Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-14

Cotton Politics.

The New York Express of Wednesday contains
long Prosy article, deprecang the anti-savery agi
tatlon because OF the injurious effects that such agi
taton may produce upon northern trade and northern
manufactures. The editors Of the Express are I'M
able to look at any political question except in the
light OF dollars and cents, and believing that the peo
pie OF New England are governed by the same sordid
motives as themselves, they only appeal to the base
ana groVeng passions of avarce and cupdity, as an
lnducement for them to submit to the encroachments
oil the slave power, and to treat with lenity the men
who IN the councils of the nation have BETRAYED the
cause OF humanity und freedom. 1t says.
he negro brogan is manufactured in New Eng
land, where the abolition feeling is often most yio
lent. The North, too, has the monopoly of hats
rev or no hats are now imported Southern mas
Ter as well as southern slave, wears the northern
nat The hat makers of the North must reflect that
II there were no Union, no Federal Constitution ar
1t Is TO be violated In parts, as In the stimulation
Jof me surrender Of fugitive Slaues the day must
return when the French made or Brithish made hat
VIII be on the head eff the Southern man. as it was
untll Tariff, made for the protection of the North
ern mechanic drove off the foreign article.
Everything In the way of iron that the South uses
Is made at the North The hoe the slave dis with
Is . Nas'hefn hoe J he bucket he drinks out of is
Northern bucket. The broom he sweeps with is
Northern broom. The slave is dressed in Northern
hablllments, works with Northern tools and tbop-
sands upon thousands of Northern white hands arc
engaged IN laborng 10 cothe this Southern slave. or
70 una MN these tools to wolk with The slave
tnen works tor US. The profits are ours. Wereap
Inc fruits This industry. The master Is or foctor
or oOerSeer; and yet we are daily invoked to de-
nounce slavery, we who eat drink, and sleep upon
us prohts y shame shame where is the blush
Tor such inconsistency
We do not think we have ever seen n moro villain
GUS piece of political proAgacy than the above ex-
tracts from the press The whole argument, if there
Is any argument about it, is based upon the most all
surd and ridiculous promises that could be conceived
OF. child Of ten years old, could see through the
nlrnslness OF such sophstry, as well as the heart
lessness and cringing servity which dictates it
suppose brogans for Southern slaves are maniac
tured In New England, what brogan manufactures
does not know that the moment the shackles are
stricken from his limbs, the negro will require more
than iouriod the quantity Of goods of his manufao
tufe than he now consumes? Where, among civil
lied beings could the shoemaker go, in search of
such miserable customers the barefooted half
shod slaves OF the South, who are allowed buta sim
gle pair Of haytanned cowhide shoes in a near the
cost OF which rarely exceeds sixty or seventy cents
And so In the matter of hats, also A coarse palm
leaf hat, such as the slave wears, if he wears any
VIII suffice him often for a couple of years and man
uiacturers OF Worcester county can make profit in
getlng them made for quarter of a dollar niece
WAT tempting bride is this which the Exnress
holds out to the hatters of New England, The obi.
tor would only have to promugate his views in every
town. and such an anti-slavery reaction would com
mence among the hatefs that there is no kooy;nn
mat TENN, of Jenny Lind celebrity would not he
willing to pay more to hear a very common vocalis,
sing
"Carry me back to old Virginia.
than he did to hear the echo song of the NohtnooIo
III the manufacturers and mechanics of New Foo.
land were fools, and had no knowledge Of their o,
OF the laws Of trade, Of supply and demand they
might expect 10 deceive them by their sophisms and
flare they wholly corrupt, they might hope to seduce
them from their attachment to Freedoms but as il is
the editors of the Express have undertaken hone
less task.
IB DR. Lawrence and Thomas Lawrence. broth. |
ers, exchanged shots on the public square in Nash