The southern press., 1851-09-24
From the Mississippi Free Trodsr.
Letter from DR.. \. A. Cartwright.
NV ORLEANS. Aug. 231, II

Mr.. WARNER Dear Sir: Enclosed Is my
opinion, very hastily scratched off, in regard L
Mr.. Fletci er's work. You only gave me day
to read and review il. ] ought TO have had ,
month. have taken the liberty OF lacking or
some few notices to the paper AS went along
not to be used only as revised by Mr. Fletcher
have not had time to copy and correct my
review Of his work, or rather my opinion Of it
II is too long to be published, and is not pol
ished. You can use any part of it, if he thinks
1t will advance the interests of the work. / am
in good earnest in my opinion. have not gone
Ms far as my feelings would lead me in its praise
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
SAML. A. CARTWRIGHT.
DIR, cARTwRIGHr's OPINION OF "fLETcHER's
STUDIES ON SLAVERY"
New ORLEANS, A G. 90, 1851.
MIR. WAREER.--Dear Sir: have read the
manuscript you sent me, containing Mr.. John
Fletcher's first thirteen Lessons on Slavery"
To say that it is an able document, well written,
and in proper spirit would be poor praise.
consider it immensely valuable, and it ought to
be read by every intelligent person, North as
well as South. The first two lessons seemed
a little dull, and ! thought you had conferred
upon me a disagreeable task but by persever
ing in 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 all, and could not throw
the manuscript down, until had carefully read
it through. .".<H
have long known Mr. Fletcher by sight, have
attendt d on him when sick, and have often had
casual conversations with him. and considered
bin, . very learned man: bnt | must confess
that had formed, from quarter OF centurys
acquaintance, no just conception OF the extent
of his erudition, 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 MIR.
Fletcher's manuscript with prepossession that
would find very little new or useful matter in
it; and this prejudice was confirmed by the fret
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 canting hypocrisy and sophistry
that Mr.. Fetchers lessons open with. The ha-
tired against the Abotionists so universal in the
South, and which has begotten spirit here hos
tile to having any political connection with such
avowed enemies of our political institutions,
will relax into feeling of pity aud commissera.
ton for the delusion, as soon as 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.
luded brethren loving us. I'll.
The sophistry and hypocricy of such writers
as Wayland have so eniangled 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 aboi-
ton of slavery, and hence they urge it upon us.
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 doubly 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 :lares of false doe
trine and hypocritical teachers of morality and
religion. Even Maryland himself may not be
bad man, but stare Of that sophistry which
was first invented BY S'nuel Johnson, and
other enemies of America, and ever since SO in.
dustriously propagated by those in the interest
motives. Mr. Fletcher has traced that
false doctrine now deludiug our Northern PEG.
pie, up TO it, fountain head, in Paley and Samuel
Johnson, bitter enemies TO American liberty
and opposed it.
How is it," (says Sam Johnson in his "Tax.
alton not Tyranny l777) i've hear the loud
est yelps for liberty among the drivers of ne.
groes.n Yet the very net he wovc 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 cast
around our Northern people, and has entangled
them in its meshes, so rs TO give them no will of
their own, but 10 make them SlareS 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 unites every knot in that soph.
istcal net work, and will, ii read by our North.
ern people, libcrate their minds from the des
potism Of that sOphistry and hypocricy, which
are lsshing them TO immolGte American liberty.
and even Christianity itself, upon the altar Of
that false god Of British mammon, with sweet
tooth for our sugar and other slave-labor pro.
ducts, that would make the domestic slavery Of
the inferior negro race, 10 Christian and repub.
ican masters Of superior race, a sin against
God.
The great battle, between Washington and
Lord CORVALLIS, has yet 10 be fought. Corn
wallis surrendered at Yorktown TO our illus
trious Washington; but CORVALLIS was not de.
feated, as is generally supposed. lie surrender.
ed seven thousand men, bat the Fast India com.
pany gave him, soon afterwards, six thousand
soldiers and sent him 10 India. In less than ten
years from his surrender at Yorktown, he had
conquered fifty millions Of people, and more ter.
ritory than the British lost BY the independence
Of the United States; n territory producing
every thing that the United States produces
That territory is not very profitable 10 its con.
querors, owing TO the fact that American slave
lator products in the SOUTH and American man
ufacturing industry in the North, keep the fjiy
millions (Which have become one hundred and
Fifty millions) out of the markets OF the world.
both in agricultural products and the fabrics Of
manufacturing industry.
The British dcspotism, which Lord Corn.
wallis established in Asia, and the republicanism
10 America that Washington founded, stand in
the same hostile, incompatible relation 10 each