The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19

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tg- JUDGE WooDBuRr's charge to the grand
jury at Newport, Rhode Island, appears like dis
position to conciliate the South, whatever ute-
rior designs Northern Abolitionists may enter
tain. He points out TO the jury that they have
only to look to the law, such as it stands, ire
spectiye Of opinion, on the subject OF slavery;
and that so long as slavery exists, as part and
parcel of the constitution Of any State, the law,
in SO far as il affects that institution, ought to
be respected He reminds them that slavery
extended over the thirteen States at the period
of the revolution, and that, while advocating a
right to freedom Of opinion and discussion on
oil matters interesting the country, attempts to
maintain those opinions by force or violence,
change the whole aspect Of the ease, and spun
ishment must be inflicted" &c.
JupeE WOODBURY. should tell the North to
mind its own affairs, and not intermeddle IN
that of its neighbors, Of whose condition It
knows, practically, little or nothing. The South
demands to be let alone. II is contented, Pros
porous and peaceful-what more is wanting!
Can the North. say as much with its riots, row.
dyism, and pauperism To talk of more per-
feet state of society, with such elements OF
trouble in its own bosom, is absurd. When, as
one Of the results of this @happier" state, it
can show us no want, no misery, no beggary,
no swindling, robbery, violence and house break
ing; when it can bring proof that the honest
are protected, the widow and the orphan cared
for. and the industrious classes, in general, placed
beyond the horrors Of starvation, which menace
the millions on the slightest cessation of work,
or on the occurrence of the most trivial acct
dents, We may, perhaps, give them hearing.
Would the working man Of the South change
his comfortable position for the worse than
slavery, to which the white laborer Of England
is exposed? Slavery here is blessing in COM
parison.--What are the prospects OF the white
workman anywhere! Tens Of thousands in
England turn beggars, impudent artful and I'M
principled; hundreds of thousands 60 on the
parish; hundreds of thousands live by every sort
of meanness and fraud and many thousands
sustain themselves by pampering to the vices of
the richer classes. Is this state of society
tending to morality!
In France, in spite of division of property,
and republican Institutions, the workman lie still
exposed to misery and starvation. The honest
and Industrious, the generous hearted and gall
liant Frenchnian, who has bled hundred times
for liberty, is forced to raise the cry of "work
or death - What beautiful result Of modern
Christian society!
Are there any starving blacks in the South,
that the one-sided philanthropy OF the North
should tewa their condition! If left to their
own resources, to struggle and scramble with
each other for existence, like the laborers else
where, and against the more active, more know
ing, and less scrupulous white man, what must
be the inevitable result? IT, among the whites
themselves, the @battle of life" produces such
fearful results, what would it be between races
of different caste and animusl
The Northern philauthropists always remind
us of the pious zeal Of many of the English,
who raise immense sums of money to convert
the heathen-who scarcely ever, If ever.compre-
bend their missionaries at their very doors
live tens of thousands of their white brethren far
more heather than any red or black men, and
infinitely more miserable and unfortunate. Yet
to these, their fellow-creatures and fellow-citi-
zens, they give not a tear, much less cent. II
they give them anything, it is abuse, because
they have no work. If you would convert men,
if you would really do good, look to those i'm
znediately around you, seek out the sick, the
weak, the honest, the unfortunate-eeek out
those, whom want Of moral education, bad ex.
ample, despair of getting work, has rendered
idle, unprincipled and roguish. Distribute your
money among them; it would not tail to produce
good fruit-for il is the want Of money, the
want Of work. the anxiety for the future, that
demoralzes and destroys more millions in one
year. than all the wars Of BosArARTE.
When these philanthropists shall have taken
care of their own brethren and people, and
placed them in position as comfortable and as
sure as that Of Southern slave, then let them
20 with proof in hand, and with clean con.
sciences, among the heathens--if any such there
be in comparison with themselves-(failing as
they do in the vulgerest precept Of Christian
morality, their duty 20 their neighbor,) then lei
them preach, If need there be, their doctrines
They would, atleast, stand on fairer ground.
ry-T Trouble seems TO be expected with
Mexico, owing to the Americans employed or
the road o, Tehuantepec, having been driven of
by the authorities Of that republic. The con-
pauy, which had obtained contract, and pos
sesses formal right, as 1t believes, TO carry OF
operations there, is not disposed 10 submit
quietly 10 this embarrassment il adyertises fol
five hundred laborers and two steam.b boats, Il
no on with the work and will, no doubt, use al
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