The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-05

grafton is increasing into an evil; and it is
time to prepare against it.
"Jam pridem Syrus in Tiberim defluxit
Orontes, ct linguam, ct nores, ct cum tib-
lclne chordas obiquas."
Things are not as they were. In the
earlier days of this Republic we needed
an increase of population for the security
OF our own people, and the development
OF the resources Of the country. We were
then in u condition to Am, ricanize by ex-
amble and absorption. We were at
wholesome distance from European asso-
Citations and policy. Our own people
were less pragmatical, and foreigners less
impudent.
But, sir, our danger, now, is not from
weakness. but from unwieldy, unreguIa-
ted strength. The question, with the
statesman, is not whence to draw a pop
ulation, but how to regulate and dscip-
line that which we have; how to preserve
to the people the fullest enjoyment of
property, of life, and of liberty, and yet
to restrain them within the wholesome
limits of constitutional law.
They who guide the ship Of State will
find their powers of Government sounded
to the highest key, in controlling the ele-
ments of fanaticism and propa sandism,
which are of home production, without
the intiamatory influence of irresponsible
conductors Of newspapers or Of mobs-
who mistake rant for reason, and license
for liberty.
Such is the in(atuation of portion Of
those who oppose this bill, that, with the
history of the foreign population in Amer
lean fresh in their memories--a history.
which, at the North, is but n succession of
riots and of mobs, in which private houses
have been invaded, public edifices demol-
lshed, railroads subverted, churches burn
ed, AMI our citizens murdcred-that they
condescend to appeal, even to those out
casts from the purlieus of the cities of the
Old World, to bring their influence to bear
upon this Federal Legislature.
In pursuance Of their madness, they
haze contributed to swell this tile Of cor
ruption, which threatens their present
peace and society, and which threatens us
all in prospective, by graruitouS donations
of public land to any and every foreign.
cr upon the sole condition OF actual settle
mcnt.
Will it be said by Free. .soilers, in sup
port of their Philanthropy, that they de-
sired to provide homes for the negro as
well as for the whites Then the propo-
sItion amounts to this, that we Of the
South, after being robbed Of our slaves,
are asked by Aboltionists and Free-soilers
to relieve them Of population which they
have corrupted into nuisances, by setting
apart portion of territory, of which we
arc joint owners, for the benefit of these
very runaways and free negroes, while our
slaves and ourselves are to bc deliberately
excluded.
Sir, the rrec-soilers but reveal the po-
iltleal uses of slavery when they make
their appeals to foreigners for its restric-
ton; and they but expose their counter
feted philanthropy when they say free
men, unless pressed hy hard and cruel
necessity. will not, and should not, work
besides slaves" Where sir, is their re-
gard for their brethren of the same color
as themselves at the South, IL they fix up
on us what they hold to be "hard and
cruel necessity I" This sentiment bears
the earmarks Of northern philanthr opy.
and Is pregnant commentary upon the
immaculate doctrines they profess-"to
behold in every man brother"
l know, sir, that the equality loving
Free soilcrs of the North, unless pressed
by hard and cruel necessity" refuse to
work beside slaves. know thai, after
sedueIng them from their homes OF cheer
tuness and comfort u. the South, they are
left to starve III the streets while the free
dom loving" emierant from Europe mon
opoizes every avenue of thrift and Of
employment; and also know, that hund-
reds who are now dragging out miserable
existence, in want and in crime, would
Joytully return to their former owners
could they by honest labor but secure the
necessary means. Let Free soilcrs come TO
the South, sir, and we will show them the
white and the black man in a relation of
friendship never dreamed Of in their phi
Iosophy. We will show them slaves, devo-
ted to the family interest, family nan e,
and family honor Of their masters. And
we will show them, in every gentleman
[" man VINO VIII pour out hls money.
and peril his life, if needs be, to protect
his hondsman from cruelty and injustice.
a majority Of our abIest men, have labor
ed side by side with theirslaves, through
years OF enjoyment, of usefulness. and re-
spectability.
But, sir, the humanity OF Free soiIers
would exclude the poor negro, who owes
his condition to the cupidity Of their an.
cestors, from "tI:e rich lands Of this large
territory" and surrender it, without fear
or reward, to the defendants OF, possibly,
the very Hessians-the minions Of King
George, who warred against our liberties
when the negro, by his labor, fed the Con-
tlnental Army Of America.
Sir, the jealousy of the political power
0! slavery IS not 70 10 eo-eTed l.; So G;n.-
sy veil; and let me tell those who are
sincere in morbid sympathy for the i'm.
agiDary sufferings OF slavery, and who,
with incorupt motives. indul 2e in schemes
of restricting it, that better knowledge
OF the workings of the institution would
teach them that genuine philanthropy
demands its extension.