Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-08-03
Tu1TUsDAY MORNING, August ,.
CONSEQUENC CES-TllE NEW
YORK TIMES.

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nIsITNION-IrS CONSEQUENCES NEW
YORK TIMES.
Wa have recently transferred to our columns seve-
raj admirable communications originally published
IN tho New York Journal of Commerce, by writer
who styles himself "Spiri Of TO- We glad to
fnd 20 able writer at the North confirming our
theory, that whilst steady conversation prevailed
with us "want of faitl in law, morality, religion
everything" il the ruling and distinguishing charac
teristc Of the North. These ore his sarcastic words
conveying the same ideas "Thus, upon the ruins OF
tho Constitution five independent nations woudu
themselves into existence in tue free States with what
forms Of gorcrament it is impossible to Conjecture
But such divisions might continue until ever! State
might proclaim it's sovereignty al me
same time some HISS or Brigham Young as ITS rttcf'
As characteristics Of tho South, he mentions, "ihe
reliable stability of character and fixed purposes o
it's citizens" Again "Southerners nro incap,ole oi
committing such stupendous absurdlties, suct o"''
RACES upon individual liberty" We like TO orin9
out our great truths graduny-o prepare the pubic
mind for them. We think now we have snilclehtsy
established our proposition, that "want OF ialth III
every thing distinguishes free society. The next
proposition we propose from time to time to demon
strate and illustrate, is, that the peopeoi lhe
If disunited from tho South, incapable OF se-So
vernment" In addition to tho authority Of 90
we would now refer to letter, published IN 'ne
newspaper. some years ago, from the Hon. h''''"'u
Rush, acknowledging tho receipt Of very able "orh
by NJ. r. H. Garnet Esq, of Virginia. The corn, inc
wheat the cotton of the Souih, and the market wh'cn
the South affords to Northern manufactures a'i"
Northern commerce, ure useful almost indlspeh'aoic
TO her. Yet by great fruSality and industry "h" ny
her trade with the Northwest, she might exc ou' I"
miserable existence, when cut oil from thcse nuFN"
tares; but deprive her of the stay, the guide the p"
,os, of Soutbrrn conservatism and Southern iai'h
leove her 10 be driven madly on her course oy inc
;.,,,,r,, o,rarian and infiel sns with which She
abounds, and the Reign OF Terror the "o"u's' VI
pa,so and the Guilo,ne would he cclipsed and for
gotten.
The great questions at issue between the Nortn
and the South anl which threaten TO bring ABOUT q
dis,olution of the Union, are the Fugitive Slave Law
and tho admission OF slave States into the Union Every
negro who settles in the North is an injury ana nn''
auco 10 society there. Hence free negroes are eH'
cluded. They would oven exclude, TOO, the whitc
man fying from bondage to capital IN Europe tar
more e1acting and oppressive than Southern slavery
for Know -Nothingism s in the ascendant at the
North. They have no compassion for the poor Irish
t.nant-a man Of sense Of energy and industry, who
ia the actual artiicer of their mighty internal in,'
nrovements-but the vicious worthless, filthy negro il
welcomed with applause, provided he has robbed and
ranaway from his master. The people Of tho Free
,.l i1t .ttrp fi
ritiyes to their masters than are ourselves ere, the
negroes furnish for them cotton and grain and mar
! ket for their commerce aud manufactures. Their
escape from their masters would not only deprive the
North Of these great advantages, but locate in their
midst an intolcrable nuisance.
Think of the North, with four millions Of runaway
negroe, added 10 its already teenng population
Pandemonun would be quiet and orderly compared 10
it, The nterests Of Northern men should clearly in
duce them to aid in the rc-capture Of slaves. Their
duty under the laws and Constitution of their coun.
try direct them to the course. Their hatred to
tho South alone prevents their pursuing the dictates
Of interest and of duty. 1t is idle 10 talk Of their
feeling for our weled, vell.clad, well.housed ne
groc. when they evince Zone for the white emgrant
who is in all respects the negro's SUPERIOR and who
| has escaped from worse bondnge. They who felt
not, when tho American ,eamen were impressed BY
thousands by England the high seas need not shed
| crocodile tears over Burrs.
We will now inquire into the interests of the North
on the subject of the admission into the Union Of new
slave States But, frs, We will remark, that the
question Of admission with or without slavery, would
never arise, except in Territories far North that
10 out Of 20 Of its inhabitants would be nonslave-
holders Now if such Territory votes for adnis-
sion with slavery it is ether evidence that slavery
is desirable, or that svcholders very superior
men; 90 that one can control and uverawe nineteen
non. Shareholders. Taking Of community Of iptercst
and concert OF action, all fudge as the owners OF
lands and town proprty would far outnumber the
Shareholders in such Territory and be actuatcd by
like community of interest The landed interest IN
the Union is far numerous than the slave inte'
rest, and destroys very popular argument OF Eng
lsh and American Aboltonists, in accounting for the
ascendancy Of slavenoders And we would re-
mark here, that th@ South will no longer hear
the attempt to stigmeze her becaase She hold slaves
Ours is far more ancient and common form oil
society than that al the North justified alike by
humane and Divine authority, and now working 10
practice much better than Northern or Western Eu-
ropcan society Evc:y slave that is admitted into the
Union furnishes aew and moro extensive market
for the consumer an manufacturers Of the free States
and increases and cheapens their supply OF foou.-
Every free State 50 admitted becomes their rival
and competitor ant narrows and restricts their mar
ket. The Huns Towns and the other municipalities
of tie middle ages tho only abodes OF free society,"
aourished because they wore the merchants anu
manufacturers for the serf. and their masters who
were engaged in coarser labor. After sertdom was
abolished, many ot those towns began to decline, IN
consequence OF loss Of market, and increase OF COM
petition. England and the North, live with little
coarse and hard labor by their commercial and mnna-
featuring skill. Theirs is head work, ours hand
work. Theirs light work, ours hard work. Bat
dissolve the Cnlon abolish slavery at the South ana
then they will have do their own hard and coarse
work. and We will trude and manufacture for our
selves. They, then, will no longer be able to e1-
change, as they do, tho results of one hour OF
their light work, for tho products L! four hours oil our
hard work;-a yard of cloth, for barrel of -four, or
a hundred pounds Of cotton. Without slavery, Eng
land and the North would almost starvc. They get
the lions share Of the profits arising from that lnst
tuition.
Nc resPect, we love, we venerate thc oH'o"' al"
although we can see many advantages that would &C.
crue to the South by its dissolution, We would not
sell our birh-rght for mess of pottage, nor 'hy 10
ills that wo know not Of"
Wo are not ashamed or afraid to own our love LOT
the Union and our determination to stand by II aha
maintain it, so long do SO consistently WIN
the honor and the safety Of the South. we are not
tiesnonoent as to the future The latent coDsorVa-
tism of the North is but the sleeping on' who' we
believe, will ere long arouse and shake OF the isns
with which he now seems to be encumbered. Ii ne
continues TO slumber and to snore, our duty may lie
in another direction.