246 ARRIVAL AT LIVERPOOL. she may, rudderless and bereft though she be, find a haven at last. All that But now, after a short and prosperous passage, Liverpool is said to be in sight--nothing, however, can be less veracious than the assertion. is in sight is a thick veil composed of a mixture of cold fog, small rain, sea-mist, and coal smoke; the Americans look very blank, especially the ladies, who have donned their favourite finery to produce an effect on landing; and I must confess, that I feel thoroughly ashamed of my climate. None of your confounded blue skies here,' quoted the ex-attaché, as he stood, shivering and miserable, at the ship's side, watching the dragging up of the mail-bags from the strongholds of the vessel. It is only now that I feel I am really saying farewell' to America. These splendid vessels are a sort of neutral ground, and while on board them, one can almost still fancy oneself in Yankee land; now, however, all this delusion is over, but in spite of fogs, of rain, and smoke, I feel that it is England still, and I am glad to be at home again! APPENDIX. LETTER OF JOHN M'DONOGH ON AFRICAN COLONIZATION. MESSRS. EDITORS: In a piece wrote by me in June last, on the subject of sending away some of my black people to Africa, and published in your paper of the 24th of that month, I observed, 'that the act of sending those people away is, in my case, one of simple honesty alone.' I lay no claim, nor am I entitled to any credit or praise, on the score of generosity. My meaning in the above assertion I will explain, Messrs. Editors, through your paper, (should my leisure admit of it,) at some future time, and the rather, as it may perhaps be of service to the slaveholders of the State, to know how one, who has had much to do for forty years past with the treatment of slaves, has succeeded in it. When they find from my experience, that they can send their whole gangs to Africa every fifteen years, without the cost of a dollar to themselves, what master will refuse to do so much good, when it will cost him nothing in the doing it, and afford him at the same time such high gratification, in knowing that he has contributed to the making many human beings happy. For my experience will show that, with a proper treatment of slaves, the gain from their extra labour, (that is, labour over and above that which slaves in general yield their owners,) in the course of that time-say fifteen years, will enable their masters to send them out, and purchase in Virginia and Maryland, (with the gain made from said extra labour,) a gang of equal number to replace them. In addition to which, what an amount of satisfaction (I would ask every humane master) would he not enjoy, in knowing that he was surrounded by friends, on whose faithfulness and fidelity he and his family could rely, under every possible contingency? In fulfilment, then, of said promise, I now undertake to explain the observation I then made, That the act of sending those people away is, in my case, one of simple honesty alone;' and to set forth and show the mode I adopted and pursued, (after much experience and reflection on the subject,) for many years in their treatment and its results. Before commencing, however, this long detail of treatment and its attending circumstances, I will premise to those who feel an interest in the subject, and will take the trouble to read this recital, that it is one of egotism throughout; it tells of what the master said and what he did, from the beginning of the chapter to its end,-in this, therefore, I will be excused: it is what I promised, and there is but one way of telling the story to make it intelligible. To proceed then, and give you the plan which I laid down for myself, and have pursued for the last seventeen years, for the conduct and management of those I held in bondage, I have to observe, that having been at all times opposed to labouring on the Sabbath day, (except in cases of actual necessity,) one of my rules for their walk and guidance in life always was, that they should never work on that holy day, prohibited as we were from so doing by the divine law. A long expe |