The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-14

dition Of greater positive and individual shaver,
than they had ever known before. This result
could not be mistaken, and the champions o
equality gave up Europe in despair
But, about that time, the movement TO
Mexican and South American indie pendence wa.
made. This revived the school 1t was thought
that Europe was too crowded in population, toe
debased by tyranny, too fettered by custom and
usage to be free But the new world, with
plenty of room, with independence of thought,
with exemption from authority, was TO be con-
tinent Of the free. Mr. Clay came forth as the
champion of South American independence.
Mr. WEBSTER united with him in favor of i'm
mediate recognition of all the republics. And
the most magnificent declarations were uttered
about the future glory, and progress, and liber-
ty, and civilization of the new republics Where
are they now? All have continued to decline,
and at this day will bear no comparison in
wealth, in power, in stability, or in progress to
their condition under the Spanish crown.
In Mexico, portion of the territory which
had been wrested from the Indians, and occu-
pied by the Spanish race, has actually been re-
covered by the savages. And the frontiers of
Mexico are now at the mercy of the Cumanches,
Apaches, and Navajoes, and are continually
ravaged by them.
Thus has failed the second, grand American
movement for universal equality. And now we
have third movement. France, Italy, Germany,
and Hungary, have all revoutionized. Yet two
or three years only have elapsed, and the reaction
has already destroyed every vestige of the revo-
luton, except the form Of a republic in France,
and that is supported only by half million of
bay0nets, whilst its administration and its re-
suits are not pretended to be at all superior to
the government that was overthrown.
Each of these revolutionary periods has been
attended with emancipations of African slaves.
In 1889, Saint Domingo, or Hayti, was con-
verted into free-soi In the period of 1924
Mexico, Central America, and North America.
abolished African slavery. And the last period
OF epidemic equality and philanthropy bega.
with emancipation in Jamaica, and ended with
it in Martinique and Guadalupe. In every case
the country in which emancipation occurred.
has been blasted and ruined. In every case
where emancipation has not occurred, prosperity
has prevailed. 1t was much talked of in this
country in l776, but was not adopted, and this
country, which has more African slaves than any
other is the most flourishng of all, particularly
that part Of the country where there is the
largest proportion. In Brazil, the Portuguese
refused to follow the example of South Anne
rican emancipaton-and Brazil, the colony of the
weakest people OF Europe, is the most powerfu
and wealthy of all the South American States
Spain, in her liberal movement of 1922, refused
to emancipate in Cuba, and that has become the
queen of the Antilles, with enormous wealth.
production, and commerce.
The men who framed our Constitution, were
probably four-ifths of them shareholders
Theirs is the noblest fabric of political wisdom
of any age The States where slavery abounds,
have always been distinguished for their consti-
tutional opinions, and have done more than all
the rest to keep the government within its con-
stitutonal sphere.
Yet with these facts all in one direction and
of inyincible Lasmentum the clamor still goes
on to abandon the system which has done so
much for our greatness and power and to imi-
tate the policy that has desoated Hayt, Jamaica,
Mexico Central America, and SO large part
of South America.
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