Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-04-03
Assaults upon Southern M,iiiuiions.

Assaults upon Southern bSthufiOns.
"In the slave growing states where victims are raised
for h,bes and thscke there unaffected all the CAL
lous Of the gna slave trade There rcason
hope that the efforts of south States will check,
and cary PERIOD the unho business, in Virgin" and
Kentucky, OF raising slaves like brute beasts to DC dNen
| TO the markets further south"
! The above is from the Philadelphia North
American and is a specimen OF the manner IN
which the Northern press. with lew exceptions
treats Southern Institutions. Tho slightest pre-
texts are eagerly seized,-an instance OF cruelty
here there, the transportation OF black orimi-
nal, an apprehension expressed by a Louisiana
Editor that the slave population OF his parish is
increasing rather too iast,-any OF these will al
ford n text for a whole chapter of msrePresenta.
tons and abuse.
We cannot perceive any provocation or any
reason for the course which is adopted by such
papers the North American. IL cannot be by
way Of retaliation. The Southern press NEEDLES
not with Northern institutions. No one is seek
ing TO force slavery upon the North. And. If such
charges as those OF the North American were true,
STILL a. the South alone has the power TO remedy
the evil the wsest course fthese philanthropists
would be to abstain from the language of menace
and insult and suffer sense OF justice and
reason TO regulate our conduct.
| But the above allegation of the Philadelplii
North American, is without the shadow of toun.
dation in truth 1t wears an appearance of such
unspeakable absurdity, that nothing could he more
preposterous, except grave attempt TO refute an
assertion so maniies,ly false. Ii could only be in
tended for consumption in Northern market,
where men can be found who believe that il is the
common custom to barbecue an unfortunate Air-
at the public gatherings of the people in NIr-
ginia. and that the little negroes are uniformly
employed as pn-cushions by ladies At their toilet.
Ii the s!anderers of the South will condescend
to travel through this wicked Commonwealth, they
will find n of men, more contented happy,
and kindly treated than any other class of labor
crs in the world. They will find them well fed,
well clothed, tcndgrly nursed in sickness. and CON-
iortaby supported in old age Let them contrast
this condition of things with that of the free blacks
and poor whites of the Northern States. When
the slaves of Virginia are reduced to similar mise.
~ aud degradation, it will be time enough for the
sympathiz FRS to whine over their hapless lot.
Let the conductors of the Northern press, If they
cannot do the South justice, at least abstain from
eliminating It's character. Atany rate, gentle.
men. YOU are meddug with that which is none
OF your business. We do not believe that the
mass of your people sanction your course. Be-
ware You wall not nJurc US by embittering the
public sentiment of the North against instltu-
tons. We are sustained by the eevating con.
sciousness of right and Justice Ii was not our
hands which brought hiiher the dependent beings
bv whom we are surrounded. That honor be-
longs to England and to some OF your own ances.
tors. Being here, doing our duty to them
and TO ourselves, according TO the best lights with
which we have been favored by Providence. Vir-
gina NAV be behind the North in enterprise in
arts, in wealth and power, but we have yet to
learn that she is inferior in generosity, benevo-
lence, or any virtue which adorns and ennobles
the human character. Believe us when we say
that the language of defiance can never influence
her course. Again we say, beware Your blows
will fall. not upon US. but upon the Union which
is dear to all our hopes. Alternate the hearts of
the Northern and Southern people. and what re-
mains 10 unite the dscOrdant sections, but iraIl
parchment, which must perish with the first breath
Of popular excitement And, ii the Union cease,
when and where is the process Of dissolution TO
end, and what is TO become Of the white mans
Liberties in the general wreck For the sake
o! that Union, if not Of justice, truth and de.
cency. let the Northern press treat us as breth-
rem and as men.