The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-15

ANAANOs w Il O/AIAS AZ, NJ
Slavery nj the South, and Fourierism at
the North.
BALTIMORE, Oct IL, Is46.
To Eprron OF THE N y. HERALD:
SIR-In looking over the files Of the Neu York Tn-
bune, find the following paragraph extracted IRON
speech delivered by in Congress the 18th of JAM
lsl5. with the annexed Commentary
WHAT SLAvrHoLpERs THINK OF SLAVERY Mr. Isaac
Morse of Louisiana in speech in Congress- January H.
He denied the principle which seemed to be assumed
here as thing conceded namely. that slavery evil
ne %ss Ss VA ss
ordained for the protection and Of large
preserving themseve -.appcndir Cong. GLOBE roi. H.
q" 90 We find the above floating about in the news
papers Il is calculated to confirm false i'm
pressons Some shareholders think as Mr.. Morse does
more believe, of those who think at all, consider
slavery great evil but not to be easily abolish
ed II Is wrong, therefore, to say that shareholders
think this or that Of topic whereon their opinions are
divided Mr.. Morse is New England Yankee, who
has chosen to live in Louisiana and become extern
sive Shareholder there and such are apt to glorfy
selfreproaches but probably to disspae the
pcions with which they are apt TO be regarded by those
men are anti-slavery, OF ought to be.
Mr. Morse; il need hardly be said is brmfull of de-
mocracy and all that"
Now although my individual opinions upon the sub.
ect ofsavery may be Of very little importance to the
public and the place of my nativity much less still
respect for truth induces ask the favor of an nser
ton your paper of few remarks upon this subject
avail myself Of the Herald much account Of its
extensive circulation as of its impartiay In the first
place. MIR. Morse 10 not New England Yankee
were the sentiments contained in his speech upon the
Texas question uttered n part drown self reproach
which they apt to be regarded by those born slave
holders who naturally think all Northern men are anti
These sentiments are the deliberate and matured OPT
Mons of man who has the white slaves and serfs
Of Europe and who reiteraes another opinion that the
slaves Of Louisiana better fed better clad do less
work, and are great deal more intelligent than the ope
ratves in the factories Of Europe shall endeavor to
show in another part Of this communication.
The great length of the last session of Congress pre-
vented my returning to Louisana and the interval has
been employed in recruiting my health for another ardu
ions of friends of the Northern States upon the
subject of slavery and abolition, which hope may be
useful not only to my own constituents but to the South
generally.
might have availed my self of the privilege ofmaking
personal explanation" from my seat in Congress and
have given views length but personal explanations
to at oil times extremely disagrecabc, and not
approving Of the custom of using the time Of the public
in discussing private concernsa custom infinitely more
honored in the breach than the observance take the
usual way Of correcting any Interpretations in Tela
ton to myself my opinions, and particularly my mo-
tives. ttl.
II need not be concealed that the abolition feeling has
been greatly strengthened and extended throughout the
entire North What formerly confined to few in.
significant misguided fanatics, agents and creatures of
the English government infects the high places Of
the rspubc, is hsardtrom the pulps in the fourth Of
July orstons the exhibitions Of our colleges in the
councils Of the nation as seen in the vote Of the House
f Representatives upon striking out the slavery clause
from the Constitution Of Florda; and still recently
in the vote Wilmots resolution, when, with major
ty of IS members friendly to the administration the sup
plies were refused the President unless accompanied
Missouri compromise Whether that vote or the patri
otto speech Of John Davis Of Massachusetts 10 chargable
with the blood Of the Ave hundred men killed end wound
ed at Monterey, have not the time the incna
ton to discuss Thus has the Missouri compromise been
openly and palpably violated a compromise called
the oSs slavery 81 :hs ns eve ae exist
certain line, but free States may exist either North or
understand that the paternity of that resolution (wi
motSl disputed at the West and several gentlemen
expect to transmit their to postery by their con-
Snds indi.souby aboon and dissolution Of the Union
together envy man the wreath that shall encircle
his brow, who achieves this double triumph 1t is not
the first time In the annals of the world that notoety has
been mistaken for fame The aspiring youth who fred
the Ephean dame outlves story the pious fool that
untold name Il thu piOus fool that stad for one day one
hour one mnute the fall Of this great temple OF civil
and religious liberty
repeat it. abolition and disunion 20 hand in hand II
our Northern friends DO mot make the issue will and
appeal to all good Of dc republic North and South
1sa Wiling si %
of abolition Is the liberation Of slnvery in one portion
of the Union greater evil to You Than the dismember-
msnt OF the rcpublic7 Are your consciences 20 nice
that you will longer hold communion with Southern
men who bold slavesi Do you hold rlavsry IN such
adherence that you will buy slaves at our eetmaton
and free them Or will you fight for the abolition, and
to make us converts to your notions OF liberty For talk
and turn il as you Will TO this complexion must i come
and writing in the world will ever induce men with
common sense TO surrender their property. for which
there instance Of whole State or community
having been talked preached out Of their property
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prospect of success does not every in the world
know the colonsts would have defended their right: at
the point Of the bayone,l Who can hold fire in his
hand, by thinking the frosty Caucasus-or wallow
naked in Decembers by bare reflection on the sum-
%er HEATH That man may be persuaded to surrender S
ancestors for conscientious scrupe in another mans
BOSOM and which never troubled the repose Of the
greatest and the best in this republic and which Ia
sanctioned by God himself Creddt Judoeus, non Ego.
lfthese questions be answered afirmatively-ii
fixed fact that slavery must be abolished in the
have apprehensions on the subject But let us see
how the thing works. whether brethren the North
are not somewhat In the situation Of the fox who to
have his tail cut OF because another had done the
thing, and whether England. after running uselessy her
West India colonies Is not the fox who had lost his tail
will no doubt DO frankly admitted that there is no
danger however wo may extend the of slavery South
Of forcing slavery upon any free State IL had the
power and therefore the sin alone is heads
have never had doubt but that the whole of this move
ment is Of foreign origin. England knows that this is
the only possible weak point in the Unen, and II she
could induce separation Of the States she must be great
trade for the Souththe millions of bales of cotton; the
hundreds Of thousands OF hhds of tobacco of sug of
RICE besides the return price Of all this produce in Eng
lish and American manufactures, besides the profits
which you make in the mandatory of the cotton of the
SOUTH Why, New England derives more profit from
supplying the slave States with the of her soil
than the slave States do themselves have reliable
statistics about me- but do not hesitate to assert that the
received in New England from the product Of
slave grown articles is greater than the value of the a
cles themselves Let Maine with her overwhelm
ing tonnage Let every town and rill in New England
respond But perhaps it is thought you raise three
millions of bales Of cotton, half million of hhds of to-
bacco three hundred thousand hhds Of sugar and
rice ues aieus with Tree labor and you can yet get
thistrade Go and try it, ye hardy mounaineers Of New
England II is false pretended that you excluded
from any country by the Missouri compromise Go and
cutvste California Mexico, and you want free States
so decide nothing can prevent it.
despse cant Of every kind. and say at least for my
self and have doubt speak the voice Of the entire
South that will never permit our slaves to be liberia
ted drecrly indirectly, presently or prospectvely
without making the best resistance that can and that
would rather die in the last ditch than surrender not
our property, but the principle which we hold it.
h. thrsst lfwau