The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1856-04-04
The Duty of the North.


The New York Evening Post has full
report of long address on this subject by
the notorious Theodore Parker. We cx-
tract the following statistical and political
paragraphs:
These 100000 shareholders own 4,ooo,-
600 OF bondmen, whose market value is mt
least 2,OOO,Oo0,o00. These slaves are en-
gagged chiefly in agricultural labor They
produce cotton and tobacco, which form
considerably more than one-tlird part Of
all the exports Of the country. Now, as
the 100000 shareholders own the $4,000
100000, and furnish 100000 of value
TO be exported ever? year, that gives them
great power in the money market. Accor-
DINGHY they control the money markets in
tins country; they control the leading capi-
taiists, the great merchants and the
great manufacturers. There are some very
honorable exceptions, but, as general
thing, slavery controls the great capitalists.
Controlling these, slavery is lord Of m
OF the great commercial centres. 1t r....s-
ter OF Baltimore, New Orleans, Cincinnati.
Philadelphia, New York nj Boston. with
all the vassai towns which are subordinate
to these. Whcrcsocvcr the soil is paved
with STONE the stone of commerce and
concentrated wcalth-,hcre slavery is the
master. This is the way it gets pecuniarv
power. Now, controlling the pavement,
master of the purse, it easily controls the
wealthy pupits of all denominations. There
are some very honorable exceptions, and
need not go great way from the city Of
New York 10 find some of them. But, as
general thing, the same powerwlicl con-
trolls the press controls also the pulpit.
Now, see how our masters at the South
have used the power which we have given
them. First, Slavery appoints the Presi-
dent. Of twelve Presidents, eight were
born in the slave States, and four in the
Northern States; and of these the one mos,
Northern in his birth is Sou:heinmost in his
politics. For he who was born in the Old
Granite State Of New Hampshire, nearest
the North Star Of Liberty. has gone down,
like the serpent in the Book of Genesis.
csa"!!ng on his belly, TIA: lie may 90 his
masters will and cat the devils dust. Of
the eight Southern Presidents, five have
been reelected; of the four Northern, not
one has been chosen twice The South has
had her President fifty-two years; the North
sixteen. But there never has been an anti.
slavery President. AS the Vice President,
however, is only the fifth wheel to n cam
non, while the South has had six, the North
has been allowed eight, and one Of these
was actually put OH the Presidential axle,
and served to carry the Federal cannon
where 1t did most efficient service for slave
ry. In consequence of that service, the
new American party has just nominated
Mr. Fillmore for its Southern PLATFORM
Slavery next appoints the judiciary. Ou:
OF th'rty-five Judges of tic Supreme Court,
nineteen have been from the South, and SIX
teen from the North. And the Chicf JUS
t'ce, who moulGs these vcssels-I was going
TO say OF honor-of dishonor, just as he
Will, Is almost always a Southern man. The
oldest man here cannot remember when the
North had the chiefjusiccslip, for it was
sixty years ago. The North has held it for
eleven years, and the South for fifty-fvc.-
There have been thirty. FIVE Attorney Cen
erals, and to eight from the North there
have been fifteen from the South. Tn 1854
there had been two hundred and sixteen
'"S" hPPoinleu 10 Q'plOmatc- OfnceS; OF
these nlnety-nine were from2the North and
one hundred and seventeen from the South.
Our masters must always have the largest
number. But these figures do not descritc
the enormity Of the fact. For at the pres
ent day, in all our diplomatic Offices, there
is not single man abroad who was ever
known even to have uttered an antislavcry
word. And if any man of them should
now uttera single word for freedom, the
next NJ, steamer wond carry out his recall.-
Thus Slavery controls the great offices of
the country.