The cry of "amalgamation" as the result of the abolition of Slavery, comes with a very ill grace from Southerners. How many nearly-white children have been sent to the North for an education, or to hide their negro-blood? How many such have been manumitted, to guard against their continuance in bondage by any mishap? How many Quadroons have been sold voluntarily or brought to the block by the pecuniary embarrassments of their father-masters? [Illustration: 0024] |R Stands for _Rebel_. The Colonies rose Against the stern sway of tyrannical foes, But Washington, Jefferson, all were ignored, When Southerners lifted the sceptre and sword, And Slavery lust to Rebellion gave birth Against the best government known in the earth. Did Rebeldom look to the shame and the cost Of seeking by war the control they had lost? Or know they how ages will reckon the guilt Of a Temple of Freedom on Slavery built? "The foundations of our new government are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man.... This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical and moral truth.... This stone which was rejected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice.... Our Confederacy is a God-sent missionary to the nations."--_Alexander H. Stephens_. [Illustration: 0025] |S Stands for _Slavery_. Nations of old Made bondmen by warfare, or bought them with gold; And if to the Jews you incline to go back, No special enslavement you find of the black. But "might is not right," as in piracy scenes, Else why do you censure the stern Algerines? Or what if in Congo a thousand white men Were Slaves, wholly hopeless of freedom again,-- Would bishops and priests of the Slavery line, Quote _Bible_ to prove it both right and divine? "Slavery and the Slave Trade pervaded every nation of civilized antiquity....The founder of the Jewish nation was a Slaveholder.... Greeks enslaved each other....The Slave-markets of Rome were filled with men of every complexion and every clime....It is from about the year 990 that regular accounts of the _Negro_ Slave-trade exist."--_Bancroft's United States_, i. 159. Any _Bible_ argument for Slavery must therefore _except_ the black, if _any_ color is to be excepted! [Illustration: 0026] |T Stands for _Trader_. To call him a brute Would slander creation, beyond a dispute. The Planter will mingle and socially dine With dealers in cotton, and cattle, and swine, But Slave-driving Traders (with common accord) By Slave-holding gentry are shunned and abhorred! Does conscience, with scruples of right, intervene Concerning a business repugnantly mean?