Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-05-07

~ The following excellent letter on the sub.
ject of Aboli,onism in the North, is from New
York correspondent Of the Richmond Times:
New York. April ed, 1876.
There are many of the soundest men in our
Northern States, who rejoice in any juncture of
affairs, which brings Southern and Northern
forces into cooperation, and this has been re-
markably true OF the Oregon debate. Both at the
North and South. these are the very men who
would present the sturdiest front to an enemy
but they have read enough and thought enough
10 KNOW that war IL not game to be engaged
in lightly. 1t is my firm opinion, that for sever
a years past, the sober portion of the commune
ty here, have been arriving at better conclusions
on The slavery question, and learning to take alb
olltionists at their true value. The name "Abo.
lltionist' is decidedly injurious TO any rising
young man.-That stalking-horse has done its
WORK; none but an extreme smpeton will think
OF II Tor getting forward in life: and this shows
the tendency of opinions. When Cassius Clay
was here, people ran after him, because he has
Gieverness and warmth; and especially, as he is
hentuckian; but it was most remarkable that
on The solid mass of reputable citizens, he made
no impression, nor did he even awaken curiosity.
twas. Indeed, great gain for the Jacobins to have
a gentleman among them; but regard his mis-
sion here, as an egregious failure. His picture
is visible in the streets, but ,0here? The answer
is instructive. In the window of Mike w alsh's
Subierranean; in the dens of Fourrierism in GER
TAIN rows In Nassau street, where the literature
is prominently that of the canaille. The eyes
oil the reasonable, and what is something here1
OF The property holding are opening to the truth,
that .4bohfionism has other things TO abolish be-
sides slavery. IT will abolish capital punish
ment' if not all punishment; perhaps marriage
and perhaps property. The extreme men in all
these matters are very much the same.
1t is open to the day, that the free negroes of
New Y ork are unspeakably lower than Southern
slaves, as body. few rise above all slaves
very few but, observe, no slave sinks so low as
thousands of the free. 1t is subject with which
am familiar, and have my facts at hand Not
only is the average physical comfort of the slave
hundred per cent above that of the free black
in New York, but his intellectual advancement
is greater in all things respecting practical life.
And In opposition to the clamours of violent and
ignorant DISCLAIMERS. there more truly religious
slaves, than religious free negroes. These obser-
vations should have the more weight as coming
from one who does not approve slavery, as now
existing. That is to say, / regard the system as
not duly checked by legislation. But, the prob
lem being how 10 proride Jor the erishng mil
lions Of negroes, cannot, for my life, deny that,
Tor the present, slavery is the safest and most hu-
name method. Slavery is bad for masters, and
amazingly bad for country. We need no bet
ter proof than is afforded by our own beloved
Virginia, with its worn-out lands, old-iields, de-
serted manors. dilapidaed mansions, and emf
grant sons. Blu. how strangely dead has the
public been to the question, Vhat has become
niean,chiie o. The Siares? Believing the Jacobins.
you wonld answer, ''They have been starved
to death" Nothing can be further from the truth
They have grown fat and sleek, until Gas we saw
oil horses) they have eateu their own heads off;
and, even then, though estates may change hands,
and masters be impoverished, she slave is still
supported. 10 ensure this support, how many
thousand masters have they driven to the South.
west. Look at the gigantic pauperism of Eng
land, and the growing pauperlsm of Northern
cities, and then say, what scheme, devised by
man, could provide for the sustentaton of two
millions of negroes, if emancipated tomorrow
These things, say, are seen by Northern ewes.
In our streets and alleys, Bridewels and
alms-houses, they see that by all odds the most
wretched portion of the African race is that which
is pated.-The more the free blacks in
crease, the worse they treated. 1t is notori-
GUS, that flee negro is more huffed and ebowed
off the trottoir in New York, than slave in
Richmond. The sight of this is leading MANY
at the North to the belief that there are other so
cial evils besides slavery, and that the Southern
people are competent to manage their own con- !
Germs.
The approaching week of. Anniversares will !
bring its usual amount of sound and fury, trea. |
son and nausea, on this subject. We shall |
have preachers and infdels side by side, bias
We shall have female Thersites, sirieking forth |
their denunciations of Washington and monopo-
Iy. "Who peppers highest, is most sure to
please" But these exhibitions of phrensy are |
losing their zest | conceive Of nothing so !
likely to reanimate the cloyed susceptibility as
negress on the stage. We have had every thing
else. leave it to New York auditories to saw
that, after eliminating all who 60 from curiosity,
and all who go as | do, to spy out the nakedness
OF The land, the remaining portion of elect zeal
OTIS is very small, very heterogeneous, and very
feeble. No man of talents has joined that fac
ton without social degradation. No clergyman
has held his rank, with these opinions openhv
ana perslshngy aro,ced These are marks Of pub
tic sentiment and | adduce them, as apajnst
some inolerant persons at the South who would
hold us all alike as enemies, and (baud inexper-
tus loquor) would even charge on one who has
suffered in their defence, the sin Of few des-
peradoes. ] observe from British papers, that
such denaIlonaliZed and treacherous Americans
as Wright and Bulfun are reaching their lust
level even in Scotland.
Poor Wright, eaed with his reception, proceed
ed from denouncing Shareholders 10 denonncino all
'ofdiers as so many murderers. This was faur-
pas, IN land of military pride. He denounced
he free Church OF Scotland for receiving the
wages OF iniquity and price OF blood, in the shape
u contributions from Southern christians 1t
vas The very best thing which could have been
.o'0 w O'e" w SUN IHen DIS CndlnerS, and Fox
Nlaule, and Sir David Brewster, the renuipe
character of American abolitionism. That vel
yet paw OF the tiger, which some had been fond
ing, suddenly pTotruded certain claws There
S fair chance that the public opinion of the
world Will eventually settle down on rational
'asis, equally remote from the extreme views of
u parties, and favorable to the colonization of
inca, the paciiication Of domestic quarrels, and
he advancement of the whole race
I,
a FIGURE OF SPEECH