The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-16

trustworthy inter reer OF he feelings Of tho people
any testimony of their real condition In which botf
parties may confde, or any influential advocate o
their interests-to find no measure by which to reg
ulate their demands but the ability OF the people
| meet them" With the vast expenditure Of the All
CHAN war (seveniy millions of dollars) since drawn
from the same people, ii can hardly be supposed that
their condition, the state of their wages, is better
now than 1t was in 1885, when the above writ
| ten.
Ii is evident, then, that low wages is primary
consideration in the English plan of emancipation
1t takes Oft personal slavery but has in view to
put on low wages. One Of its essential ends will
have failed if high wages follow, for English supe
riority in the markets Of the world cannot be en-
| forced without low wages. We have already shown
in article Of the l4th September the vast obsta-
cles to the abolition of slavery in threesevenths OF
the whole population of the gobe--that among their
rulers and influential England has not made
any impression on the subject; and that she is not
likely TO make any serious effort, when we consider
that the slavery existing among that population is in
terwoven with their religious creed and the extreme
probability is, that slavery will co exist, in these
countries, with the continuance of the creed they
now profess We may resume the consideration of
this part Of the general subject at another time, as
we have yet but very imperfectly stated the argu-
ment 10 relation to it, The rcpulse she will meet with
there is so deducble from the religious tenes Of the
Governments and people, that great revolution
must be effected in the one in order to secure the
other object Neither has great Britain the same
inn If in hot
direction which come to the aid of other considera
tions in nducngh her to press it in the other In all
these countries there is sugar planting and cotton
planting in competition with her own labor. pro-
portonal abatement of zeal, therefore, may be ex-
pected in her exerions to abolish it in Heather and
Mahomedan nations. The resistance will be discou-
raging, while they continue distinct sovereign
ties if causes Of collision arise sufficient to JUS
tify a war, and the conquest and anneration
of portion Of them; then she may carry
out her principle in her own possessions. But
il is not at all probable the additions made to her do
minons will be sufficient to embrace third part of
this popuation-great as her advances may be and
probably will be in progressive anntration. So that
an immense augmenting population will still remain
in the antecedent condition, consisting for many
years, perhaps century to come, largely Of slaves.
On the plan she proposes to pursue, we find on this
side wall built up to impede her operations, high
and broad that erected by the Chinese to exclude
the inroads of the Mongol Tartars.
1t needs no demonstration that if England can
raise sugar and cotton cheaper than the rest of the
world that she can, by the perfection to which her
manufactures have attained, enter into successful
competition with all mankind. For this purpose,
like young ladies just sweet seventeen she has
two strings to her bow Though one may be the
better string, the other may be nearly as good
Texas is the other string TO the English bow, in
gard to the staple of cotton If cotton be raised
as cheap there, she can slam the Yankees With free
trade in cotton, and immensely of production in
surfing the cheapness Of her manufactures, she can
throw amount of them into Texas, and through
the border in which it skirts the United States that
will cause the exclusion Of the fabrics Of New Eng
land On semi-radius Of the Union, they will have
effected Lord Chatham's wish-not hob nail but
will be English The New-EngaDders may then
set the tune Of "Yankee Doodle" to ugubrlous in
sess a cheering melody but sound mopiDg and mel
ancholy, like Englishmans song in November
"RuIe Britannia" will be sung in louder key than
ever, and the commercial marine of America will
begin to feel rottenness in its planks, and metaphor
cally in its bones and the bit Of striped bunting
at the mas thead become again the subject of de-
rsion.