Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1855-12-13
How England is Interested in the Adolf
ton OF 5laVerY

The deep interest that Great Britain has
taken during the last twenty years in the
question of African slavery in the Unltcd
States an Interest which has induced her
to sacrifice the island Of Jnnaica and gIve
up nl her revenue thelrom--has awakened
in the minds Of many reflective men in this
country most serious Thoughts; aud now,
when that interest has become So extended
as to lead the arisIocracv of old EngLnd to
propose an alliance with New England To
accomplish their long desired object by an
open and actual war with the South, it is quite
time that every man, woman and child should
have their attention aroused.
The present generation in the North has
grown up on English abolition literature,
and the public mind has been so imbued with
the idea tina, negro slavery is a SIM and so
settled in the opinion that it is a great nation
al and moral evil, that with the exception of
the old mrn--who were on the stage at the
time it existed in the NORTH, und saw it. end
we're intimately acquainted with it-oue can
hardly find person now who does not think
it the greatest wrong and evil that ever
cursed community. The general druson
on this subject in the North astonshs@ihe
people in The slave states, aud they wEu1er
how il is possible Tor whole people to con-
ccve, that they know 50 much about their
business, their manners and Their mode OF
treating their servants than they know them
selves, as to dictate to them and pronounce
them all sayages and barbarlans, and under
the curse of the Almighty.
The New York Day Book has, for more
than five years, stemmed the current Of tOn
atheism in the North, taking the bold ground
that slavery was not sln and cot an evil
either to the nation or to the African race
but perfectly natural condition for the ne.
gro, and the only one IN winch he could pos.
slbly exist IN this country The entire race
must remain IN their present condition III the
southern states or die out like the Indian anC
the blacks at the North, before the superior
energy and progressive spirit Of the white Of
, Caucasian race.
The Panama Railroad Company lost 81,
thousand white laborers by death, Wills
building their railroad from ocean to ocean
, a distance of less than sixty miles, which i
at the rate Of hundred men to the mile -
This Zone itcm," of itself shows that TIT
= tropics cannot be- made productive by whit
labor. The abolition ofsIavrry in the }riis
: West Indies has resulted in the almost tota
d abandonment of agricultural pursuits an
! proved most concluslyely that the blacks wi
not work voluntarily for hire. With thes
: truths staring US in the face, together wit
the now well-estabshed fact that the arts
tocracy of England see in the overthrow o
! adjustment of slavery in the Southern States
their only hope or chance of maintann
IS their supremacy, power and wealth, NJ
only at home but in the East Indies, is it nc
o astonishing that our people are not NOR
e aroused to their danger. English li'eratur
Of and Yankee enthusiasm have done thei
work on the puritanica aud religious min
Al in the North. There is, therefore, but it'll
to hope or expect from them The ,d.se@s
J. is too deeply settled to be easily eradicated
II but the South must wake up From the Dol
spirits, clear heads, aud strong minds {
fl southern statesmen we expect much, and W
arc glad to see such writer's as the author
the article we publish to-day taking hold {
the subject IN the way he does. The earne
men Of the South will no longer fight til
wind. mill of fanaticism aud delusion at tn
North, but are going to the fountain hea
aud there attack the lion i'll his lair, The
are no longer to talk about slavery as 81
or an evil, but defend i, as the normal an
therefore riaht condition of the African race
81 and charge home upon abo''IonIsm the greO
e and bold design of breaking up this Unio
" and destroying not only the happiness a"
prosperity of twenty millions Of the whit
race, but the liberties Of the country, an
y all, too, at the dlclalon and for the henef
of the arstocracy of Great BrNaln.-.N
York DaN Book.