The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-07

productions; or the enterprising, manufacturing
States Of the East, from which much Of our great.
ness 10 derived No, my friends; our power and
greatness come from none Of these separately. Our
commanding position is due to no section exclu-
sively. Our powerful influence grows out of our
ConstitutionIsnd the union of States. Under our
confederaoy we have enjoyed religious and political
liberty to . greater extent than any other nation.
If I'VE wish to continue of glory and power,
We can only do 30 under the same auspices as here
tofore We must continue under the protection Of
the Union and the Constitution. This is proper
time tor all true friends of our Union to manifest
their devotion to it, and to the Constitution.
am alarmist; but it would be wrong to with
hold the opinion that there is danger of dissolu-
ton of the Union. No work of man bears upon it
the marks Of never-endng existence. Our hope
and our benediction is, that it may be perpetual.
Our duty 10 to do all in our power to prol0ng its
existence while We are members Of the community,
enjoy ing its advanages and each generation should
transmit 1t to the next without link severed that
binds together Every friend Of the Union should
agitate questions which tend to diminish the re.
spect and confidence that should be cherished be-
tween the people of different sections, having dfe-
rent interests Of pecuniary or business character.
Enemies OF our form Of govern ment are frequently
found among US; coming generally from Abroad,
they embrace the opportunity Of alternating our PEG
pie by attacking with virulence the Institution Of
African slavery They are assisted in these at.
these fanatical enthusiasts, hyp0crtical preten-
ders, people must take firm and resolute sta I'D
or VIC may hasten the period when this mighty
Union of free and independent States will be bro
ken into many petty and Insignificant governments,
in which the people will have their sectional preu-
dces, and antagonisical feelings and interests, end
ing, sooner or later, into many petty m0narohie
or despotisms, in which human rights and liberties
will ne longer exist The experience and the histo
ry Of tho past admonish that such would be the
inevitable result Break this glorious Union into
fragments-rend asunder this magnificent structure
Of republican government, and know of no rule in
logic, or principle in human nature, by which We
can reasonably hope to re-unte the fragmentary
portions upon an enduring basis. Once d SOLVED
and none will be so blind as not to see that have
lost valuable and priceless blessing We may un-
derestimate its value now but when we have part
ed with the noble inheritance, will soon be 10
a condition to regret the madness Of the act
NO. IS the time, my countrymen, when speck
every sdmrer of the Union to guard against its
growth, to check it in its incipient stage. and re-
solve 10 continue to fulfil the destiny which the
patriots and ssges Of the revolution marked out for
privations the recital Of whica makes humanity
shudder Let not our great republic be arrested in
it's brilliant career let not all bright and go
rious anticpations of the future be stayed in the
madness of dissolution Of the Union; let not the
sun of American liberty set before il has half at
tanned the zenith Of its glory, ard thus blast the
prospects Of millions Of che human race. Shall we
rsshly endanger or destroy the liberty and hspp-
n,
eventually, perhaps, of the whole civilized world
to crafty the morbid philanthropy Of few fana-
tical minds, who see no evil in anything but negro
slavery, and no good in anything but aooltionsm! !
most AFFECT and degrading poverty, and have a
hopeful eye cast towards our compa ratively happy
land and free institutions, shall We, in the madness
OF the hour, arrest these hopes by severing the link
into one great and prosperous Unonl No, my
friends, never! Yet If such Is not the direct OBJ
ject and purpose of abolitionism, of those mad ia
natics whose only object is to force the South to
abandon the institution at their bidding, no mat
ter what the danger to both races may DO, it slll
be the inevitable result Of success on their part.
There is no excuse for these fana lies. they alb
hor slavery, let them strike blow at the slavery
OF their own race first Seek to relieve the desti-
tuition and misery ofthe white laborng classes and
leave the well fed, and generally well treated, Afri-
can slave in the South to the agement Of those
who are by law held responsible for their welfare.
greater part of Europe, and many portions of
America-the United States included-sre not
treated with as much humanity rs the negro slaves
Of the South. Our abolition philanthropists have
not moveda step towards their ameliorati0n. Our
white bret hren have certainly all the God like at
tributes which sdorn the human character, AMI it
is generally admitted that our own race are supe-
ror to the negro; and the morality philanthropy
OF those mad Drained hypocrites, enthusiasts, or
monoman,acs, who would rend the Union asunder
to abolish the slavery Of the latter, which is quite
well fed at least, and leave tho slavery Of the for
mer in all its hideousness is proof that their Cha
rty, benevoence, and love- Is confined only to those
whom the Creator has cnveloped in black skin
II is preference for color, and wholly disregsrds
the mental, moral, or physical attributes OF oar
own race There is a principle firmly seated in the
human mind, rspugnsnt to slavery in any form,
or Of any race Of men. This principle is, perhaps,
more active in the United States than in any other
country. But the Almighty has created different
races Of men with different degrees of intellect,
AID the whole civilized world Is just emerging from
the state of slavery. Tho hsbliments Of slavery
are yet worn by four hs Of the human race, of all
colors, and in nearly every country on the globe.
The miseries Of this Servile condition Of man. with
out any regard to color, are not in the United
States to that extent they in other countries.
Nominally 1t may DO abolished in some other
countries, but practically it exists in the most hor-
rid condition. As recognised institution in the
Southern States, it has been forced upon them be.
fore the States had an independent existen,e.
Having grown to such magnitude, its abolition
must OF necessity be the work OF time, aided by
more favorable circumstances than are at present
existing. Wisdom and justice must direct the
movements that look to It's abolition The North
has nothing to do with It. The institution IL local.
and state power il the only agent that can act in
the matter: ln social point Of view, my friends,
have had some experience Of the Institution Of
Southern slavery. 1 have lived in the several SEQ
lions Of our Union, and have had opportunity Of
judging Of that social sympathy and conneot
between the employer and employed, capitalist
and laborer, master and slave. am satisfied that
there Is more friendly feeling, more social commu-
MON, more real sympathy, existing between the
master and slave, than there is between the rich
capitalist Of our northern and eastern cities and
the laborers they employ. firmly believe there
Is more social equality between the former than be-
tween the latter The capitalists in the free States
seldom associate with the laborers There is no i'm
between the rich andthe poor. They
appear, in fact to be almost distinct races Of men
and women. The rich man may mediate an attack
upon the virtue Of an industrious woman, aud have
social intercourse that he may accomplish his baser
purposes; OF he may, If he is candidate for some
lucrative honorable office, condcsccnd 20 DO very
aocisble with poor man just about tho time Of an
election; but for all the nobier objects Of mutual
y mpsthy aud common improvement, thcy s-estran-
gcrs to each otheI-the In master aud the other
slave. distinctly and unhcsitatlngly declare that
this condition Of the majority Of Northern laborers
i worse than that ofthe Southern slaves Uoder al
these circumstances, without single sentiment or
ceiling in favor Of the slavery any race, color,
have never been able to perceive any really well
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