The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-08-13


of Venice. Venice enriched herself by the
oppression and plumber of her subject pro.
ymceS, Boston has done the same. Venice
concentrated her ill-gottcn wealth on the
marshes of the Adrlatic Boston has heap.
ed up hers upon barren rock The poison
chace has been commended to the lips OF
Venice, and she has in turn become the vic.
tim OF mlSgoverumeat while the trade of
the world has found other channels aud he
hold she is wilderness of marble in waste
OF waters. Even such would be the mis-
chtefs which Boston would pull down upon
herself, by the suicidal step ofwarring against
the South.
But look across the Atlantic, and suppose
the madness and malignIty of the North to
hurry them into a desolating war against
the cotton growing States Other countries
have more various resources than New Eng
land, and might have something to fall back
/ on. England, for example, insular as she is,
has land. But England has superabund-
ant population, and there are there not less
than three millions of laborers of laborers
whose very existence depends on cotton
They have no western country to fly to, and
while the land of England is sufficient to
feed them all, they will not starve. whether
be work for them to do or no. There is
something there for communism to divide
something tor tourlcrlsm to experiment on.
Let but the loom stand still for one month.
and thereWill not be one stone left standing
on another of the whole political and social
fabric OF England.
fINba &C. 1
and this it is that governs the foreign policy
of England, and determines her to oppose
her veto to any war that might disturb her
commerce, and, through that, her manufac.
lures, on which her very existence depends.
The play of the shuttle is the pulse of life to
her Let it once stop and it beats no more
Nor is this confined to her. The same
cause operates on every powerful nation Of
Western Europe and hence that long, un-
natural peace which, for more than thirty
years, has covered Europe as with death
pail, and produced and prepared more suffer
ing and more causes of mischief than half
century of war had ever done. But the
evil is upon them, and they dare not shake
it off. However the angry spirit of rival
nations may chate at the restraint; howey-
er the plethora OF redundant population may
call for the letting of blood, the immense
fixed capital invested in manufacturing es-
tablishments, and the multitudinous popula.
ton whose bread depends upon them, com
pei the world tc peace. 1t is indeed but a
peace of suppressed hostility, Of stihed envy,
OF insdious rivalry, and its consequences
make us feel the full force of the woe de.
nounced against those who cry peace,
peace when there is no peace" But there
is no escape fromit In the cant of the day,
'the spirit of the age demands 1.-THE spirit
of the age is essentially pacific"
! What then, sir, would all Europe say to
any attempt on the part Of the Northern
States, or of every power upon earth, to lift
a hand against the cotton growing region,
and interrupt the production of that article.
The power of wealth would oppose 1.-THE
cry of famine would forbid 1.-THE universal
nakedness of mankind would forbid it; the
united office OF all the civilized world would
command the peace. The Southern States
OF this Union are conessedIy the only cot
ton growing country in the world, and slave
labor the only means by which it can be
produced. Whatever may be their spite
against sts,~ and however they may cant
about slavery, they will be careful to do
nothing to interfere with the production OF
, cotton. Had Orpheus been the only man
in the world, sir, the nymphs, however en-
, ragged, would never have killed him
All this time | have spoken as if our dead
sister, Massachusetts,, and the rest of that
slsterllod, were to have the matter their own
way. have no notice of the fact, that al
though North Carolina and Virginia, Ten
nessee and Kentucky, might not be at once
prepared to Join the Southern confederacy,
they would feel that THEN interests were
, identified with it, and refuse to join in cru
sade against the defenders of their rights.
/ They would have voice in the question of
peace and war. They might indeed be out
voted, but would vote retain them, and
/ would the North press measure which
, would be sure to force them into the South
ern confederacy? The exemplary patience
of Virginia is proof that she fondly recol-
lects, that to her, more than to any other
State, this Union owes its existence. She
: will be the last to dissolve it violently, be-
cause she will be the last to forget the proud
and endearing recoilections of the past, and
} to lift her hand against those she has so long
/ cherished as brothers. But let her be told
) she must fight somebody, and she will not
} be long in deciding whom she will fight
} Tell her to regard and treat as enemies the
Southern States, peopled mainly by herself
/ TO imbrue her hands in the blood of hel
F.; own children, and her answer is ready in the
: words of Harry Percy:
'Not speak of Mortimer!
e Forbid my tongue to speak of Mortimer!
e Yes, Iwill speak of him; and may my soul
? Want mercy if | do not join with him"
t Sir, Virginia did not approve the attitude
D assumed by South Carolina in 1888. Wha
. Them Was she nrenared IN ift n han,