The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-22
LETTER OF
DANIEL WALLACE, of South Carolina.
TO MS cossTITUEHrs
To the People Of the Frsi Congressional
nssy.-,.f ~ Go,,fh Cora


the present important session, to give you all the
information In my power, in reference TO the great
questions now at issue before Congress. And as
/ cannot consistently with my duty, leave my seat
to do this IN person, am constrained To address
you through the press, as the only mode open
TO me.
The abolition of slavery is not an idea of Anne
rcan origin. 1t had its origin in the European
mind, and It's first inception was long before the
end OF the eighteenth century. Mr.. Wilbenorce,
an enthusiast and fanatic of England, was the
founder of sect of fanatics whose utopan creed
is predicated upon the idea of the periectability
and equality of the human races. The fimda-
mental article Of the creed taught by Wilberforce,
is universal emancipation. His followers, ac-
cording to an invariable principle of the human
mind, have extended their creed so to include
in IL wide range of subjects, of which the
founder of the sect perhaps never dreamed In the
widest vagary Of his fancy. This sect have
constituted new school of political and social
They claim to be guided by the
pure religion of the Bible. They have inscribed
upon their banner the motto of Voltaire, the great
est nfdel and blasphemer of the world, who, after
he had by his writings, precpated the French
revolution, in which six millions of men were
massacred or slaughtered upon the battle fields of
Europe, and which ended where 1t began, in des-
potism, built temple and dedicated il to g Dec
opiimo .uarimo." The sect founded by Wilber-
force, have adopted this MOTTO and proclaimed
that their mission is sanctioned and commanded
by the divine law. Mahomet did the same thing
while he depopuating Asia with fire and
sword They seek to gather together the human
races, the Ethiopian, Caucasian, Monaghan, Ma
lay, and Indian, into one universal political and
social brotherhood, and to place them all OH per-
feet equality, without regard to color, language,
social and mental condition, or primeval distribu-
ton over the face Of the globe. Their creed in
cudes socialism,; that is, that property shall be
held N and that all the members of a
community shall have equal right to all the pro-
perty owned by the individuals of the commu-
nifty, which includes agrarianism. That there
should be community of wives, and that the mar
riage rite ought to be abolished. 1t includes the
Fright Of labor which constitutes fundamen-
tai article in the constitution of the so-called
French Republic, which means that the supreme
government of State must find labor and en-
ployment for every inhabtant, and pay a fair
compensation for the same out of the public
treasury; and if the government fails to find en-
ployment, the applicant for labor must be paid
the price of labor, rhether he tabOrs on not.
Their creed includes the idea of universal equal
ity according to the French notion expressed in
the motto, "Hberty, fraternity, equality" The
proposition is to establish this equality by level
ing system, which pulls down every member of
society to the condition of the lowest, no matter
how degraded the lowest may be, or what the
color of his skin, the condition of his morals,
religion, or intellectual development. The Pro-
testant Churches are included in this leveng sys-
tem-they too must epulled down and reorganized
to suit the new order of things. Hence the creed
of these fanatics involves the distinct proposition,
that inasmuch as the black race at the South cam
not be raised up to the level of the white race the
white race must be pulled down to the level of the
negro, and that all must stand together in the
same political and social rank And instead of
the negro being subject to the white man, the ne
gro, by his right Of suffrage at the ballot box,
must make laws for the white man. The pro-
grcss then which is demanded, is not upwards,
but downwards. At the North, this downward
tendency cannot go lower than the lowest rhite
man; at the South, it must go to the level of the
lomeSt negro. 1t is upon this idea that modern
demagogueism at the North, rests its hopes of
prelermen II isa great mistake to suppose that
.3boihon is The only eril ichch is inrolrcd in the
| controversy nor going on.
The disciples of Wherefore spread all over
Europe, adding new articles to their creed time
rolled on. Thomas Carkson was sent by Will
berforce from London to France, as a missionary
to propagate the new faith there. He arrived in
Paris in the midst of the storm and the blood of
the French Revolution. fitting time, and APP
proprate scene for such mission. Robespiere,
Danon, Nlarat, and all the early chiefs of the
voution, and the Iacobn clubs, were aboilionists.
The disciples of this school made their way into
the British Parliament and French Chamber of
Deputies-into the Diets of Denmark, Sweden,
Holland, Portugal, and the Spanish Cortes, and,
after the Spanish revolution, into the legislative
councils of the South American republics and into
Mexico, and simultaneously into the United States;
and it is worthy Of remark, that Wherefore was
the propogandist of the idea which resulted in the
ordinance of 1887, and the article in our Consu-
tition for the abolition of the slave trade in 1908.
The abolition idea, with all it's attendant train OF
heresies, was thus transplantcd into the American
mind The abolition policy became active in
England and America the same year, that is in the
year 1887. England, unable to subdue America
by.her arms, resortedto far deeper and more dan
geroS policy. The standard Of abolition was
raised, and the human mind excited by gloomy
superstition. When Rome fell, crushed under the
feet OF the war steeds of Attila and Aaric she
raised the standard Of this same gloomy superst-
ton, and Europe was again made sub ject to the
darkest despotism the world ever saw, for the
Popes held the mind ce the body, i'll the chains
of servic bondage.
The Southern States of this Union, by means Of
their great agricultural staples, now control the
commerce of the world. England, on seeing that
this must be so, resolved, if possible, to maintain
her commercial supremacy, by the abolition Of
slavery in her own colonies, as an act which, in
the judgment of her statesmen, would be inevitably
followed by the abolition of slavery i'll the United
States. The experiment thus made by England
is thus far an acknowledged failure. Her West
India Colonies, i'll which slavery was abolished,
are covered with acknowledgement, disastrous,
and complete. The negroes there, instead of being
improved in their condition, are brutalized, and
are rapidly going back to the unmitigated barbar-
ism of their native land. England now sees that the
terrible experiment she made is a failure. Com
mercal bankruptcy overspread her dominions as
the result of her West India policy, and slavery
still exists in the Southern States of the Union, the
United States still control the commerce of the
world. The error into which England has fallen,
was shown to her and to Europe by the letter
which Mr.. Calhoun addressed to Mr., King, our
Minister to France, during the administration Of
Mr.. Tyler. Soon after that despatch was pub
lished in London and Paris, Sir Robert Peel, then
Prime Minister, announced to the British Parlia-
ment his intention of moving for free trade. This
too, was effort to from the effects of the
abolition policy. The commercial policy of Eng
land was Immediately changed from the restrictive
system which had prevailed for centuries, to that
of free trade, and the British Empire thus took the
lead out of the hands Of the United States in this en-
lightened policy.
England would now gladly retrace her steps in
reference abolition. tits clear to the minds other
statesmen now, that they have transgressed natures
l.. tho Of th,