Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-19
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The SOUTHERN SYSTEM OF LABOR,

Of all the disgusting, mawkish things that meet
US occasionally in politics and politicians, nothing
Is more nousoating than the apologetic, deprecato-
~ tone OF the patering and snstrous class of de.
tenders with which the Southern people have been,
afflicted They are those who conceive that black
Slavery is an evil-that it is wrong econo7nically
politically and morally-but that, owing to imper.
ious circumstances, it should be tolerated for
time. Unfortunately Mr. Clay, who with all his
acknowledged statesmanship, rather skinned over
the surface of great questions than dved to thu
5ottom, was niisled into this weak and namby-
pamby view Of the subject; and his defence of the
South was scarcely less dangerous than Stewards
open and formal attacks.
We are glad to see every day indications to Dis
countenance this whining tone and supplicating
can't in their behalf, by weak or treacherous ad-
voeates, who take the South before Northern tri-
bunal for trial, and open the pleading with con-
tession OF guilt. We trust the political days OF
such is numbered, and that they will 70 pushed
into the harmless obscurity which th.J meiit.-
John c. Calhoun well knew the dangerous tenden.'
cy of this species of left-handed vndica.ion, and
it is mainly due to his phisophic mind and mas
tery s.atesmanshp thar black Slavery at the South
has been placed on the solid basis, moral political
and economical which it now occupies. By tho
laws of mental affinity, his thought has attructed:
the best thought of the country, and of all parties
until philosophy craftsmanship, we'll as enlight-'
ened phiianthrophy are all compelled to proclaim
that black Slavery of the South is right ir lrihciple
ton must be kept, or yield altogether
Northern and English philanthropsts and fana-'
ties who are so eager to reform the South, act
upon the assumption that the negro is black
white man, and qualified to live in perfect social
and potica! equality with the white or Caucasian
race-a fallacy that we may expect to be establish
! ed when the leopard changes his spots and the
sooty Ethiopian is washed white in the fountains
OF the Nile. Meantime moral justification of the
South lies in facts against which fanatcisn, and
tpnn nrnh hot rarlo
that the negro is inferior to the white man by ma
ture and by destiny; that hc never can be his
equal until the laws of God abrogated, and
that wherever and whenever the two come in iux-
taSositon, dominion on the one side and servitude
on the other are legitimate relations between
them.
AS political institution, we find black Slavery
blessing in the fact, that it prevents the virtual
ensayement of any class of the whites, and obv-
ates an evil which has been the fruitful source Of
nearly all the agrsrian movements and sanguinary
revolutions which have rent and convulsed society
that of want and famine il the poor class. In
Tree society, or whero there is slave population
a contest is always waging between capital and
] labor-between the rich and poor classes-the ten
dency of which is to make the rich richer and tho
poor poorer until extremity drives the latter to
Satiate at once their vengeance or their want by
slaughter and rapine. Free society, no matter up.
der what form Of government, has not heen able
to lind remedy for this evil, and its continually
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inc is ever haunting the nomlnally free society of
Western Europe, and there is not of its thrones
that is able to stand before the mad cry for brend
But under the system Of well regulated black Sis,
very, there is probably poor class; there can
be no scarcity, no famine, and consequently no
wild cry for bread, agrarian outbreaks and cor
mage.
In an economical view black Slavery is bless.
lng-iudeed, an institution indispensable to the
agriculture ST the South AZ least. In the free
States, mem are inclined to shun agricultural
tho simplest but the rudest, most repulsivS
and least remunerated of oil labors, and crowd
into tho professions, trades, arts, &c. at the
expense OF the productive resources of the coun~
try. The effect is constant tendency to de-
cline in agriculture, the decentralization of the la
boring classes, increase in the price of food
scarcely, ard possibly famine. The tendency 10
neglect agriculture would be much greater in south.
ern and tropical countries, where the whites can.
not endure field labor, and the blacks will not work
without master. The present conditions of ia
moca and llayti are illustrations. Mexico is fsst
vergng to the same condition. and all serve to con-
vince us that on the cessation of slave labor direc
ted by intelligence, the most productive and highs
y cultivated countries in the world will begin to as
sumo their wild fauna and fora, and te lapse into
savagery. Black Slavery secures the Sonth from
such doom, while it guarantees her againtt pow
erty and famine, and the social and political evils
which they engender. 1t is only that which can
yet restore Jamaica and Hayti, and yet save Cuba
from desolation; and il TO that, also, and an ac-
cession of new white blood which are necessary to
regenerae Mexico. give her political stability and
do justice her natural resources. History, gsog-
raphyr political economy, abound in evidence 10
vindicate tho black Slavery of the South. She
wants no apologists-she only challenges inquiry.
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