The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-02-16
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ne, ns4s:

uncomfortable exceptions, believe il TO be
wrong. Such being the case, it would indicate
a ver, superficial knowledge Of human ga
ture to think that, after aiming at abolition
Systematically for so mang years, and pursu-
ing 1t with such unscrupnous disregard Of Law
and constitution, the fanatics, who have led
I'll way and forced the great body of the
heEh TO follow them, would, when the fniSh.
ing stroke only, remained to be given, vOiun-
taFily suspend Il, or permit any constitus
iional scruPles or considerations Of justice to
arrest il. To these may be added an agrees
sion, though not VT commenced, long medi-
tated and Ihreatened-to prohibit wha, the
Abolitionists call the %internel slave trade, mean
ing thereby the transfer Of slavcs from one
State 10 another fronawhat ever motive done,
or however effected. Their object would
seem to be to render them worthless by crowd
ing them together where they are, and
thus hasten the work OF emancipation
There 10 reason for believing that 1t will soon
follow those now in progress, unless indeed,
some decisive step should b. taken in the
mean time to- arrest the whole.
The question then is will the measures Of.
aggression proposed in the TiOuse be adopt.
ed?
They may not, and probably will not this
session. But when we take into consideration
that there is amaiority now in favor Of one Of
them, and q strong minority in favor Of the
other, and thad.here will be mall probability o
considerable increase in the next Congress OF
the vote in favor Of them, and tnat il will be
largely increased in the next succeeding Com
gresS under the census TO be TAX en- next year,
it amounts al@Ost to a certainty that they
win be adopted, unless some decisive meas
ure is taken in advance to prevent il.
Butif sventhose conclusions should prove
erroneOus--if fanaticism and the love Of pow
er should, contrary to their nature, for once
respect constitutional barriers, III il the %caIcula-
tons Of policy should retard the adoption Of
these measures, or even defeat them altogether
there would be still left one certain way TO
accomplish thoir object, If the determination
avowed by the North to m~cnopOlize all the
territories, to the exclusion ofthe Sonth, should
be carried into effect That Of itself Won ID,
at no distant day, add tOsthe North a sufficient
number Of States to give her three.fourths
Of the wholei when, under the color Of an a.
mendment Of the constitution, she would eman.
cipate our slaves, however opposed it might
be to its true intent.
Thus under every aspect, the result ia Ger.
tain, # aggression be not promptly and deci.
dedly met. How it iSto be met, it is for you
to decide.
Such then being the %casc,it would be to insult
you ioSuPpose youcouIdhesitste To destroy the
existing relation between the free and servile "a
ces at b eSouth wOuldlead to consequences Nm.
paralleled in history. They cannot be separated,
and cannot live together in peace or harmony,
or to their mutual advantage. except in their
present relation. Under any other, wretched-
ness, misery, and desolation would Overspread
Tie whole South. The exampleof the British
West Indies, as blighting as emancipation has
proved to them, furnishes a very faint picture
of the caIamities it would bring on the South,
The circumstances under which II would take
place with us, would be entirely different from
those which took place with them, and calcut
lated to lead to far more disastrous results.
The Government Of the parent country
A.- 1890
emancipated slaves in her colonial possessions
"a Government rich and powerful, and actu-
ated by views Of policy, (mistaken as they
turned out to be- rather than fanaticism. 1t
was besides, disposed to act Justly towards the
owners, even in the act If emanclpating their
slaves, and to protect and foster them after
wards. 1t accordingly appropriated nearly
$~lO0,OO0,O0O as a compensation to them for
their losses under the act, which sum, although
Il turned out to be far short of the amount
was thought at the time to be liberal. Since
the emancipation, it has kept up a sufficient
military and naval force to keep the blacks in
awe, and q number Of magistrates, and con-
stables, and other civil officers, 10 keep older
in the towns and on plantations, and enforce
respect to their former owners. To cOnsid-
cradle extent, these have served asa substi-
tute for the police formerly kept on the plan
tations by the owners and their Ovsrseers, and
to preserve the social and political snperiori-
~ of the white race. But Notwithstanding
all this, the British West India possessions are
ruined, impoverished, miserable, wretched, and
destined PrObably to be abandOnedtO the black
race.
Very different would be the circumstanees
under which emancipation would take place
with u.s.. II it ever should be efecied,i it will
bethrough the agency Of the Federal Govern
ment, controlled by the dominant power Of
the Northern States Ofthe Confederacy, against
the resistance and struggle Of the Southern -.
1t can then only be Effected by the prOslratiOn
of the white race; and hat wohld necessari-
ly eDgender the bitterestf feelings Of hostility
beiygeen them and the North. Blu; the reyArae