Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-09-05
CurBil1e the Bridge.

Whenever the North has been unnsty assail-
ed from the South, we have not been slow to de-
fend her and when she is unjust inconsistent
in her treatment of the South, we shall not spare
the deserved lash A more palpnhle case Of
cnrsing the bridge that has carried saTely
over the river" could not be found, than in the
rabid Abolitonsm along shore in New England
albeit our birth place-of those who are quiet
" renpng the best fruits of slavery which they,
or their fathers, helped to establish and extend,
while direct traffic in the black race was profta.
BILE. 1t is notorious that New England bottoms
were. not beyond the recollection of men now
living, the chief transporting agent in the slave
trade, and that Yankee shippers, now full Ofholy
honor that human being should suffer bond
age, were expertest in hunting negroes on the
coast OF Africa, and rendiest to coin dollars or
douboons by the sale whenever there was mar
ket. In the South, when Engand-whose Liver
pool Il century ago, was little better than nest
ofprnte and slave traders-ntrodneed the snv
cry, she now rails against, though practising it,
more or less, all over her empire ; or in BraziLor
Cuba, Yankee enterprise was wide awake in the
slave trade
"ln fact, the connection of New Englanders
with slavery was of the worst kind, they being
the robbers and kidnappcrs, without whose aid
the extension of slavery would have been com
paratiyely slow. The planters of the South were
rarely engaged in the slave trade beyond small
domestic exchange. 1t required New England
enterprise to scour the shores of Africa and bring
nen to bondage. And New England shared also
i'll the labor of slaves. She nursed the system in
her own bosom 10 the fullest extent warranted by
pecuniary profit. Had her soil and climate been
more favorable to slavery Boston would to this
day have chung ms closely to it as Charleston
New England Christianity and philanthropy gave
up slavery, when mercenary considerations nd-
yised and not before. Even now they are not
e.. 81, Il e n Al
are, they have consulted their own convenience.
The moral obligation not the prime inccn-
tive to cropping the traffic"
At the period when jefferson and Franklin
were the denouncers of slavery ms 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 nicely that would shame Southern plan
ter. And how is il to-day The manufactur-
ing portions of New England are fattenng on a
slave labor they are ashamed to acknowledge,
aud are unwilling to let alone, as was the prac-
tice toward them i'll their slave holding era
The cotton and rice fields of the South may be
likened to a cocoa nut, of the South which gets
the shell and New England the milk-New Eng
land capital cracking the nut No matter that
the milk is sweaty and bloody, so long it is
money colored it is sweet and they lap it mp. Ii
will never curdle on their lips,whiIe it is
profitable, and ms they will flourish unblushingly
on it, while denouneing the Southern planter
who furnishes it and sympathisng with the
poor negro" who, II slave in the South, is not
stuck away in n NEGRO pew in the corner OF
the church, as are all-save Il few stars of the
Douglas color-eoored persons in New Eng.
land.
Understand us-we have no sympathy with
human bondage but we have n regard for con
sstency, eXpedency, the Constitution, &c, ant
an utter detestaton of the hypocritieal cant OF
rabid abolitionism. 1t is like the zeal of new
converts won over to professions of piety, whcr
it is no longer profitable to avow practice
life of wickedness In regard to New England
and the North, we cum only qualify our remark,
| by applying Them do,-only to funatica
"higher-law" abolitonists.--N. Y. Mirror.
The somewhat notorious adventurer, Count
Raousset de Boulbon, who has twice attempted
the conquest of the Mexican State of Sonora
seems to have arrived near the close of his ca
reer. We had an account, few days ago, sta
ting that he had headed a party of Frenchmen
recruited in San Francisco by the French anC
Mexican consuls, and sent them down to Guya
mas to be Incorporated in the Mexican army
Then we had news of the defeat of his party. ant
his own death in the conflict. Now, it is report
cd, that he was not killed,but captured, and that
! he has been sentenced to be shot. If this last
report be true the count has mnde n sorry end tc