Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-10-13

they are settled by slavery. Slavery Is the
peace-maker. much greater than any Holy
Alliance. 1t is not saying too much to aver
that slavery keeps the peace Of the world
holds this model republic together, and there
BY promotes the expanding liberties Of man
kind.
The spectacle lately in our Senate was me-
morally significant. One Massachusetts, SEN
ator contended that Slavery is not national,
but sectional, sinful and abomniable. lie
quoted as law Lord 0Iansfeld's English judi
cial rhodomontade in the case Of the nego
Somerset, which the Chancellor, Lord Hard
wiche, succeeding Chancellor, Lord Eldon,
his eminent brother, Lord Stowell, and the
Master Of the Rolls, Sir VIM. Grant. all
denied In strains Of unpatriotic and un-
charitable foreign disparagement of part Of
his country, the Senator encouraged its defa-
nation by speeches. books, the press, the
playhouse, BY State legislation, judicial con-
struction-eyeryhow-just as maligu forign-
ers inculcate.
At the same time, when the whole Senate
stood up unanimously and saved their country
from war for the Eastern Fisheries. another
Massachusetts, Senator. by belligerant apoth-
cgem as laconic as if uttered in the Spartan
Senate, declared that if England 1cants lca,
size can hare IL. Arc the fisheries less sec
tional than Slavery? Why should Carolina
or Mississippi wage war, pay bounties, and
salt tax for the fisheries! just when one
Eastern Senator maligned Slavery as a
national curse, but only sectional interest
and another invoked war for the sectional fish
cries as a national blessing. and the United
States arc snatched from war for fisheries by
much abused Slavery. Old England and
New England have to thank the slaves in the
cotton fields for preserving the peace Of kin
dred nations, whose hostilities might have in
volycd all the rest Of the world.
Considerate American patriotism viii pom
der such national atonement for an evil, if it
be an evil. By inexplicable preference Of
black freedom to white. let England give a
hundred millions Of dollars to ruin Jamaica,
when the sum. well expended, might have
done much good in Ireland. Let the frst
freak Of the last but one Of many French
revolutions be to anarchise Guadeloupe and
Martinique BY similar spurious sentimental
ity. We have harmless law in Pennsylva-
MIA for at least the grad1tak abolition Of sla-
very lcitjtin our own State But form Lon
don or Paris, Boston, Philadelphia or Buffalo,
when and where there arc no slaves, to urge
their abrupt emancipation in Carolina, is ex-
tremely gratuitOus, cruel, mawkish and mur-
derous inhumanity.
There is not a particle Of American love
Of country in such meddlesome beneyolence.
Even if slavery be an American evil, should
Americans echo foreign villi6cation Of their
country Our country, right Or lcroRg, is
commonly ascribed as a sentiment to the gal
lant Decatur. That sentiment, and its ex.
cellent doctrine, as old as the Roman adago
that the safety Of the country is supreme law
was Washington's, when as a necessary
evil. he broke the treaty with France, which
brought Rochambeau to Yorktown, and BY
proclamation Of neutrality saved his country
from the destructive war Of the French revo.
Ilution-Our country. said Washington, right
or wrong. All the vagaries Of negropholism
like George Thompson, are foreign interlo-
pers. North intermarried with South, sla.
very and all, in the American Republican
Union not cold and calculating, but cordial
and indissoluble Family jars ane unavoida
bic but when strangers intrude let us Meth
er initiate or tolerate them
BE to our faults little blind,
And to our virtues very kind,
Europe cannot get at American Democra
cv But whatever the old world can reach
especially slave trade and slavery, England
and France have Of late continually meddlet
with to aggravate.
AT one Of the concluding conferences fol
the treaty Of Ghent the American mission
proposed two admirable mitigations Of war
viz: to abolish privateering and Indian hos
tilities. Tho English mission rejected both
and substituted an article against this slave
trade. The numbers and sufcrings Of 1T
victims have been much aggravated BY pirati
cal soa-hunts which England has introduced
She tried to establish sea police against i
BY holy maritime alliance which an Amer
can minister wisely prevented.
BY the treaty Of Washington she mlsle'
Us to maintain an especial squadron on th'
sickly coasts Of Africa, for what good, wh'
can tell
f When Texas was approaching our embrace
The royal governments Of Eng and and Franc
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