Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-11
OLD AND NEW ENGLAND--THEIR ADOLF
TlON AND COMMERCIAL AFFINTTIES.

Tt is familiar observation, thatthoS regions u
the North which are most indebted to southern pro
duets and to southern commerce for their marvellous
prosperity and improvement are, at the same Tune,
the headquarters, respectively, of the most lnduS
trious and preserving abolitoniss. The cotton OF
the South supplies the looms, builds the palaces ana
adorns the soil of many who do not only initiate the
nobility of Europe in their eXcluSveneSs and thclr
wealth, but delight i'll following the example OF Eli
glish capitalists, who, at the same tune, HI their
rockets and feed the British poor by the manllfac
tnre of American slave-grown cotton, and aSsali the
Urited States in language of memorable 1alSehood
and bitterness. The New England abo!ltionists for
get that in 713 slavery was common III that quar-
ter of the Union and that the slave trade was eX-
te siyely carried on while the British foes OF Amer
lean institutions refuse in their exaggerated abuse
of the American people, to recollect that slavery
was imported and encouraged on these shores by
British supremacy, when the country was helpless.
Both abuse the people of the southern States with
equal perseverance and maliGnty; get both cling 10
those sources az eccaiA FURNISHED to their araitcs
and cupidity by the labor Of the South, the eapsta<
of ths South and the gr0,cing pOputati0n Of the
SOUTH! When we read the philippics of such trail
tors as Sumner, and as Connecticut Gillette, we are
instinctivey reminded that much OF the comfort
and equality of which New England boasts-much
OF her intelligence and weifarl-nuch OF her SUPERB
orty over other States-are direct results OF that
commerce with the southern people which chIetY
depends upon the products of slave labor 1t would
be severe test to the philanthropy OF both the od
England and the New England abolitionists If all
dividends which flow from their trade with the Sout H.
ern United States into their cotfers-were proposed
to be cut off! Suppose some modern W ilbetorce, IN
the British Parliament, and some new-tlme FRANK
lin, in grand New England conclave should sol
EMMY demand that all those hostile to southern IN
situations should give public exhibition of their
sincerity b. forever refusing to sugar. cotton,
rice tobacco, and other slave-grown products;
that they should refuse to build ships for southern
merchants; that they should turn the prows of their
own vessels to other chimes; that they should close
their c0llegc-dooTs to all who come from the region
of Jefferson and Washington and that the railroads
of the North should stop at Mason and Dixon $ line
as if all beyond that boundary were moral and po-
litical damnaton. What yell of despair would
arise from the manufacturing towns of the mother
and daughter What protest from the present alb
clifton sandererS! What camor from the poor
towards acH0 n01c az their 1rcdtth and ease
tra9cc their feii0oc-cts6ns Of TIE southern Sj0tes
Then would those who at present lead infurlated
mobS, and arrest southern gentlemen i'll purSit of
their property, and make the public press OF the
North groan under faSehcods and SANDERS, be repu
dated and rampled upon and the hollowneSs of alb
clifton professions would be proved in the mercena-
~ fears of the trembling T0io'rers CT ab0ttt0n 6t
anagogues. 1t has been said that if the United
States should fail 10 supply Great Britain with cot
ton for single year. revolution would inevitably
ensue among people that, in such an event, would
perish for bread, and be thrown out upon cold,
heartlesS and overburlened country. How far such
such a dispensation would affect New England pros
perity, We leave such rare arthmeticians' the
Hor Charles Sumner to answer.
But there is another subject upon which North
ern fanatics, who to regard the people Of the
South with much abhOrrenec, iutiiciouSiy
blind and dumb. The hypocricy Of England, which
processes snch huge sympathy for the slave and
leaves many of her own white subjects starve and
die, to live the life Of shame and vice, has been
established by indubitable evidences. Even her
boased squadron the coast OF Africa, to put down
the slave trade has been charged with being vgi:ant
CT Indifferent according British interests in
x-Ol- t,Ih
try where abolition RACES like pestiIence in regard
to this monstrous and human-defying trafc? 1t is
upon this poin: that abolition is significantly silent
How many Of those who have denounced the Ne
braSka bin as impiouS and despotic has been en-
gagged in the work of building vessels for the slave
dealers who capture helpless Africans confne them
in noisomc and sitting holes, and plunge them into
hopeless slavery in Brazil, into a less in
human serritude in Cuba? How many northern
abolitioniSts Or Reconsideration many calumniators
of the Nebraska bill in New York and New England
help to tit out these floating slave barracoons-
these piratical dens of living mur!ercrs and dying
men, women, and children--to send them on their
fcarful voyage of slavery and of blood? And let
us ask, what is the attitude OF the South this
question:? Since the law of 1903. when the foreign
slave trade ended the people of the South have
their faces against it. and their watchul adyer-
saries in the Northeven those most ready to assal
them-cannot justly charge them with being parties !
to trade which has justly aroused the united
gies OF the civilized world to put it down. We fear
the same credit cannot be given to that quarter of
the country from which We hear the most constant
professions of hostility to slavery, and the most yio-
lent threats against the institutions Of the southern
States. Recent circumstances, which arc not vet
enabled to speak Of lead us to believe that more |
than one OF those stately pharSces who are now en-
gagged in reviving the abolition movement has been !
engaged in hc ping to fit out the death ships which
are devoted to the African slave trade: We have |
strong hopes that the parties may be detected and
exposed late letter from Havana in the New |
York Daily Times is thus explicit:
1T is right that your people should be distinctly
tod that these landings are made and slavery in /
its worst form rs carried on almost entirely by |
re$seAs built in the Gited State$-manv built to or
der IN the ship-yards, with knowledge of the trade
Tor Which they were intended-iitted in the United
States with the munitions and tackle shuck{es water
rum, AMI bertdecG ute,sIs necessary for the bust
ness; and that the employees on board of these
slave pirate vessels american seumcn natire and
a1tu'mtiscd; all Of aohich as accomplished in tie !
to PortIand tile city Of Neac York, from the conre-
'tence Of conceGlmen em6rGcing the za7geet portion
Of tie business"
In one case the vessel was burned as soon as the
negroes could be gotten out of her! Other cases
will doubtless be brought to light in due season:
though to such degree of perfection has this bust
hess been carried and difficult is it to detect those
engaged in it. that it is not often that the guilty au
thors are discovered, while it is no unfrequ4nt case
to realize so much money by single VOYAGE that
the vessels are either scutted destroyed after the
ho1Tld bargain has been cOnsummated their living
freight placed in the hands of their tyrant and the
dead cast into the sea! 1t would be unjust to hold
me people OF the North responsible for those in the
ce States who build the ships engaged in this bar
baFous traffic. for those who supply the vessels
with water aud provisions; but is this not done by
loohtonlsts in regard to the South? Although the
act Is historical and defcs contradiction, that the
PACKS OF the South are happier than their free kim
ired, and that they enjoy more comforts than MANY
laDOrcFS euirS Of tba