But it is affirmed that African slavery in the South is promotive of moral degradation; or that heathenism, and idolatry, and all savageness in Africa, is preferable to their Christian, but compulsory, condition in the Southern States, where the Sabbath is strictly observed, and Sunday-schools and churches maintained for their instruction in every kind of religious knowledge necessary to their fulfilling their every duty to God and man, and securing hereafter a heavenly reward. Or, in effect, that plenty, law, and labor, in America, are not preferable to starvation, free idleness, and crime, in Africa, or in the North.* The remedy proposed for -- "THE NEGROES IN CANADA.-The Fruits of their Outrages appearing-the 'Poor Fugitives' banished from the township of Anderdon. The readers of the Free Press will remember the recent negro outrages in Canada, and particularly the affair in the township of Anderdon, a few miles from Windsor, where an elderly female was violated, and several males, who went to her assistance, were cruelly beaten, and left for dead on the floor of the house. Subsequently the perpetrators of the outrage were taken into custody, and, while being conducted to jail, were rescued by a band of their fellows. The exposure of this deed of violence in this paper brought down upon us the impre cations of the entire negro-worshipping press, not only of this city and country, but of Canada, who justified the outrage by insisting that the female was 'nothing but a squaw.' It is true that the woman whose home was assaulted, and upon whom the outrage was committed, was of mixed blood - French and Indian but it is yet to be proved that the virtue even of an Indian woman is not as much to be respected as that of a white. - "It seems that the woman, though thus sneeringly spoken of by the negro sympathizers, is not without her friends, and her appeals for justice have not passed unheeded. The consequences of the outrage which the negro community sought to 1 sin, by the great founder of Christianity, was not the dissolution of the bonds that link people to their rulers, but the bonds that link them to sin-in the crimes of Sabbath-breaking, lying, stealing, adultery, covetousness, and all personal wickedness. palliate, and the punishment due to the perpetrators whom their companions refused to surrender to justice, are to be visited upon the entire negro population. Their homes are to be sacrificed, and they are to be banished from the township. "It seems that the greater part of the township of Anderdon is held under the Canadian laws as a reserve by the Wyandot Indians, who, by their local authorities, have entire control of their affairs. The authority is vested in a Council composed exclusively of the Indians. In consequence of this affair, the injuries resulting from which have befallen the Indians alone, a Council has recently been held, when the case was taken into consideration, and, after a full and dispassionate discussion, an order was issued, expelling all negro settlers from the lands embraced in the reserve immediately; at the same time a provision was made for the benefit of those having crops in the ground, giving them until the first of September next in which to remove. There are in this township between two and three hundred negroes, nearly all of whom are fugitives from American slavery. A few months since the entire body of them were presented by the Grand Jury of Essex county as a 'lazy, thriftless, thieving set,' and the government was importuned to interfere to prevent the increase of the nuisance. This was looked upon as an act of oppression and wrong towards an unfortunate and down-trodden race. It has never been urged that the acts committed by these fugitives towards their white and Indian neighbors, such as sheep-stealing, house-burning, robbery, violence to females, and even murder, were worthy of censure. These were to be considered as the pastimes of this muchabused class. The Grand Jury of the county thought differently, as do the Council of the Wyandot Indians."-Detroit Free Press, Feb. 14. From the beginning to the end of the New Testament, there is not a syllable uttered by Christ or the evangelists, to break political bonds, or to induce servants to quit their masters, or to interfere at all with the civil laws or internal police of kingdoms or States. It is the regeneration of the human heart that is every where aimed at. Falsehood, hypocrisy, evil speaking, gluttony, wantonness, malice, anger, and hatred, are the evils to be extirpated. It was falsely asseverated by the Jews that Jesus interfered with the rights of Cæsar he was in fact crucified on this falsehood. So far from its being true that the Son of God interfered with any of the civil laws of the land, we can prove by history that slavery, for instance, was perfectly satanic in its tyranny in our Lord's day; and that, although he taught maxims to regulate the conduct of husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants, he never once hinted at aboli-hing any of these institutions, and the Scriptures link them all together as equally binding. "In Judea," at the advent of Christ, "both the food and the clothing of slaves were of the poorest description. All their earnings went to their masters. The maid-servants were employed in domestic concerns, though not unfrequently they were compelled to engage in those duties which, from their nature, were more befitting the other sex." ... "They commonly had the consent of their masters to marry, or rather, to connect themselves with a woman in that way which is denominated by a Latin term, contubernium. (Cooper's Justinian thus explains it: Contubernium was the matrimony of slaves, a permitted cohabitation; not partaking of lawful marriage, which they could not contract.') The children that proceeded from this sort of marriages were the property, not of the parents, but of their owners."—(Jahn's Archæology, pp. 180, 181.) "In Rome, for slaves (says Adam's Rom. Ant., pp. 48, 51), the lash was the common punishment; but for certain crimes they used to be branded on the forehead, and sometimes were forced to carry a piece of wood round their necks wherever they went." "When slaves were beaten, they used to be suspended with a weight tied to their feet, that they might not move them. When punished capitally, they were commonly crucified. "If a master was slain in his own house, and the murderer not discovered, all his domestic slaves were There was a continual "The seller was liable to be put to death. market for slaves at Rome." bound to promise for the soundness of his slaves, and not to conceal their faults." . . . "Hence, they were commonly exposed to sale naked; and they carried a scroll hanging at their necks, on which their good and bad qualities were specified." "In Greece, the condition of slaves appears to have been much the same as at Rome."—(Potter's Gr. Ant., 1, 10.) Jesus Christ and his apostles daily witnessed this tyranny, and yet they never attempted to abolitionize or sever the political or domestic bonds between masters and their slaves. "The only cause of the difference between the legislation of Northern and Southern States on the subject of slavery is, that the negroes are not sufficient in number at the North to make it necessary to reduce them to the condition of domestic servitude, while with us that condition is indispensable to the good order and welfare of the whole society.* And it is demonstrable *THE NEGRO DISTURBANCES IN CANADA. - The Public Schools of Chatham taken in possession by several hundred negroes — school disturbances at Sandwich—the beauties of practical Abolitionism.-The negro disturbances which were alluded to in our issue of yesterday, were not overrated in importance, as is confirmed by subsequent advices, while the extent of the agitation was much greater than was at the time surmised. In regard to the fiendish transaction enacted at Anderdon, half of the truth was not told. Officers are still in pursuit of the rescued criminals, and great indignation prevails throughout the whole vicinity, so that, if they are caught and delivered into the hands of the populace, they will be severely dealt with. At Chatham, forty miles from this city, a crowd composed of several hundred negroes took possession of the public schoolhouses early on Monday morning, and when the white teachers and scholars arrived, refused to allow them to enter or in any manner obtain possession of them. As there seemed to be a disposition to carry matters with a high hand, the authorities were called in, but, from the fact that the negroes inhabiting the town far outnumber the white citizens, there were no means available except those of conciliation. The Africans were headed by one Shadd, a negro, who has made himself prominent in that vicinity for some time, having been concerned in the forcible rescue case which occurred there two years ago. The mayor and councilmen assembled on the spot, accompanied by a majority of the citizens. The whole town was in an uproar in consequence of the warlike demonstrations of the negroes, and the crowd and excitement were consequently very great. The negroes demanded not only that the schools should be thrown open to them, but that they should be allowed to participate in their management, which, on account of their numbers, is equivalent to giving them the control. They have hitherto been |