Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-12-07
From the Cleveland Herald.
THE DESTINY OF THE SOUTH.

rvs Go lego, on the sd OF July last. lit has
been published in pamphlet form, and we
End an extended extract from it in the Rich
mond Enquirer. 1t is able, and eloquent,
and -efnes the line of policy which many Of
the public men of the South have marked out
for the aveholding States, with bold, dis
tinct hand. We copy few significant sem
fences from it:
presume / address none but Southern
men. / may address you as such, for there
is no more sincere defender of her institu-
tons than am. The destiny Of the South
is one full of matter for conc IN and reilec-
ton for hsr sons. Perhaps there has been
no cline in the worlds history, whose desti-
nv was obviously more entirely dependent
| upon herself. Ii true to herself it NAV be
more full Of dignity, more frluoht with good
to the human race, than that of any people
in the present age. But if untrue TO her
own highest interests, her fate may be the
most melancholy in the records of history.
When reg trd the sp c.acle of six mil
lions of whites welding the permanent labor
Of three mill IONS Of Aficans, in the cult
valon of those articles which feed and
clothe the world; when remember, that
their labor lifts the Hood gates of that vast
mannf curing horde, IN whose employment
Kingdoms find peace, and whose discharge
invovrs carnags and reyo luton; Wien re-
member that when the century opened, cot
ton was scarcely known as al, export, and
that fifty years has Witnessed the astounding
fact, that il now constitutes more than one
third Of the whole export Of tn country !;
when see every turn Of the wheel in the
worlds revolutions increasing the demand
for the products Of slave Labor, and making
in the order Of Providence, slavery per-
petuity in the Southern States; when | see
the Queen Of the Antilles stretching out her
jaweled arms to hug the kindred shores of
our Florida; when look upon the ciumblng
edihce OF Mexican civilization, requ ring
Southern men an Southern labor to recon
stu es 1t unier Anglo American institutions
Ia country throwing its long arm about our
glorious Cuff, and almost touching Cuba
with is cx rem;ty; when real of the rich
81 me Of the Amazon valley, awaiting the
/ labor of the African under the direction of
the intelligent Southerner, for is full Gsvel-
opm mt i'll those fruits which will send COM
| fort and enjoyment throughout the civilized
word-wh n tax, y view Of this whitening
! Ii Id OF a r,ch harvest to S0nthera enterprise,
cannot despair OF q nobler d sliny for the
| South, uuder the Iar,archal relation Of
slavery, thtn awaits any other people. 1t is
hers 70 deyelope the tropics Of our cont-
nent, and M IKE them what Proyid nee de-
signcd them for, tile comfort and lpDinpss
OF tie misses OF the world. u strov Ter
i H1tiiutlon, and you strip poverty Ct its
clothing, and wellth Of its ad ,rnirg. At
her bdd ng, every sp ndle in Englan.i's fac
tori s would cease; ana like the tabled Ne
aaesi*, she may clip the wings Of a worlds
commerce. With III. Gulf for her harbor,
he waters penet, ating the valleys of the
Mississippi AMI amazon, like the arteries
from Ter heart, would b ar back her swift
flowing wealth TO tho rcmotest parts Of the
continent; every seas canvass woatd be
flied 10 bear the products Of her labor, an
every Cline be refreshed by the bles ing Of
her industry.
Anr who, to such people shall dictate
terms ?-shall tell her to SURF n Ter the talent
which God has given her. or be Frustrated to
the barbafiSm Of st. Domingo? | saw it
bold!y-she holds the rcns Of empire in
Christendom, by means Of this, her very
weakness. IL she b. brave; il she know
and ho d her vantage ground il she speak
to her foes the languag, OF drGanc,, not of
fear, she must triumph. VIVA, should make
her craven? Whence does she trace h
genea togy? The mon who sna,chcd from
the hand, OF ins0lant pow r tn. rth riuhS
OF our liberties, We're Soutlerneis, s.The
iliu>trions S ,uthernrr' vino sleeps on the
BANKS Of his own Potomac, led tn armies Of
the States TO glory an to victory. ASoulh-
ern voice whose dead echo S sleep til n the
sound of my own, proclaimed tyranny to be
treason, tn, love OF liberty to be true loyal
ty, and the clahk of Boston chains the sum
mons 10 the fight f Independence. A SDutI-
EN- haId penned The Declaration winch an
.snl g. t,.l
ern state-why should | not name her p
sirg nia-may G d ever bless her-soundsd
in de>pot's ear, the first def mt note Of the
first ffe Commonwealth Of Amer cal
Our origin, our history, our manifest dcs-
tiny, summon Us to win name, the noble
in history.
Much, young gentlemen, depends upon
you! 10 you the fate OF the South must be
N great part committed. The Wizard of the
North makes Scotiand's baauteous Queen
appea to her young page, when tying from
captivity ana tr ason:
''Uh Roland Gsaeme! BE true to me
Many have len false To me-
So speaks the South to each one of you
We again cali the att MT on Of the psople
OF the North, without distinction of party,
10 this subject. We tell them that it i the
purpose OF the Siaveho ders to propagate thai
institution, and TO convert this Government
into huge machine for that end. We must
have the '.jeweled arms" Of Cuba. We
must convert the remaining territories Of
Mex CO into Slave States. We must 20 on,
annesng and building up Slavery to the
lsthmns of Darlen; and we must not stop
eyt n there. all Sou,h America must b.
made tributary to this great scheme. The
vast valley OF the Amazon, the territory Of
which EQUALS, if 1t does not exceed that OF
the Mississippi, must be seized upon, and
carved into Slse States. Slavery is to be