Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-05-29

Relying upon the passage Of this bill
of abominations by Congress, and upoi
the usual submission to the aggression
OF slavery by northern politicians, ant
Iby the people of the north, who allow
themselves TO be led by the nose by those
politicians, the ultra-advocates Of The
slave power at the south are becoming
holder every day in unmasking their po
Ilicy. Wa have seen many indications Of
this of late,b but the following, is from the
Charleston, Is. c. Standard, of recen,
date. We beg our readers to peruse il
carefully, as plain statement of the
hopes ard intentions of the madmen who
Eare now pushing the Nebraska Bill thro'
congress, as one among their measures
Of aggression upon Freedom, and for the
lperpetuation of Slavery:
"a general rupture in Europe would
force upon as the undisputed sway of
the Galf Of Mexico and the West In
dies, with all their rich and mighty pro-
Eductions. Guided by our genius and en-
Iterprise, new world would rise there,
as it did before under the genius of Co.
lumbus. With Cuba and St. Domingo,
we could control the productions Of the
tropics, and with them, the commerce of
the world, and ruth that, the power of
the world. Our true policy is to look
Ito Brazil as the next great slave power,
and as the Government that is to direct
or license the development of the coun-
try drained by the Amazon. Instead Of
courting England, we should look to Bra
I'll and the West Indies. The time will
come when treaty of commerce and al
lance with Brazil will give us the con-
troll over the Gulf of Mexico and its
border countries, together with the is
lands, and the consequence Of this will
place African slavery beyond the reach
of 1anaticism, at home or abroad. These
two great slave powers now hold more
undeveloped territory than any other
two Governments, and they ought to
guard and strengthen their mutual inter-
Iests BY acting together in strict harmo-
ny and concert. Considering our vast
resources and the mighty commerce that
is about to expand upon the bosom of
the two countries, if we act together by
treaty sce cannot only preserve domestic
seruitude, but we can defy the power of
the world. With frmness and Judge
ment, we can open up the African slave
migration again TO people the noble re-
gion of the tropics. We can boldly de-
fend this upon the most enlarged system
of philanthropy. 1t is far better for the
wild races of Africa themselves. Look
at the 100000 in the United States
who have had the blessings, not only of
civilization bat of Christianity. Can a.
ny man pretend to say that they would
have been better off in the barbarian
state of their native wilderness; and has
not the attempt to suppress, by force,
this emigration increased the horrors of
the "middle passage" ten-fold ? The
good old Las Casas, in 1919, was the
first to advise Spain to import Africans
to her colonies, as a substitute for the
poor Indians, who, from their peculiar
nature, were totally unsuited to bear the
labors of slavery. Experience has
shown that his scheme was founded in
wise and Christian philanthropy. Mil
lions of the black men, yet unborn, will
rise up to bless his benevolent memory.
The time is coming when we will boldly
defend this emigration before the world
The hypocritical cant and whining NOR
ality Of the latter-day saints will die a
way before the majesty of commerce,
and the power of those vast productions
which are to spring from the cultivation
and full delelopment of the mighty tro-
II ical regions in our own hemis phere. If
it be mercy to give the grain-growing
sections of America 20 the poor and hum
cry of Europe, why not open up the
tropics TO the poor African ? The one
region is as eminently suited to them as
the other is to the. white race. There
is as much Philanthropy in one as the
other. We have been too long govern
ed by psalm-singing school-masters from
the North. 1t is time to think for our
selves. The folly commenced in our
own Government uniting with Great
Britain to declare slave importation pi-
racy. Piracy is crime on the high
seas, arising under the law of nations,
and it is as well defined by those laws
as murder is at common law. And for
two nations to sttempt that piracy which
/ is not so, under the law of nations, is an
absurdity. You might as well declare it
burglary, or arson, or anything else.-
And we have ever since, by a joint fleet
with Great Britain on the coast Of At
RIGA, been struggling to enforce this mis-
cradle blunder. The time will come
that all the islands and regions suited to
African Slavery, between US and Brazil,
will fall under the coatrol of these two
slave powers, in some shape or other,
either by treaty or actual possession OF
| the one Government or the other
And the statesman who closes his eyes
to these results, has bat a very small
view of the great questions andinterests
that are looming up in the future. In q
few years, there will be no investment
for the two hundred millions, in the an
nual increase of gold on large scale, SC
profitable and so necessary, as the de-
velopment and cultivation of the tropica
regions now slumbering in rank and wilo
If the slaveholding race in
these States are but true to themselves
l,b,,- L,,,a . pro,f daetipv, before than,