New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-28
THE PROGRESS or SOUTHERN OPINION.
SLAVERY THE BASIS OF REPURLICANISM
RRoPEYIgG OF THE SLAVE TRADE
SLAVERY ESSENTIAL TO REPUBLICANISM
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SLAVERY ESSENTIAL TO REPUBLICANISM
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Slavery is national and not sectional. 1t was coevh
with The Union and existed Ofaw as well rs fact IN the
colonial ceys which preceded the Revolution II was
introduced originals with the sanction and through the
oxertion of the mother country wac received iao all
tie Colouie, and institution in every State at
the period Of the formation Of the present tonstuon
Not cnv tt;s-cycry of the original thirteen states
soenny recognized it, object of national import
srce and having national existence, by ratiyno
Tie Constitution which covered BY an cypress guar
aIfee in favor Of the Shareholder.
Such briefly, are the true origin and polItca nature
Of an ip,t tuition now ernOray peculiar to the South,
which l. denounced and assailed as sectional by one
half of the Mon and is declared TO be hostile 10 the
principles which the Constitution is founded blot
upon the national eacutcheon' and SIN before Goo
ala man But il is not with the ranpaDtcy Of foam
ing fanacism the shallow sophstries OF hypocrlt
icol philanthropy we have here 10 d..
We have proposition to lay down III It may appear
startling 10 many becaUse It is new, bat will have
weight and nsderation with the thinking, inasmuch
as /; is based on both philosophy andeXperieDce We
therefore declare that Slavery not only national OF
orep and Of right but it is essential 70 republican ma
tionsIitv But for Slavery, Republcansm would have
lonp since becou tale IN these United States.
But jor the stern and uhfnchng vlndicaton of tho
rp hts OF white by the independent citizens OF the
Sluy ehodng States, whom power could not intindite
csptal buv or monopoly crush this conedcracy would
have long tuce been merged into central despotsm,
as cruel and relentless any that oppressed and
in poverished people. The bank monopoly on the
one hard and tx manufacturing monopoly on the o'her
CO mbiuipg with tie large monarchal element which, il
is useless to deny has always existed in the country,
would have been able to effect this, but for the steady
manly opposition Of the Southern people, and the
terly exer ions of their statesmen to Illustrate the de-
sgns of that Holy Alliance against the rights and
Liberties of white men
1t was in Slavery that the conservative element of
Republcansm was found to overcome this reactonary
movement toward the annhilation Of individual dig
nifty and liberty well as State sovereignty and the
subiugaton Of tie country To mOneyed mOnOpOlCs and
Il central power. II is among the sayeholdng popu-
lation that RepubicGnism has had its true home and
only defense. IL il they who have made the Union
what it il commercially and politically. 1t is only
they who can hereafter maintain safe and honorable
Union, and enjoy rational liberty.
History is nsiructive heed its teachings; they
invariable and unenng. ii tells us that great re-
pnblc never existed without Slavery II tells US that
where partial and defined Slave did not exist Of law
the mars OF the working people have been slaves and
worse thar slaves II tells that wherever univ ersal
Freedom has nOminally existed, poverty, want, and
possible famine, and Illuminating dependency of the
poor upon the rich have been the price Of painted de-
msiOn and the remedy, invariably the same, reyolu
ton and carnage, until nations have been almost
drowned in their OWL blood
Slavery was an institution in all the ancient Repub
les but in two We have eminent examples. In Rome,
the mightes in arms, and Athens the most glorious in
art of all the old Republics, Slavery prevailed to
greater extent than in any State OF the Union, In
AtheIs the proportion OF slaves to freemen was about
two to one-in Rome scarcely less and yet, with this
institution mbcdded in their very hearts they lived
and fourished, century after century, aud reached
maensicence and grandeur ofNyhch the history Of
modern free society affords example
Modern free society, at present organized Ia rad-
cnllv wrong and rotten 1t il sclidcstroying and
never exist happily and normally until it is qualified
by the introduction of some principle equivalent IN
effect TO the institution of Southern negro Slavery
We do not mean that the whites the laboring por-
40 of sbould bOld ne n
from it. We would have them liberated from the real
bondage, poverty and wsnt to which free society ex
poses them They are liable to be dependent without
the hope of relief The capital their labor creates
affords them in return guaranty against want when
their labor ID longer demanded They have the
right to labor and pocket their WAGES if they can get
any if not then they have the GLORIOUS right TO starVe
at their expense and on their own responsibility
"A privilege which the poor African slave cannot
enjoy
In the Northern States, free society has proved q
failure 1t is rotten 10 the core. 1t would have de-
sroyed itself ere this but that its disease has had
outward manifestation and ts feverish and desperate
energies have been directed in demoniac enmity and
warfare against the South. Let the demonsm which
its putescence has engendored succeed and society
with its most sacred sanctions and Its hottest insttu-
lions will fall before it, both in the North and South
and the country must become the seat OF bowling anar.
chy or iron CespOusm.
Negro Slavery then, ia the conservative element of
Repubcanism and the fImest basis o society in these
United States. This truth the thinking of the
North ~ ,ognZe at this moment. They begin to See
that the kne of the Union and OF national republic an
ism was sounded when bad, ambitious, or bigoted
men in the North declared Slavery to be sectional and
not national and weak aud selfish politicians in
the South anxious to preserve Northern connection
at ahy price the South and the country bowed to the
sentence and only crayed for mercy.
Such being the social and political value of slavery
its durion and extension of the first importance
and nothing, at the present time, should more nearly
interest the wise phanthropis aud the patriotic states
than to devise measures to effect these Obects-to
restore slavery TO ts original national character and
make il object OF political solicitude. We cannot
avoid looking with ealously and suspicion upon any
political combination III the South which does not fatty
commit Itself 10 these views, albeit no less parsonage
than Mr.. Breckenridge of Kentucky, gave his solemn
sanction TO their ncgatOn.
We have heretofore pointed to the of negro
exemption as one highly favorable TO the objects just
named TO wit: the diffusion and extension of Slavery,
and the consequent consolidation OF the s6ve-ownng
inteles One other In favor OF, though
we fear It's announcement may throw some of the
:" ancient foge men into almost epeptic cOnster-
ration. Nevertheless, We shall announce IT, and here
declare that not only desire 10 make territories
free slave territories, and to acquire new territory into
which TO extend Slavery such As Cuba, North eastern
Mexico &c.-hut we would reopen the African slave
trade that every white man might have chance to
make himself owner OF one Or more negroes, and go
with them and his household gods wherever opportunity
beCkoned 10 enterprise.
But the North would never consent to this; they
would dissolve the Union rather than graft IT, say the
croskipg mpracucables. Gentlemen, you do not know
the North oracular as you lock when dubcusly shak-
ing your heads IT would not oppose any more bitterly
u large demand ike this, boldly made than The small
rs, one family and politely urged Try it. There i'
nothing TO lose by the experiment AT AL events II
the a;temp. 10 reopcn this trade should fail would
give one more proof of how Injurious our connection
with the North has become to AS aud would indicate
ole more signal advantage which Southern conieder-
acy would have the present heterogeneous aSSo
cation called the Mon
ITHE SLAVE TRADE To BE REOPENED.