The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-15
am, very respectfully,
SOLON BORLAND.
To The Editors of the Southern Press.

! To the Editors of the Southern Press.
GENTLEMEN Though native and resident
! of the North, and brought up sat the feet o
Gamacl," am, to the horror of my country
neighbors, subscriber to your paper, and proba-
bly, the only person living within five hundred
miles, that reads it, or that consequently knows
what is actually going on in the South. Oui
parson, who is really n worthy well-meanne
man, but who regularly breaches sedition ane
bloodshed every Sunday, has lately managed t.
leave me out of the vestry, where had nestled
quietly for almost half a century, because have
lately sometimes ventured TO insinuate an apol
ogy for Southern resistance; and | have de
teoted my excellent wife, who believes hin
ntalIible, in the very act of committing you
paper to the flames. In short, expect to be
read out of meeting soon, merely because wish
to hear both sides of the question, before con
denim either party.
| For this reason, among Others | take your
paper which, in my poor opinion, is conducted
with equal moderation, ability, and courtesy
which last is not a very common characteristic
of the public press Of the present day. find
in it much food for reflection, and not Il little fol
surprise, accompanied by ridcue, in many Of
the extracts from Northern papers. Among
these not the least absurd and cxtravagaDt are
the remarks of " Professor Wheedon, of the
University of Michigan" given in your paper OF
the 4th instant. Out of his full-mouthed dec
anlation shall merely select one passage, as
furnishing complete exempliication of modern
philanthropy.
! "Asatic Georgia" says the Professor, has
long been celebrated on the page of inf,my f..
selling her fair offspring to the harem American
Georgia is eager to outrval that shame by sell
ling her tawney daughters to the sugar field and
the gold mine" The entire article is peppcred
with fanaticisp, and indicates feeling of deadly
antpathy Of ferocous blood-thirsty, unchris
tian adherence of the people of the South
which would scarcely be justfube in nation
subjugated and ground 70 the dust by a cruel and
despotic enemy, towards its oppressors. But to
return 10 the extract
In the city of Grand Cairo, in Egypt, for ex-
ample, is regular market for the sons and
daughters of Asiatic Georgia--not tawncy, but
pure white, and of the race from which we are
Observation-Disclosures they are exposed for sale to
the highest bidder, ard prostituted to the pleas.
ures of the purchaser. 1t is well known that
British influence is, and has been for some years
past, paramount in that country, and yet we do
not hear that the British government has made
the slightest efforts to discourage or arrest this
traffic. Its sympathies are probably so COM
pletely absorbed by the tawney daughters of
American Georgia, that not mite could be af-
forded to the pure white daughters of Asiatic
Georgia. Why did not Professor Wheedon
touch up Squire Bull little on this head, while
he was about it, Had he expended all his froth
and gall on American Georgia!
Again; This system Of white slavery origi-
mates in, and is fed by Asiatic Georgia, con-
siderable portion Of which is now subjugatcd by
Russia. Has that government abolished that
practice No. II has attempted some amelio-
ration in the system Of AFFECT vassalage to which
the peasantry was subjected, but the white slave
trade remains untouched Why did not the
Professor, while belching forth fire, birthstone,
and red.hot shot against American Georgia, give
few discharges at the puissant Car Of all the
Russians. But. forgot--be is great Adolf
ZIONIST as well as Professor Wbecdon
Again; A few years ago, Lord Brougham,
asserted in his place in the British House Of
Lords, and produced documents to prove it, that
in a considerable portion of the maritime coast
of India, under British rule, a most extensive
system of slave dealing was carried on under
circumstances far more revolving than in the
West Indies, or America Has tho British gov
erpment taken my measures to abolish this
traffic, or to ameliorate the condition Of the
Parias, the most abject slaves on earth No
at least we hear of nothing of this kind, and
John Ball does not hide his candle under a
bushel in these matters. Why did not Professor
Wheedon reserve n modcum Of his wrath for the
greatest Of all the royal philanthropsts, Nicholas
of Russia and Victoria Of England lie had
just as much right 10 Interfere with them as
with American Georgia, And his moral respon-
sibiIity extends to their douiinons, as clearly as
to the Southern States.
While reading this enormous rhetorical flourish
of the Professor, which reminded me Of a
composition of floating island, and whip sylln-
bnb sprokled with red pepper il struck me that
il would be an excellent plan for the gentlemen
Of The South to select the University of Michi-
gan as the alma mater of their so,s, and place
them under the special tuition of Professo
Wbeedon Independently oftenching them rheto
ric, for which he seems eminently qualified, he
might convert them all to sbolitionism, and send
them home TO do the work Of William LLOYD
Garrison, Orator Douglas, Gerrt Smith, General