The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-28
PROM the Mississippi Free Trade
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Letter Dr. 5. A. Car tsvrigns-
New ORLEANS. Aug. 20, 1851.
DEAR sls Enclosed i ny s sp"'Son very hastily n
only gave me day 10 read ard review IL 1 ought te
have had month. have taken the liberty OF lacking
on few notices to The paper as went along not &c
be used, only as revised by MIR Fletcher.
have not had lime 10 copy and correct my review OF
his work. rather my opinion OF n II is too long TO be
published. and is not polished You any part o.
il if he thinks il will advance the interests Of the work
am in good earnest IN my opinion have not gone as
far my feelings would lead me in its praise
very respectfully yoSs s9sd1n' elgssanRrWRIGHT
Dr. CatWrighrs Opinion Of .'ffstahsr's STUDIES Q"
New ORLEANS, Aug. 20, 1851.
DEAR SIR; have read the manuscript you sent me-
containing Mr. John Fletchers hrsl thirteen lessons on
Slavery" To say that II is an aDle documeh, wei Writ
fen ard in proper spirit, would be poor praise con-
slider il immensely valuable and u ought TO be read by
every intelligent person North well as South. The
first Two lessons seemed TO be little dull and thought
you had conferred upon me disageeable task but BY
perseveng the reading, soon began to enter into the
spirit OF the author, and became SO deeply Interested that
although very busy with other things, forgot them al
and could not throw the manuscript down until had
carefully read If through.
have long known MIR. Fletcher by sight, have attend
ed him when SICK, and have often had casual
salions with him, and considered him very learned man
but must confess that had formed, from quarter OF
centnrys acquaintance no Just conception OF the extent
OF his erudnon 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.. Flecher's manuscript with prepossession mat
would ind very little useful matter IN II; ana inns
prejudice confirmed by the first lesson two, did
not sss VIVA. me hSpoey ana hs
ton But continued to read until began to discover
the true OF the minds Of northern brethren be-
ing poisoned against ushe poison being ms very cant
ing hypocrisy and sophisry that Mr. Flechers Lessons
open with The hatred against the abolitoniss so UNI
versa in the South, and which has begotten sPr here
iiIa IN havi NIL ftPal
avowed enemies of our political institutions, VIII relax
into feeling OF pity and comDseIaon Tor the deluslon
Mr. Fletcher has pointed out those causes, which the
South has looked at, that have deuded the North
We have only consider and weigh them well 10 enable
US 10 look upon our northern people, not as lmpacabe
enemies hating u.s. but as deluded brethren loving u.s.:
The sophislry and hypocrisy OF such writers as Way
land have entanged them in its meshes as to have
made them believe that own good, as well as that OF
the interests OF Christianity would be promoted by The
abolition OF slavery, and hence they urge II upon us.
By seeing clearly what has deluded them, we can better
understand them So much for the southern side OF the
question.
The blossoms" will be doubly useful TO the North,
they unite the knots and meshes OF that web OF sophis,
try which has entanged the Intellectual and moral
faculties Of the northern people, and made them the
SLAVES of false doctrines and bypocrtcal teachers OF
morality and religion Even Wayland himself may moi
be bad man, but adue Of that sophistry which was
first invented by Samuel Johnson and other enemies OF
America, and since ndnsrously propagated by
those in the interest Of the British East India Com
pany, from self.inerested motives. Mr.. Fletcher has
traced that false doctrine, delndng our northern peo-
ple up TO its fountain head, in Paley and Samuel John
son. bitter enemies 10 American liberty, and opposed IT,
" How is il" (says Sam Johnson in his Taxation no,
Tyranny, IT'D we hear the ioudes yelps Tor liberty
among the drivers OF negroes" Yet the very net he
TO strangle liberty the cradle is the very net,
with improvements and additions by those IN the interest
OF the astocracy OF Great Britain and the East India
Company, that has been around northern people,
and has entanged them in It's meshes to give them
will OF their own but to make them sares TO the So
ph,sms OF those writers whose pens are moved by the
vile OF Great Britain the East India Company and other
enemies Of American power liberty, and progress.
Fletcher ably untes every knot in that sophisucal net
work, and will, if read by northern people lberae
their minds from the despotsm OF that sophs,ry and n.y.
pocrsy which are lashing them TO immediate American
liberty and Christianity ITSELF upon the altar OF that
false god OF British Manmon, with sweet tooth for our
sugar and other slave labor products that would make
the domestic slavery OF the inferior negro race to CHRIS
tian and republican masters OF a superior race, sin
against God.
The great battle between Washington and Lord Corn
wallis has yet be fought CORVALLIS surrendered al
Yorktown 10 ustrous Washington; but CORVALLIS
not defeated, is generally supposed. He surren-
dered seven thousand men but the East India Company
gave him afterwards SIX thousand soldiers and
sent him TO India In less than ten years from his
render at Yorktown, he had conquered fifty millions OF
people and territory than the British lost by the in
dependence OF The United Sates-a territory producing
everything that the United States produces That terri
tory not very profitable TO It's conquerofs, owing to the
fact that American slave labor products in the South and
American manufacturing industry in the North keep the
MY millions (Which have become one hundred and My
cultural products and the fabrics of manufacturing IN.
dusiry.
The British despolsm which Lord CORVALLIS es,ab.
lshed in ASIA and The republicanism in America that
Washington founded, stand in the hostile lncom
patibe relation TO each other that the two great
chieains did in the OF revolution. The greater
battle between them has yet 10 be fought Washington
will not have gained The victory, alter all, over Lord
Corvallis If the British East India Company succeed in
it's designs OF putting one-haf OF the county, by
Washington from British tyranny, against the other half
through the fundamentally OF the sopbsry Of such old
enemies OF American liberty Samuel Johnson, trans
planted to America, sowed in the churches and made
operative in being brought TO bear in dssolvng the
brotherhood OF republican States in this hemisphere,
quarter.
To prevent northern people from being misled by
such artful sopbsiry and hypocrisy inculcated by
Johnson 10 desert the standard OF Washington and join
the enemy consider the writings OF Mr. Fletcher,
posing such nsdious and fallacious maxlms and argu
ments TO be nvauaAN
Yours, respectfully,
SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT