Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-03-29

enter into compromise with her now she would soon
gard it. as she did the Missouri Compromise For oeneF
in the right of occasions that you and me have as much
To dissolve copartnership have to form one.
fore If every member Of Congress, South Of MASON q
oSs regarded the matter In the same light that ~o,
all these reoustions Immediately complied "l'n' J
would resign their seats in Congress and come nom' ~
low the Southern people to choose delegates lor
ton and establish government of their own For we nave
been indirectly taxed for the benefit OF the Ner'h VI
would saw defrauded out of our labor Oy ner
nuua and maxmumsand nsulted by ner 1or maintaining
an which herself assisted to establish among
m long enough She had scruples at all about this tra
6c in huuan calls it, until the slave trade
nrohbted by law but as it was nterdcted and she
deprived branch of her she began to
shudder at the very idea of slavery Irepeat that we have
borne her insults and been taxed to support government
taxed enrich her manufactures and taxed to raise reve-
be expended her public works. long enough we
had much complaint against Great Britain
10 than we now have against the Nerth for the former
did have claims upon loyalty but am not aware
that the latter has any Iuppose though that oeng
she cannot do well without material nor without
being employed do hppingaso that we are taxed
Indirectly to the most of the for the support OF
government, well to enrich her manutactorles-she
would object to dissolution of the Union But we have
been into submission by her threatening to excite
our instruction, long enough In act 90 not
know how would work to poison their minds any
than she already DONE And for the danger Of
an nsurrection have any real friends at the North now
they would be friends STILL Yes sir if our Union cannot
be maintained unless at and disgrace let 1t
be dissolved And not but the sooner dissolution
takes place. the better will be for And OF the two con-
fderaces ours will be the independent inasmuch as
we have the manufacturing thing she does
whilst other hand, rage our cotton, which,
on climate, she cannot do Yes we can do
better without than she do without
material for purchase such articles as she
uacure cheaper in Europe than from her, until we
can get in way manufacture them ourselves and she
cannot just observed grow cotton, account of
her climate And for commerce, have New Or
leans Charleston Beaufort &C., at which the largest
ships Europe arrive tell you sir that the idea that
interest and honor require us
the North is fast gaining ground in this quarter We
have been taught to venerae the UnIonto regard
those ties which bind the South the North sacred but
by whose agency have they been Weakened if not entirely
snapped asunder Not by We have not urged Con-
gres year after year. laws calculated to indirectly
North benefit Nor have petitiOned Con-
gress year after year, interfere with any of her domestic
institutions The North is boasting that she is in
prosperous condition without slavery than with it
No wonder when she has taxed out of hundred of mill
ions dollars for her benefit under the preence of raising
revenue egsated and compromised out of abont
threefourths of the public domain And the Hon. Henry
Clay considerable extent responsible for depress
degraded condition He has been counting the North
the last twenty years. for the Presidency with his
american system - and for the sake Of seeing him Pres
dent his Southern political friends have submitted to the
oppression Yes sir the Southern Wings more to blame
for degraded situation than Southern Democrats
for the pursued by the Democrats regard to abo
ton movements has been safe and independent thar
that pursued by the Wings whilst they (he Democrats
have many resisted that abomnabe system Of wholesale
swindng which has been long carried against by
the North the petence raising And wha
have the abotoniss effected by all their against slave
ry2 Why, nothng-worse than nothing for their
count have been obliged allow slaves less liberty
and fewer prviege and in many instances to treat them
with severity than otherwise should have done But
after ALL slaves better provided for than free
generally experience has shown that their condition
better than would be- they emancipated in fact
thousands of them would not be liberated if left to their
choice There Great Britain grumbling about nttu
ton of slavery when there have persisted of her poor
subjects year than there slaves in North Carolina
And never knew negro to perish to death in my life
have ever known any to suffer much have known
some white people. Your friend, A. 0. GRADY.
| March IL, 1850.