The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-12-25

In African slavery there was q vast
property devoted to agriculture, and to the
production of exports. 1t was hence from
the structure and function Of the Federal
system, incapable Of receiving much favor
from the Government, and therefore, had
no interest in enlarging its power. But it
was peculiarly exposed to its burthens,
and therefore, was interested in restrict
ing ltspower. And experience las amply
shown that, bu. for the influence of the
slaveholding States the federative fea.
lures Of the General Government would
have been oblitera:ed long ago, and the
system would have Immediately become,
as it has at length done IN consolidation.
The meeting of the greatest tribe Of the
white race, the Anglo Norman Saxon,
with the black race, the two people high
est and lowest in the scale of morality and |
c;v.Ezation-a meeting in anothe: and |
newly discovered hemisphere-was one Of
the most mysterious and pregnant events
OF destiny. There are in the moral aud |
physical world frequent manifestations of
the principle of dualisms in the production
of the most important results. The great |
est results proceed from combining oppo- |
site elements. And there never has been |
such progress made in wealth, in popula- |
ton, in civilization, and yet, in liberty and |
morality, as by these two races respective |
! ~, since they met and assumed the relation |
they now hold. To the race thus situated
has been allotted the production of one of |
the most imbortant results. The greatest
results proceed from combining opposite
elements. And there never has been such
| progress made in wealth, in population, in
civilization, and yet, in liberty and morali-
| ty, as by these two races respectively,
since they met and assumed the relation
they now hold. To the race thus situated
has been allotted the production of the
most important elements of modern COM
merce and manufactures. They have sub.
lecled larger part of the wilderness to
cultivation, than any other peo1 pie in the
same perod-they have grown more rap
idly in wealth and attained to greater
wealth-and they have exercised more in
huence in achieving the independence and
In constructing nG preserving the political
institutions of this country, than the more
numerous neighbors. The Southern colo
MES were founded rather more by the land
ed gentry of England, than the Northern,
and at a time when feudalism was still in
) force. African slavery was a substitute
for feudallsm, rendering it still more paci-
nc, and preserving much Of its virtues.
And the settlement in Virginia of several
of the severer sects Of christians, in South
Carolina of the Huguenots, in Georgia Of
the Morav ians, tended to reform the rathe
loose morality of the Cavaliers of that
S,oI
fore, tho advantage in addition 10 the d.
versity OF white and black, of greater
variety of the more wholesome elements
of the white race, than the Northern
And so it was that not only the establish.
ment, but the safety Of the federaIive sys-
tem have been owing to the individual
!, character, the socia! system, and the vast
slave property of the South, And the feds
i erative system IS nowassociated in destiny
, with the sagacity, the energy, the fOrti.
: tude OF the white race Of the South, and
: its fifteen hundred millions of property in
= slaves.
/ "While stands the Coliseum, Rome
> shall stand,
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall
{ fall
and on the righls of the States Identical
= and coevaI, and proceeding from section
y whose hostility to State rights, was even
anterior to it, enmity to slavery.
. Now, whence the Southern backwaTdneS
: in meeting this ASSAULT When it was first
- threatened, il was .ot nowhere more prom
/ pity, more unanimously, more decidedly thar
:" in Georgia both parties united-and make
:, it very properly. That was and is thelissue
= Was there any fatality at Mlledgeville tina
= brought about su den ate 1pt Of almost
= whole Legislature 10 misrepresent their con
: stituentsl Or havs the people of Georgia
- in the recent election bsen seized with a sud
= den panic, and run off perfect stamped
~ from their own previous conVicliOnsl
&c coould not have been intended to go to tn
= trouble and expense Of q Convention to rati
- fy the admission of CaiHornia or even to sa
% on such an occasion that no further asgre'
Z r sion would be submitted to. Certainly n
y : such anti-cIimzx as that was contemplated
:. Aud then as to Virginia. There are be
- resolutions year at year sOlemnly made an
~ recorded. Was il ever dreamed that after a
~ these, she was to be brought on the FEEDERS
III boards to enact the laughable alterpiece 1
a. declaring that she would acquiesce in the lO'
Is Of Territory, Of power, Of equality, Of safell
g to secure the restitution OF q few runawa
y negroesl Il she 70 submit 70 plumber, to il
en- suit and defiance, with no better excuse tha
US bubble and equivoquel
vt If these things shoul happen then the inst
d. lutions and character Of the South are bias
ch "A and will soon tolter to their fall. In
&C great fabric has not been overthrown by CO..
yulsoin, not worn out by age, nor borne dow