The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-07-18
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the last resort to maintain supremacy over our
slaves that ours stern and uneehng domination at
all to be compared in hardhearted severity to that exer
csed not the abofer only but by the higher
over each lower order wherever the British sway Is ac
spend one day in the south they would return home
with impressions against slavery never to be erased"
But the fact is universally the reverse have known
numerous instances, and never knew a single one,
where there was other cause OF offence and no object
to promote by faschood that individuals from the non
savehold1g States did noafter residing among long
enough to understand the subject return home" TO de-
fend our stdrerg.
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You charge with looking slaves " as chattels
or brutes, and enter into somewhat elaborate argu
and even think Now the fact is that however you
may indulge in this strain for effect it is the abotonists
and not the shareholders who practically ann the most
important poip Of view regard our slaves as chaels
or brues" In your calculations Of the consequences OF
emancipation pass over entirely those which mist
serious and which arise from the fact OF their
being persons. You appear to think that might alb
stainfrom the Of them readily as If they were ma
to find pastnrage for themselves have heretofore
glanced at some of the results that would follow from
eeakng me bonds OF so many human beings now peace
fully and happily linked into social system. The ira
gc horrors the decay and ruin that would for years per-
maps or ages brood over our land if could be accom-
pished, will not attempt to portray But do you fancy
the blight would in such an event, TO us alone p
The dminuon OF the sugar crop OF the West Indies az
fected Great Britain only there chiefly the poor 1t
was matter OF no moment TO Capital that Labor should
the British duty ON sugar Who can estimate the cnse
quences that follow the humiliation Of the cotton
crop OF the siaveh0ldng states do not undervalu6
the importance OF other articles of commerce, but
lamtY could befa the world at all comparable to the sud
den loss Of two millions OF bales of cotton annually
From the deserts of Africa TO the Siberian wiids-om
Greenland TO the Chinese wal-tho . is not spot Of
earth bit wosd feel the sensation The factories OF
Europe would fall with conclusion that would shake
down castles, palaces, and even thrones while the
"purscproud elbowing insocnce''of our northern
nopolists would disappear forever under the smooth
speech of the pedar securing frontiers for vcii
hood the bluff vulgarty Of the South Sea whaler,
following tn harpoon amid storms and shoals. Doubt
aDOltDUigtg cotton
out slaves that at worst the reduction OF the crop
would be moderate and temporary Such gross deusons
show how profoundly ignorant they are OF our condition
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But perhaps the extraordinary part of your let
ter is your bold denuncation of the shameful compro
misses" Of orr Constitution and your earnest recommen
daton to those address to overthrow or revolution
ize it. In many words you say to them, you must
either separate yourselves from all political connection
not choose such separation you break up the po
liticai ascendancy which the southern have had for
long time over the northern States" 1t is well for those
who circulate letter here that the Constitution you
dcnounce requires overt act to constitute treason
II nmy be tolerated for American by birth to use
his own soil the freedom of speaking and writing which
is guaranteed to him, and abuse our Constitution our
Union and people But that foreigner should use
such scditious language in circular letter addressed
to portion of the American people, is presumption
we'll calculated to excite the Indignation of all The
party known in this country the Abolition party has
! long since avowed the sentiments you express and
adopted the policy You enjon At the recent Presiden
candidate and hed the balance Of power in two Of the
largest states-wanting but little OF doing it in several
others In the last four years their vote has qua
druped Should the nfatuation continue, and their
increase in the ratio in the next four years,
it will be large the vote Of the actual Shareholders
of the Union. Such prospects doubtless extremely
gratifying TO you II gives hope OF contest on such
terms may the downfall of slavery Con-
stituton The South the Constitution, and is
prepared to stand by forever such came from the
hands of our fshers to risk every thing to defend and
maintain it in its integrity But the South is under
such deuson believe that derives any peculiar
protection from The Union On the contrary, is well
known incur peculiar danger and that we bear far
more than our proportion OF the burdens The appre
hcnon is also fast fading away that any of the dreadful
consequences commonly predicted, will necessarily re-
may firmly resolved that our stem of domestic
slavery shall stand. The fate of the Union, thenbut
thank God Of Republican commandments mainly
the hands of the people to whom your letter is I'D
dressed the protesting Christians of the Northern
States having with slave.hoding and whom
with ncendary zeal you endeaVorng to stir up
to stre--without which tanaicism neither live,
move, nor, have any being. t.s