Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-06-11


We do not know when we have seen in
northern or eastern paper sounder or
more correct views Of slavery than the
following extract from an article in the
New York Herald, Of the 18th inst. The
Herald puts the subject on the proper
ground and silences the slang that it is an
evil or curse: Free Trader.
1--WE agree with the Courier in almost
all its views on this subject. The instltu
ton of slavery in the southern States, be-
longs to each of those members OF this
great confederacy; and loyalty to the Con-
stitution, as well as other considerations of
justice and selt-interest, should induce the
people Of the North TO stand altogether
aloof from any agitation of this question
of slavery ia the South, whether conduct
ed by Cassius M. Clay, or any other man
or body of men. But while we thus far
concur, with the utmost cordiality, in the
views and sentiments of the Courier and
Enquirer, we must take strong exceptions
to one form of the argument, which the
Courier employs, and which we regard as
cowardly, hypocritical, ridiculous, and alb
surd in the extreme. We aIlude to that
particular argument, or rather declama-
ton, which many are in the habit of put
ting forward that slavery is curse"
but yet that we are prohibited by the
Constitution from interfering with this
''curse." This form of the argument is
the very essence of hypocricy and cow
ardice as we have Just remarked. Here
it is in the Courier's own words:
"With the exception of a band of
Southern fanatics, quite as small and
quite as contemplate as that of the North
ern abolitionists, the people OF this coun-
try, in all sections, regard slavery as an
evil,-as bitter and most DISASTROUS curse,
inflicted upon us while we were colonies,
by the mother country. The suffering il
causes its unfortunate subjects, the blight
it has brought upon the region by which it
| is pervaded, and above all, the danger 10
the peace and prosperity of the whole
country, which hangs like black and
portentous cloud around it, are deeply felt
and deeply deploled, by the great body
of our people. These sentiments we
have always expressed, as we have always
cherished. We should hail with infinite
satisfaction, any steps that might be
taken, consistently with the Constitution
and the peace of the Union, to secure It's
abolition. But we cannot countenance
for moment, the vile and traitorous
scheme by which madmen at the North
have sought to accomplish its destruction.
| They violate the solemn compact of the
Constitution, trespass upon the rights of
the Southern States, and could only end in
blood and desolation should they be carried
to their consummation."
Our views are altogether different. We
do not at all admit that slavery as il ex-
lists in the South, is "a curse" We do
not admit that it is an "evil." We do not
admit that any useful human rights are
withheld from the colored races in the
South. The position which these races
occupy is their natural position. 1t Is a
: position in which their comfort and hap.
piness are secured; it is one which gives
them lien upon the soil itself, and eff
: fectually preserves them from the suffer-
ings and evils to which the colored races
are subiec: in the Northern States or in
Africa, and to which the lower classes oil
the white race are subjected in European
countries. More folly, more absurdity,
and more unphiiosophicat defamation
have been perpetrated by Northern and
European writer's on this subject, in con.
, sequence of their want of candor and
f courage, and their unwillingness to meet
this question on its original merits, than
E by any other cause of action whatever
1t is utterly impossible ever to make the
, colored races either of the old world or Of
) this continent equal TO the white race
The Anglo-Saxon race has different anC
superior origin to that of the colored ra.
4 ces, and never can be involved in the
same destiny with them. Never under
o any organization of society, or in any age
of the world, can the two races exist OF
i terms of civil or political equality. VIZ
ri thus see in the condition and characte
q and position of the colored races in the
|. free States, the operation of that irrever
r sible decree Of nature which has made
: them what they are. In the free State
!. the blacks are in far inferior condition
# to that in which they exist in the South
n They do not, when thrown on their owl
d resources, possess the faculties or power
s which are necessary to secure to them
) high condition of social happiness AM
V prosperity. In the South they occupy
position adopted to their capacities an
organization. Thus they are happy an
IS comfortable, are in full possession of al
I adequate measure of civil and religion