The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-13
How 70 SAVE tn. Us1os.-There is, /,

ing, if the good, the wise, the prudent and the
| patriotic will unite their efforts Let each man
) according to his opportunity, examine for him
self, with an impartial and truth-loving spirit
the evils of slavery aud the evils of free society
and nine out of ten will arise from the examin
alton with a more tolerant and fra.ernalfeeing
That slavery is not attended with evils, we shall
not pretend to maintain; but thousands are en-
: gagged in depicting and exaggerating these
evils, and it is needless for us to attempt tc
portray them Living in the midst of the in
; stitution. we may be unobseryant or insenslble
to its abuses-weleave the task Of exposing
t them to other hands, and are even willing thai
; the comparative evils of slave society and O
, free society shall be ascertained and decided
on by the accounts of the working of the two
systems of society, written by authors living in
free society and prejudiced against slavery
t Nay, we will go farther; we will give free So
ciety all the advantages which it can derive
from fiction and imagination, in magnifying
and increasing the evils and abuses of slavery
we will let the student take for fact the most
hideous portrait that the genius ola Mrs. Stowe
can depict of slavery, and ask him to compare
it with the stern realities Of free society, care
fully invesdg gated, exposed and reported BY
committees fthe British parliament. Wespeak
far within the bounds truth, when we assert
that he will find ten times as much Of evil. Of
crime, and Of human suffering, in free society
in England, and in all western Europe, as fc-
ton, regarding "vraisemblance, ]" ever dared to
attribute to southern negro slavery. He will
find no domestic animal, no game or fish in
prisons or ponds, half as badly provided for,
nor half so cruelty treated, as the laboring man
in western Europe. The impartial student
would not hesitate moment, ike Mr.. G. Ed
wards Lester Of New Y ork, to subject his chill
dren to southern slavery, sooner than place them
in the condition Of the free laborers ofsouthern
Europe. And yet, as population becomes dense,
this is the condition to which all free society
seems TO tend. No men see this fact so clearly
as northern abolitionists, and hence their anxi-
ETY. to invent and put in practice some new form
of society, before pauperism and crime, and ig-
norance and famine, overwhelm the north, as
| they have overwhelmed western Europe. But
there is vent for centuries to come in the nigh.
ty unsettled west for the surplus population of
the northeast, and whilst that vent continues,
it is premature to agitate the subject of white
slavery as practical question in this country.
Before that day arrives, some social organiza-
ton for old societies, better than the domestic
slavery of the south may be discovered. The
student will find, that. as yet, none half so good
has been discovered, and he will feel charitable
towards southern domestic institutions, because
he will find them more natural, more perma-
nent in their character, and more promotiye,
in the long run, of human happiness, than any
other as yet discovered and tested. If he ex-
tends his examination and finds out how mu-
tually dependent the north and the south are, he
will learn to value the Union, and to detest and
execrate abolitionists and disunionists. /
Almost all the light literature ofFrance, Eng
land and Germany, for the last twenty years, is
but pictures of the evils Of free society. The
plays, the novels, the poetry of these nations
are tinged in every page with the sufferings Of
the poor. All philosophy has run into what
the North British Review calls the philosophy of
''social reference" For fifty years, the Bri-
fish parliament has spentits time in frutless en-
deavors to mitigate the suferings of the poor.
All the English and French reviews, since '48,
have teemed with articles on this subject. All
the riots, incendiarism and revolutions of Eu-
rope, for seventy years, have been the direct
and immediate consequences of the priyations
and famine Of the poor. The history Of the
English poor laws, if investigated alone, will
show that free society in Europe has been from
the first, and throughout, to this day, cruel,
awful and appalling failure. Free society has
not as yet failed at our north: we hope it never
may! But it has failed everywhere else and
we feel assured that all who examine its past
history, and present starving condition, will be
willing to stick to the Union as is, rather than
snatch the bread from the well-fed negro, in Or
der to elevate him to the condition of the pro-
letariat of France, the starving peasantry of
England, ireland and Scotland, the lazzaroni
of Italy, the gypsies of Spain, and the lepero
of Mexico!
We solemnly believe there is but one way to
save the Union, and to save northern society
from anarchy and agrarianism, RIGHTEOUSNESS
and infdelity; that is by dispelling the mono
soon as the conservatives of the north, and of
the south, search into history and Statistics and
ascertain, weigh and compare the respective
evils the opposing systems of society. None, :
but mailman, after such an investigation, will
be ready to dissolve this Union, to risk peace
or to incur civil war. in order to emancipate the
negroes, or to prevent the extension of slave ter
ritory, pari passu with the extension of free ter
ritory. Heretofore slavery has been assumed
to be an evil. Be itso. But see whether free
society, in old countries, be not far greater :
our country is growing old. I.
~ [Richmond Enquirer !
To save their country from the misery and
crime which have engulphed all Europe, and
which the Enquirer so well pictures, is the great
aim Of the American party. Who for SO doing ,
incurred the most violent abuse and hate of this
same Richmond Enquirer and all other office :
holders organs. We are glad to find they are !
at last opening their eyes to the truth. :
The Philadelphia Bulletin translates from :
he independence Beige, at Brussels, the fol- ;
owing passages of letter from Madrid dated :
December 10, which contains some illusions !
70 diplomatic correspondence with the United :
States in relation to Cuba, which are curious I
and interesting: @.l
.'Lovers of scandal will soon be fully salts :
fed. In the session of December /, as well /
IS in that Of December 2, on the occasion of :
The violent attack of the democrats on mar =
shall O'Donnel M OrenSe, in order IN vindicata