policy, and the wealth he derived from it, excited the cupidity of his neighbors, and from Whydah to Lagos, the Slave Trade became the business of the whole population. When Gezo succeeded to his patrimo- nial throne, the adjacent country was inhabited by independent communi- ties of the Egbas, and it was on them he perpetrated his earlier atrocities. He attacked them, burnt their towns, carried off their choicest people, and when his own violence was unsuccessful, his intrigue introduced civil war, which completed their ruin." Was it not this king's father that wrote that famous letter to George the Third ? saying he had fought two huudred and nine battles ; that the paths before his home were paved with the heads of his enemies ; that a kind frise work of soldiers' sculls was arrayed about his (mud) palace walls ! 102 THE FACTS ; OE, In 1*722, Mr. Norris was in that country, and states that jaw- bones and negro skulls were the favorite ornaments of the altars. " Civilized America" is a paradise in comparison. There a negro is a man — a better man than Gezo. As boys cruelly fagged at Eton become the cruellest of fag- gers, so does a liberated slave make the most merciless of masters. Temperance in prosperity, and fortitude in adversity, are not the negro's virtues. Nakedness is as uncouthly in mind as in body. America is the only country ever colonized by free- dom, or without the sword — yet Miles Standish, the lover of the Puritan maiden, Priscilla, was a man of war ; and the Pilgrim Fathers proved themselves as great tyrants as Laud and his abettors, when they kicked Roger Williams out of their hacienda. I was surprised to see on the tomb-stones of Lombardy, that the early Italian governors were called " Tormentors! 1 The abolitionists should be similarly styled. See what the American missionary, Bower, has to say, and his authority is recent, about negroes at home : " I have counted the sites of eighteen desolated towns within a distance of sixty miles between Badagry and Abeokuto — the legitimate result of the slave trade. The whole Yoruba country is full of depopulated towns, some of which were even larger than Abeokuta is at present. Of all the places visited by the Landers, only Ishukki, Izbobo, Ikishi, and a few villages remain. Ijenna was destroyed a few weeks after my arrival in the country. Other and still larger towns have lately fallen. At one of these, called Oke-Oddan, the Dahomey army killed or captured 20,000 people, on which occasion the King presented Domingo, the slaver, with 600 slaves. The whole number of people destroyed in this section of country within the last fifty years cannot be less than 500,000 !" Look at that African butchery. Then look at American slavery. Sterne's negro girl did not learn mercy till she had suffered oppression. Precious odors may be most fragrant when most crushed ; but American negroes do not bear a similar anomaly. The negrophobists delight in exaggerating the sins of the Ameri- AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 103 cans ; but bow seldom they moralize on African cruelty ! So goes the world. Job's afflictions and trials are much more vividly painted than Solomon's felicities. Prosperity in the Old Testa- ment was a blessing — so was adversity in the New. Gezo was a negro. Is a negro a man ? Take another extract from the " Daily News." " While, however, the interior without the limits of Dahomey suffered by these slave wars, disorganization and anarchy, the towns on the coast for a season flourished. Whydah, Porto-Novo, Badagry, and Lagos rose in population, carried on a great commerce in human flesh, were the seats of large establishments, and grew rapidly in wealth. But their ill-gotten riches and factitious prosperity brought about their own ruin ; they were nests and dens of robbers, thieves, and pirates: scenes of tumult, disorder, and violence, were of constant occurrence. Badagry, which boasted of 10,000 inhabitants, was burnt down in a cut-throat affair amongst its own lawless population ; the whole Bight was closely blockaded by English cruisers ; and Lagos was destroyed by a British bombardment. The libe- rated Africans of Sierra Leone founded the town of Abeokuta, established in the interior an anti-slave trade interest, were encouraged by English missionaries, and supported by English assistance. This brought on Abeo- kuta the wrath of Gezo ; again and again he attacked the new community, as often his assaults and sieges were repulsed ; until at last, in 1851, the Slave King was completely routed under its mud walls, and from that time his powers declined. British policy prevailed on the coast ; Lagos, under the influence of our consuls, Beecroft and Campbell (both remarkable men), became the seat of a large and profitable lawful commerce; roads were opened up into the interior ; peace being established, industry took to honest courses ; and from Whydah to Lagos the commerce in palm super- seded the slave trade, and increased at a rate nothing less than marvel- lous, and even Gezo sought, however grimly, to regain his diminished revenues by participating in it. " Gezo was, however, never converted or reconciled to legitimate com- merce ; he repulsed all our diplomatic advances, rejected an anti-slave treaty, denounced our cruising system, complained that we had deprived him of his revenues, and was ever on the alert to revive the traffic. Thus disposed, he at onec responded to the French scheme of emigration ; and gladly received at Abomi a French mission. But the French prices for negroes were too low to yield him a profit, and althought the slave trade was partially revived, to the serious injury of lawful commerce, he had no large operations with the French ; he preferred the greater liberality of 104 THE FACTS J OK, his old friends and connections — the Spanish and Portuguese dealers in men." Two thousand negroes were to have been slaughtered at the fune- ral ; but slaves were too high — only eight hundred were massacred ! more than ever suffered death for crime in America during half a ceutury — and yet hear the groans of the negrophobist over American slavery ! It is ignoble — it is disgraceful — for leading statesmen to look at America with jaundiced eyes, and pass Africa by. No wonder Americans are disgusted. The details of the Slave King's death may convince those who doubt that a negro is a man ! The Representative Negro is dead. "At last his dismal reign is over ; and his death has been mourned and his funeral celebrated by the entire slave trade interest of the coast and the interior. His obsequies were performed at Abomi ; all the slave traders at Whydah attended and assisted at them ; each carried thither his contribution to his memory, and of merchandise to be presented to his successor. It had been proposed to facilitate Gezo's admission into the other world by the slaughter of 2,000 Africans, but, whether from the diffi- culty of procuring that number, or from their greatly increased value to the Spaniards, the massacre was happily limited to 800. Gezo's European agent at Whydah as usual displayed his magnificence on the occasion. He offered to the new Sovereign a large silver salver filled with bright new dollars, and he provided for the enjoyment of his old master in the Para- dise, whither he is supposed to have betaken himself, the model of an oak tree in frosted silver, from the branches of which hung, when disposed to the fragrant weed, the choicest of Havana cigars. The mournful and terrible ceremonies over, the new King proclaimed his policy to be that of his father ; report adds that he at once left Abomi at the head of a large army on a slave-hunting expedition." The slave trade is in full blast again, but I trust the American people will shut the gate against the fearful pestilence. We have already too many negroes in America. We want no more. We prefer white men. We are fastidious. As England prefers black people, I hereby, on behalf of America, beg to propose that the two countries make an exchange. England has millions of poor white people which she does not consider worth even a AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 105 vote. America values these men, and proposes, by way of experiment, to exchange American slaves for English freemen miners, farmers, operatives. Commence with five hundred thou- sand — exchange man for man — each to be free, but bound to work by Parliamentary and Congressional Acts. Make it an opposition system. Perhaps the white men will work just as well in the cotton field. Perhaps the black men will like the English sun better than the American. The "Daily News 7 ' thinks slavery is in full blast again : " The truth is, that, consequent on the policy and proceedings of France, the improvement and growing importance of this part of the coast are now seriously endangered. At Whydah large preparations are being made to revive the traffic; the roads into the interior are again interrupted; the amount of palm oil brought down for exportation has in the last twelve months fallen off considerably ; the tranquillity and prosperity of Abeokuta have been disturbed ; and Kosoko, the deposed King of Lagos, is making preparations, if not to recover, at least to destroy, his former capital. At this conjuncture of alarm and danger, the Admiralty has committed one of its perverse and unaccountable mistakes by ordering the Commodore to withdraw from before Lagos the gunboat which has for some time past afforded efficient protection to that place and its rising commerce ; and unless the Commodore and the Consul, with a better knowledge of the necessities of the case than Sir John Pakington seems to possess, take upon themselves the responsibility of disobeying this order, in a month or two we shall probably hear of the destruction of Lagos, the massacre of the European soldiers and missionaries, and the complete restoration of the slave trade along the Bight of Benin." " Slavery in the United States," wrote a distinguished divine, " is like a rising tide, always on the increase." Emancipation would cure the disease by killing the patient. It is not so difficult to dam a stream, as to prevent an overflow in the course of time. Decision without inquiry, is no better than inquiry without decision. " He that is truly wise and great, Lives both too early and too late." 106 THE FACTS ; OK, I was much amused, when in Calcutta, by hearing an officer of the Indian army relating some of his experience during the celebrated Affghau campaign. When stealthily approaching the enemy's camp, it was found necessary to prevent the donkeys from braying, which was effectually done by tying large stones to their tails. Those sober, benevolent animals, for want of their proper purchase, became mute, and behaved as they should do. I wish some similar invention could be discovered for the Uncle Tom party. Algiers and Tunis were bombarded before the Algerine pirates gave up their Mediterranean haunts — the right of search was a failure. The Musquito fleet, just before Emancipation Days, had to be destroyed before Spain would enforce her treaties on the coast. So if England takes a decided stand now with Spain in assisting America in purchasing Cuba by fair bargain, she will not only do a good thing for herself by getting paid her Spanish claims, but she will befriend the Spanish government, stop the slave- trade, and may save a revolution by making free States of Mis- souri, Kentucky, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland. When Cuba goes back to America, from whence, to use Sena- tor Seward's simile, she was washed away by the Mississippi, sand by sand — as gravitation will compel her to return from whence she sprung — the northern slave States must become free. Free labor is a powerful emancipator, and white men can work in these States, but could not live under the sun of their more southerly countries.. Germans are even now growing cotton in Texas, to come here. Three centuries ago there were no slaves — no serfs in Russia — no attachment of peasants to the soil before 1593 — but it was a century later, when the Asiento Treaty left the stain on Eng- land, which " Young Africa," in his able defence, failed to write out. Like Copperfield, trying to sleep with one eye open — it cannot be done ! "Young Africa" defends England by trans- ferring a part of the crime to Spain, Holland, Portugal, aud AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 107 France. Very well. Divide it among you, if you like, but donH put it off on America ! From 1680 to 1100, 300,000 negroes were taken from Africa to America — fifteen thousand per year. Las Casas's sympathy for the Indian substituted African slavery. It is estimated by the Abbe Raynal and Cocker that, to obtain the present stock in the West, some 10,000,000 have been exported from Africa, and to get this 10,000,000 to the coast, some 180,000,000 of Africans must have perished to satiate European avarice during the past four hundred years ! When we remember that one in ten perishes in war, one in five dies on the passage ! and one in three in getting acclimated! we can better understand the magnitude of the statement. The author of " Twenty Years on Board a Slaver," writes, page 86 : " It would be a task of many pages if I attempted to give a full account of the origin and causes of slavery in Africa. As a national institution, it seems to have existed always. Africans have been bondsmen everywhere, and the oldest monuments bear their images linked with menial toils and absolute servitude. Still I have no hesitation in saying that three-fourths of the slaves sent abroad from Africa are the fruits of native wars, fomented by the avarice and temptation of our own race. I cannot exculpate any commercial nation from this sweeping censure. We stimulate the negro passions by the introduction of wants and fancies never dreamed of by the simple natives, while slavery was an institution of domestic need and com- fort alone. But what was once a luxury has now ripened into an absolute necessity ; so that man, in truth, has become the coin of Africa, and the ' legal tender ' of a brutal trade." Aside from the traffic in human beings, what a splendid trade England has had in fitting out and trimming all these slavers ! I am told that Manchester, and Birmingham, and Liverpool still have the monopoly. Is Exeter-hall aware that the provi- sions, the fittings, the supplies for the Spanish traders of our time, mostly are furnished by anti-slavery England ? Albert Smith says even the idols are made m Birmingham I 108 THE FACTS J OK, Captain Carnot drives the nail straight borne. Read him (page 86): " England to-day, with all her philanthropy, sends under the cross of St. George, to convenient magazines of lawful commerce on the coast, her Birmingham muskets, Manchester cottons, and Liverpool lead, all of which are righteously swapped at Sierra Leone, Acra, and on the Gold Coast, for Spanish or Brazilian bills on London. Yet what British merchant does not know the traffic on which these bills are founded, and for whose sup- port the wares are purchased ? France, with her bonnet rouge and frater- nity, dispatches her Rouen cottons, Marseilles brandies, flimsy taffetas and indescribable variety of tinsel gewgaws. Philosophic Germany demands a slice for her looking-glasses and beads; while multitudes of our own worthy traders, who would hang a slaver as a pirate when caught, do not hesitate to supply him indirectly with tobacco, powder, cotton, Vanke* rum, and New England notions, in order to bait the trap in which he may be caught! It is (he temptation of these things, I repeat,' that feeds the slave-making ware of Africa, and forms the human basis of those admirable bills of exchange." What America asks is consistency. That Englishmen should not require to be led by those who have thought upon one theme so long, it has become a slavomania. Let their preachers prac- tise what they preach— Charity begins at home. Why is it that thousands of people in Great Britain think au American a black man ? Why is it that hundreds of thousands in this country are astonished that Americans speak such good English ? Sometimes the further you extend the circle of light, the wider you make the horizon of darkness. The most mora! may become the most debased, so England's kindest intentions may inflict the most injury. The good intentions of our friends often do more damage than the worst actions of our enemies. You can inflict pain to do a greater good— as a surgeon may amputate a limb to save life— or as you may punish a child. If you give poison to a man with the intention of killing him, and AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 109 it cures him of some disease, the act was as bad as the result was good. If you give medicine to heal and it kills, you are as innocent in that case as you were guilty in the other. Therefore the English, who carried on the slave trade and practised such horrible cruelties, were guilty of the crime, But if enslaving has benefited a race, the act is as good as the motive was bad. Does not slavery really anticipate the benefits of civilization, and retard the vices of civilization ? " He that acts in all things openly does not deceive the less, for most persons either do not understand him or do not believe him." Why is it that our laws — our institutions — our habits — our life is not better understood by the masses, and more fairly represented by the Thomas Colley Grattans of the age ? Simply on account of thirty years' of anti-slavery bias. A nation has looked through a few eyes already too long — a few leaders cannot much longer deceive the people. There are many who believe that had not England made the blunder of abolishing slavery — America would to-day be her bosom compa- nion. Free trade would have made an alliance as binding as the law of language and morality, and I hope yet to see the day when America may receive a fair trial on this side of the water. It is useless to talk about the good feeling when the bad oozes out on every turn. Children grow up, as their parents did before them, with some Legree-tortuv'mg slave picture always in their mind when they meet an American ! They are always looking for chains and manacles, whips, and mangled Uncle Toms. Americans do not judge of the House of Commons by such men as Sadlier or Brown. Why should Englishmen judge of the American Congress by such representatives as Mr. Brooks ? How many can give the names of our Congressmen. 110 THE FACTS ; OK, The American people should not be judged and committed on the record of the police court ! Let me ask the Uucle Tom party a few questions : Do they not think that as their philanthropic cats and dogs have been so successful in their hunting after philanthropic rats and mice — that it would be a change to give a little attention to the nobler game of lions and buffaloes ? Is not a white man in Manchester more worthy of thought than a black man in America ? Are they aware that the sole ambition of a freed slave is to own a slave. Nero loved his harp — Domitian his bow and arrows — Comraodus his foils — Caracalla his chariot — but your real negro loves nothing so well as to own another negro. Like master, like man. Do they know that their closest philanthropy for the ebony race has done more to postpone emancipation than any other action ? Can they find on the face of the globe the lower eighth of the population of any country living so happily and contentedly as the slaves of the West ? Are there four millions of people bet- ter taken care of in any land ? Europe sleeps on loaded canon. Standing armies wait at all the gates. Look at the sentinels at all the palaces — and when you wish to move from state to state you must buy a passport. Did not the records of the House of Commons prove that the President of the Liberian Republic received 1,565 dollars for 400 negroes on board the Regina Ccelia ? Has emancipation worked well in Spanish America — in the French West Indies — in the British possessions ? Have not civilization, morality, agriculture, and Christianity, declined under the withering influence of abolitionists ? Do they not think that, while sixty thousand ministers are preachiug the doctrines of our Saviour — love — sixty millions of Saxons are practising the doctrine of Moses— force ? Is there in reality so wide a difference between the American slaves and the slave-owners, as there is between the English aristocracy and the people ? Let the Exeter Hall reformers reflect. Let them remember AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? Ill that under the primogeniture law, which Mr. Locke King is trying to change, England entailed slavery upon America, her eldest son ! The negroes did not make the American Constitution. Wash- ington was an officer in the British army, Jefferson — Adams — Hancock — were British subjects. All men are not born " free and equal." I deny it. The Creator's plans cannot be thwarted by a turn of words in the nation's declaration of indepen- dence. Jefferson may have intended to say that all white men were born free and equal ; but if he did he was wrong, because they are not — all are different — no two things are alike — no drop in ocean — leaf in forest — sand in mountain — fish in sea — flower in garden. How then can races be the same ? Each land has its fauna, its flora and its humanity. This has been so in all ages. The Arab, the Egyptian, the Negro, are as distinctly chiselled in the monuments forty centuries ago as are the wild-dog, the grey- hound and the turnspit ! The type never dies 1 I really did not intend to extend this article to its present length ; but, as I wrote, the subject widened, and I could not well curtail it. I have received more letters — some censure — some praise — one man says cut it short, another, classify your facts better, a third does not see any force in my argument ; then, as usual, comes advice as to how such things should be written. What object have you ? What good do you accomplish, etc. To-day I find this on my table : " I enjoy all you say in the 1 Times.' It nourishes me. I am improving daily. One fault only— a little too epigrammatic— too true— too many thundering, overwhelming truths crowded into one nut-shell. Had you not better fill up with lighter matter now and then, and not choke off all opposition with so much energy ?" I begin to feel encou- 112 THE FACTS ; OK, raged at this, when another friend, an assistant secretary of an American Legation, writes me in the strictest confidence — "your articles in the ' Northern Times ' on slavery are the worst things you have ever written — bad grammar — bad punctuation — bad spelling," etc. I ask him if that is mine or the printer's fault — and if a few able-bodied ideas are not scattered along the papers ? It is always so — your strong points are passed over — your weak ones stand boldly out. One friend advised me not to kick against the pricks ; adding that treacle catches more flies than vinegar. Exactly — but the truth is, I am not ambitious to catch Jiies, when more respectable game is on the move. " You must not consider that all Englishmen are stamped and labled Exeter Hall," writes another. Of course not ! I re- spond ; but the few abolition leaders were high in rank, and millions followed them without reflection. The " Times" of Friday last, reports the debate on the West Indian Bill. Buxton said that it was the fall in sugar, not emancipation, that destroyed the West Indies. How happens it that the same analogy did not apply to the Spanish colonies ? Jamaica, said Labouchere, used to send to Great Britain 1,500,000 cwt. of sugar, now she sends not quite 500,000 cwt. Bulwer gave some interesting facts. Coolie immigration to Mauritius commenced in 1836, suspended in 1838, and Govern- ment took it up in 1843 ; since which 170,000 have been intro- duced. The sugar crop decreasing in consequence, from 10,000,000 lbs. to 238,480 lbs. In British Guinea 23,000 Coolies were imported; augmenting the crop from 34,000 hhds., in 1841, to 55,361 hhds., iu 1855. Trinidad was equally pro- gressive ; only 10,000 being taken to Jamaica. The debate decidedly favored Coolie emigration ; Chinese — Hindoos — but not Negroes. Bulwer was equal to Asiatic slavery — so was AT WHOSE DOOE DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 113 Buxton — so Labouchere — so Crossly — so Fortescue — but these statesmen cannot quite swallow African slavery. The yellow boys as Coolies; but not the blacks as slaves ! Yet the African is Salamander proof in the cane-brake; while the poor Asiatic shortens his days. No matter — let them die — so long as the Negro lives ! Bulwer was eloquent when snubbing the apostles of " Uncle Tom. He admits the evil, and asks Mr. Buxton "What he will do with it ?" Read his peroration : " Let me say, in conclusion, a few words to the friends of the Anti- Slavery Society. I have fought by their side in my youth, and now, when I think they have been misinformed, I still believe that our object is the same — namely, to give complete success to the sublime experiment of negro emancipation. It becomes them above all men to do their best to render prosperous the colonies in which slavery has been abolished. Every hundred weight of sugar produced by the immigrant at Jamaica is a hundred weight withdrawn from the market of Cuban slaves. Will slave states follow our example unless capital nourish under it ? Can capital nourish unless it has the right to hire labor wherever labor is willing to be hired ? I warn them, that if by any indiscretion of over zeal on our part our West India Colony becomes injured, it is we who shall rivet the bonds of negro slavery wherever it yet desecrates a corner of the earth." " Slavery curses the white man, and blesses the slave 1" There is many a southern planter that will indorse that view — but he dare not. It is more difficult to emancipate the whites than the blacks. They swear by the institution as they would by their bales of cotton. In reality, there is much difference of opinion in the slave States ; but knowing that association is their strength, good representatives are obliged to indorse the bad — a division in the camp creates disaster — the South speaks as one man. The cowardly act of striking below the belt— the treacherous strangulation of the Indian Thug — the Mormon Danite thrust — were no more ignoble, no more unmanly, not half so disgraceful, as that brutal assault of a southern representative upon a north- 114 f~- f :ii::r: :: :: :« " -:~i ;-i Vi l fi:_-f :".: _l; ::-.^.:: ::_" '.:~i7? :. ■. : ji/" ::' ::: n: :n. ; : il _f V — f:::::::.7:;l.-:';c:::.:-.-: " iiiv &s*nee «poa a prise riii z . 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Let the problem work. ier field- too much to ask of England not to bwy our slaTe-grown cotton, or sugar, or tobacco. too macb to ask her for money to purchase emancipa- tion . It is too much to expect her to break up any of her charities, or lessen her philai.: ipj. a portion of her tim: sl America will ke^p — Ike sJares will not ran away. In i ~ _3Boii5, in 1900 twen: :;eriment. If it does not work — it the .land can get _rr porcopine quills ready to throw — bat meanwhile, let her _ in the sai. ire — no: fa e proper thing for drawing water. Iron will not float — neiii^r can England America to throw four hundred mil The abolitionists have been for : ::: - " X_f blacks are a . but a bad-sn . — - ■ ' - - . ' i i only four muV 1::ls ;: i:. =. : :~ri: :: r~l_ — z.~. ~ '::- -six : During the ten yi hair is growing to raise the two millic l _ fund, and England is poshing her blne-piD- :ans, some abolition man v ; : II .nd by the ropes, i poleon r, and each ■eh - I . - _ : - 116 THE FACTS I OR Men of science have come to the conclusion that inulattoes would soon die out, if not replenished by black or white renewals. Catherine de Medicis used to amuse herself and courtiers by marrying dwarfs, but they never gave birth to children. Nature abhors abortions, and never commits a crime in propagating them. Giants are deficient in intellect — impotent, short-lived, and feeble in body. No black man would marry a black woman if he could get a white one. Even a shade of lightness they are grateful for. Blacks ascend the scale, while whites desceud by intermarry- ing ; the elevation of the one is the debasement of the other. Americans are weary of being misrepresented, and ask the Uncle Tom party, as a special favor, to leave them alone for the above time. Sensible Englishman have similar opinions, but there are a few, in high places, who continue to delude the masses They forget that a sparrow in hand is worth two vultures on the wing. The fable of the dog, who lost his mutton by biting at the shadow, is instructive. While the abolition party are catch- ing flies, the hornets escape. The difference between the Ameri- can slave and the Blase ncgrophobist is, that one works to get meat for his stomach, the other to get stomach for his meat. An argus on American slavery, but a mole on English poverty. It is not safe to put reynard on the jury in a poultry trial. The Emancipation Bill was ushered in with elaborate dinners, hot suppers, nice tea parties, and mutual admiration committees, but that day is passed. Buxton endeavors to prove that the West Indies still flourish, but gives no credit to free immigra- tion. You ask me why I defend the slave-owner, as I would not hold slaves myself ? Because he has been most unjustly abused — because he has been most maliciously misrepresented. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 117 The slave-owner lias as much right to enter the northern States and demand them to admit slavery, as the northern abolitionists have to go South and enforce its abolition. I don't believe in such apples of gold in pictures of silver sen- timents. Slavery or civil war say you ? I answer promptly Slavery; the frying pan is better than the fire. There is one thing, how- ver, that I wish Europeans would understand, and that is First, that all Americans are not slaves or slave-owners. Second, that the 350,000 slave-owners of the United States do not represent the 26,000,000 of white men who never owned a slave. Third. That South Carolina and Virginia do not compose all the States of the American Union. The American slaves are not imprisoned for debt. The American slaves are not forced into the army to be shot down, as the general may dictate The American slaves have never been known to starve on the plantations. The American slaves never die for want of medical aid. The American slaves spend more money, and throw up more fire-works on the Fourth of July than their white owners. The American slaves had en- gaged every carriage at the livery stable one holiday in Louis- ville, Kentucky, some few years ago, preventing me from my drive in the country. The American slaves dress better than the English colliers, or miners, or farmers, or operatives. The American slaves show more affection for their masters than the aforesaid for their employers. The American slaves are seldom seen in the poor-houses, pau- per institutions, or prisons. The American slaves go to church on the Sabbath, and number more members of the Baptist and Episcopal church, than the white dwellers among them. The American slaves never know the wants of famine or of war. The American slaves consider themselves the aristocracy of the negro race. The American slaves have a voice in the election 118 THE FACTS ; OR, of the Government — three votes out of five — that is, he is recog- nized to be three fifths of a man, while the millions in England that do not vote, do not take part in the elections — appear tc be of no account whatever — a Chiltern Hundreds constituency. The American slaves show more hale and hearty old men among their numbers than any other class. The American slaves are fond of shooting, and kill much of the game for the southern markets — the profits of which they are allowed to retain— while the poor laboring man in England, who squeezes out his ten shillings a week to support holf-a- dozen children, renders himself liable to transportation or impri- sonment by shooting a pheasant or a hare ! The American slaves ride in the same carriages with their masters and mistresses — while the free negroes are requested to keep at a respectable distance. I abhor the institution of slavery, but it seems to suit the temperament of the American slaves. I am contented to leave the question of slavery where Wash- ington left it, and Adams, and Jefferson. I am satisfied to sail in the same boat on that question with thirteen presidents, thirteen cabinets, thirteen administrations. I am willing to leave it where the Constitution left it, namely— a local question, a question entirely within the control of the sovereign States — a purely local, not a national question ; and those who try to fasten it on the nation, on the natioual standard, are disunionists and traitors in the land. Force is not a word for the administration to use against a sovereign state — unless that State attempts with- drawal — then use the Jacksonian argument. The American Union is not a powder magazine to be touched off with a South Carolina lucifer ! Xature may have ordained that everything shall be an enemy to every other thing — but these sovereign States must be an exception. Mr. Whitby says that the Roman Catholics on the purgatory question are right in their creed but wrong in their geography. The Carolinians are right at heart but wrong in the head ; a AT WHOSE DOOK DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 119 spark may burn a city, a mole may inundate a province, a French rumor of invasion galvanize England with fear ; but proud, noble, little Carolina should remember her size be- before she attempts to break up our brotherhood of nations I No cripples, no crutches, no mutilated black men meet you in the southern cities, for there are few deformed, few ill-shaped beings in the slave ranks. They are born, they live, they die, they eat, they drink, they sleep, and enjoy the sweets of labor. The American slaves are advancing ; their masters are reced- ing. Want brings thrift ; thrift, plenty ; plenty, wealth ; wealth, luxury ; luxury, idleness, ruin and decay. Such is the march of events in the southern States. The slave-owners will wake up from their lethargy when the abolitionists leave them to themselves — not before. Continual fault-finding, continual recrimination, does not engender love or friendship. The bow long bent waxeth weak. The sympathies become thus destroyed and parties become geographical. Let the North mind its own affairs. Let England look at home. The South is fully twenty-one years of age. Two years before the Emancipation Bill passed, the historian Alison said, " Slavery is not only not an evil but a positive advan- tage, and a necessary step in the progress of improvement in the early ages of mankind." Survey the globe in ancient and modern times and you will find slavery coexisted with the human race, and continuing, though with mitigated features, through all the glories of ancieut civilization. The ages of Pericles and Antony, of Cicero and Socrates, of Fabricius and Justinian, were equally distinguished by the univer- sality of this distinction among the laboring classes. Twenty thousand freemen in Athens gave law to four hundred thousand slaves. For a thousand years, slavery was universal in Europe, and it still remains in some of the most extensive of its monar- 120 THE FACTS ; OR, chies. Why, if immediate and unconditional emancipation from servitude was intended to follow the Christian religion, did it sub- mit to unmitigated slavery for fifteen hundred years after the introduction of that faith ? Five years after the passing of the African Act, Alison again took up the quesion in " Blackwood's Magazine." The apprentice term had expired. The falling off in com- merce and morality was poorer, yet Buxton gloried over what Alison pronounced with figures of arithmetic, as well as logic, was a miserable failure. I think it was the "Quarterly Review" that advised, in concluding an article on the life of Buxton, that his statue be put up immediately, else it would not witness in time the fall of England's colonial empire. Speaking of the "absurd and delusive principle" of the act which demonstrated that five years were sufficient to clothe the class with the habits and desires of freemen, and render the transition from servitude to liberty as safe and salutary, he says : " It may safely be affirmed that five hundred years would have been little enough for the momentous chauge. How long did it take to wear out slavery in the British Islands ? Five centuries. Why was it never found possible to extirpate it, even amidst all the refinements and civilization of Greece and Rome '( Why does it still exist, in undiminished vigor, over two-thirds of the globe ? Evidently because, it is a necessary step in the progress of civilization — because, without it, savage man never has worked, and never will work — because, without its coercion, the human race would be chained forever to the hunter or shepherd state — because, but for the slavery of our Saxcn progenitors, we would now have been wandering in the woods — because, what- ever evil may be attendent on servitude — and they are many and grievous — they are trivial in comparison to the universal and wider-spread penury, the total stoppage of the advance and pros- pects of the human race, which instantly follows the cursing of uncivilized man with the nominal blessing, the real destitution of freedom." AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 121 Alison indignantly records, in 1839, " that the slave trade had been doubled in extent and quadrupled in horror, throughout the globe, by the, monstrous act ; and the sufferings of the African race, under European cupidity, are now incompara- bly greater than when the philanthropy of Wilberforce and Clarkson first interposed for their relief." Buxton himself estimates that one hundred and fifty thousand negroes were transported from African ports to the West Indies and the Brazils the very year the 800,000 slaves in the British Colonies were made freemen. The bill passed the Commons on the Tth, the Lords on the 19th, and received the royal assent on the 28th of August, 1833, but did not go into effect till the 1st of August, 1834. Buxton estimated the annual Brazilian import alone was 100,000— and gives figures to prove that 18,331 were landed at five ports in Brazil in the year ending 1st July, 1830. Sir Wil- liam Gore Ouseley, in 1835, and another official on the spot as late as 1840, testified that the trade had been, and continued to be, largely on the increase. Buxton put down 60,000 per annum to Cuba — and taking Porto Eico, etc., he estimated the annual import at 150,000. Captain M'Lean, Governor of Cape Coast Castle, testified to 140,000 having been carried off from the Bights of Benin and Biafra in 1834. Four pounds value of Brazilian tobacco in rolls, Manches- ter piece goods, cowries, and spirits, was about the price of a negro. These cotton goods, made expressly for the slave trade, are slave-manufactured in Lancashire. Jackson, Riley, Captain Lyon, Hitter, Browne, Burkhardt, Colonel Leake, Br. Holroyd, Dr. Bowring, are among the tra- vellers, residents, and writers on Africa during the last fifty years, who testify to the foreign and home slave trade. Caravan after caravan of negroes has been marched across the burning sands of Africa, to supply the 50,000 slaves required for the slave-owners of the East, while ship after ship transported the 150,000 landed on the slave plantations of the West. 6 122 THE FACTS ; OE, " The whole, or the greater part of that immense continent," said Bryan Edwards, "is a field of warfare and desolation, a wilderness in which the inhabitants are wolves to each other." Bruce, who was in Abyssinia in 1*110, said : "The Gromach men are all killed, and are then mutilated, parts of their bodies being carried away as trophies ; several of the old mothers are also killed, while others, frantic with fear and despair, kill them- selves. The boys and girls of a more tender age are then car- ried off in brutal triumph." Mungo Park describes the slave war between the Kings of Bambarra and Kaarta, where the population of three, villages were put to death. Prince Henry of Portugal made Anthony Gonzales, the Portu- guese, in 1442, carry back to Africa the ten Moors he had seized. He did so, but got gold dust and ten negroes in return, which he sold. This opened the gold mine : all nations followed, the slave trade began and is still in full blast. Bartholomew de Las Casas was a Bishop. He loved the Indian and hated the negro, hence he tried to make them change places. I believe the Indians would have been better off in slavery. Hunting-fields don't develop agriculture or industry. Lord Muncaster, Grosvenor Smith, Major Gray, Captain Moresby, Major Denham, Clapperton, Commodore Owen, Mr. Ashmun, Laird, Rankin, Colonel Nicholls, Mr. Oldfield, Captain Cook, Canot, and several others, have most minutely described the wretched state of the negro in his own land. Each has testified to the low state of civilization — and did not most of these travellers and writers look through English eyes and aboli- tion spectacles, they would all and every one admit that the American slaves were as far above the African freemen as is the English peasant above the Laplander. At any rate, these dis- tinguished travellers have fairly shown that in Africa the Exeter Hall revolutionists have a far wider pasture for their abolition AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 123 shepherds to evangelize the African slave — than in the United States of America. " Nobility has seldom sprung from virtue — virtue still more rarely from nobility/" wrote Francis Bacon. So true Christianity, true benevolence, true friendship for the African, does not forsooth emanate from the noble brotherhood who show their sympathy for a foreign race by falsifying their own kindred. " The Americans, in their conduct toward their slaves, are traitors to the cause of human liberty, foul destructors of the Democratic principle, and blasphemers of the great and sacred name they pretend to recognize," was the bitter language of Daniel O'Connell. Quoting these sentiments as a text, Francis Wyse, in 1844, penned some fifty pages of the boiled down calumnies on American slavery in his three-volumed work on the United States, which, if written with an abler pen, would be worthy of Thomas Collie Grattan. " Facility to believe ; doubt to contradict ; good to gain ; sloth to search and seeking things in words," are the traits that mark such minds. They abuse America as naturally as they praise England. " The only pleasure which can be conforma- ble to nature is that which knows no satiety. That measure has been discarded by the Wyses and Grattans of the day. Remembering the St. Domingo massacre, the Jacquerie of France, the slave revolt of Germany, Napoleon said, " Had aliy of your philosophical liberals come out of Egypt to proclaim liberty to the blacks or the Arabs, I would have hung him up at the masthead." Whately says that many " well meaning men voted against the abolition of the slave trade, because it was advocated by some partisans of the French Revolution." Eng- land, however, fifty years ago, threw up her hand, and Spain and Portugal continued the game where all the cards were trumps. From 1st July, 182*7, to 1st July, 1830, the British consul reported 150,000 negroes imported into the single port of Rio 124 THE FACTS ; OR, de Janeiro! The "Patriot" newspaper, 25th June, 1838, estimated that 60,000 arrived there that year ! and Bahia, Pernambuco, Maranham, and Para took 32,000 more. Even women were embarked in the selling of negros. Donna Maria de Cruz, daughter of the notorious Gomez, Governor of Prince's Island, made a fortune in the traffic. Wilberforce threw his anti-slavery mantle over Buxton, May 24, 1821 — two years after, the debate opened in parliament with such animation as to frighten the colouists. The planters felt with the old adage, " Save us from our friends, and we will take care of our enemies." The "Jamaica Journal," June 28, 1823, boils over with indignation. The opposition was as bitter as it was just : "We will pray the Imperial Parliament to amend their origin, -which ia bribery; to cleanse their consciences, which are corrupt; to throw off their disguise, which is hypocrisy ; to teach with their false allies, who are the saints ; and finally, to banish from among them all the purchased rogues, who are three-fourths of their members." Lord Brougham said one hundred slaves were killed in Deme- rara by the soldiers, in consequence of the debate in Parliament having excited the negroes to rise. The Buxtonians will not even now admit that too much force throws out the wedge. Their little knowledge of the effect of freedom proves a very dangerous thing to the negro. The more they cut down the trees, the wider appears the forest. The elder tree grows as much in three years as the oak in twelve ; but at thirty years the oak continues its growth while the elder has ceased to advance. These trees are fit emblems of the two races. Freedom to the African lightens up his narrow- brain for a short period only, to be the darker afterward. Like the mirage on his sun-burnt sands — admiring the benefits of liberty he never reaches — he sees in it theory, but he cannot practise it. Negroes were always slaves, and always will be until Provi A.T WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 125 dence so changes nature's law as to give them more mind. It is a question simply of brains. The Negro has nine cubic inches less of brains than the Teutonic race ! The Hottentot and the Peruvian has seventy-five inches ; the Mexican seventy-nine — the negro eighty-three ; while God, for some great end, has given ninety-two cubic inches of brains to the Caucasian race ! "The average of cubic inches of the brains of barbarian tribes," says Philips, "is eighty-four." Human nature never changes ; if so, it would cease — no mat- ter what the language, the negro always takes that peculiar intonation with him, his lisp is as natural as his smell. Nature is the grandest of studies. Trace the world through fishes, reptiles, birds, animals, to man — through the paleozoic, the silurian, the chalk and the coal. Water, first hence fishes. The Tertiary epoch brought land, mountains and animals. Geology shows us the different strata of the earth. Ethnol- ogy teaches us the different strata of man ; the negro is the paleozoic. As younger children become more precocious by having older ones to play with, so to a certain extent, the negro finds improvement by associating with the Teuton. In Africa the negro is half-starved, therefore badly developed. In America he is well fed, hence his plumpness and good condi- tion. "Wild horses, cattle, asses and other brutes are greatly improved by domestication ; but neither climate nor food can transform an ass into a horse, or a buffalo into an ox," writes Gliddon, in his " Types of Man P Neither can a negro become a Caucasian, or a Saxon, or an Englishman, or an American. There is a long stage between each mile--stone. We have tried them for ten generations in the United States, and find the negro still the negro ! 126 THE FACTS ; OE, The filling of a cistern will not make a perpetual fountain. 11 Fame, like a river, bears up what is light, and sinks what is solid." The abolition stream needs as much purification as the Thames. Had the slaves been in England, how different would have been the conduct of Parliament. But some thousand miles away lent enchantment to the picture. False affidavits could be made without detection. One case of cruelty could be easily exag- gerated into a hundred. The abolition Filibusters showed wonderful energy — vigor — firmness of purpose. Buxton's maxim was that man must not mistake difficulties for impossibilities. Such steadfastness of purpose were worthy of better results. They were men of weight and measure. They were prophets, and honored even in their own country. They let their lights so shine before the British people as to darken everything American. 11 The lowest of the virtues attract the vulgar mass — the middle ones they admire — of the highest they have no conception." The abolitionists appealed to the lower state of the people — and, coming so closely upon the heels of the Reform Bill, they succeeded. Ireland was forgotten — she was too near home — besides, her people were white. " Oh," said O'Connell on Irish wrongs, " I wish that we were Hack!'- What a commentary on the state of feeling then existing — that a British member of Parlia- ment, even in jest — should wish himself a negro — in order to get the same attention that the negroes received ! "Handy Andy's" motives were good — but his actions were decidedly bad. Brother Jonathan has inherited from his Abolition Father the stain of negro slavery. What will he do with it ? Miss Murray, writing from Boston (page 48), says : "Christianity will, and must subdue it ; not by teaching us to vilify and per- secute those less fortunate, our brethren who have had the curse of human possessions entailed upon them, but by enlightening the darkened, and instructing the ignorant." AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LTE ? 127 Christian slavery is more exalted than barbarian freedom. For proof of this, compare the death-bed of King Gezo, in Negro- land, with the black children of the slave States. Barbarism precedes civilization — mythology comes before theology — super- stition before religion— ideal before the real— natural before the spiritual ; the superior follows the inferior throughout history so freedom must succeed slavery : association succeeds progres- sion, and development follows association. Creation is a study. Man is linked with everything in the animal, mineral, and vege- table world. The grain of corn is planted in the spring, it pro- gresses, it assimilates, it develops. Man eats it in the morning at night it becomes part of the blood, the flesh, and the bone, and the next day a portion of the brain, perchance a human thought working out some patent reaping machine. The world is worked on a wonderful system. The Creator made the negro as well as his master, and in making him he gave him bodily strength, to make up for his mental weakness. The old kings and patriarchs of the Bible were bad men. In our day such crimes would have sent them to the gallows. Madame Tussaud would have had them all in the chamber of horrors. Their bondsmen did not fare as well as our slaves. Good comes out of evil. Astrology prepared the road for astronomy — alchemy preceded chemistry — soothsaying foresha- dowed prophecy — and priestly traditions came before the won- derful realities of modern science. Where there is now land all was once water — and where there is now water all will sometime become land. Time is the level- ler. Time will emancipate the negro. The Almighty's ways are all his own. Corn and flowers may yet grow abundantly on the African desert. The Gospel of Jesus will yet Christianize the heathen. The lion and the lamb will some day lie down together. Elec- tricity will perhaps conduct the locomotive at two hundred miles the hour, as easily as it now sends messages as many thousands at a flash. Some invention will yet be made for this mysterious 128 THE FACTS ; OK, agency. Lightning may yet conduct away all disease from the home of man. The air itself may be controlled with as much facility as the navigator sails his ship upon the waters. Time is the greatest inventor. Four millions of slaves must not be set free in a month. There are seven ages in nature as in man. " All the world's a stage." The anti-slavery sentiment grew from the " puleing babe " to the second childhood in less than a generation. The idea was grand and noble. Fashion is all powerful. Custom is a tyrant. Christianity was as pure as a mountain lake — clear as crystal at the fountain. Now, mark how polluted have contending creeds and sectarian rancor made the stream. The gilded church, the luxurious pew, the gold-clasped Bible, the flowing surplice of the apostle, and the Pharasaical prayer, are among the worldly things thrown in to corrupt its living waters. That publican's simple appeal won for him at once an audience. Christianity in all ages is that beacon on the mountain. It is always shining — all see it, all feel it — but there are many roads. The light still burns. Some go in railways, some by hand-carts —one man takes a saddle-horse, another a wheelbarrow. This sect prefers an omnibus, that a canal-boat. Some go up one side the mountain, others the other. There are now twenty-four hundred and ninety-nine roads to reach the beacon. A school-boy in our time knows more geography than Jacob. The authors of the Book of all knowledge knew nothing of astronomy, history, geology, philosophy, or geography ! When we turn to the elements that are alleged to bring peace and love and forgiveness to our neighbors, what discord floats around us. Look at the sectaries of Christianity ; are there not divisions in the church ? North separating from South ? Is it not a sporadic case ? The great mass of Methodists have parted, the next in numbers, the Baptists, have broken asunder. Is there not disturbance among the Presbyterians ? " Does not the circle of discord," said the Earl St. Vincent in the House of AT WHOSE DOOE DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 129 Lords, " enlarge itself daily," so that we have demagogies in religion as well as in politics ? Custom can make the church ungodly, as well as make one people dislike another people, because of the bondage of still another people. I owe you five shillings was once law — now four pages are required for a power of attorney. Four pages of " administra- tions, executors, and assigns." Four pages of aforesaids and the whereases — four pages of legal forms instead of five simple words, before you can sell a ship, transfer a house, or buy a farm. Custom is all-powerful — lawyers were paid by the line ; so two men, Wilberforce and Buxton, introduced the custom of depre- ciating white men, and commending black men. Custom has organized a community of doctors. Rest, regularity, recreation, diet, exercise, pure water, pure air, early hours, are nature's physicians, Hygeia was the goddess of health, but custom has planted in every street an apothecary shop — a drug receptacle — resembling so many blisters on society, ulcers on the social system. Esculapius was the god of medi- cine. Hippocrates and Galen lived before Paracelsus, with his horrible calomel. Then came, I forget the name, with his anti- mony. Harvey saw the blood circulate ; Jener mitigated the smallpox ; but Hahnemann introduced homoeopathy, to the dismay of the pill-maker. Now Wilson holds the mirror up to nature with his water-cure at Malvern. The clerical, the legal, and the medical professions are the crutches on which ignorant, discordant, and diseased humanity hobhle through the world. Remove the first, there would be more religion ; remove the second, there would be less discord ; remove the third, and more people would live to a ripe old age. Three college-bred practitioners control the Englishman. The clergy- man, the doctor, and the lawyer. The one takes care of his 6* 130 the facts; or, soul, the other his body, the last his purse. Yet, what could we do without them ? If England means what she proposes, no better time than now can offer to show some demonstration beside proclamations. If Lord Shaftesbury's party mean to try the feeling of England, let Parliament be petitioned against the importation of a single bale of slave-grown cotton, or hogshead of slave-grown sugar, for twelve months. Charity begins at home. When the young man asked how he could enter the Kingdom of Heaven, our Saviour told him to keep the commandments — " I have done this from my youth upward." " Thou art near the kingdom ; but, in order to enter in, must sell thy estates — give to the poor and follow me." When England follows this advice, America will believe in her sincerity — not before. When the Duchess of Sutherland gives ovations to Mrs. II. B. Stowe, she is very near the kingdom — but she must sell her estates, and then purchase emancipation at the market price. Some three millions of the people of England get what they shall eat, what they shall drink, and wherewithal they shall be clothed, from the product of slave-grown cotton. They are more interested in the question than those who drink port, eat woodcocks, and dine in palaces. Let Palmerston call a monster meeting of these operatives, and put the question, " All in favor of emancipation and no cotton — say aye !" Deep silence reigns — "All for cotton, and no emancipation !" The response would shake the empire. When England will show how she can exist without slave- grown cotton and slave-grown sugar, she will prove the consis- tency of her course. Were you to ask me if we had never seen a negro in the country, would you introduce slavery in the United States ? I would answer most decidedly, no. Would you emancipate those now in America ? Most decidedly, yes, when it can be done without ruining the planter, debasing the slave, and retarding civilization ! AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SHST (?) LIE? 131 Are you in favor of opening the slave trade ? No, not as carried on by the English, the Spanish, and Portuguese. But under some well arranged system of emigration, yes — but they must not be called slaves. The Quaker wouldn't whip the cur that stole his meat, but cried out mad dog, and the animal was soon killed. When you wish to harm an object or a man, call him or it names. Who dares to speak on sacred history without first apologizing for his sentiments ? Thus the adulterous old King Henry introduced Protestantism because he wanted another wife — the cry of infidelity meets every man who has the manliness to think \ Writing on Mr. Buxton's motion, February 22, regardiug West India immigration, the "Times" says: "Europe must have sugar, and has shown plainly enough that if Jamaica can- not produce it, Cuba may. If Cuba secures the privilege, not only slavery but the slave trade itself continues to flourish. If Jamaica wins the market, Cuba and the slave trade go down together." American emancipation would overthrow the British Govern- ment. Slaves grow the cotton ; set them free, and, like Jamaica, the plantations would soon be jungles. Desolation there would show spindles rusting, operatives starving in manu- facturing districts, civil war in America among the slaves, and civil war in England among the operatives. When the Emancipation Bill was passed, statesmen were green ; we expect better laws now they are ripe. Emancipate the slaves, and England would soon see that, unknown to her- self, she was a sleeping partner in the slave. The African will not work without a master. The European combines and succeeds. The Asiatic race, also, understand the power in part of working in concert. But the African has no idea of a joint-stock enterprise. They were always bondsmen. They will always so continue. But they must not be called slaves. The word stinks almost as bad as the negro— not quite 132 THE FACTS ; OK, — for the negro's pores are always open ! Enslaving debases the enslaver, but thus far has elevated the slave. The Africans never combine, therefore it is absurd, under the present system, to fear a rising in the South. Persians, Asiatics, and Tartars have had armies, but who ever heard such a thing as an African army, an African regiment, an African bank, an African joint- stock association of any kind ? Be assured the negro is a one- horse mind, with a one-story intellect. Under guidance they will work — alone they wallow in idleness. Nature never intended the negro to be our master, or even our equal, but our servant. Nature's plans are simple ; her results are sublime. Every infant born is another link in nature's chain. Progression is her first law. The sun comes on and leaves us at the horizon, but is always moving. Little things make great things. Pay breaks by degrees, and night comes under a regular law. Nature's law destroys the doctrine of chance. Each death is a birth ; each grave a cradle. Men and ani- mals are full of living things the moment that life leaves the body. Each race eats up the other race. As grand as the study of astronomy or geology is the study of human change. Dark-skinned nations are not up with our age. They always miss the ferry-boat — they never arrive in time. As minerals assume the angular shape — animals and vegetables the spherical — so nature makes strong the negro body, to make up for his infantile mind. Slavery suits that race. Abolition is the Satan that crawls into his Eden to ruin his peace of mind. Slavery is good for negroes but fatal to politics. It killed the Whig party ; des- troyed the Know-No things, and will stand at the grave of the Democrats next campaign. As the sweetest things become the sourest — as the handsomest women may become the greatest scolds — so may the cherished ideas of the Democratic party prove its ruin. In Africa, slaves are wretched; in America, they are happy. Ask a slave if he would go back to Africa, and he would scout the idea. Go into the southern States ; observe the attach- ment that grows up between master and slave. The planters call them " Uncle" and "Aunty ;" and the " Massa and missis" from their lips is spoken in kind and affectionate words. It is considered contemptible for a planter to sell his slaves, unless obliged to part with them through financial embarrasment. Pierce Butler, the husband of Fanny Kemble, has just sold his estate in Georgia to pay his debts. Some 400 slaves were dis- AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 133 posed of, but the husband was not separated from his wife, nor the mother from her young child. This was the express stipu- lation _ of the sale. In South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, when slave estates are sold, this custom is universal. Public opinion rules the law. The " Times " published in full the "New York Tribune's" description of this sale, and the next day gave a leader on the subject, which dealt much more kindly with the slave-owner than was the case some time ago. It concludes thus : "The best point about this sale is that the families were not separated. The Philadelphian, Mr. Butler, made this concession to the feelings of those among whom he lived. The old men and women were sold with their grown-up progeny, the husbands with their wives, and the little child- ren with their parents. The writer hints that by this mode more was made out of the stock; but we are willing to believe that it is the result of a dawning consciousness among the masters. The scenes which took place at every auction, when negroes were ruthlessly separated, the remon- strances of the North, and of the world in general, and the efforts of some of the clergy, in whom the spirit of Christianity has not been entirely quenched by the habit of looking on blacks as inferior beings, have led to the practice of selling the families as much as possible together, and the slave-owners of late have taken no little credit for their progress in humanity. But is this the only element which at all palliates the sad and degrading spectacle? If any one wishes to see bow low the white man may be brought by unlimited power to use human beings for gain, let him read the life-like description of the southern planters, and see into what a class the increase of the cotton trade has changed the gentlemen of the Carolinas and Georgia." The " Press," of April 16, devotes an editorial to bitter reflec- tions on America. The concluding paragraph will illustrate what I have endeavored to describe as the tone of the ministerial journal toward America on this slave question : "This 'pure democracy' — this model El Dorado, after which Mr. Bright seeks to shape the policy of England — has been vauntingly called by its most eloquent orators 'The natural ally of slavery.' In Congress and Senate it has upheld the revolting traffic of the South. The free-suffrage convention at Rhode Island called heaven and earth to witness its readi- ness to encounter the horrors of war rather than surrender the right of universal suffrage, and meanwhile defranchised such of the Rhode Islanders as had an infinitessimal drop of African blood in their veins. In the con- ventions of Michigan and Iowa, Democracy declared all men equal, with the exception of the colored inhabitants. We are reminded by this boast- ing of freedom— this glorying in universal suffrage — this trumpeting of liberty and equality — of that scene where the noblest woman of France on ascending the scaffold turned toward a statue of Liberty, placed beside the guillotine, and exclaimed: 'Oh, Liberty, what crimes have been com- mitted in thy name !' What means that American slang now so largely imported into political discussions among ourselves, ' the dignity of labor,' [34 THE FACTS ; OK, < the equality of all,' ' the extending of the area of freedom ? It is the hypocrisy of speech— the gilding of the slave's chains— the dust which the Yankee tries to throw into European eyes. In America, we have a that Bright and Co. contend for, in suffrage, in political power— neither an Aristocracy, nor a Prelacy, nor a State Church, nor a Queen. Yet this sacred democracy hugs to its bosom the most execrable system ol slavery that ever polluted God's earth ! Slavery is a deep and detestable evil— a greater evil to the whites than to the wretched blacks— morally, socially, politically evil It seems to be suffered to continue in America that the partisans of democracy and republicanism may learn that their favorite political heaven has blacker clouds on it than far less boastful institutions, and that there is no good reason for uprooting our old English royal oak and transplant- ing into England that miserable furze bush of democracy, in which nestle and grow up many more venomous reptiles than we have any liking for. Our English people, we are persuaded, think so. Bad as we.are, England is an entire stranger to the slave market." Are the Wilberforcekes aware that the public auctioneer at the South is looked upon as a necessary evil, and with the same feelings of contempt as you look upon the common hangman ? That public opinion is so much in favor of the slave, that a a white man gets justice with difficulty ? That a larger number of slaves are members of the church iu proportion to population than the whites ? That nothing has done so much to retard education — schools — teachers — among them, as the violent ti- rades against their masters by the " Uncle Tom party ?" In the order of nature, there must be sensation before think- ing, creeping before walking, crying before language, coarseness belbre culture, superstition before intellectual education, experi- ence before wisdon, and slavery before freedom, for those dark races that the Creator made to labor under the guidance of the white man. Buffon and Linnaeus have the honor of commencing the science of man ; Cuvier followed ; then Blumenbach ; but Wilberforce introduced the science of negro-abolition, as Sir John Hawkins did that of negro slavery. Tzatzoe, the Caffir chief, dining with Buxton, expressed sur- prise to see that in the streets of London, donkeys did not receive the same humane and honorable treatment as horses ! People will have different opinions on different subjects. Plato, Galileo, Newton, Angelo, Locke, Hume, Pope, Bacon, Pitt, Voltaire, Cowper, Macaulay, Irving, must have considered matrimony slavery, else these distinguished men would not be on the record of old bachelors. Animals came into existence with a coat of fur ; but man came in naked. The animals remain as they were first made ; man has been daily advancing. American slavery is one step AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LD3 ? 135 toward daylight for the negro. The retail slanderer becomes the wholesale reviler. The early abolitionists must have abused their relatives before anathematizing their neighbors. Go into the cold cheerless huts of the English, the Irish, and Scottish peasant — note his scanty furniture— his cold hearth- stone—notice the quantity and quality of his food — trace the care on his low brow and corrugated features— remember that one in thirty of the entire population is a pauper — that one in twelve of the births last year was a bastard — test the truth as these these things are shown, and then admit that charity begins at home. Why is it, when intelligent Englishmen go to the slave States, they come back delighted with America? Why are their views so changed ? The Hon. Miss Murray was as- tonished to find things so different from the way that she had been taught. Carnot says that so far from sleeping on feather beds in Africa, the slaves seldom have the luxury of a mat or boar hide. The Mandingo chiefs are the most civilized, yet their " beds, divans, and sofas are heaps of mud, covered with untanned skins for curtains, while logs of wood serve as bolsters !" In America they fare better. I like consistency. Many of our most rabid anti-mexi — our Quakers, our long-faced philanthropists — continually take money from the slave-owners for goods sold. Is it not as bad as when a planter sells slaves, takes the money, and buys merchandise of the abolitionist — the abolitionist knowing it was slave money ? When debts are owing from southern States, abolitionists have never been known to refuse taking slaves in payment; that is, they were of course sold, and they took the money ! 'i same people who profess so much sympathy, will not sit in the same pew at church — ride in the same omnibus or railway car- riage — not allow a negro to come any nearer to them than they can help. ; Tis hard to reduce their maxims to actual life. The "Times" has lately given an instance of the elopement of a beautiful girl in Detroit with a huge negro. The description was revolting. One point more — when English gentlemen open this matter with Americans with such strong feelings, are they aware of the magnitude of the subject? Do they think of its extent? When speaking of their national debt, it looks to them an Atlas 136 THE FACTS ; OR, load, but the emancipation of some 4,000,000 slaves but as an every-day occurrence ! I have overhauled the Parliamentary record of the West Indian compromise. The inequality of the price of the slaves in the several colonies is a marked feature. McCulloch is my authority for the following table : " Distribution of slave compensation. The commissioners for the appor- tionment of £20,000,000 granted by Parliament as compensation to slave- owners, under the 3 and 4 William IV., cap. *73, issued the following table, showing the average value of a slave in each colony ; the number of slaves in each ; the total value of the slaves ; supposing the annual value of each were realized, and the proportion of the £20,000,000 received by each colony : 4,000,000 at 500 dollars each, is 2,000,000,000 dollars, one- half of your national debt ! This is property, handed down by Englishmen to Englishmen, from father to son, from American to American, for generations. The planters have grown up with the slaves. They have no other occupation. The 350,000 slave-owners having no other means of support, look with suspicion and distrust on the hollow demonstrations of those who would deprive them of their pro- perty, offering nothing but abuse in payment. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 137 I would advise a planter to sell his slaves to the warm- hearted Christian philanthropists, and after he had got the money, put on the same long face, picture the cruelty of the system, and then advise the anti-slavery purchaser to set them all free. Then charity would begin at home. The lowest class of the community in Canada, the Canadians will tell you, are the free negroes. Is it not the same in Nova Scotia ? I never saw a more degraded, lot of negroes than at the negro colony at Halifax. Emancipation there again has proved abortive. I write from memory, but I am under the impression that during the last war (1812), a British man-of-war seized a lot of some hundred slaves on the Roanoke and carried them to Nova Scotia, some to Halifax, some to the Loch Lomond settlement, St. John, N.B. The government gave them land, and seed and culture for a fair start, and what has been the result ? Just what it has always been and will always be — degradation. They have tried it for two generations ; when they have money they drink and sleep it away. Thrift, industry, honesty are not the qualities of the African negro. Brooms, baskets and shingles constitute the commerce of these people — they are good butchers, hair-dressers and capital melon-venders. Enslaving negroes was making Christians out of idolaters. Africa was made for that unfortunate race. The land, like the negro's mind, is a desert. Emigrating to America was like passing from darkness to light — from death to life. I am not a slave-owner, nor have I any desire to be. A near relative of mine inherited a large estate with some hundreds of slaves. When he became a preacher of the Methodist Episco- cal church, he liberated all and reduced his princely fortune to a limited income. I am a Bostonian— the very hot-bed of abo- lition where we have abolition clubs, abolition societies, aboli- tion churches, abolition schools, as well as abolition rum-shops, abolition poverty, and abolition crime ! And I have just noticed these resolutions, reported in the " New York Herald," as having been passed at the Anti-Slavery Convention held at Albany, by the Boston abolitionists, February 1, 1859 : Resolved— That in advocating a dissolution of the Union, the abolition- ists are justified by every precept of the Gospel— every principle of moral- ity, and every desire of humanity. . Resolved— Wirt, the Union is a covenant with Death, and ought to be annulled— an agreement with Hell which a just God cannot permit to stand and that it is the paramount duty of all to seek its overthrow. 138 THE FACTS J OR, This proves that my Bostonian fellow citizens of the sable sympathy party, are worthy of being disciples of the " great and good Wilberforce." Let me ask one question. If the Union was dissolved (an impossibility), does that alleviate the evil? Will that better the matter ? Would Othello lose his occupation ? I remember once hearing the eloquent treason of Phillips. He pictures Tell and the tyrant Gessler, Tell represents abolition ; Gessler slavery. " We have fired," said he, " our arrow and killed our child, but we have still another, which we will hurl at the Union and the Church!" These Garrisonians are honest in their Faith. They are insane on that question as Brigham Young is on Mormonism, or Jackson Davis on the spirit-rappers. There is ever a kind of madness in intellect, and there is plenty of genius in genuine isms. These men may yell for dissolution but they must not touch the Union of our States. No northern abolitionist or southern fire-eater dare act. The Constitution allows them to talk, so let them howl and scream. Let them rant and swear, and curse. The Union will live in spite of the death-rattle croak of the Union-destroying ravens. No, the Union is safe— mark the vision — the acquaintance — the courtship — the doubt and fear — the association of States— the dowry — the children— the grandchildren— observe how they cliug to the parent stein — the constitutional oak. How small the acorn, and how massive the tree— how deep-rooted the trunk, and how wide-spread the branches. Like the great ban- yan in Calcutta's garden, towering high in air, our American banyan stands out, the patriarch of the race. Note its hundred branches, like a general with his officers, regiment, companies —like an admiral, with flag-ship and fleet. The Union is safe in spite of those who would do it harm. Virginia, the first, is the centre of a hundred States. Americans bathe their feet in both oceans, and lave their brows in gulfs on either side. Oceans, lakes, gulfs, valleys, have been joined by canals, steamboats, railways, and telegraphs, all binding the Union of my native land. Friendship for England is strong in America. I want England to feel the same toward America. The age of painting— the age of gunpowder— the age of printing— the age of Newtonian philosophy— the age of Napo- leon's conquests— may have passed, but the age of oar Union's brightest history is to come. Possibly it may be Emancipation, but not in my time. The Crimean dangers repaired the military service of England. AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 139 The Indian mutiny will open Hindostan to commerce and pro- gress — so will the southern States take measures, when it can be done, to ameliorate the condition of the slaves. Several friends have assured me that these letters have been too disconnected to convey good reasoning. Suppose they have; that is my style. If they don't like it, they better not read them. When you are conversing over the dinner-table you don't make a set speech, and I commenced these articles in a conversational way. You can read them all at once or take them apart. They go. as well backward as forward, or you can commence in the middle. Nature may never repent anything, but writers always do. I never said there was any new ideas expressed herein — and of course there will be some repetition. In making these notes, I hope I have argued fairly and in good temper. 1 trust that no personalities have been intro- duced, and that I have condensed the question into readable shape ; and for fear that I may be considered an advocate for continual slavery, I will close these comments by Baying that I would do away with this Christian mode of civilizing the heel hen — but I would carry my reforms further. I would also do away with the rum-shops — close the opium dens. I would abolish courts aud prisons — I would have no bastards — no paupers — no cyprians— no drunkards — I would do away with dice-box and cards — with envy, hatred, jealousy, slander, and all uncharit- ableness — I would seek to improve mankind by sweeping away vice and crime, and substituting virtue and happiness — and most assuredly I would do away with slavery ! But these things commenced — continued — and will not end. Cain murdered — Lot sotted — David Uriahized — Moses plot- ted — Jacob cheated — Solomon seduced — Peter lied— Judas be- trayed — and all were slave-owners ! I consider myself better than all those miserable sinners. Our age is an improvement on theirs. The present is brighter than the past— no murders now be- tween Protestant and Catholic — no Sabine rapes— no innocents massacred— no sequestrated land — no exiles— not one man stained by the zeal of state. Negro-mania— negro-phobia — negro-pathy is dying out ; aud when it is very dead, England will have a much better opinion of the only true friend she has on the face of the globe — America. I leave off where I began, by sayiug that of all things oi 140 THE FACTS ; OR, which the Exeter Hall people are most ignorant, the question of American Slavery stands most prominent. Europe having no other sins to lay at our door rolls this spe- culation of her youth before our gate. The whole argument can be squeezed into a filbert. American slavery is the first great stepping stone from African barbarism to Christian civilization. Take it up point by point. Physically — how meagre, thin, long and chopfallen is the poor, half-clad, half-starved savage as you find him a prisoner of war in Negroland. How happy, contented, well developed, strong, hearty, the well-clothed, well-fed negro slave in America. Mental/)/, look at the miserable weak-minded animal in Africa who never did enough work to keep a snail alive — who knows nothing of Bible Schools, Bible Societies or Christian preachers, and contrast him in his improved state on a southern plantation. Commercially, the African savage never benefited mankind, as an African savage, but as an American slave he has grown corn, cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco and coffee, and thus helped to civilize the world more than all the missionaries in Christendom. •ncialhi, the same ai "-'s labor in America regulates exchanges, rules markets, stimulates finances — but iu Africa he was worse than aothing. Mechanically, what arts or what instruments, what ingenuity has the negro iu his barbarian state ever shown? Nothing. But under American .-la very he has sa^n in the white man a higher order of mankind, and there are now mechanics, carpenters, smiths aud workers in metals among the slaves. Socially, the American slaves never eat their own or other people's children. "We have no cannibals — no human being mutilated over the funeral pile (slaves are too valuable). They go to church, they sing, they laugh, shoot birds, read tracts (not abolition, for that teaches them to make them). In fact socially the American slave is just the reverse of the African savage. Morally, all the foregoing comes under this head. The barba- rian meets civilized man and improves as far as lie can — educa- tion may develop but cannot originate mind. Color is not the only thing that marks him — you must first put inside his skull nine cubic inches more of brain. He may possess the two hundred and forty-eight bones — the four hundred muscles, the fifty-six joints on hands and feet — the twenty miles of arteries that mark the white man — and those who ever came near them in hot weather will testify that they also have the three millions of pores ! But the brain, the organ of the mind, is not there — in AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE ? 141 quality or quantity. Blood is not always red. It is sometimes blue in birds, white in fishes, yellow in reptiles, transparent in insects, but all colors in man. There is a difference between construction and destruction — innovation and renovation. It required all plants, all trees, all fish, all birds, all beasts to make man, and yet your true abolitionist thinks he can change the order of nature. The best mode of emancipating the slaves in America, is for Parliament to stop the cotton. If it don't make a revolution the first year — stop it the second. The Broughams, the Buxtons the Sutherlands, the Hugos of abolition should pass these reso- lutions: Resolved, That from this day we will not wear a slave-grown cotton shirt — sleep between slave-grown cotton sheets — wipe our faces with slave-grown cotton towels — use slave grown cot- ton clothes on our children — or slave-grown cotton handker- chiefs; that we will not wear a particle of clothing — walk on a single carpet — or have anything to do with any. article that re- quires a particle of slave-grown cotton in its texture. Resolved, That we and our menservants will not drink another drop of slave-grown coffee or put another lump of slave-grown sugar in our tea. Resolved, That we will eat no slave-grown rice, or corn, or grain. Resolved, That we will never smoke another slave-grown cigar — take another pinch of slave-grown snuff or use another pipeful of slave-grown tobacco; that the five and a half millions sterling revenuereceived for these articles be abolished by pro- hibiting them altogether. Until some regulation of this kind is resolved upon, I doubt if I shall be able to couvince the south- erners that it is for their interest or that of mankind to emanci- pate their slaves. They must bear in mind this: in any case the Union will stand on the Constitution. We can never be disunited. The vane of St. Paul's turns at every wind— North, South, East or West — amid storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, joy or sun- shine — it moves with the wind— but the old Cathedral stands as firm as the rock of ages. The one represents our party politics — the other our Union. Families may quarrel among themselves, but it is not well for a neighbor to make comments or interfere. The Americans may every four years turn a national somerset at their conventions, but Europeans may be assured they will always strike on their feet on the Constitution rock of their country. 142 the facts; ok, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in France is now rendered, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery. In America — Constitution, Union, Country ! Dissolve the Union! — Never ! When the sun shines at midnight, the moon at mid-day — when nature stops a moment to rest, or man forgets to be selfish — when flowers lose their odor, and trees shed no leaves — when birds talk, and animals laugh — when impossibilities are in fashion, the Union may be broken ! Dissolve the Union ! No political fire can burn under any party crucible with sufficient intensity to melt the rock on which the nation stands ! There may be men base enough to rob and murder — steal coffin-plates, and strike women ; but how degraded must be the criminal who could calmly witness the disruption of these sove- reign States ? Dissolve the Union ! How is it to be accomplished ? How divide the national flag ? Who takes the stars — who the stripes ? The Bunker Hill monument is at the North — will the South share it ? How are you to cut asunder the liocky Mountains — the Alleghanies ? and how will you divide the Grand River ? who takes Niagara Falls, who the Mammoth Cave ? Dissolve the Union! — Destroy our mother, trample on our father's tomb, desecrate our children — God forbid ! What will they do with the pine of Carolina — the elm of Ash- land, and the oak of Marshfield ? Who takes the trunks ? who the branches ? Dissolve the Union! — What ! divide the Constitution ? Which half for the northerners — which the southerners ? And, great God ! what will they do with the Declaration of Independence ? Rash men, forbear ! for before that dark deed can be perpetrated you must divide the grave of Washington ! Dissolve the Union ! — Who will pay the public debt ? who is to have the national arms ? How is the army to be divided ? How the navy ? How are you to manage West Point ? and what will you do with General Scott ? Dissolve the Union ! — Will each State take back her marble block from the Washington Monument ? What is to be done with the National Library ? How arrange the relics of the Exploring Expedition ? Who takes the Patent Office ? Is free trade in revolution to settle the question of the capital invested in custom-houses ! Dissolve the Union ! Never ; so long as there are sects in AT WHOSE DOOR DOES THE SIN (?) LIE? 143 churches — weeds in gardens — disputes in families — wars with nations. No, statesmen of Europe, you may reason — you may sneer, you may hope — but that cannot be. Your thrones, your courts, your governments will fall and crumble into ruin long ere that day when the New World commits the national suicide, which you have daily predicted for over eighty years ! Dissolve the Union! — Statesmen of England, you know not what you say — when we fall you will die — when John Bright is President of the Republic of Great Britain by universal suf- frage of a contented people — when Congress obliges by law an American President to marry a European Princess — when the Pope leases Faneuil Hall for his city residence — when Alexander of Russia and Napoleon of France are elected senators from Arizona — then, statesmen of England, there maybe some hopes that your wishes may be realized of seeing the dissolution of the United States of America ; but not till then ! Englishmen should remember that the children of America arc taught to look upon the Union of their country with the same sacred res- pect that the children of England are taught to look upon the person of their Queen. Dissolve the Union ! — What, raise a tornado in the politics of the land ! — Bring on a whirlwind around our statesmen ! — a typhoon among our States! — a natural earthquake, to destroy with the volcanic fires of party strife, the grandest fabric ever raised under God by the hands of man ! What will they do with the Capitol? The Treasury buildings ? And who shall have the White House, the national home of sixteen Presidents? Who will take Hail Columbia ? who the Star Spangled lim- ner ? How dispose of the national Eagle, and pray who is to claim Yankee Doodle ? Dissolve the Union! — Impossible! would there be two Repub- lics — or two Kingdoms? Would they be friends, or foes? — Which would be grander, the eighteen millions or the six ? and when the two governments send their ambassadors to for courts, which will be the most respected, the representative of the white man, or the black ? Dissolve the Union ! — Stand off all ye ranters — ye traitors — ye parricides — ye coward statesmen — ye craven-hearted knaves, leave alone the Bible of our political faith. Thus far I have lived a life free from taint. No man, however anxious, can find a blemish on my character ; but were the Union of my native land a cord, and the power of dissolution vested in one man who would consent to do so black a crime as sever it — I would crawl on hands and feet from State to State, and if fair fight 144 THE FACTS. would not arrest his falling hand, I declare unto you. dis- unionists of the North, and ye disunionists of the South, I would assassinate him ! The Republican words — Liberty ! Equality ! Fraternity ! under a free translation, signifies to-day in France, Infantry ! Cavalry ! Artillery ! In England, Steam ! Gas ! Electricity ! While in America we have no meaning but Union ! Constitu- tion ! Country ! THE END. 8 Aprl.1860 \V cP, r ^ V ■ ^ V % •s ,-fc MB, \° ^ 4 V V • \\ .p- \ v