The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be ExtinguishedCarey, Henry Charles
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The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
Carey, Henry Charles
Labor; Slave trade; Slavery; Slavery -- United States; Tariff -- United States; Working class
"There is a cold-blooded atrocity in the spirit of these remarks for
which examples will be sought in vain, except among the doctors of
the free-trade school. Naturalists have learned to look with
philosophical indifference upon the agonies of a rabbit or a mouse
expiring in an exhausted receiver, but it requires long teaching from
the economists before men's hearts can be so steeled, that after
pumping out all the sustenance of vitality from one of the fairest
islands under the sun, they can discourse calmly upon its
depopulation as proof of the success of the experiment, can talk with
bitter irony of 'that _strange_ region of the earth where such a
people, affectionate and hopeful, genial and witty, industrious and
independent, was produced and _could not stay_,' and can gloat in the
anticipation that prosperity and happiness may some day reign over
that beautiful island, and its boundless resources for the wants and
luxuries of man be developed, not for the Celt, but 'for a more
mixed, more docile, and more serviceable race, which can submit to a
master and obey the law.'"--_Albany Journal_.
The _Times_ rejoices that the place of the Celt is in future to be
occupied by cattle, as sheep already occupy the place of the
Highlander expelled from the land in which, before Britain undertook
to underwork all other nations and thus secure a monopoly for "the
workshop of the world," his fathers were as secure in their rights as
was the landowner himself. Irish journals take a different view of the
prospect. They deprecate the idea of the total expulsion of the native
race, and yet they fear that
"There is no doubt that in a few years more, if some stop is not put
to the present outpouring of the people to America, and latterly to
Australia, there will not be a million of the present race of
inhabitants to be found within the compass of the four provinces."
"No thoughts of the land of their birth," it continues, "seems to
enter their minds, although the Irish people have been proverbial for
their attachment to their country."--_Connaught Western Star_.
A recent journal informs us that
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