Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-09-11

Delightful argument! Sweet, potent "mo-
raj suasion?" What slave has it freed
what proselyte can it ever make? But if
your course was wholly diferent-if you
distilled nectar fl ON your lips, and discourse
ed sweetest music, could you reasonably in
dulge the hope OF accomplishing your OBJ
Iject by such means? Nay, supposing that
we were all convinced, and thought ofsIave-
Try precisely as you do, at what era of"mor-
al suasion" do you imagine you could pre-
vail on US to give up a thousand millions of
dollars in the value of our slaves, and
thousand millions Of dollars more in the de-
Ipreciation of our lands, in consequence of
the want of laborers to cultivate them?-
IConslder: were ever any people, civilized
or savage; persuaded by any argument, hui
man or divine, TO surrender voluntarily two
thousand millions of dollars? Would you
think OF asking five millions of Englishmen
to contribute either at once or gradually four
hundred and nifty millions of pounds sterling
10 the cause Of philanthropy, even if the pur-
pose to be accomplished was no: of doubt
full goodness? If you are prepared 10 I'M
dertake such scheme, try it al home. Col
lect your fund, purchase our slaves, and do
with them as you like. Be all the glory
yours, fairly and honestly won. But you
see the absurdity of such an idea Away
then with your pretended "moral suasion''
You know it is mere nonsense. The Abo-
! litionists have no faith in it themselves
Those who expect TO accomplish anything
count on means altogether different They
aim first to alarm us; that failing, to compel
us by force to emancipate our slaves, at our
own risk and cost. To these purposes they
obviously direct all their energies. Our
northern liberty men have endeavored to
disseminate their destructive doctrines a.
mong our slaves, and excite them 10 insur-
rectlon. But we have put an end to that,
and stricken terror into them. They dare
not show their faces here. Then they de-
clared they would dissolve the Union. Let
them do it. The n forth would repent it far
more than the South. We are not alarmed
at the idea. We are we'll content to give
up the Union sooner than sacrifcetw two thou
sand millions of dollars, and with them all
the rights we prize. You may take it for
granted that it is impossible to persuade or
alarm US into emancipation, or to making
the first step towards it. Nothing then, is
left to try, but sheer force. If the Adolf
tionists are prepared to expend their own
treasure and shed their own blood as freely
as they ask us to do, let them come. We do
not court the conflict; but we will not and
we cannot shrink from it. If they are not
ready to 60 so far; as expect if their phi
!, lanthropy recols from it: if they are look
i. ing only for cheap glory, let them turn their
thoughts elsewhere, and leave us in peace.
} Be the sin, the danger, and the evil of slave
ry all our own. We compel, we ask none
to share them with us.
| am well aware that a notable scheme
has been set on foot to achieve abolition bv
; making what is by courtesy called 0free''
labor so much cheaper than slave labor as
to force the abandonment Of the latter
Though we ale beginning to manufacture
ac1M sIaUeS. | do not think you will al
tempt to pinch your operatives closer in
4 Great Britain. Y on cannot curtail the rags
with which they vainly attempt to cover
their nakedness, nor reduce the porrdge
| which barely, and not always, keeps those
| who have employment from perishing of
? famine. When you can do this, we will
consider whether our slaves may not dis
l pense with pound or two of bacon per
= week, or few garments annually Your
! aim, however, is to cheaper labor in the
= tropics. The idea of doing this by export
9 ing your "bold yeomanry" is | presume
= given up. Cromwell tried it when he sold
r The captured followers of Charles into Vest
: Indian SLAVERY, where they speedily found
: graves. Nor have your recent experiments
Y on British and even Dutch constitutions
succeeded better. Have you still faith in
2 carrying thlther your Coolies from Hindos-
! tan? Doubtless that once wild robber race,
1 whose highest euogium was that they did
} not murder merelvfor the love of blood.
have been tanned down, and are perhaps
; ''keen for immigration" for since your civil
| lizatlon has reached it, plumber has grown
scarce in Guzerat. But this is the result Of
the experiment thus far? Have the Coolies.
ceaslng to handle arms, learned TO handle
spades, and proved hardy and profitable
aborers? On the contrary, broken in spirit
and stricken with disease at home, the
wretched victims whom you have hitherto
kidnapped for bounty, confined in depots,
put under matches and carried across the
ocean, forced into "volunary immigration"
have done little but lie down and die on the
pseudo soil of freedom. At the end of five
years, two-thirds, in some colonies larger
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