The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-05


The following article from the New York Journal Of
Commerce has already appeared in the National htsi-
gsnssr, under the head Of "Sober Sense II is sent 10
Us by citizen Of Washington with request for its re-
publication in the Union We can scarcely refuse
request reasonable in itself and so coureousy made
But viii the courteous reader excuse us Tor adding
remark or two Of our on the Subject OF this add
dress.
II is clear that the domestic institution OF the South
cannot admit Of material change without taking some
time to effect H. preciptate policy would infct the
deepest injury upon the South lttook eight centuries 70
drive the Moors from Spain ST. Domingo ruined by
the inconsderate precipitation OF revolutionary France
Jamaica has been seriously injured by the hasty egsa
ton of Parliament, though they paid twenty millions
sterling for the emancpated slaves Mr.. Jefferson once
said that we have our hand in the lions mouth The
white and the slaves could not live happily together
they all liberated But who isto raise the two thou
sand millions Of dollars this writer estimates them
amount to And il they all emancpated, what is
then to become Of them Where are they all to goi
Liberia il pointed out their proper destination. Admit
fact (and wisely organized system OF colonization the
finds opposition in us yet how they to be trans
ported all at to that distant region As steam navi
CATION improves. and makes the voyages shorter, and
brings the two distant points nearer, i werc to each
.o,her, the means Of transportation will improve more
may be sent in year at much less expense, and the
work Of colonization may relieve the South from more
and more of her freedmen The legislature of Virginia
hast Just appropriated $50 900 annually 10 assist in effect
ing this purpose. But il takes time, PATIENCE and wis
dom to advance the object whilst the multiplication Of
the whites may lessen the comparative value Of slave
labor
Meantime the fanatic aboitionsts OF the North are
doing great mischief to the very slaves whom they pro-
fess to serve Their impernen and mschievous inter-
position compels the white enforce strcter po-
ceto deny the aborers OF the facilities OF edu.
cation, Of their own ministers Of religion, and Of
unrestricted visitation to each others domciles Such
has been The effect Of aboonism, and such it will be,
until these madcap fanatics abandon their ncendary
movements. and leave the system to those who
deeply interested in its results and who more familiar
with its character, and who best understand how to
treat it, We say to these meddlesome abotonists at
once, Laises nous fare Let the South alone She is
the best Judge Of her own interests on this most delicate
subject.
[For the NJ Y. Journal Of Commercel
"Juge that be not judged for with what judgment
This sage counsel Of Divine revelation is generally
held % be Of universal application BY any Of rs On the
often without testimony without inquiry, and without
charity marty .,.,. =. .,. u. 81 e,,.,
southern so constantly, and unjusty, and
sparngly abused?
Did The South send their ships to Africa to rob and plum
der its make merchandise of human souls
steal their ielowmenf Did they make their gains by
human traffic They have often been charged with it
but all charges not true Who charges III Northern
Gas,a sS IN ws free s ~ w % w
prophet the guilty King Of Israel be retorted upon them,
ba he ave f ey w5s y
all the excuses of cruelty the very reference which pro-
dacss a., an iayo a shns o. humanity They og
ed and enlarged it by myads, under the excessive
cruelty and they would now east he odium as they have
southern people.
They would cut them of from law and gospel and refuse
them the civil rights and privileges for which southern
men, shareholders, have always largely contributed,
whether WIN treasure a. WIN po9d, and which they
compactan instrument they all profess but
from the obligations Of which they begin to desire absou
If northern originated and enlarged the evil what
Thew r.. Of
babarans full Of Ignorance and obsinancy, untitled for
n.ramen. Of ndassry unable to or to speak
any language common 70 both psrties they clothed and
food to eat and clothing wear and they Taught hem
labor they gave them religious Instruction, and the bles
Ilbery, (l the number freed became nuisance, and
necessarily restrained by law y their physical and
condition
from the they under southern influence IL
has been always onward and moves, impeded but by the
wanton, reckless and upusabc interference from north
and their present condition. though not what IL
would have been had they been OF different what
the South could wish IL TO be, yet infinitely superior
that OF their fellows Left in Africa the free coored peo
pie in the free Siates and much above the laborng
prasanuy OF civilized Europe generally, OF the working
classes Ia Great Batain. Aco6parson challenged and
northern and Europeans, who have visited them and
inspected the condition, shall be the judges But every
instance ferred 10 In all the abolition for the
thirty years combined, and all true, and multiplied
ings endured single slave ship single passage
the Atlantic, under northern men, and OF which northern
authors. Who, then, has done them the
evil Who has done them the most good 1.-THE North
the South
Africans moreover are like other men, and have faults
These necessarily provoke punshmcni and that has often
been doubt But what provoked the Norrto
ht ships TO 10 Africa and make merchandise of
human flesh Did Africans owe Them anything DID
Africans provoke them by crimes and disobediencs, or
ideness and injuries
The North first made propeyfv ~ them, and much OF
thsr gains them. How many hundred did they lib
sate On the contrary, when single individual at the
South recently liberated sixty, worth properly then at
least S300O0, found difficult i'm possible 10
5000 in all the North send them Africa and large
proportion OF that Insignificant contributed from
the South
Where Is the northern man, old young living dying
that any beques Of any kind berae
these people, whom their fathers themselves have plum
dered and robbed from Africa, to their honest
mach evil and little good the African race require
OF the South In regard TO ihcm1 To omIneipate then
mtdaidy or sooner
Have they calculated the cost OF such act Do they
equal 10 tpo Thousand MI Of dollars and that add
onal loss by depreciation, equal 70 "a much more would
be the Necessary consequence OF their liberation More
over who poHtd or who could 1--we In the midst q them
ha.. LI-.A .fl.fz s..Is In Aax.