The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-13

single instance of people 90 numerous, 80 in
telligent and so assailed, among whom there
was 10 little concert Of action, and 80 little hsr
m0ny Of opinion, as there is in the South-Why
is this! Are we doomed people, that like the
Turk, we are waiting in sullen silence predes-
timed fate /! Or can the South be aroused 10 the
maintenance of their rights aud the protection of
their interests
developed in false security, the South have
heretofore neglected those measures of wise
precauton, which are necessary for their pro-
lection, and the consequence has been concert,
energy and success on the part Of the assailants,
and weakness, division and defeat on the part of
the assaulted.
In view Of this state Of things, society has
been organized at Dalton, in Georgia, upon
basis which invites the cooperation of all who
desire to unite and harmonic the action of the
South. The struggle Is not for day. Nor will
1t terminate with the next or succeeding pre-
sidental election. Il involves much more than
sectional conflict between the slaveholding
and non-slaveholding States of this Union --itis
not question whether our Presidents shall
come from the North or from the South. 1t 10
aquestion whether England or the United States
shall be the first and most powerful Of civilized
nations. 1t involves the great issue between re-
publicanism and monarchy, and whether we or
England shall be the pioneers ia the great work
Of progress and civilization.
Ii such be the true issue, if it be not so much
a question between the North and the South as
between the United States as one people, and
Great Britain as another, the controversy should
be so conducted, and our defence so arranged,
as not only to unite the South against the ag-
gressions Of the North, but to unite the North
and the South against the aggressions of Eng
land. In such work, we must enlist the school,
the pulpit, and the press. We are assailed
through the intellect and the conscience we
must enlist the intellect and the conscience in
our defence We must show that African sla-
very "a it exists among US, is sanctioned by the
laws of God and man-that it is wise, humane
and indispensable That without it, the earth
cannot be brought under the dominion of man
that without it the rich lands within the tropics
must forever be occupied by savages, beasts of
prey, and venomous reptiles. We must do
more: we must convince the people Of the
North, that the relation between master and
slave, secures for the poor African better and
surer compensation, than that between the
master and servant gives where the laborng man
is reduced to the necessity of begging employ
ment a. a means of daily bread, as is now the
case in Europe We must satisfy the North
that the real competitions between the manufac-
turers, merchants and bankers of England, and
the manufacturers, merchants and bankers of the
United States.
To do this. we must begin at the beginning
we must teach the North to unlearn the les
sons, and to discard the prejudice with which
British avarice, intrigue, and ambition have be-
couded their understandings. We must de-
monstrate that their success and the preserva-
ton of their rights and interests are identified
with the preservation of ours. We must show
them what are the interests and motives which
control British policy. Wcmust strengthen those
in the North who are for us, and weaken those
who are against us, by proving that on this ques-
ton the interests of the North and Of the South
are the sane, and that our measures and policy
should harmonic.
| England by force of her laws and against the
wishes of the colonies established slavery in the
United States She was then the greatest slave
dealer. She is mono the greatest Abolitionist.
BY the 18th article of the treaty Of Utrecht, she
confirmed the contract between the English
Guinea company and the King of Spain, where
| by that company gave to the Spanish King 2OO,-
900 crowns, and to the King of Spain and the
King of England each one quarter share of the
profits on their trade, for the privilege of i'm
porting slaves into the Spanish provinces of
America She now keeps large fleet, and
spends more than two millions of dollars per
annum on the coast of Africa for the suppress
sion of the slave trade? Why this change of
| policy?
In the report made by the Rev. Mr.. Cur
ley, to the Secretary of State, and printed by
order Of the Senate, he give extracts from the
examinations before committee of the British
House of Lords. We call the attention of the
reader to a few extracts from the testimony Of
-. L. I
| He says "lf our squadron were withdrawn,
it would be the signal for one of the most hid
ious scenes that it is possible to conceive. In
reference to Africa in reference to all our West
India colonies in particular and all our tropical
possessions, look upon il that it would be
utter ruin inasmuch as there would be no lin
its whatever, to the expectation of Africans to
Cuba, Brazil, and Porto Rico, as slaves. The
consequence ,oould be vastly increased produc-
ion of sugar, ichich ,cotlld not only DESTROY oiir
old OPTICAL colonies, but crush the rising energies
Of The cultivation Of s,gur and coffee in Che
| EasO India. ] look upon il rs one Of the most
destructive things that could be done"
| In reply to the question, Is not Africa capable
of providing to almost any amount, the goods
which would form the means of great legal
traffic, he says:
ITO an unbounded extent, there is scarcely
any tropical production known in the world
that does not thrive to perfection in Africa
There are many productions that are peculiarly
her own: Her dye-stuffs and dye-woods are SUI
perior to any which are known in any other
quarter of the world, inasmuch as they resist
both acid and light-things that we know no
other dye-stuffs, from any other part of the
world, can resist. Then there is the article Of
sugar, that can be produced in every part of
Africa to an unlimited extent There is COTTON
also, ADORE aHhings. There is no other country
in The porM ,ohich can produce such an immense
quantity Of cotton, of quality so fine. 1t is
finer cotton than any description of cotton we
know of in the world. Common cotton in Az
RIGA / have seen, and had in my possession,
which was equal to the finest quality of Ameri-
can cotton Egyptian cotton is
not so good rs the cotton away to the South; ;
but the cotton produced in the southern, and
other parts of Africa, is peculiarly fine. Africa
is most extraordinary country, Inthe eastern
horn of Africa, there is the finest country and
the finest climate know. y II is
very elevated country, and on the upper regions