Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-06-10
From the Oh ,rles.on Courier.


t.enre ON slavery I'm the United States.
80. found among our papers the following
re n' md iudicous remarks on Slavery, IN TINS
4ls' IN the hand writing of the gifted and iamen-
b9iy,,re and lay them before our readers exactly
iS5 are in the original
tg %Gs is great practical question, needs TO be
~ bv statesmen and not by sophlsters and lana
2, i not res intGg ra, and it is not necessary 10
at bo ;nstice or injustice, the fitness or unftness
Gus; nstitutions in the abstract.
p Tba ,rue question is, what is TO be the destiny OF
ortpr of the world whit race is to lnhabIt and
~ Shall it be given up las 10 great part
s''snrface) to barbhFism-its inevitable tale I'M
ISs dominion of the black race-or shall 1t contn-
~ he possessed by the most Improving enterpH-
S,iye and energetic breed of men that have ever
G' % empires and peopled waste pIaces-by that
drh race, whose cunpuests more extensive, whose
pSIon,ent more perfect than that Of Rome, desig.
=, as the fitting instrument in the hands OF Pro-
Gssn for the great work Of building up world
pEgIish race of which the original stock has made
%i,bp wonder of mankinl-a people entirely pc
@n :, combining whatever is most dazzling in opu-
"ona mower, with well regulated liberty, and
@I NJ and equal administration of Iaw-the mos, mag
y" nt manifestation of the might and the grandeur
::I;7ed life, that the world in any age of it, has
u ibeFpId. Look at Hayti and contrast it with New
~ nces any man, who looks into the political char
- and effect of the cotton plant, doubt for a mo-
-, that slavery in the South has been and is great
'nropnt of civilization? Would the miracles,
scb the cotton trade has brought and is working for
y smeinration OF the condition of mankind in Eu-
~ have ever existed, had the negro Of the South
IN emancipaed in the revolution Would this
1ry have been what il is?
THE truth is that civilization is more advanced by
5rscaI causes, than by moral ones. mean. suppo
~ in both cases social order to be we'll established
nj law administered. The steam engi inc is doing
.ore for it than the pulpit itself. So of cotton 1t
,nsing the standard of comfort, without which men
-, doomed forever 10 be but half savage.
1.-The Roman conquests were attended with dread
eviIs-miIlions of lives, il is said, sacrificed
Cesar in his Gallo wars, and with all the rest
oes any one now doubt that on the whole the sword
n Rome was means of improvement 10 the whole
ace that especially the spreading of christianity
HAS fastened and facilitated by it Would any phil
pthropIs who lid not assume that name 10 make il
dious wish the history of the Roman blotted out?
&" So of Greek art. Without doubt it had never
Iysed-never at least in such extraordinary per.
tcliOn, without the institution of Slavery. Suppose
we're ascertained that, by establishing an English
FOOny at the spot where Carthage stood, at the
Ind of some centuries, our race and institutions would
ead over the whole of that continent, hitherto held
he doomed TO everlasting silence and desoation
Emphasized by extermInatlng, as the red men of this
ointment have been, or reducing to bondage, under
be white man, the negro, who is now the slave OF hi
Oher negro and brother savage--wouId it be con
leFed inconsistent with humanity to have, yea, ant
cooperate in producing, change so full Of splen
improvement, so favorable TO the dignity of hu
nature, and even to the beauty and glory of Cod
ealion
" Look al the state OF South America and compare
with the northern part of the continent
Therefore have always thought that the slav
ade inhuman internal as it was, had not been with
llts compensation certainly not enough to JUST
any in taking part in continuing it, for muc
vident and now known evil ought not TO be don
hat good might come of it, but that, considered a
great evil, it was much more so TO this continen
han TO Africa.
In short, slavery is evil. except under pecuia
rumsances-generally speaking, certany-an
everything shows il here but not such evil a
ls for violent, and still less destructive, measures
re8 it,