The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1853-08-31
The Destiny of the Slave States.

iars. The world is moving forward with en-.
ierprise and progress such as has never been
before conceived Of Near 50 600 900 are be-
ing added annually TO the gold currency Of
the world The whole resources Of Australia,
California. aad China, are Just about to be
thrown open. In China, 300 100000 peo-
pie, with more accumulated capital and wealth
than any one people have ever possessed, have
been heretofore locked up from the rest Of
mankind. The treaties made with England,
France and the United States, a few years ago,
have broken the chain with which they have
surrounded themselves. This, together with
the rebellion now in progress. will unfold The
resources Of that mighty empire, and produce
change in The distribution Of wealth. equal
to that produced by the discovery Of America
upon Spain and Europe Where is all this
vast trade and accumulation in gold TO pass
4 through the channels Of commerce into the
exchanges Of the world Il must concentrate
upon the Pacific coast, and force its way across
the lsthmus Of Panama into the Gulf Of
/ Mexico, and thence into the Atlantic, that
great reseryoir-basin for tho civilized nations
Of the earth. The Atlantic will be to the
world what the Mediterranean was TO the
known world under the reign Of Antonines in
Rome Again, the Gulf of Mexico lies be-
tween the great region draiued by the Ana
zon on ono side. and the Mississippi on the
other These are the two greatest valleys
upon the face Of the earth. and capable Of the
greatest productions. It is not saying too
much to say that if properly developed, they
are capable of producing what is produced at
present by the whole civilized world The
former is almost in a state Of nature. aud the
latter is not yet half developed The whole
country between these two mighty rivers pre-
sonts the most wonderful region now to be
settled upon by the genius aud enterprise Of
man. In the progress Of the next fifty years,
the commerce and trade that must concentrate
upon the Gull Of Mexico will far exceed any
thing that man has heretofore dreamed Of in
his widest Imagination The island Of Cuba
from its central position. and its great port Of
Havana, is the key to all this. The nation
that holds Cuba, will hold control over the
commerce and wealth Of this new world.
1t is not saying too much to say that if We
hold Cuba, in the next fifty years we will hold
the destiny Of the richest and most increasing
commerce that has ever dazzled the cupidity
Of man. And with that commerce We can
control the power Of the world. Give US this
and We can make the public opinion of the
world. These two great valleys Of the ANA
zon and the Mississippi are now possessed by
two governments Of the earth most deeply in.
terested in the African s'avery-Brazil and
the United States. Cast your eye over the
map and sec their vast capacity for production
While the Mississippi with its tributaries
; can carry to market more Of The necessariei
: and breadstulTs Of life than any portion Of thc
habitable globe. the Amazon can float the
wealth Of nations upon its surface in the pro
duction Of tropcs-the whole intermediate
countries between these two great valleys, in
cluding the West India Islands. is a regior
} under the plastic hand Of a beneficial Provi
dence, teeming with the fatness Of nature
! richest and most luxurious productions i
is at present but in its infancy, and as to ca
pacity to produce, is, as it were. unknown tC
; the world. Most Of it has sumbereG for age
in solitary grandeur. How is it to be deyel
i. oped Think YOU that the Caucasian race
can sand to toll and labor under the burnin,
rays Of its tropical sun, and sleep in vigor an,
prosperity under the miasma Of its exuberan
and mighty plains aud swamps! No. it
resources are n be finally and fully developed
BY that race which God in his mercy, formed
) aud created for just such regions. PrOvidenc
e lots off earth to its appropriate races. Th
camel loves the arid air Of Arabia. and th
reindeer loves the frozen hills Of Lapland
So, in like manner. the black man loves L
breathe the humid air Of his native swamp,
while the white man exults and bounds in tn
elastic air Of his native hills. Where yol
. can combine the administrative governin
& qualities Of the one race together with th
patient endurance and physical capacities 70
= low attitudes Of the other, you have that per
< feet system by which the vast tropical region
Of the earth may be developed. Whilst th,
/ labOring strata of society is occupied by on
race suited to Its exposures. give the othe
race such a position as will enable them t
preserve themselves from those daily and ex
J. hausting exposures under which the whit
|. race will sink in the tropics Pulling an'
sickly phllanthrOphy may preach differen
doctrine, but if prscticed, it will forever con
sign to barbarian wilderness some Of tn
I. fairest portions of the world.
Witness the miserable experiments mad
I by the English aud the French in the Yves
! Indies Twenty-Five years ago where we SAY
7. cultivation bringing forth wealth and refine
ment, with all the elegance Of polished lifc
we see vagrant labor stalking through des
: olate land, with hungry and brutal ferocity
: This experiment Of West India emancipatiO
is worth thousand theories, and is fast en-
. tightening the reaectlng part Of mankind
I England feels in its consequences her folly
|. Everything has taken place exactly as th
4 Duke Of Wellington predicted it would. i
|. his clear and manly speech against the act {
emancipation at the time.
: The African race, under a system Of d.
1 mestic servitudc tempered by the principle
OF Christianity are themselves raised an
benefited in the scale at civilization Th
" great mass Of the poor and needy in all po
r. tions Of the colder aud less prolific latitude
IF require for their comfort sugar, coffee, ric
d and cotton, and the luxurious productions
Il tropical regions When they exchange thei
a. labor for these products at cheap rates it tenC
to raise them too. 10 the scale Of civilization