The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-01-12
L He DEMOCRAT.
7PHILLIPs & PERKINS, EDIrons
From The L7naondoa Times, December 4.
The Anti-SIavery Movement or the
Women az ErwHnvaN

that they understand their own dficuIties bet
ter than their neighbors do for them. We have
had, and still have, many social problems, which
events and the spontaneous changes Of society,
rather than legislation are solving one way or
another. But whether it be the condition Of the
Irish peasantry, or the Irish church establish
ment, or English pauperism, or factory labor,
the excess Of our female population, we have
never attached much importance to the opinions
Of French or German writers on these subjects.
When we find this national jealousy so strong
in ourselves, It's reasonable to expect something
of the kind in our neighbors, and proper to make
allowance fori Negro slavery, as it exists in
the United States, is just such deep and aprar
emily incurable sore, and such are the feelings
with which il is regarded in the Union. We,
the great British nation having our own slave
colonies some six or seven thousand miles off. and
having also, more money and better credit than
any other nation in the world, indulged our be-
nevolence and our pride in abolislling slavery,
and adding 522o, 900 900 to the figure ournaton-
al debt with very little regard the results either
10 the planter or the slave. AT the present mo-
ment indeed, if there is one thing in the world
that the British public do not like to talk about or
~ uDDuLs A. 10 COANtAADA va Alf~ AN 4~
whom this great effort was made. We are not the
less proud, however, Of our achievement and its
cost, and think that, having done so much our
selves, we may fairly impose the sacrifice on our
neigbbors But the precept, eco, and do thuO
likewise" seldom comes with much force when
the spokesman is urging his own example ands
as it happens in this case, the example does not
apply quite so closely as it might do.
In the United States the evil is. constitutional
and incorporate. 1t is political and domestic. It
IS gigantic and household. 1t is question that
affects families Institutions States, and the who'll
Union. 1t affects slaves and freemea. both Of eve
cry possible shade. Confessedly, and on the
showing of the lady whose work has SO spell
bound every heart andevery mind in this country
there are two great negro difficulties 10 be dealt
vii ,the United States-the difficulty Of the
.olered slave that Of the colored freeman and
Of the two the latter Is isttisss ti3ss worse. But when
England interferes in this matter, what IS 20 Pc
The exact manner and particular object Of ta5iil-
reference? Are we to tell the Americans to love
hose whom they Ioathe, and to associate with
those against whom they feel On actual repulsion?
II we do, we are dealing hard measures If we
10 not, we are touching the greater of the
two difficulties to be dealt with.
of course we are disposed to regard with every
possible indulgence the proceedings in the select
little convention Of ladies' that met The other day
at Stafford House. Never did anything more DEFY
criticism and it would really be breaking butt
ierfy on the wheel to remark on the affairs as we
should on the raf tustle opinion in the House Of
Commons, or the tempestuous rhetoric of Exc
I'll
doubt whether women of the calibre that assem-
bled the other day at Syracuse Omitted States1
will be able to appreciate the stain paper and
rosewater Of our female aristocracy; much more,
whether the Haleys and Legares, or even the
Shebvs and the st. Clares of the Union. will take
much heed Of so softly Whispered a warning.
Our fair readers, who are invited to enter on a
crusade of somewhat International character
will excuse one little warning which we venture
TO make. We, Of this free and happy country, are
lust the most extensive employers indirect, but
not less reallv) of slave labor In the world. Nero
slaves working under the lash in the midday
sun, and keeping their toe well up to the mark"
as MIR. Legare would say, produce the material of
our cravats, our stockings, and the simple and
comprehensive garment in which we take our
repose. They supply the musllns and prints and
nearly all the other fabrics Of our female costume
from the dress of the sovereign that of the poor
est needle woman. Slaves produce our coffee and
the sugar that sweetens it. BY day and night
sitting down and rising up, we are still encour-
aging slavery by consuming its produce The
prime agent who moves the wheels Of southern
slavery, we are told, is the northern capitalist
who has his mortgage on the sale estate, OF holds
bill of sale, and who secures himself, when me-
cessary by an order to his agent to sell of every
thing on the estate, slaves and all for what they
viii fetch at the hammer. This man, Mrs. Stowe
tells US is really guilty partner in the tansac-
ton, if not the most guilty-the most guilty, be-
cause he supplies the strongest stimulus Of the
system, and he conpels the most violent meas
ures. But If the northern capitalist pulls the
strings Of the southern planter who pulls The
strings of the northern capitalists Most assur-
edlv the merchants and brokers al New York are
mainly depended on the British market We use
the slave cotton-we supply the slave capital
Our money buys the Neighbour money buys his
work 1t is an ndissoube union ofintcrests and
operations OF which the white slave of this cOun-
try is at one end and the black slave of America
at the other end Of the chain. This should teach
us a little more modesty than If we were simply
preaching to the people of Timbuctoo to bum
their idols and desist from human sacrifcee.-
Perhaps it may suggest, also, that as a beginninr
we had better not insist on abolition, on even
talk about IL, which is all, indeed that ere ladies
of England are invited to do but rather sup1ssfe-
regulations; and pafticlarly with system for the
observation-disclosures Of slaves, we might have
brought about the entire emancipation of the
British West Indies with much less injury io the
property Of the planter and 70 the character Of
the negro than have resulted from The abolition
act. Perhaps the warning win not bs lost On tae
Americans, who may see the necessity Of putt
ting things in train for the ultimate a1oluon ct
slavery and thereby save The sndaeH aQek wllcn