The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01

| lishments North, and the Catholic and Episco-
palian South, the author gives this account OF
the traits of character peculiar to the people of
each section, who were prosecutors OF his de-
nomination, which will answer pretty well as q
| descriptive picture now: The poor prosecuted
Baptists - did not conform" Chat was their
crime) to the creeds of the established churches,
and We're everywhere punished for non-con-
formity" Roger Williams, the illustrious
founder of Rhode Island, was not good enough
to live "outside of prison" in Massachusetts
or Connecticut, without having fine set upon
him.
The historian, however, states that " there was
q marked difference in the mode of punishment,
to which the Baptists were subject in the differ
ent colonies. In the South, the inhabitants
vented their malice by trying to disgrace the per-
sous Of the preachers. They were sometimes
taken out Of the pulpit and ducked in ponds, or
tarred and feathered, to make them desist ut
Others, drums were beaten and tin-pans ratified
to prevent their being heard. But in the North,
the Puritans used wholly different means
they charged high for license to preach, and upon
refusal to pay, arrests were made, magistrates
and constables were employed, Jail fees, court
costs, fines and fortunes, were rendered against
them Nothing short Of money could quiet their
tender consciences toward those who disagreed
with them in opinion. But, says Benedict, if
you would only pay the price, you might non
conform to all eternity!
This, sir is the account given, nearly one hun
dred years ago, by an impartial witness, without
motive to choose between sections: and now, rs
then, our Northern brethren have slender con-
sciences" and do not like for others to do any
thing which offends their I" moral sense" unless
you pay the price of the license" which at pres
ent amounts to the ,ohOle country obtained from
Mexico, whether by treaty, purchase, or conquest.
A fair money account will show that it is sum
almost beyond credibility, if you suppose it ever
will be submitted to. The California accounts
state that an able-bOdied negro man is worth in
the mines five thousand dollars, and hires readily
for one thousand dollars year. Now, il is clear,
that, had our people been allowed freely to carry
| their negroes to that country without hinder
ance, ut this day negroes throughout the South
ern States would have been worth three hundred
dollars more each than they are--at least one
thousand millions of dollars beyond the present
value of the whole--a sum sufficient to raise and
pay an army ten times the size of the army of
the United States; to construct all of the canals
and build all of the railroads needed in each OF
the Southern States. All of which we are re-
quired to lose, give up, and part with, to quiet
your pretended conscientious objections to the
extension of African slavery, which you assisted
in bringing to this country, and the price o.
which sin is now in your pockets. am not viii
ling to make such sacrifices, nor do | think my
\ constituents will disagree with me upon this
! subject. HEg.a G '5r =. tss
1t is not true, Mr.. Chairman, as alleged upon
this floor, that white people in the South with.
out slaves /" are despised and worthless race
" despised by owner and negro not one word
| Of it is true so far from it, the greater number
| of our public officers are elected from this class
of people. The reason is very plain one
With U.S. none but black man will be waiter
a servant, and obey orders; white man will
not do it he feels above it; and therefore al
4 upright white citizens are placed upon m equa
footing as freemen-all black men, bond or free
are equals as servants. With us it is color ant
race which gives distinction; with you it ];
wealth-with you it is the pursuit, the service
which degrades, and wealth that exalts in publ,
estimation; and it is this which makes you 81
love money and shift so to get it. H ta as
| The relations, therefore, between our people
make permanent and lasting friendships between
rich and poor, and there Is no portion of til,
/ globe where so few suffer from poverty AL
enjoy political equality who are white and uprigh
citizens, and no act that you could psss woul,
be permitted to change these relations, by put
ting black and white on an equal footing. TIL
YER, threat and attempt to do so, has aread
nearly torn asunder every ligament which bind
] US together, and you need not wonder if ever,
! white man among us, except few traitors, (ant
as many Of them will be found among the ricl
as the poorD will feel it his duty to resist an,
law intended to degrade him to an equality with
the black ~f...
You could not pay the expense of separating
the races; and the negroes made free could not
live together as equals with the whites One
race would destroy the other. The whites will
not agree to be made slaves of, to pay the ex-
pense of sending off the blacks. 1t would be
far cheaper, and more agreeable to all parties, to
keep the negro as he is make him work to feed
and support such armies as will be able to thrash
soundly all intermedlers, from whatever country
they may come. You will be apt to find this
out if you press this question upon u.s. / know
that we have been threatened with thirty o.
forty regiments, if we resist abolition insolence
under the pretence of executing the laws of tn,
Union. ...rs.,
4 have an old Wing constituent, who say
that to the North, this would be like "wol
1 bunt"-most other game rewards the hunter
either in the pleasures of the chase or in the flu
, or flesh afforded but the wolf runs hard, fght
hard, kills or hurts the dogs with which he il
pursued, and when caught and killed, has neither
/" fur to warm" nor "fesh to feed his pursuer.'
Instead of getting pay for killing him, it requires
: pay for each scalp, to get him hunted ant
killed
So will it be with your Abolition regiments
you must march hard, fight hard, and when 20,
get negro from us in that way, according tt
your notions and professions, you can neithe
eat his meat, nor wear his fur, and no one vii
, pay "for the scalps you take"
), know you well, and know that upon these
|, terms you will not fight much. A few of those
, hunts" will satisfy your militia colonies, ant
} convince all, that your people who want our ne
grocs, had better follow their old trade of emit
cling them away from their owners, and after
wards :" hire them" on their own terms, by
J threatening to carry them back to their offended
masters, if they should want better wages.
1t has been said here sir, that the defeat o.
our army at Bladensburg, and the burning o
this city, by the British in 1914, is evidence tha
slavery units the population, where it exists
II for self.defence The Same miobt no ollaoaf