Viewing The Success Awarded To Opening Up The New Country
As A Development Of Divine Providence In Relation To The
African family,
the mind naturally turns to the probable influence it may have
on negro slavery, and more especially on
The practice of it
by a large portion of our own race. We now demand increased supplies
of cotton and sugar, and then reprobate the means our American brethren adopt
to supply our wants. We claim a right to speak about this evil,
and also to act in reference to its removal, the more especially
because we are of one blood. It is on the Anglo-American race
that the hopes of the world for liberty and progress rest.
Now it is very grievous to find one portion of this race
practicing the gigantic evil, and the other aiding, by increased demands
for the produce of slave labor, in perpetuating the enormous wrong.
The Mauritius, a mere speck on the ocean, yields sugar,
by means of guano, improved machinery, and free labor,
equal in amount to one fourth part of the entire consumption of Great Britain.
On that island land is excessively dear and far from rich:
no crop can be raised except by means of guano, and labor has to be brought
all the way from India. But in Africa the land is cheap, the soil good,
and free labor is to be found on the spot. Our chief hopes rest
with the natives themselves; and if the point to which
I have given prominence, of healthy inland commercial stations, be realized,
where all the produce raised may be collected, there is little doubt
but that slavery among our kinsmen across the Atlantic will,
in the course of some years, cease to assume the form of a necessity
to even the slaveholders themselves.
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