The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-05-24


A WHOLESOME REBUKE BY THAT STAuNcH
/ FRIEND OF THE SOUTH, M. NJ. Noah The Ten.
| 'iesses Contention. danger is by no means
over. We are not much nearer satisfactory
| settlement of the great dividing question than
we were month ago, and instead of the Ten.
nessee convention havag been abandoned,
Southern States are still choosing delegates.
We shall continue TO show our Northern friends
| the consequences Of this movement, if persisted
| IN, and call upon them to give way and allow
| no light unnecessary impediments, no cavlling
| for hair, no indulging in sickly sentiment on
| slavery, 10 impede an immediate and satisfactory
| adjustment Of the whole question
1 Ut alt attempts at reformation of any kind,
that 0. expecting to change the position which
| the slaves of the United States occupy, embraces
the most absurd and astonishing Inconsistencies,
the greatest amount of folly and ianaiicisnl. 1t
is true that no such change is said to have been
contemplated. We have no belief 10 such dec
laratiens. Excluding slavery in territories in
the beginning and aboshing it in States is the
end contemplated. Look, for example, at the
| Inconsistency of such course, and let us begin
with Massachusetts. That State may be consid-
cred the hot bed of abolition, and yet at the
| time Il is the greatest manufacturing State Of the
| products Of slave labor. 1t imports large :
luuill vi COllOU tTDtll the DOul, anu DEF pOpuld-
| tion rely upon the manufacturing of that article
| alone for large portion of the very means of
| living. Look at the port OF New Orleans du-
ring the winter and fall season. and we shall find
] some hundreds of vessels fromthe Eastern States
| waiting for cargoes of sugar. cotton, tobacco,
rice, molasses and all kinds Of produce OF Save
| labor, of which those States are the carriers.
I Those States which have such a holy horror Of
lc1a q bo fbo
and export it in various descriptions Of manufac
tured articles to New Orleans, which find their
way to the people OF the South and West il
every direction, and for thousands of miles on
the borders of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
and through the vast territories Of the West and
/ Northwest.
The manufacture of cotton into goods sup
ports thousands of persons down east, including
] females, and children of both sexes. The fac
| tory girls derive all the advantages of living,
| education, accomplishments, ETC., ETC., from
! Stare labor. The advantage which the people
! OF Massachusetts derive, in a pecunary point Of
| view, from slave labor, is nearly equivalent TO
| the amount OF any Southern producing State.
/ Her exports consist mostly Of goods manufae-
| tured from the Southern imports. In shortI Z
people of the South are the negro drivers ior IN
benefit of the people Of the East, and while the
former get all the cdium of negroF slavery, me
] latter gain all the essential advantages; ana
what applies TO Massachusetts, Is equally an.
plicable to New York, and m@ofe or less to all
that are called free States. Now, II to hold
slaves is so criminal in thee eyes OF the people
Of Massachusetts how luch less criminal are
they than ;he masters IF slares-those who in
deed own them. but csork them for the benefit
OF the whites in the free States2 Is it not, we
ask the very heipblt Of knavery and hypocrisy
in anv naonIe to- declare slavery to be a curse.
and savehoe. rs an accnrssed race, and yet be-
the most efficient means of sustaining that
urssoss.o,,. -.
we have SAID, lives by sia,o inh,r- willingly,
anxiously, labnriourly lives by it, and yet con-
demns slavery. But this is not all. At least
two-thirds of the population of New Orleans
are from the Eastern States-nerchants law
yers, clergymen. schoomastefs and mistresses,
and their children, TO say notiing of mechanics,
tradesmen. and business men Of all descriptions
The connection Of the East with slavery does
not end here. Many Of the weaIthiest plan
tprs and Shareholders OF the State Of Louisiana
are from the East; and what applies to New
Orleans and Louisiana will equally apply to
other towns and States South and West, iE a
greater or less degree We declare that larger
numerical portion down east are more interest
ed in slavery than the owners OF slaves in the
South.
We shall be answered BY the question-"Ca Can
we NOT derive benefit from slave labor, and yet
be opposed 10 siavery?' We answer NO. IL
yon are willing to drive the South almost out Of
the Union, ostensibly or really, on the slavery
q question, you should not touch a dollar out o.
salave labor. You cannot serve God and mann
mon, at the same time, and it is rank hypocrisy
TO live in stpendor as many Of our eastern nabobs
do, on slave labor and yet roar, and rant, and
rave about slavery liz the halls OF congress. These
are the men who unfnrl the abolition flag, on
which is inscribed-"Tf THE poor negro! ls he not
man and brother?, We say he is not and
the North and the East prove it by not admitting
the negro to an equality Of personal and political
: rights-by not allowing him to sit in the same
: pew in ciurchA-in short by denying 20 the negro
the enjoyment Of many little privileges and in
: dngences which the black man obtains from
his kiud master in the South.
: As, there.0.e, there is RIO sincerity, no honesty,
! no principle, no humanity in this vannted aboli.
: ton, why ontinue TO urge it so stringently in
: Congress? Because it is altogether political
: movement 10 cripple the influence OF The slave.
! States, and nothing more. Slavery IS the eX-
} cuse. the apology-polltica predomnence the
+ real object. They want to draw the line OF
slavery and anti-slavery distinctly, in hopes that
: the balo-box will give the entire power Of the
: government to what is called the free States.
Z But the South will allow no such issue TO be
: : made at their expense. They will not be made
= the hewers of wood and drawers Of water 10 the
y North and East They stand upon an equality
!, of rights as sovereign and independent States,
= and will not permit double advantage to be ta-
!, ken by the North and East-pecnnary and po-
o Iitical Let the honest yeomanry OF the East
and North, untainted by this actitious sympathy.
and by this political trickery, demand, toS the
= sake Of the Uuion. prompt settlement Of all
4 these questions by Congress, so that the public
ID interests may be protected and the business OF
le the people promptly attended 10 and faithfully
% discharged by their representatives.
i SOLEMN AND ToUcHINs INcIDENT.--In
,e his recent trip to Richmond, Va, Presi-