Washington telegraph., 1854-10-04
CUrstng The ErillEc.

" ncncVer .he North has been unlusiiy
as-ailed from the South. we have not been
slow 10 defend her. and when she IS unjust
or inconsistent in her treatment Of the
South. we shall no: spare the deserved lash.
4 more palpable case of "eursing the
bridge that has carried one safely over the
river" could not be found, than in the rab-
id abolitionisIn along-shore in New England
albeit our birth -piace-of those who arc
quietly rcaPing the best fruits Ok slavery
which they, or their fathers helped ID e.
tablsh and extend, while direct traffic III
the black race was profitable. Ii II notori-
ous that New England bottoms were, not
beyond the recollection Of men now living.
the chief transporting agent in the slave
trace, and that Yankee shippers, now full
Of holy horror that a human being should
suffer bondage, were experiest in hunting
negroes on the coast Of Africa. and rcadiest
to coin dollars or doubloons by their sale
whenever there was a market. In the South.
where England--whose Liverpool, centu-
ry ago, was little better than a nest of pi-
rates and slave traders--introduced the
slavery she now rails against. though prac-
ticing il, more or less. al! over her empire !;
Or III Brazil, or Cuba, Yankee enterprise
was wide awake in tho slave trade.
In fact the connection Of New Eagland
with slavery was the worst kind, they being
the robbers and kidnarncra, without whose
and the extension VI slavery would have
been comparatively slow The planters of
the South were rarely engaged ia the slave
trade beyond small domestic exchanges II
required New England enterprise 10 secur
the shores Of Africa and bring men u bond
age. And New England shared.nlso in the
labor or slaves. She nursed the system in
her cwn bosom 10 TIE fullest extent, war
ranted by pecuniary profit. Had her soil
and climate been more favorable to slavery,
Boston would to this dag, have clung as
closely to it as Charleston. New England
Christianity and philanthropy gave up
slavery when mercenary Considerations ad-
vised, and not before Even now, they are
not fairly rid Of il, particularly, and in .
far q they are, they have consulted their
own convenience. Tie moral obligation
was not the prime incentive tu dropping the
traffic.
At tie period when jefferson and Franz
Hin were tie denouncers Of slavery as an
'uDholy traffic. prominent New England
men were the most violent defenders, even
Of the slave trade. They counted tie rich
profits OF the business with 4 nicety that
would shame a Southern planter And
how is it to-day? The manufacturing por-
tions Of New England are tiltteuing on
slave labor they are ashamed to acknowledge
and are unwilling 10 let alone, as was the
practice toward them in their slavehoIding
era. The cotton and rice fields of the South
may be likened TO a cOcoanut, OF which the
South gets the shell and New England the
lnilk-New England capital cracking the
nut. NO matter that the milk is sweaty
and bloody 40 long a. Il Is money colorul Il
j. sweet. and they lap il up. Il viii never
sour nor curdle "a their lips while il i pro
fitable. and a. they viii flourish urblushing-
" on it. while denouncing the Southern
planter, who furnishes it, aud synlpathizing
with the poor negro" who, as slave in
the South, is not stuck away in negro
pew in the corner of the church, as are all
save Z few stars Of the Douglass color
colored persons in new England.
Understand us-we have no sympathy
with human bondage, but We have regard
for consistency, expedieucy, the constitution,
&c., and On utter detesiation Of the hypo-
critical cant Of rabil aLolitionism. Il is
like the zeal Of new converts won over to
professions Of piety. when it il no longer
profitable 70 avow Or practice life Of wick
edness. IN regard to New England and the
North, We can only qualify our remarks by
applying them, Al We DO. only to fanatical
"hlgher-law" abolitiOnists
". L. Miyror