Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-01

virtually rec0mmeueu lOt TIC suPPOi1 onu PolPOl-
uation Of the institution, together with the evi-
dent reliance-whch is placed on Southern DOM
incering and Northern servity, we'll deserves
the gravest consideration Of the people of the
North. Ponder it, freemen, and act before it is
forever too late. Ed.
From the Southern Press -
THE FORTUNE OF SLAVERY.
The. progress Of African slavery in the
United States presents some of the most
instructive phenomena that can have the
attention Of the statesman or philosopher.
lis introduction into America was the
work of one Of the most eminent philan-
thropists of the age, the Pious aud enlight-
eued Bishop Las Casas. Its destruction
is attempted by the prOfessed philanthropy
of the present time.
Soon after the introduction of slavery
into the Southern colonies, they began to
protest asaustlt, aud would have prohib-
tied it but for the opposition of the Brit.
ish governmeut--so that the establishment
Of slavery in the Southern colonies IS owing
to their union with the empire OF Great
Britain. Strange as it may appear, the
subsequent preparation and extension OF
slavery in the Southern States are owing
to the present IsbiVn. Ifthe States, after
their independeake. had not formed a
Union, each yhe would haze had its OWL
large cofsalercial towns and manufactures
for New York or Philadelphia could not
have imported for Southern cities, since
duties would have been required at the
latter as much on imports from cities OF
the North as from Europe. And if the
South had thus become commercial and
manufacturing 10 the extent of its own.
wants, it wouId!have attracted its share Of
European emf ration. The consequence
would have been that with a large com
mercial, manufacturing and foreign PoPu
lation, sever aIl Of the Southern States,
would have abolished slavery long before
now. Even without such elements Viz
ginia came near doing SO in 1912; and
If she had gone that far the political power
of the South would have been materially
weakened.
The earnest advocates Of the Union,
such men as General WASHINGTON and
Mr.. JEFFERSON, expected and desired that
the Union would be favorable 10 emanclpa-
ton
Such and so general vas the opinion OF
eminent Southern statesmen in favor oil
emancipation, that up to 1920 scarcely a
man could be found in the South who did
not profess 10 regard slryery as a curse
At that time tire tide of foreign emigration
set in so strongly, as within thirty years To
add To the North some four millions Of
people. And if nothing had occurred Ia
counteract its effect on slavery, the latter
would have fallen before now. For the
South was anxious to secure part of it.
Bot almost exactly coeyal with the sudden
aud extraordinary. increase Of foreign emf
grafton, has been, the sudden and wonder
full extension Of the cotton culture in the
Sonth-a thing which is perhaps without
a parallel in history. This at once elevated
the value and power Of slavery aud @nableC
liz to staad against the rapid increase M TIT
! If The wars of Europe had moi inter
vened between the close of our revolution
and 1916, and thus prevented Europeau
Emigration to this country until the rise
of the cotton interest in the South, il i.
very doubtful whether slavery would have
long survived the Missouri Compromise
Even the acquisition Of Louisiana would
scarcely have been available to slavery
nay, would have been destructive by open.
ing the way to emigration from the North
Of population unfavorable to it. But, al
it was, cotton not only found employment
for the surplus slaves of the South, bu
turned aside the tide Of her emigration
which had before been setting steadily &c
the new Northwest States,
1t thus appears that whilst the whole
current of opinion, for the past hundred
years, Of African slavery in this country
has been against it, even among those who
were deeply interested in it, the current
of events has been in favor Of t.--Within
the whole period TO which we have referred,
the foreign opinion was still more hostile
France abolished slavery in Hayti-so did
the South American States, of Spanish
origin, and England in Jamaica, &c, and
in every case the result has been desolation
and ruin Brazil alone retained it. The
result is that the Southern States Of this
Union and Brazil are the most hourishing
of all the continent. and their products,
together with those of Cuba, constitute
the principal part of civilized commerce
Of the world. And now the abolition oil
African slavery would not ouly desolate
the most productive agricultural regions
Of the world, but would, in far greater
degree, destroy thai commerce which Con-
titutes the principal trade of all the great
civilized States, and would absolutely pros
ttate the whole system of modern civiliEa.
lion.
These things Ought to adnonish us 10
4 bewave of impaaiS aiith' in fine boosted
power and yaIuB d opinion. Slavery has
dehed and triumphed over oplnion---the
opinion of modern Chrstendom And we
think this fact deserves the earnest consid.
Grafton Of all the ycmng men Of the South,
especially at the present, time, when the
shallow and 1msy maEements of party, as
we'll as the designs of fanatics and fools,
are disturbing tile legislation and the cleo
tons OF the country.
What is the partwhich the South is to
act with her instilation Of slavery in the
present and approaching movements in SO.
ciety and government We behold a
powerful tendency, to change. The doc
tTine OF universal equality IS the favorite
the equality Of all men, without regard
to their moral and intellectual character,
1t is to this doctrine we owe most of the
!sms Of the day. AbolitioDiSm, Freesoil-
ism, Freefarmism, Interventionism, 60