The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-03-01
pritish Periodieal Literature.

wise persons wishing 70 make themselves "a
miliar with English politics % take this Mag
anne in connection with al four Of the re-
printed editions q foreign Retieya7-Flag
NJ he Union.
We wouldn't advise any such thing. We
have endured and suaered-been insulted and
outraged long enough by those very reprints,
and as conductor Of q public journal, we can
not advise any American, much less Southern
er, to encourage, by his subscription the circu-
lation among our people Of any literature
which has for its object the abuse Of the peo-
pie and institutions Of one section Of our Con-
federacy, and the raising a league against this
section, among the people Of the other, as is
certainly true with much we find, especially of
late, in the columns os these famous five re-
prints
But a short time since, the North British
Review had an article clarifying that libel on
the south-Unele Toms Cabin-and abound
ing in plenteous choice epithets, and descrip-
tons which the writer gloried in applying to
the inhabitants of the slave States of this
Union. We have now before us Blackwood's
for January Of this year, which leads off in
an article the most offensive and the best cal
culated to do us harm Of any thing of the
kind we have seen. The first gross blunder
the writer commits, is the citation as proofs of
his points, Of such works as "The White
Slave" and that by Mrs. Stowe which we have
already mentioned. To the mind of every
Southern reader the conclusion, which neces-
sarily follows from this, would be that the
whole article must be more or less fabulous
and false. The subtle harm in the article lies
in the fact that it abounds in figures, dates,
apparent facts, DC, wei. calculated to misguide
the unwary or uniformed. The first attempt
to prove the inconsistency of Americans in
owning slaves has referenceto the Declaration
Of independence, and the, now for the thous-
andth time, murdered assertion by Jefferson,
that all men are born free and equal :" mo
English writer, scarcely, who has ever reviled
our institutions but makes this the startling
point, the foundation stone of all his fragile
fabric,) and here the whole American people
are sneered at as having for forefathers, men
50 ungrateful as to refuse the Mother Country
a mite of tax in return for the immense ad.
vantages and constant blessings that Mother
Country was continually heaping upon us!
The mode in which the Virginians supper
themselves and families according to tn,
writer's assertion aud "The White Slaves ties
timony,) is then discussed, raising and selling
negroes spoken Of, and the conclusion arrived
at that the pages of the Magazine must no
be polluted by describing the immoral gross
ness to which the Virginia system gives rs
on any plantation !" A terrible retributior
a sure vengeance is then predicted as fast ap
preaching and soon to descend in unmitigate'
fury, and Liberty beside its cradle will mos
likely be trampled to death in its early mar
hoodw How we already begin to quake
The writer is certain that
'For these gathered wrongs of years now pas
The reckoning hour must come,
And the trump OF vengence wind lis blast
And the listening world be dumbW
Truly, this is terrible, and Southern poop
should unanimously vote this prophet a pew
ter dollar, as a handsome tribute of the
boundless gratitude, that he has thus lifted u
" the warning voice." The reasons for tn
unavoidable future this fiery trying and ag'
MIXING retribution are then given at lengt
which we condense as follows:
"Stavery is an enemy 10 knowtedge." Pro
: given is. that we do not educate our slaves
' alleged want of schools for whites, dc.
"His a barrier to Progress ; II is a paral
ser 10 industry. 1t is a perverter of morals
Proof of this last, principally from the ia
that christian ministers W slaves, and Il
assertion (made by this w%riter) that many
its ministers, perhaps halt, "sedulously incl
cate that negroes are mere animals intend'
to be used as horses, to be kept ever under {
yoke" &c. Now we feel halfinclined TO laus
at this last, while we have an indefinable Ion
:. ing to give the writer a good cudgeling I
thus deliberately uttering what any other fc
would have known to be untrue.
But again, at is a despiser of the restrain
of law and order, it is an enemy to just soc
= legislation and fosters unjust social prejudice
= The assertion next broadly made, we shor
not object to SO very much fit were true, v
"The slave power makes presidents" I
!. President and Senators make heads Of depa
ments,-these make collectors, land agen
distriet-attorneys, post masters and other 5