Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-16

November.
q Mr. Editor.
Sin: -YOu will please announce my name as
g candidate for reelection TO the Office of City MAR
sHAL, at The ensuing City Election.
= baiss.'se R, NJ, HAWKINS
Mggsrs in the South and Railroads and Progress In
the North
We copy the following extraordinary sample
81 Of logip--italcs and all-from the Herald of The
Z Union, paper published in New York. The
editor, G. Edwards Lester, is brilliant writer,
but his enthusiasm for Fsank Pierce seems to
have run away with his sober Judgment:
The South seems to us to be deliberately cut
ting its own throat When Southern man gets
three, i've or eight hundred dollars, or for that
matter, ten thousand, instead of making it the
2 nucleus for the formation Of a railroad, man
ufacturing or banking company, or improving
or embellIshing his home, he gives it to Niger
, trader to 60 to Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia,
! Delaware, Maryland and help those States get
Grid Of slavery, by laying upon the BUYERS still
3 more hopeless incubus--thus Offering bride
z TO the progress Of aboltionsm in the more
Z. Northern slave States. and thus bringing ,,pen
them inevitably the final hour.
To refer again TO the Baltimore Wing Com
venilon. In the nomination Of General Scott,
we have living illustration Of the truth Of what
we ay,and also Of the almost electric speed with
which the ruin Of the South seems to be APP
preaching. In that convention where was the
detection? The South could have nominated
Fillmore or Webster, and yet they nominated
Gen. Scott. II was, however, only after fifty
two ballots that the game was successful
Where did these last nine votes, for which the
Northern abolitionists had been five days sturd-
iiy lighting for in dog day weather, come from
Not from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Lou
isiana, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, or South
Carolina; for those States were bound up in the
veal or woe Of that institution. Bud the aurl-
.iaries of The .Northern abol,tionists came from
sViguaia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee and
,Missouri --tltc uey States that had pockefed ttco
hundred millions of dollars from the extreme South
in payment for their negroes, and then put The
money into railways, bankS piaak-roads, colleges.
MANUFACTURERS, schools, telegraphS, and all The
machinery Of electric progrcssl
The above is fair sample Of. the system Of
logic in common use among the advocates of the
desperate claims Of Franklin Pierce. 1t is first
assumed that Gen. Scott is an aboliionist, and
then an argument is founded on this false as
sumption TO prove that there is abolitionism in
the Northern slave States. Then the argument
is gone over backwards, taking the abolitionism
in these States as proved, and the attempt made
toshowthat Gen. Scott is an abolitonist, because
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri voted fcr him.
The argument Of Mr.. Lester is also unfair,
because, in order TO sustain his assertion of the
presence Of abolition sentiment in the Northern
slave States, he arraigns them on charge of
selling off their negroes, and investing the pro.
eeeds in railways, manufactures, schools, Sc.
He forgets that Profit is the despot that reigns
with undivided and undisputed sway throughout
this eeePtFy, The ruling principle explains the
anxiety and watchlulness of the extreme South;
the rabid ferocity of the extreme North; and
the comparative indifference Of the middle
States. The extreme South has but one great
source of wealth - her cotton fields and she
must have negroes 90 work them; when new
territory is added she wants TO use il as an out
let for her slaves. The North wants il as an
outlet for her free labor, which dislikes to come
in competition with slave labor. In the midi c
States, agriculture demands slavery, but their
whole resource for profit is not in this or any
other one branch of business. Hence railways |
manufactures, schools and telegraphs, are
springing up, and increasing the number and
kinds Of business which are more profitable than
those now giving employment to slave labor In
thls way the Northern tier OF slave States are
being elevated into powerful rivals Of The North,
while the slave population of the country is
slowly but steadily concentrating at the extreme
South. These are inevitable results; they grow
,ut Of the varied resources Of the middle States,
md the oyershadowing influence of the circun-
tances connected with the growth OF cotton in
he Southern States.
We have said thus much to show thai the re-
ne pictured by Mr. Lester are not the works
abolition sentiment, but are produced by cir
distances giving peculiar directions 10 trade -
Investments Of labor. M
ne motives which impellsd the three dele.