The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-23
SOUTHERN RIGHTS AND BRITISH REVIEWERS.

The July number Of the Westminster Review British
monthly contains elaborate article upon the policy of
the United States from which take the following pas
cage:
The progress civilization and the conscience of
kind are against the Shareholders and they know it, and
therefore they Desperate Here at least, is party
which has objecvz the preservation Of the privileges
and OF the property its members Hence that energy Of
purpose and consanc of action which make up for the bad
of their and the fewness OF their numbers These
hundred and fifty thousand shareholders have far more
government of the twenty twenty
million inhabitants of the United States than have the landed
aristocracy that Of England In the South though even
there but small minority, they secure almost all the other
whites holding each of them the chance OF
possessing human property, and by nsuring to them the
luxury depressing black man, if too to own
him. BY appealing to the caste feeling they enlist the preu
dces by the work which they their slaves to do they in
yoye the both North and South their side and
BY compactness their party organization and the single
Of their object, they hold the balance between and
therefore the every other party in the Union Every
year. however, this predomnance is becoming more difficult
to preserve"
The idea thrown out by the British reviewer Gas to the
power of the slaveholders is of those ppanees in
which fanatics like Phillips and Garrison love to uxurate
before amalgamated crowds If prete1t shallow de-
serve an answer it would be easy show the overwhelm
ing power the other hand the minores represented
in the Congress of the United States by the abolition lead
ers There is of these aboonss who really rep
resens the white people his district his State however
he may consrucvely affect to do So Take the abolition
senator's for instance Senator Hale of New Hampshire
is the representative of about five hundred free negroes
leaving three hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred
whites utterly neglected Senator Seward s the repre-
sentative about twenty-five thousand free blacks in the
State of New York the utter and contempuous excu-
sion of three million seventy thousand whites, who
made act interiors in the grand game of that willy
leader in the cultivation of the anatica spirit Of abolition
Senator Wade, of Ohio, another of the class turns
from the nineteen hundred thousand white of his
State and bestows his affections upon twelve thousand free
blacks Senator Summer has for the nine hundred
thousand whites Of Massachusetts, his mission being to
atte and TO wn upon the ortsix hundred free blacks of
his State The suggestion holds good of such repre-
Giddngs L. D. Campbell and their confeder-
aos To elevate the free negro to political and social
equality with the whites and to give uterance to the idea
of the immediate dcverance of the coored population OF
the South the whole business of the abolition representa-
tves in Congress The interests of the whesof the
Intelligent and energetic Caucasian utterly aban
doned and lost in TIE wild chase of these fanatics after
the dangerous phanoms and follies to which they
committed. But there other aspects in which this
question may be regarded.
There is nothing upon which abotonism is SO apt to
of slave labor in the Congress of the United
States. They forget that in the first place. the const
tuition guarantees this right to the southern people,
which is based upon the idea of holding slave prop
crty. They forget that it sacrifice the par,
of the South when they yielded the point that every
nonvoer in the North should be represented in the
tonal Congress while in the South but threehs of
whole body OF slaves should be counted 1t is late
the North to up objection this compromise at the
present day. is monsrous piece Of hypocrisy in the
abolitionists and knownohings to do So ut all
for, while they both cry out against the rcpresen-
ta,ion of non-yoting interest in the South, the
abolitionist induce northern opinion (however
otherwise he may poison it with his reckless calumnes
upon the Souh) to grant equal general suffrage to
the free negro and the know-nohing oiling dis
franchise the foregn-born a citizen so as to place him.
practically, level with the southern slave! How
Characteristic Of the aholitionissl They are willing to
unite with party pledged to mercess prescription
certain whites in the free States simply because such whites
born in other lands and bound also osuch policy
will forever practically disfranchse them yet on the
other hand they demand social and political rights for the
slave and representation in the national Congress
They indignant that the constitution of the United
States should provide that thrcefhs of those held to
service for term Of years'-meanng the slaves of the
De counted, IN representation
with the whole number of free persons and this
they would destroy the constitution but they uncompan-
ingy represent the unnatualized foregborn white citizen
of the free States who is voter and theoretically assist
others to prevent him from enjoying the right OF
suffrage Nay, but for the compromise by which the
slave population in the relation of three of FIVE should
be represented in Congress- the representation of all
nonvoiers would have been concurred in Before
the abolitioniss and their English and navebon echoes
therefore proceed further in their efforts overthrow the
constitutional rights Of the South by hypocrcal sympa-
,hes for the cooed race would it not be well for them
abandon their persistent purpose of making millions Of
achife stares in he NORTH
AS to the other point of the British reviewertbe
tempt to The nonsaveholdng majority Of the south
States against the saveholdng interest This is
exhibition of ignorance that would have occurred had
he consulted his American brethren beforehand They
would have convinced him that the people Of the South
have made and make, common cause against their
enemies that however southern may have desired in
former years contribute to gradual emancipation OF
the slaves, IL Is to any extentowng mainly,
we may add to such language that used by the
Westminster Raviow-and that other motives control
the people q NE Soh beside those supplied by this British