Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-05-13
COMMUNICATIONS.
SOUTHERN VIEWS ON SLAYER AND NEBRAsKs
WARREsTos, (VA.) APRIL 5, 1854.

WARRENTos, (VA.) APRIL 5, 1854
Messrs. EDIToRs: The excitement that uniformly T.
tends al discussions Of the question Of slavery furnish
unmstakable evidence of the deep interest that beogs
to the subject and ought to admonsh those whom
public affairs entrusted of the necessity of dealing
with it eandidly and justly.
1t is great question: and may we'll enlist the est
abilities Of the country. 1t the safety andpos
perty of ancient institution existing among rom
the foundation of Government, spreading fur
teen Of the hiryone United States, inseparably liner
woven with domestic relations and involving heor
tunes Of many thousands of citizens Nay, more
the integrity of the Constitution the weae of
all the States and the best interests of the very perons
who are warning upon it. /,
1t to be regretted that subject of such exceeding
gravity rarely receives dispassionate consideration;
morbid fanaticsm and sectional eaousies for the most
part bound the views Of oil who engage in its discussion
1t seems be considered that there is diversity exist
ing between the interests of the savehodng and the
saveholdng States and the peculiar notions of Io
tcans respecting this diversity less give colo,to
their opinions touching every of general mpr
lance. They cannot argue the simple question Of tie
rights Of Congress in the Territories and the extent to
which it may lawfully exercise authority then;
every thing is through distorted medium; and s
Federal legislation is resolved into unnatural struggle
for sectional advantage.
There perhaps innate disagreement as to the n
stution of slavery In all ages of the world have
differed about it; but here is and must be consdereda
it is with the circumstances that surround it. 1t is deto
discuss its lawfuness idle to talk about
ornonconformiy revealed religion tits than Idle
to declam against its alleged sinfulness and immortality.
With slavery is existing fact to borrowed
phrase, isa constitutional fact" sanctioned by
and supported by law rooted deeply in the wide
where is found that it hardly possible for the strength
of all the world beside to accomplish its overthrow.
There was time when neghbors of the North did
deem harshy of this institution In their early
history, impeed by that spirit of enterprise and COM
mercia activity in which they still much excel us
they embarked actively in the slave trade manacel
capves freshly taken from the burning sands of their
native land brought by them iuto ports pecu
mary profit made from their sale, and, for time,
pulsory labor performed their soil the like duties
that engage it elsewhere; but experience proving TINT
description Of labor to be better suited to the climate AMI
soil of the Southern States their slaves gradually
transferred those cimes that without any sacr
fee to themselves by force of physical influences tie
Northern became free and the Southern slave States
We know that in the beginning the people Of the South
protested against the introduction Of this species Of labor
and endeavored exclude it by law but British cupidt
and Yankee thrift prevailed their repugnance and
they forced to submit to necessity from which heJ
had not the of escape In the preamble to the first
constitution of Virginia, dated the 29th of June, 1776
there put forth series of Of misrule the part
of George the Third King of Great Britain and Ireland
and Eector Hanover before that time entrusted with
the exercise of the kingly Office in the government of Yr
GINA, by which it was declared that the government Of
this country, as before exercised under the of
Great Britain, totally dissolved and prominent in the
array Of acts of misrule that inhumanusc of his
negative by which he refused permissionto exclude
slavery by law. 1t was then too late to expd it.
To speculate as to what would probably now be the
condition Of this country and indeed of the world had
the distant coasts of Africa been vstet in this
natural traffic, may be curious than useful but
when regard the products Of the Southern States and
to what extent their great staples cotton sugar. rice
and tobacco, enter into mans consumption when we
consider how much the commercial manufacturing and
other industrial pursuits Of all the great nations de-
pendant upon them for prosperity and vgor, to how
many hands they give employment, to how much naked
they give clothing, and to how much hunger they
give food and then consider to what extent the
wonderful development Of these great staples is indebted
to the system Of compulsory labor and the peculiar adapt
edness of the constitution Of the negro the climate in
which they produced it would not be little difficult
to estimate the value to mankind proceeding from that
source Left to its own voluntary selection of employ
ment labor would never have subdued the rceswamps of
Carolina have expressed the juices from the sugar
of Florida louisiana and Texas and but small
the cultivation of the cereal grains and the production of
livestock empoyments eongena to the freeman
Wherever slavery prevails capital and labor will be
mainly employed in the business of agriculture In this
country it has devoted the immense territory of fourteen
States to the growth Of materials for and
manufactures and converted its inhabitants into con-
surners of their products With the unrestricted inter-
course existing between the States, when both the pur
chase and sale untaxed it is not too much to expect
that as inconsderable part Of their earlier gains
sprung from the traffic in slaves very much of the
present prosperity of the free States proceeds from the
labor of that class Their merchants mechanics, farm
ers lawyers DOCTORS in word every professional and
industrial pursuit among them, in way, either
diately or Immediately derive profit from that sources
even their gowned dvines in the toll Of the slave finds
noursbment for the fairness and pride that swell their
Importance.
Deprive Great Britain of the fruits of her in
great staples and she would be almost stricken from
the list of independent States without them she could
not cohe and give employment to her throngng Masses
nor long stagger under the oppressive weight of her
cumulatng debt Deprive the great cities Of Boston,
New York. and Philadelphia of these fruits and their
huge proportions would fall to decay, and of
wretchelness absolute than words could depict
mark their ruin And yet tits upon the system of slavery
as existing in these States established under such cir
cumstances and productive of all these benefits that the
people of Great Britain who bound by kindred
ties and treaties Of amity and brethren Of the North
States, living with in intimate relationship
ceaselessly waging impacabe But for the evils
that would be entaed both and slave and the
ruin that would fall upon the aret land under the SUM-
it would be but commensurate punishment if sudden
the moment Of their greatest prosperity and the highest
pitch Of their pride, insane OF man or dread
fat of Ompotence would strike loose the letters of the
slave and condemnng blind assaans to suffer oil
the evils from the act leave them to exhaust
to the dregs the full cup Of their false and pretended phi
lanthropy. ....
Governing distant communities denied a representa-
ton in her halls of legislation and In opposition their
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