Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-12
From the Democratic Review for January, 1850.
Stability of the UnioE.
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Having leaTHeu ny experience GIle L1oU
emancipation it is requisite, in order to practce ~
that she should have an opportunity ana tnl: may
be found in the acquisition of new slave counu1es'
The contest that had so long been sustained In
Parliament, against admitting slaye-groWn PIoue'e;
was relaxed, and Lord John RUSSELL no" Inc nlo'
Minister of the crown, moved to admit slaVe-gfoWn
sugar on the same terms colonial Inc necessity
of furnishing the West Indies with laborers from the
coast of Africa is freely admitted ana mciPent steps
are being taken to permit such emigration. why
FREE black emgrants will work better than enamel
mated slaves is not easily conceived. Freedom, at
least British black freedom, may exist in changing
the name without altering the mode of coercion
Floggng black emlgrant is a very benevolent OPP
Grafton, compared with chastisin5 black stdUe.-l
Every modern PhilanthrOpist give the reason Tor
that. Meantime the Worlds Convention, which met
at London in 1910, although foiled in its Texan
schemes, persevered in that system OF attack upon
the institutions of the United States, which was 10
be instrumental in developing the new designs OF
the British government. The abolition party OF the
United States had, under the promptngs OF u nom
son, now government member of Parliament tor Lon
DON asserted the necessity of the abolition OF slavery
even at the expense of the Union. How separation
of the freestates from the slavestates was to dmn
sh slavery in the latter is not easy to unless the
latter were to be exposed to some new influence
The political adventurers dssoute negroes, tim
Grant atheists male and female, who, petted by the
English, and stimulated by those who had aided the
English government in its emancipation errors per-
ambulated the United States; haranguing, singing,
SDOutnG. writing IN favor OF q Vi
Union were for the most part met with the contempt
| they deserved and it is glorious example OF the
heightened and comprehensive philosophy which
pervades people and the institutions theJ sustain
that these vagabOnd dissemlnators OF treason DIS
union and civil war, were dsregarded and unnOticed.
On the other hand, witness the chains and exile OF
John Mitchell and Smith OBrien, with their noble
cOmpeers, punished with worse than DEATH not be-
cause they from abroad to stir up instruction
and civil war in land of strangers, but because on
their native soil they asked for those rights OF
freemen, which have been withheld from their
unfortunate cOuntrymen, andln the absence OF which,
they have cause to envy the material well-heng of
American slaves Almost every country in Europe
affords examples of executions during the past two
years for political offences, far less than that OF an
attempt to excite a servle war. The American in
situations are however, based upon truth and justice,
and perpetuated in the understanding of the people
they cannot, therefore, be shaken by the wicked
sOphistries Of such mOnarchcal tools.
Gradually the British commercial policy has &C
cOmmOdaed itself to the fact that the great staples
which keep in operation the workshops of England
are slave products and that that condition of their
production cannot be changed. She repeals there
fore, her duties them, removes her discrimina-
tons and throws open her navigation laws to the
vessels of the world for their transportation to her
warehouses, and her whole colonial policy becomes
changed. When England was emancipating her
slaves in the West Indies-when her consul
citing instruction in Cuba--when her exertions
greatest to suppress the slave-trade- her
intr CUES for Texas rpepng, the people of Can
ada in rebellion striving to shake off her yoke,
and the people Of the United States sympathized"
with them. England poured her troops into the
province, putting forth all her disposable force to
suppress the detection. Mr.. Van Buren,, then Pres
ident, and warm pro-slavery advocate of southern
Interests, under most remarkable but unseen infu-
ence, repulSed Texas into the arms OF England and
suddenly changing his policy in relation to the Can
| adian sympathisers, abandoned the people of Navy
| Island to their resources, while denOuncng the
whole proceeding; and for this himself abandon
ed, in 1910, by the northern electors. The loyal
people of Canada turned out to the support of the
imperial government, and were taxed cheerfully to
pay the expenses-the movement was crushed and
the patriots exled. The independence of Canada at
that time would have speedily brought her into the
Union, and given such prepOnderance to the North,
Mr.. Van Buren, with his southern feelings, could
not view with satisfaction more particularly that
the policy of the English government then, to a.
bosh slavery in the South, rather than to divide the
Union. With the complete failure of the whole Brit
ish scheme in relation to colonial products, came
Mr.. Van Burens defeat candidate for the pres
idency in 1910 The opponent of Canadian indepen-
dcnce then became committed against Texan annex
alton, and this interest gradually ripened into
opposition to southern interests and the formation Of
sectional party under the pretext of freesOil"-
This party embraced the scattered disciples of the
English Worlds Convention, emisares, abotionists,
disunionists and political adventures of all Sorts
|. England could not but regard with sfactOn the
formation of combination, which should array the
two sections of the Union against each other in hos
tlity and prepare the way for rupture which might
throw the whole South with its blacks and rich sta
PIES indispensable to her manufacturing greatness,
into her hands Cuba is fast drawing towards union
with the South and to cut off the southern states
from the northern rivals of England in commerce
and manufactures unite them to Cuba restore there
by the West India Islands to their original value,
and the whole to the British Empire by trea-
ties offensive and defensive, a prize worth con-
tending for. The extraordinary pertinacty with
which the control of the Nicara guam isthmus is ad
hered to- indicates of its value in such con-
nectiOn. To facilitate this, Canada was repulsed-
long of legislation designed to ALLEVIATE her
crowned by act, taxing the loyal subjects to
pay indemnties to the so-caed traitors of former
years, and their expOstulatOns were met with leave
to to the United States if they please" Such
a weigh added to the Northern, while events point
ed to the accession of Cuba the Southern end
would go long ways towards breaking the Union in
the centre. Mr.. Van Buren, who had stood by Eng
land against the Canadian rebels, appeared as the
leader of the party of disunion and the multitude of
turbulent adventures who seek notOrietv and ad-
vancement for themselves pressed vigorously in his
rear. Disappointed political adventures, English
emissaries and fanatical parasites of all hues and
descriptions, were ready to aid in the work. The
pron"Igator of family separation and female dishon-
or. undCr the guise of social REFORM was the fit
ting advocate for federal dsunion and national dis
grace. Destical lbertnism, and Ethiopian dcbauch-
cry were we'll assorted coaborators in the work of
treason under whatever pretenec of philanthropy
their designs might be cloakcd.
The formation of the cotton states with Cuba into
great cotton tobacco sugar and coffee producing
union, calling forth the boundless fertility of Cuba
Dor of the blacks of the Southern States in those
hands in which their labor and Numbers ha va tbriv