Washington telegraph., 1850-05-15
A Wholesale Rcbuke by that Staunch Friend
of the South, NJ. Nj. N Oah--Thc Tennessee
Convention


The danger is by no means over. We
are not much nearer satisfactory settle
ment of the great dividing question than
we were a month ago, and instead of the
Tennessee Convention having been aban-
donetl, Southern States are still choosing
delegates. We shall continue 10 show
oul Northern friends the consequences of
this movement, if persisted i'll, and call
upon them to give way, aud allow 30
light, unnecessary impediments, no cavil-
ling for a hair no indulging III sickly
sentiments on slavery, to impede an I'M
mediate and satisfactory adjustment of
the whole question.
OF all attempts at reformation OF any
kind, that of expecting to change the
position which the slaves OF the United
States occupy, embraces the most absurd
and astonishing Inconsistencies, the great
est amount of folly and fanatacism. 1t
is true that no such change is said TO have
been contemplated We have no belief
in such declaration. Excluding slavery
in territories in the beginning aud abolish
ing it in States is the end contemplated.
Look, for example, at the inconsistency
Oi SUCH COuIse, dilu lcI DeSlu NiiH
Massachusetts,. That State may be con-
sidered as the hot-bed of abolition, and
yet, at the same time, it is the greatest
manufacturing State of the products of
slave labor. 1t imports a large amount
| of cotton from the South, and per popula-
ton rely upon the manufacturing OF that
article alone for large portion Of the
very means Of living. Look at the port
of New Orleans during the winter and
fall seasons, and we shall find some hun
dreds OF vessels from the Eastern States
waiting for cargoes of sugar, cotton,
| tobacco, rice, molasses and all kinds OF
produce of slave labor, Of which those
States are the carriers. Those States
which have such holy horror Of slavery
import the raw cotton from the South
and export it in various descriptions OF
manufactured articles to New Orleans,
which find their way TO the people Of the
South and West in every direction, and
for thousands OF miles OH the borders Of the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and through
the vast territories of the West and North
west.
The manufacture Of cotton into goods
| supp OltS Va pCiSoho w" S''~S
including females, and children of both
sexes. The factory girls derive all the
advantages of living. education, accom-
plishments: ETC.. ETC., from staue Id6oT
The advantage which the people OF Mas
sachu.etts derive. III pecuniary point oil
view, from slave labor, is nearly equiva.
lent to the amount Of any Southern pro.
ducing State. Her exports consists most
ly of goods manufactured from the South.
ern imports. In short, the people of the
South are the negro drivers for the benefit
of the people of the East, and while the
former get all the odium of negro slavery,
the latter gain all the essential advantages
aud what applies to Massachusetts is
equally applicable to New York, and
more or less to all shat are called free
States Now, if to hold slaves is SC
criminal in the eyes of the people o.
Massachusetts how much less criminal
are they than the masters OF slaves-those
who indeed own them, but work them
for the benefit of the whites in the free
States? Is it not. we ask, the very height
of knavery and hypocrisy i'll any people
to declare slavery to be curse, and slave
holders an accursed race, and yet be the
most efficient means of sustaining thai
curse!