household, as now exists in the Southern States, is his worst enemy." Mr. Cheever declared "that statistics would demonstrate that all the foreign missionary enterprise of the whole world, during the last fifty or a hundred years, could not begin to number the five millions of civilized, Christianized black heathen, now living in the Southern States, whose labor has made them a blessing to themselves and the whole mercantile world." In the London Quarterly Review, January 1860, page 45, will be found the following sentence: "The entire failure of the cotton crop," says Mr. Ashmore, "should it ever occur, would utterly destroy, and perhaps forever, all the manufacturing property we possess; or, should the growth in any one year be only one million instead of three million bales, the manufacturing and trading classes would find themselves involved in losses which, in many cases, would amount to irretrievable ruin-millions of our countrymen would become deprived of employment and food — and, as a consequence, the misfortune would involve this country in a series of calamities, politically, socially, and commercially, such as cannot be contemplated without anxiety and dismay. "These considerations strongly point to the necessity of encouraging the growth of cotton in the British colonies-in India, Australia, and Africa-that we may escape the perils which seem to attach to our relying so exclusively for our supply, as we do at present, upon the products of American slavery." Mr. Parker, seeing a volume of eastern travels lying on the table, opened it, and his eye rested on some of the orgies of the heathens of Abyssinia (which was supposed to be ancient Ethiopia,) and he read aloud the passage to his two ministerial brothers, which was thus written: "In 1774 (anno domini), Mr. Bruce gives an account of the Abyssinians. He says, 'These people are not content with devouring raw flesh: their custom is to cut collups from live animals, which they tear to pieces with their teeth while warm and palpitating with vital motion.... The flesh of an animal after it is dead they account quite unsavory. The most expert butcher among them, is he who can cut most flesh from a beast before it is deprived of its life: for doing which, the utmost attention is necessary to avoid the great arteries, or those parts, the destruction of which will soon bring on death. . . . A company of Abyssinians at dinner is a horrid spectacle.. they are seated each with a cake of flour in his hand; live cattle are brought to the door, and the inhuman butcher cuts morsels off them, which are instantly carried in to the company, who lay them upon their cakes, and eat them directly, all bathed in the tepid blood of the miserable animals, whose lowings and groanings, through violence of anguish, serve for a dinner-bell, or music, to the shocking barbarians."" Reader! how would you like the descendants of such sanguinary brethren of the human race to form a confederacy of equal rights and privileges, with the morally and physically, and intellectually and religiously elevated Anglo-Saxons of this country? Are you not rejoiced that the "Supreme Court of the United States" have put their veto on the recently sprung idea, that our Revolutionary sires recognized the negro as a citizen in drawing up their splendid "Declaration of Independence," that the white race, for a thousand years, had been preparing to eliminate; "for," says Carlyle, "a people should change their government only as a snake sheds his skin; the new skin is gradually formed under the old one, and then the snake wriggles out with just a drop of blood here and there, where the old jacket held on rather tightly." Is not that man a fool who asserts in the face of every-day experience, and the biography of the whole race of mankind, daguerreotyped in the faithful history of nations in the Bible, and in all ethnological treatises on the subject, who asserts that "all men are born free and equal."* Such absurd lies no one in his secret heart believes, for every civilized man feels himself entirely above the beastly devils whose revelries have just been described in Abyssinia, and every Bible Christian, knowing such heathen existed on this beautiful earth, might well rejoice if their transportation to this Christian land would regenerate them as it has "Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets SHAKSPEARE. "Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler-a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry, or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or insolent stupidity."-LANGSTAFF. done the benighted African slaves of the planters in the Southern States of this confederacy. Mr. Beecher, still striding disturbedly up and down the chamber, finally remarked that the destiny of the inferior races of men is involved in that unfathomable mystery which clothes the acts of the Deity. It has been manifested from the beginning, that the idolatrous and barbarous races have been the servants of the civilized. The earliest histories we have of Asia Minor, of the rise and progress of the Persian Empire, and of Greece and Rome, give ample illustrations of this. All experience proves that in one respect the state of slavery has been productive of signal benefits. It has been the efficient cause of civilization and refinement among nations. Men do not primarily adopt a life of labor, who can live without it. The first ambition of man was to excel in arms. The successful warrior does not drop his bow and arrow, and cast aside his spear, to take to the plow, willingly. He turns his captives into the fields of agriculture, and compels them to take care of his horses and cattle. Pasturage is the first natural occupation of men arising from barbarism. The herdsman succeeds the hunter, and the planting of grain is the next step. It was not the patriarchs alone that illustrated this: the course is a natural one; and menials are introduced as soon as herds and flocks grow large. This made Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, gentlemen. Kingly governments existed long before the Israelites petitioned for a king. Hunting and idolatrous kingdoms first arose. There is something in the bold, predatory, idolatrous life, and the practice of polytheism, to lead to this. Men do not like to submit themselves, mind and manners, acts and morals, to one God, who always rewards virtue and punishes vice. It was so, we see, in the savage tribes of this continent, when they began to grow in numbers and means. Peru and Mexico rushed at once into monarchy. There is another effect that has attended captive slavery among the aborigines of the United States. The fleeing of blacks into the Indian tertitories, as a place of refuge, has enabled the Red man to overcome his strong repugnance to labor in the corn, rice, and cotton fields. The negro escaping from his master has taken up his tasks for his Indian protector. But for this, we should never have heard of the sovereignty assumed by the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. Here it has been Ham teaching Shem the use of the plow. Indeed, without the agency of African slavery, I doubt very much whether the pestilential savannahs and sea-board plains of the Southern States, in the hot season, where deadly malaria kills the white man, would ever have been cultivated. Certain it is, that neither Virginia nor the Carolinas ever flourished till the introduction of slaves. "In Egypt, it is evident," says Sir J. G. Wilkinson, "that both white and black slaves were employed as servants: they attended on the guests when invited to the house of their master." ... "Women slaves were also engaged in the service of families, like the Greeks and Circassians, in modern Egypt." ... "The traffic in slaves was tolerated by the Egyptians; and doubtless many persons were engaged, as at present, in |