Eastern times., 1854-09-14
CurSing the Bridge.

Cursing the Bridge.
Col. FULLER is well known as q decided
whlg, an Office holder under Gen TayIof's ad-
'ninls'ratlon, and as the editor of the New
iork Mirror. Ia late number of his paper
i'e "ro'e As follows, and his language will apply
as well % New York as To New England -
" heheVer the north has been uniustly as
sailed from the south, we have not been slow
% defend her, and when she is unjust 81 incou-
sistent IN her treatment Of the south, We shall
not spare the deserved lash. a more palpable
case Of cursing the bridge that has carried
one safely over the river could not be found
than 10 the aboiIionism along in New
England-albeit our birth placeA-of those who
are quietly reapng the best fruits Of slavery
which they, or their fathers, helped to establish
and extend, while direct traffic in the black
race was Proftal u. Il is notorious that New
England bottoms were, not beyond the reccol-
lection of men now living, the chief transport
ing agents in the slave trade, and that Yankee
skIPpers, now full Of holy horror that human
being should suffer bondage, were expertest in
hunting negroes on the coast Of Africa. and
readest 10 coin dollars or douboons by their
sale wherever there was a market. In the
south, when England-whose Liyerpuol. "A
century ago, was little better than a hest Of
pirates and slave iraders-inlroiuCed the slave
trade she now rails against, though practising
1t, more or less, all over her empire or in
Brazil, or Cuba, Yankee enterprise was wide
awake in the slave trade
In fact, the connection Of New Enelanders
with slavery was Of the worst kind, they
being the robbers and kdnappers, without
whose aid the extension Of slavery would have
been comparatively slow. The planters Of the
south were rarely engaged in the slave trade
beyond small domestic exchange. II required
New Engla enterprise 10 scour The shores
OF Africa and bring men 10 bondage. And
New England shared also in the labor of
slaves. She nursed the system in her own
bosom 10 the fullest extent warranted By Pc
cuniary profit. Had her soil and climate been
more favorable to slavery, Boston would, 20
this day, have hung as closely to il as Charles
ton. New England christianity and phlau.
throPy gave up slavery when mercenary con.
sderaons advised, and not before. Even
now, they are not fairly rid Of il, practically,
and in SO far as they are, they have consulted
their own convenience. The moral obligation
was not the prime incentive 10 dropping tho
traffic.
At the period when Jefferson and Franklin
were the denouncers Of slavery as an 'unholy
traffic, prominent New England men were the
most violent defenders, even Of The slave trade
They counted The rich profits Of the business
with a nicely that would shame a southern
planter. And how is il to-day The manu-
featuring portions Of New England are fatten-
ing slave labor they are ashamed 10
acknowledge, and are unwilling 10 let alone,
as was the practice toward them in their slave
holding era. The cotton and rice fields of the
south may be likened 10 cocoa nut, of which
the south gets the shell and New England the
milk-New England capital cracking the nut.
No matter that the milk is sweaty and bloody,
so long as it is oney-colored il is sweet, and
they lap il up. II will never sour nor enrdIe
on their lips while ii is profitable, aud they
will flourish nnblushingly on it, while de-
nouncing the southern planter who furnishes
il, and sympathizing with the poor negro
who, as a slave in the south, is not stuck away
in negro pew in the corner Of the church,
as are all save a few stars of the Douglas or
der-colored persons in New England.
Understand us-we have no sympathy with
human bondage, but we have regard for con-
sistency, expediency, the constitution, &c.,
and an utter detestation Of the hypocritcal
cant Of rabid abolitionism. 1t is like the zeal
Of new converts won over to professions of pi-
ETY., when il is no longer profitable to avow or
practice lite of wickedness. In regard to
England and the north, we can only qualify
our remarks by applying them, as we do, on
ly to fanatical, higher law abolitonists.