The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-09
AGENTS AND CLUBS.
FAST AND LOOSE.

Frederick Douglass says that the people of
the South are the slave ownerS, but those of
the North are the slave hoiders and Professor
the people of Great Britain are the great sla-
very supporters He said " in this country is
the great market for cotton; and it il cotton
which sustains American elavery0 We GER
tainly need Il key to Uncle Toms Cabn-not
an exploitation of the book known all over the
world by that name-but an exposition of the
agencies and influences which sustain the sys-
TEN OF slavery amongst us. Some say that the
institution rests upon necessity which opn-
ION can neither support nor Overturn, which
no policy can counterfeit aud the principles of
abstract justice cannot remedy. Some say that
the churches are competent to its abolition
and inexcusably culpable for its continuance
some, that political policy alone sustans it
and others charge the evil IA entirely to tho
pecuniary interests which are involved in it,
The remedies proposed and the methods Of
applying them, are rs various
A key, eXpository Of the system, in much
wanted, that the key reformatory may fit the
lock Of the cabin that holds Uncle Tom
The South is as much in want of key as
ITS antagonists masttr-key that will drive
tho bolt more securely into the socket The
owners have been for "A long time suffering from
a system OF petty p,liering, which is hard to
bear and are now growing apprehcnsiyo that a
general conspiracy of lawless foreigners is or.
ganzlng, for the preparation of wholesale bur
gIary upon their premises The old iastcninps
are wearing loose. and the difficulty about the
. new keys proposed for the service IL, that they
all have the common fault Of unlocking as well
ms locking the bolts The key wanted il such
an one AZ will lock, but will not by any turn that
1t can possibly take, undo it's own work. The
warders of tho Uncle Tom gang are not little
perpexed and alarmed at discerning that every
key proposed by their earnest well-wishers is
the exact pattern of some one in the bunch that
the burglars themselves rely upon They want
and from the nature Of the case must have All
instrument wholly unlike anything that has
ever been IN use heretofore, and 10 adapted /,
its office that the owners can make no mstak,
with il, and the enemy can make no use Of it,
The British cotton trade sustains the Amer
lean slave trade, is the proposition, The Eng
Gsh phianthropists feel the impossbility O
shutting up their manufactures but they pro
pose TO grow their own cotton in Africa, Aus
trala, and India, The London DAILY NeDS de
monstrates the practicabllty of the project Re
fuse to purchase from the Southern States, an
starye the system Of slavery to death, is its Pc
icy. But the COTTON Plant of Baltimore, an
the Southern agtators generally propose I
devise the means, and set on foot the policy c
direct trade in the great staple with the cont
nent of Europe 70 the exclusion of Liverpool
Manchester, and Glasgow.
The Cotton Plant says;
From Memphis lthe Convention to be he'll
first Monday OF lHne will come forth policy
the necessary result of which will be the tr
umphant success of Dirccf Trade in all il
parts. While Mrs. Stowe il combining Eng
land against us, we are combining to crush I'll
power Of that hypocritcal empire. While Oh
North Is agltating 10 strip us of our rights, W
meet in Memphis, quietly, calmly, with til
consciousness of power. 10 throw into the la
OF great Southern and Western emporium
the riches OF our trade The great question &
be met IS he abolition Of ,lauerv Disguise
as we may it is the great political, social, an,
religious idea OF the day. 1t must be met. A
Memphis It will be met The oligarchv o
American Cotton Planters have determined 1
take their own preservation into their owl
keeping. The A Agricultural Congress at Mont
gomery, Ala, will ultimately be the nucleus 70
an organization, terrible in its effects upo
English and Northern industry The cont
nent of Europe will contend successfully fo
commercial supremacy with England, for co