The republic., 1851-08-13
win secession Strengthen Slavery .

at Wcstchester.
Will Secession Strengthen Slavery.
During the earlier history of the Confeder-
acy the political control Of the Government
was exercised by the Southern States, because
they held the representative and electoral su-
premacy. Within some years past the North
ern States have counteracted by enterprise the
natural disadvantages of their position. They
have acquired wealth and population by the
encouragement of manufactures and commerce.
their people by systems Of public instruction,
and provided in varied social employments ad-
equate rewards for intelligent industry
These facilities have attracted from the old
world an immense immigration, with large cap
ital. These accessions. to the resources of the
North have rapidly increased her population and
property, and these are the constitutional ex-
ponents of political power. We think this is
the philosophy of Northern aggression upon
Southern rights. The people of the Union
are of the same origin; their language is the
same, the title to their freedom is derived
from the same charter. 1t is so contrary to
the interest of the North to oppress the South,
that any deliberate or concerted design TO do so
is impossible. The union with the South gives
to the North an immense and extending mar
ket for its manufactures. 1t assures to the
North lucrative trade for its shipping. 1t af-
tords to the North an extensive field for honest
enterprise. There can be no purpose on the
toft tba to for of
ment SO replete with advantages.
We think the only aggression consists in the
superior progress Gand power of the North, and
that the proper remedy will be found in cult
waiting southern resources-in reservng for
the employment of southern population the pro-
ftable operations now bestowed upon the North,
and in inviting to the South numbers and capi-
tai from abroad to restore the equilibrium which
the unparalleled growth of the Northern States
has destroyed. Whilst the North is in principle
utterly incapable any deliberate invasion of the
rights of others, and has deliberately and repeat
edly declared its intention not to interfere with
the institution of slavery whereit exists, it may
not be amiss to consider what effect secession
would have upon the permanence or safety of
that institution in the seeding States.
The position of Great Britain with regard to
slavery is well known; it was declared by Lord
ABERDEEN in the Texan negotiations, and it
has never been changed There are too many
evidences that the employment of slave labor
operates to the prejudice of Great Britain to
render it probable that her position upon this
subject will ever undergo change. We pub
lished a few days since extracts from the West
minister Revie,c to show new method of ex
tnguishing slavery by pacific influences in
stead of by hostility and-reproach.
We find the same subject treated at length
in the last London Quarterly, with many spec
ulations as to the probability of the institution
of slavery being extinguished in the United
States by civil war, or by deportation. Yet we
see nowhere sympathy for the STAKEHOLDER. A
vile and absurd imputaton that slaves are
reared like cattle, for sale, is repeatedly referred
to, and the whole article is replete with that
mixture of malignity and awe with which the
progress Of the American Union seems to affect
every Englishman. The London Quarterly
however, describes new point of jealousy to-
wards the slaveholding States which we have
never before seen adverted TO- but which is
destined to have additional influence in stimu
lating the hostility Of the people of Great Brit
ain. 1t is affirmed by the Quarterly that in
consequence of the yearly exhaustion of the
tobacco grounds and for some other indistinct
reasons, slave labor IS extensively employed in
manufactures. The consequence anticipated is
thus stated:
at can scarcely fail" says Mr.. Johnston, "to
affect in a marked manner the future comfort and
condition of our home population. If the labor of
colored slaves, 80 employed, really prove cheaper
than that of free white men, then either
facttues must decline and decrease, or the condition
and e'noiunents Of our 'corkmsn must be gradually
reduced 10 The leue Of those Of The SLAVE OPERATIVES
of the american factories. The possibility of such
n result is melancholy and disheartening. at a
time ,ohsn so many anxious rather TO improve
snd elevate than further 10 depress iaboring peo.
pie"
We need add no evidences of the intense
rivalry with which England now regards the
United States. Her feelings towards the
"slave-d driving Yankees" and the "save- breed
ers of Virginia" are bitter and contemptuous,
but not more so than those with which she re-
CARDS the ship building and manufacturing
Yankees" Of the North. To Great Britain
every American is an enemy, because every
American is rival. Every evidence Of per
manence or of progress in republican institu-
lions is nail in the coffin of monarchy.