Columbia phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, May 09, 1865, Image 4
tM ?TAUit?lA PHON?X:
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^Otig of Captivity.
Wa oat down Ly Bahylbm? watawa'". ? "
AnoVthtnkingkbf Zipa alone,
We lioiig our sad harps on th? willows,
Irr"the midst of them makingoor moan;
For they who had carried us captive, .
Asked for Zion's sweet sont: nt .our hands;
As if we could sing, in our sorrow, .
Tlio song" of jour God in strange lands!
Yes, whep.I forget thee, ray country,
Let my. right liand ila cunning forget
"When I fail to prefer thee to pleasure.
Hush the tongue that can honor thee yet;
Jerusalem still be the treasure
.Most precious that earth can bestow;
And-thy vengeance, O 8odl upon Edoin,
Thateried, "Loy her low, lay her low!"
Ivcmember, O Lord! in the season
Whee Zion shall come lo hei own,
The children of merciless Edom,
And tench them the griefs we bare known;
Thrice~Tiappy be he, who, pursuing
The daughter of "Babylon still,
Shall devote ber young babes to the ruin,
And, deaf to all pleading, shall kill.
England's Responsibility for African
Slavery in America.
Lord John RussseH having thought
proper, in a speech recently made in Par?
liament, to denounce the institution ol
aiavery, a8 it exists in this country, as dis?
graceful to the Confederate State?, it^rould
be well, if tho following historical facts
could be brought to hi? attention; proviag
that whatever of criminality aud infimy
may be attachai to slavery as it exists hore
rests upon tho British Government anc
people, by whom it was forced upon us:
Four companies were chartered by tli<
British Government, to carry on th?
African slave trade. Sea Brit. Ency clop,
under the head of companies, vol. 5, pag<
226. Of one of these companies Queei
Elizabeth, and probably all her minisferr?
'.vere members, and derived heavy profit
from the traffic.
The Royal African Trading Compan
erected a large building in Thread Needl
straet, London, theu called the 'South Se
House,' for the ourposo of an exclusiv
trade to the-South Sea, and for pupplyin
America wilh negroes. See Brit. Et
cyclop., vol. 20, page 250, in account <
the groat buildings of London.
In 1751, an expedition was sent froi
England to capture Lewistown and tl
Island of Gon<*. ia tho Senegal river, I
secure to England the traffic in slaves ar
gum, from that part of Africa. See 12
volume of History of England; by Hum
Smollett, &c, pago 279.
In 1713, Queen Anne boasted in
speech to Parliament that she had by t'
trealy of Utrecht, obtained for ber su
jects the asciento or contract for fuinisuii
the Spanish West India Islands for tim
yeaijSf; <a-? it bad been enjoyed by t
Freflrri?K See volume 10, page 230, Hum
England! 'The asciento contract stipul?t
that from theist of May, 1713,*to the '.
of May, 174S, tho company should tra
port into the West Indies 144,000 negrc
Pn? tho-rate of ; 4;O00 negroes a: reary^md
[par foi" ?a'el?' n^grb-'ibirty-?re? rgfeces of
eight and ono third, in full for aTl royal
duties.' Seo page 2GT, volume 10, Hume's
England. ^ V '
"When- tit*. American revelation brote'
out, 3,000 sail?ts, most of "wbouijiad teen
engaged in the African slave trade, were,
by that event, thrown out of employment,
nt the single pert of Liverpool^ Page 230,
volume 15, History of England. ;
In 1 778, the Duke of Richmond stated
in Parliament that the.number of sbips
that had been annually engaged in tbe
African trade, previous to the American
war, waa 200, of the value of ?9,000
each; that the number had been reduced
to 40, causing au annual loss to Britain ol
?1.440,000. Sea page 497, of the 15lh
volume ol tho History cf England.
Tho ratification of the Treaty of Peace,
made at Paris on the lOth ot February,
1763, between France aud Eng'and, wat
objected to in England, on the ground thal
one of its provisions would prevent the
English from enjoying the whole profita o!
the trade in African slaves. Seo 14tb
volume, page 70, History of England.
Before the American revolution, Acts
were passed by the Colonial Legislatures
of New York, New Jersey, South Caro
lina, arid no less than 23 by that of Vir
ginia, to suppress tb? slave trade; all o
which were vetoed by tba Brkiah Govern
meut, o? the ?round thal they would di
minish the profila of their subjects fro ii
this traffio. .*
In the enumeration of tho misdeeds o
the King, tbo preamble of the Constitufioi
of Virgiuia, adopted by the Convention o
Virginia iu 1770, are the following wordi
'By prompting our negroes to rise in arm
among us, those very negroes, whom by ai
inhuman use of bis negative, be bad re
fused us permission to exclude.by law.'
T Tba British people and Government ar
therefore responsible before ?God and ma'
for the existence of slaver}' here, and wba
ever odium aaay be attached to it must rei
on them. ?
THE FIRST NATIONAI. BANK IM RICE
MOND.-Every bank, banking-house an
exchange office in Richmond having bec
swept away by the late conilagratio
great embarrassment is felt by t he busine
community, not only by reason of the a
sence of a secure depository for cash ai
valuable paper securities, but from the WH
of the usual banking facilities and the ir
possibilities of making the ordinary e
changes.
Io this connection it affords us gre
pleasure to be abl<j to announce that
number of prominent capitalists, seer
tb? extreme public need, have met and <
ga-ized the First National Bank of Ric
mond, to be conducted under and in cc
formity with the National ?Currency Li
A number of our oldest and most substs
tial residents have already taken stock.
The bank will be opened for busin
with as*little delay as practicable*
\Ric7i7tiond Whiff.
- T<???TOES.-The Working. Farmer; says
of tho tomato plant that it bears eighty per
cent, bf its'"fruit within eighteen i nelie's, of
the- ground,While more th nfl half of the
plant i:is above tliat part. r'"When ,tha -
branches are cut they do not bleed, and
they, may,- therefore, ba shortened in imme?
diately-above .the large-or early setting
froit. The removal of the small fruits on.
the ends of the brnnchca 13 no losa, for tho
lower fruit will be the consequence, besidoa
obtaining a larger portion, five to fifteen
days earlier. The trimming should be so
done as to leave a few leaves beyond the
ftuit to insure -perfect ripening. The im?
portance of carly maturing is too evident
io need comment The burying of tho
removed leaves immediately around thc
plantais a good practice, both by insuring
full disturbance of ihe soil, and by the pre?
senting a fertilizer progressed precisely to
the point of fruit .making. The portions
buried decay rapidly, and are readily as- .
siini lated.
- -'?-**? ? o
JAMESTOWN.-This first settlement of
Virginia-one of the most celebrated spots
in American history-is nowan abandoned
plantation, about half-way between City
Point and Fortress Monroe, on the North
side of the river. Only two or three ol i
brick chimneys and tire ruina of a li'.tle old
brick church mark lue sp t where the ancient
village once stood. The brick constituting
these ruins were imported from England at
a very carly day, and aro yet ju a good
state of preservation. Many of them have
been taken away as relics, since the com?
mencement of the war, and not tv few of
them eveu now enter into the constitution
of the comfortable winier quarters in the
armies of the Potomac and the James, and
at general headquarters at City Point.
A* printer seeing a bailiff closely pur?
suing an unfortunate author, remarked
that it was a new edition of the "Pursuits
of Literature," unj^ound and hot pressed.
State of South Carolina.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
OoLU.MiiiA, May 8, 1865.
To the Oj}ice*s of the Civil Government of ihr
Sinlc:
THE cessation of hostilities renders it proper
th:it the Civil Government, of the Stiele
should be restored without dela}', aud that the
functions of the several departments should bo
at once resumed. To that end, all officers of
the State, whose ofiices have bf cn kept rn C"
lumbla, will with all convenient promptitude
return to that place, re open their offices and
resume their proper duties.
By the Governor. A. G. MAGRATH.
Official: W. S. MIILLI.VS, Lt. Col. and A. D. C.
tff^~Scuth Carolina newspapers will copy
once. . may 8