The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-08-15

labor to laying up store OF gram Tor
nolher wear! The South could bear 1t
sir. 1t would incommode many. 1t
would enrich some. 1t would ruin no
bodykere. And what would be the et.
feet elsewherel The imagination OF
man cannot conceive it. Ho7csco rsf-
creas. An earthquake shaking the con-
tinent from the Potomac to tho Lakes,
swallowing up the British Isles, and
overturnlng all that Revolutionhas left
standing in France and Germany,
would be hardly more destruclive.-I
Sir, the pillars off the world would be
shaken: and here stands the South
prasp;ng them in her strong arm. Here
She stands like blind old Sampson, 81
to make her sport for these Philistines
who mock hepdegradation. win she
not make her prayerto God and bow
herself III her might, not like him, toI
die with the Philis' iaes,, but. to over
whelm them and stand unburt amid the
ruinsl No, she will not. But this is
always in her power; and this she will
do, if ever her loathing detestation and
.scorn Of her oppressors equals in acri-
r,ony and mallgnity their fierce phil
anthropy and insidious friendship.
~,Something like this would be the
consequence to the North Of any war
with the South. Worse if possible than
this would be the consequence of a
war Of desolation and emancipation
In that case the mischief woald not be
confined to the North. II would over
spread the civilized world in aggravat-
ed horror. III New England we can
calculate it. The seven hundred mil
| lions of which the South has beenrobb-
ed. blythe unequal operation thesFed-
eral Government, has been realized,
as they call it. il has been built into
ships and factories; it has been paid
out for Barren lands at high prices only
justified by these establishments; it has
been built into palaces were merchant
princes and manufacturers dwell in
marble halls. There are no other OBJ
fleets Of investment, and the boast ed
heaped up wealth of New England is
Just that-nG more. Now take away
the cotton and commerce of the South,
and what do you see? The ships lay
rottirg at the wharves;tbe factories tun
bic intoruins; aud skulkmg i'll corners
Of their marble palaces, the merchant
/. princes like chose of Venicetlve mea
gerly on contributions, levied on the
curiosityAE travellers. As TO the labor
ing Glasses, the far west is open to then
! What violence and rapine tthey mas
practice for a while, ,aunder the teach
ings Of Communism, Fourietjsm, Ag
rarianism, and other isms of the famll.
/ Of abolitionism, it is not possibleto say
, But they wilL,soon see that Commun-
! ism is Of little worth where there i
} nothing to divide, aud that what the.
> call the rights of labor cannot be en-
. forced against those who have nothing
to. pay. They will be off to the West
h sir, there to found d new Ohio on th'
= banks of Wisconsin and Minnesota
j. And Boston-2 Look at Venice, sir
!. The history Of Boston is so far the his
h tory IF Venice enriched herself by th
8 oppression aud plunder of her subjec
# provinces. Boston has done the same
1t Venice concentrated her ill-gotle
i wealth on the marches Of the AdrallC
= Boston has heaped up hers upon bar
j. rem rock. The poisoned chalice ha
v been commended to the lips Of Venic
}. and she has in turn become the vlct1r
J. of mlsgovernment, while the trade q
D the world has found otherc channels; an
:, behold she IS a wilderness Of marblei
h a waste of waters Even such woul'
/, be the mischief which Boston woul
j. pull down upon herself, by the suic'
i dal step Of warning against,the South
it But look across the Atlantlc,, an
in and suppose the madness and muligni
r;1ty Of the North 10 hurry them into
is desolatlng war against the cotton grow
&1 ing States, Other countries have NOR
st various resorees than New England
Of and might have something to fall bac
IS on. England for, example insular 9
,p she is, has land. But England has
IT, superabundant population, and ther
Of are there not less than three million
if laborers whose very existence depenf
m on cotton. They have no wester
of country to fly to, and while the land ,
~ England is sufficient to feed them al
e, they will not starve, whether there
of work for them to do or no. There
Ib- something for communism to DIVIDE
cir something for fouFierism to exPerii,mIecl
ny on, Let Sut the loom stand stu !
in one month, and there will not De q
Of stone felt standing on another q y
ri. whole political and social fabric /
yas England s
,ut The Statesmen Of England kno
ng this, sir, and this tits that governs Y
The foreign policy Of England, and de'e e