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n. The relations we have formed with

faithful of all servants; and we would say every
thing for them that truth warrants, and nothing
against them, for we are their protectors and
friends but as these States are convulsed in re-
spect of their service, it becomes necessary to
know. most certainly, if they be our equals IN
tertors Now the black tribes, in their native
haunts for forty centuries, have been as at pres
ent, in the deepest barbarsm, slaves to petty mon
ster- -masters-selling their children for banbes--
killing them to avoid the labor of raising them -
But to close the account-in the West Indies,
where, under the dogma of the unity and equality
of the races they have been manumitted and fur
nished with all the appliances of Europe to vindi-
cate their claim to fraternity and equality-uhere
are they?
Which is the best, white or black sla0ery?-It
being certain that there is entity that there
are Two superior and Free and two more inferior
and nativey servile species, come to the real
ties of life and ask what dreamers can never an
swer. Every one knows that in every dense pop
ulation there are monopolies on the one hand, and
destituton IN the greater number on the other
and that, in consequence, there must be service,
call it servitude--in various degrees These facts
will not, because they cannot be controverted.-
Well then, may we not triumphantly submit to a
candid world if it be not unspeakably preferable
to find predal and menial servants among the infe-
rior and seryile Species and not bend the heads OF
the superior and free into servitude for subss-
tence?
VI. The obligation of humanity-Although it
be utterly false that all men equal in any sense,
it does not follow that there is no connection or
affinity between the species, or any moral obliga-
ton arising out of their relations. Speech, Rea-
son, ortality-these do encompass all, in a
sublime generic unity, that binds us and just in
the ratio of the dependence of inferior on su-
perior species is the obligation of protection and
humanity. And on this item we may challenge
history to produce any instance in which predias
and dependents were ever half SO well supported
and carefully and kindly protected as the Africans
in the Southern service. Yet could the carrica-
lures and libes against us be got into pile, its
weight might jostle the globe.
VII. The morality Of this 1Service.--After what
has been said | will not pause on this point. 1t
was cogently asserted in the very lucid and able
address OF the joint centre meeting OF May, 1849,
that the Africans, in our service, were in their
highest, safest, happiest condition that the ser
vice, to them, is Blessing; and that on being
released from it they speedily revert to their native
barbarism. No one will have the audacity to deny
either of these assertions. The conscience there
fore, that palers on this point is maudlin, NOR
bid conscience-the greatest curse to its possessor
VIII Southern 8yracuiture-Ne Labor.-No-
tice what l say. l am not and never have been a
nuIlifer; but | must cite Calhoun again. As sec
rctary of State, August 12th., 1914, he wrote to
King, minister to Paris, letter, which was circu-
lated through Europe, which did for what a
of twenty years mig ght not have achieved. 1t
drew Europe and even Britain from the crusade
against US 1t is astonishing that this signal fact
is not universally known and received ! What of
the maedictions of the London Times, or even OF
the whole Troy Press of Britain England and
Europe are with us, and are constrained TO be so
That they constrained, Fishers Lecture and
Gamett's Essay are replete with the data, and
ought to be on every family table.
TX. ButMc CruSadc.-We are stating facts, and
those now to be mentioned we would gladly pass,
but they rise like mountains before us. The con-
fiicts between capital and labor among the white
races of Europe have been shipped over to our
Northern section. The assertion has been that
there arc only few fanatics that clamor. 1t is
not so. The whole of the Northern masses have
been educated against us; and the brutalizng in
huences of the servitude among many of them,
arising out of those conflicts, are sought to be
counteracted, and their outbreaks prevented. by
dIvertng their attention from their own burdens to
the preached crusade against negro slavery
They have been taught they cannot come South to
labor without being sunk down to the negro caste.
Hence, whatever the profession, their real object
is not to hberate our four millions of laborers but
it is by compression and construction to compel us
to eXtermlnate them, SO that they, the Northern
hordes, may come and take possession of our aban-
doned plantations and dwellings! Politicians and
priests would fain bring on the catastrophe but
the masses are no longes to be controlled and
the crusade is the march. Such is the execra-
bic purpose ; and who could believe it if it were
not avowed, in every possible form, in and out Of
Congress, and amply proved by the seizure of the
whole Mexican cession, the partition of Texas and
the virtual abolition of African service IN the fed
eral district. Such is freesoilism what covers il
with peculiar brutality is that every one, not be-
reft of reason, must see and know, that, if even
humanity requires it, it is utterly impossible tc
manumit those four millions, without extripation
to them and desolation to us What is still more
amazng-Southern men are to be found who cling
to the glorious Union that is used to hasten and
ensure the catastrophe All these constitute a.
postacy and treason
X. THE best influence Of african SerUice.-lr
contrast l would present you picture less humil
atng The subject deepens in interest as we pro
ceed There is an influence of our assailed inst
tuition, but little understood, seldom mentioned
but which is of the most transcendent Importance
it is its direct certain and uniform result, in every
the superior and free species actual freedom ana
eQuottty and to exclude white slavery!
If this were generally understood it would be o
more value to than all the treasures of Califor
MIA multiplied thousand fold and at the same
| time open to us ten thousand motives to impel III
to have, at all extremlties as an essential Quite
for the increase of predial population, oUI
share of California and of the that is to