The southern press., 1851-05-14

the Islands OF Europe, anu III Tic lsiauus VI ASH
which were subject 10 European Kings IL pre-
, vailed over all North and South America, am
the islands of America Ii has since been abol
ished in all these countries, except in the four
teen slave States Of this Union, Cuba, Port
Rico and Brazil-but little remains to be don,
to complete the social revolution of christendoul
How Is this revolution to be arrested! Will i
90 back Of its own accord? On the contrary
are not the elements tending to the final over
throw Of slavery, gathering strength and be
$coming more arrogant, daring and presumptuou,
daily? What motive can enter into the heart o
Southern man, that can induce him to advis,
this country TO sub nit 10 the fatal action Of III,
federal government, unless he is re ldy for eman
cipalion, and to surrender The tairest portion o
the South and of the earth itself, to the African
race for the plain and unmistakable issue pre-
SENT ed to the South is resistance or abolition
and then, as a consequence OF abolition, the
Southern country bordering upon the sea,short
must be surrendered to the increasing millions
Of the African race, or they must be destroyed
by the sword.
The deadly coil of the boa constructor is thus
| around Us; the hold we have on life, on our ma.
tional existence, grows weaker and weaker with
every pulsaton OF the heart Let the border
States progress as they are now progressing
| for brief season, and their number Of slave.
! will continually become less, until abolition with
them will create no convulsion or alarm. As
the number of slaves decrease, the number o.
Abolitionists in the slave States increase. The
precedent he's already been made in the recent
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Texas, that the public trea.
sury may be subsidized to purchase slave ter.
ritory, to convert it into free-soi. II Is but one
step farther to offer federal gold to State
l... AZ Il n,u
her slaves Pearce's bill could not become q
law without the consent of Texas. The federal
government ioiH assume The po,oer 10 en,ancipaie
/ If Slate ,ciH consent 10 The articles Of agree.
ment England bought the slaves she emanci-
pated in her.West India colonies for an hundred
millions of dollars.
A Northern senator, during the last Congress,
offered an amendment to the bill abolishing the
slave-trade in the District of Columbia, which
proposed to appropriate out Of the public treas
ury two hundred thousand dollars, to pay for
| the slaves in the District of COLUMBIA, and then
20 emancipate them. This idea was neither
original or new. The British Parliament in the
case referred to. has recorded precedent; and
as every step of the Abotionists of England
has, from the beginning. been followed by cor
responding acts by the Abolitionists of America,
the amendment proposed was sanctioned by the
authoritative precedent The history of aboll-
ton from the beginning until now, shows the
fact that the negro il to be set free at the ex-
pense of the toll and the sweat of the white
man. and the time may not be remote when a
| Giddings or a Seward may tender through the
action IF an abolition Congress and an abolition
President. to Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri,
ten, twenty, fifty millions of dollars, mon con-
diton that such State or States shall enamel
pate the remnant of their slaves, after the great
number of them have been sold to the South
| Atlantic and gulf States. An event like this is
among the signs of the times. Cover ,ments
are constituted to protect property. To destroy
it by act of Parliament, would arouse the peo.
| pie to overt acts of revolution. To buy prop
erty of the States, il one way to avoid the di.
rect mode of destroying property BY legislation,
and in this way abolition trinmphed in England
! If we of the South are wise, the lesson will net
| be lost upon us. The government may lay and
collect taxes to any extent for that is constitu-
| tional.
Whilst this process of driving in the African
! from the interior to the sea-shore is going on
what is the state Of things which the future
presents 10 the South Atlantic and gulf States
The number Of Africans in the South row
amounts to more than three millions. With q
.boundless continent in sight they dare not pas
beyond the narrow limits assigned them. The
number of these people will soon increase to
! ten, fifteen. twenty millions. There is a greater
number e them now, than the whole people OF
the United States, at the close of the revolu-
| ton. II il needless TO dwell on the state Of
things which must prevail when this great devel.
opement is accomplished, and the final catas ro-
phe arrives The heart dickens, humanity shnd-
1 1aro at fha The fnr..h nd knif
ON the one hand, and tn rife and the musket
on TIE other, must be rpsorted to, to decide the
1 question of supremacy between the two races,
or our country must be given up to the negro
and become, with all its refinement, its opu-
lence, and its fair fields the home Of reptiles
dark chasm of barbarism, desolation and aban-
donment.
All nations pursue the policy of enlarging the
limits Of their soil, that population, as it in.
creases, may have room TO expand, that the
means Of subsistence may be secured for re.
dundant population, and that the misrries OF
famine NAV be hyerted. II this enlargement OF
the soil Of a State be accomplished by just
mears il is consistent not only with wise M
tiona policy. but also with the law Of nature
and Of nations. The United Sa es. at the con-
clus on of the late treaty with Mexico were in
/ possession Of the means OF national exptnsiOn,
II
| to an extent unknown to any other State or
people. With public domain Sufficient for the
national growth Of all tn. States of the Union
for period Of five centuries, the Northern abo
lition parliament has vltually set apart every
squire mile the public domain for the sole use
of the people Of the North for the purpose of
giving supremacy to the form Of civilization
which they prefer, and to increase their already
paramount political power, and have thereby ut
terly excluded the people &c the slayeholding
States and the form Of civilization which they
prefer, from all participation Ia its benefits, al.
though mainly purchased with Southern blood
and treasure. Over the line which the North
has thus drawn around the South, the white
may pass, but the negro slave cannot, and to the
white mans permission 10 pass over, the hard
condition is appended, that he must abandon
forever the form Of civilization under which he
was born, and adopt another 10 which he Is q
stranger in feeling and affection. But be the
condition ever so hard man must go where hiS
interests lead him, and il is fir inference from
the preceding propositions, that il we add TO the
number Of our white population who die within
our limits, the number Of those who will pass