The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-24

Mr. Fietct ers work. You only gave me day
TO read nd review it. ought to have had .
month. have taken tho liberty Of lacking on
some few notices to the paper as | went along
not to be used only revised by Mr. Fletcher
have not had time to copy and correct my
review Of his work, or rather my opinion of it.
IL - TOO long TO DC published, and is not pol
isned: You can . any part Of it, ii he thinks
IL VIII advance the interests Of the work. am
~ good earnest in my opinion. | have not gone
as lar as my feelings would lead me in its praise
Very respectfully, youI obedient servant,
SAML. A. CARTWRIGHT
DIR. cARTwRIGHT's OPINION OF "fLErcuER's
STUDIES ON SLAVERY"
New ORLEANS. A g. 20, 1851.
MIR. WARNER.--Dear Sir | have rea the
manuscript you sent me. containing Mr.. John
Fietcher's first thirteen I" Lessons on Slavery"
To say that it IL an able document, we'll written.
and in proper spirit, would DO poor praise. j
consider it immensely valuable, and it ought to
DO read by every intelligent person, North us
well as South The first two essons seemed
"A little dull, and thought you had conferred
upon me disagreeable task but, by persever-
ing in the reading, soon Begin to enter into
the spirit of the author, and became so deeply
interested that, although very busy with other
things, forgot them all, and could not throw
the manuscript down, until | had carefully read
it through.
have lung known Mr.. Fletcher by sight, have
attend, on him when SICK and have often had
casual conversations with him, and considered
him very learned man but | must confess
that had formed, from quarter of century's
acquaintance, no just conception Of the extent
of his eruditon, and the remarkable power Of
his mind, until ! read the manuscript you sent
me. have written good deal on the slavery
question myself, and have studied the subject
under great many aspects, and | took up Mr.
Fletcher's manuscript with prepossession that
would find very little new or useful matter in
it; and this prejudice was confirmed by the first
lesson or two, as did not see what connection
the canting hypocrisy and sophistry Of sue
writer's as Wayland had to do with the question
But | continued to read until began to discover
the true cause Of the minds of our Northern
brethren being poisoned against us--the poison
being this very csnting hypocrisy and s,phistry
that Mr.. Fletcher's lessons open with The ha.
tired against the Aboitionists 80 universal in the
South. and which has begotten spirit here hos
tile to having any political connection with such
ayowed enemies of our political institutions,
will relax into feeling of pity and commssera.
tiou lOT tile ueIuStOU, dS soon az We See the
causes that have deluded them. Mr.. Fletcher
has pointed out those causes, which the South
has never looked at, that have deluded the North
We have only to consider and weigh them well,
to enable US to look upon our Northern people
not as implacable enemies, hating us, but as de-
uded brethren loving us.
The sophistry and hypocricy of such writers
as Wayand have so entangled them in its
meshes, as to have made them believe that our
own good, as well as that of the interests Of
Christianity, would be promoted by the aboli.
ton of slavery, and hence they urge it upon u.s.
BY seeing clearly what has deluded them, we
can better understand them; 50 much for the
Southern side of the question.
The blossoms" will be douby useful to the
North, as they unite the knots and meshes of
that web of sophistry, which has entang ed the
intellectual and moral faculties of the Northern
people, and made them the 'slapes of false doe
trine and hypocritical teachers of morality and
religion. Even Maryland himself may not be
bad man, but slave of that sophistry which
was first invented by Smuel Johnson, and
other enemies of America and ever since so in.
dustriously propagated by those n the interes,
of the British East India Company, from self
interested motives. Mr.. Fletcher has traced that
false doctrine now deludng our Northern peo-
pile, up TO its fountain head, in Paley and Samuel
Johnson, bitter enemies to American liberty
and opposed it.
"How is it," (snys Sam Johnson In his "Tax-
alton not Tyranny i77V,) 1--WE hear the loud
est yelps for liberty among the drivers of me-
groes." Yet the very net he wove to strangle
liberty in the cradle, is the very net, with i'm
provements and additions, by those in the in.
terest of the aristocracy of Great Britain and
the East India company, that has been cas-,
around our Northern people, and has entangled
them in its meshes, so as to give them no will of
their own, but to make them SLAVES to the soph
isims of those writers whose pens are moved by
the vile of Great Britain, the East India com
pany, and other enemies of American power, lib
erty, and progress.
Fletcher ably untes every knot in that soph.
istica net work, and will, if read by our North
ern people, lbcrate their minds from the des
potism of that sephi-try and bypocricy, which
sshing them TO immolate American liberty.
and even Christianity ITSELF upon the altar of
that false god of British mammoD, with sweet
tooth for our sugar and other slave-lab pro-
ducts, that would make the domestic slavery of
the inferior negro race, to Christian and repub-5
lean masters of superior race, sin against
God
The great battle, between Washington and
Lord CORVALLIS, has yet to be fought Corn
wallis surrendered at Yorktown to our illus
trious Washington but CORVALLIS was no, de-
feated, as is generally supposed. He surrender
ed seven Thousand men, but the East India com.
pany gave him, soon afterwards, six thousand
soldiers and sent him to India. In less than ten
years from his surrender at Yorktown, he had
conquered fifty millions of people, and more ter
rtory than the British lost by the independence
Of the United States; territory producing
every thing that the United States produce
That territory Is not very profitable 10 its con
querors, owing to the fact that American slave
Dor products in the South and American man
ufacturng industry in the North, keep the ffy
millions (Which have become one hundred ar
fifty milllons) out Of the markets of the world
both in agricultural products and the fabrics OIL
manufacturing industry.
The British despotism, which Lord Corn
wallis established in Asia, and the reputdcanism
in America that Washington founded, stand in
the same hoa lie, incompatible relation to each
other now, that the two great chieftains did in
the war Of our revolution. The greater battle
between them has yet TO be fought Washington
will not have gain the victory, after all, over
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