The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-04-04

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and makes 1t ignorant, that, therefore it SAP
the foundation of its efficiency, but that tn
experiment of free and slave labor in thes
States, in agriculture, in manufacture IL
mining, and in commerce, confirms the con
clusion.
The census, though necessarily imperfect
no doubt, has driven intelligent men OF tn
South to acknowledge that the North'c1cel
the South, not only in these last depaft
ments, but that the South is second even IL
agriculture; where, before the stubborn
battery of figures was brought to bear, sh'
once successfully entrenchcd herself for dc
fence.
"Cotton" is no Longer" king" but give
way to eight articles Of staple production
Indian corn, wheat, hay, and fodder, pastur
age, cattle horses and mules, slaughtered
animals, and swine The value Of horned
cattle is put down at $4,000, 900, while
cotton is only Sl26,OOO,OOO.
The great citics-the exponents of produc
tive and consumptivc powers of States-th'
canals, the railroads, the ships of the North
had, to the philosophical mind, determined
the result, long before statistics came in t.
silence debate. Boston itself is said to con-
tain one eighth part of the capital of th'
nation! With a poor soil and harsf
climate, she has subjected the forces of na.
turc, instead Of her fellow-man, to her will
{" Free Schools" have allowed her workmer
toayail themselves Of the mechanical powers
of chemistry, of electricity, of the winds, o.
tho waters, and Of steam. In Maine, il
Vermont, in New Hampshire, in Connects
cut, in Massachusetts,, wherever manufac'
turing towns spring up, you will find Mas
sachusctts capital. Her railroads extend
into every land, and her ships sail on every
sea. All the South, with her superior eli
mate, quality and cxaent Of soil, variety OF
productions, and facility for rail roads ant
canals, presents, in approximation even nj
such city as Boston.
"Cursed bc Canaan!" and he is-mastel
and slave. Who shall deliver them from
this deathT'
In intellectual and moral improvement
there is more room for controversy. Yet thu
conclusion is not far of, when the defend
ers of slavery denounce the newspaper pres
and common schools as "damnable heresies'
Of progress, and in ,onhict with all tru'
/" conservatism" The many "isms" il
social, political, moral and religious scienc'
of the North, which are 80 much rallied NJ
by the slavc-propaganda, are the cyidepcc'
of intellectual life-the scales which art
wastefully thrown of from the stimulated
mind and passions, while man is being trans
formed into better metal and nobler struc.
ture. The " conservatism" Of the South Is
the quietude and homoSeneousncss Of the
unwrought ore, which lies forever unchang.
ed in the dark mines of ignorance and des.
potism?
When all these arguments are pressed
home upon the South, the advocates Of the
peculiar institution" venture to take re.
fugc in the alleged superior courage and
gallantry Of Southern men. 1t is not my
part, myself Southern, to draw indiyidiou'
distinctions, in this respect, between the
North and the South. There are noble Gle.
mens of character in both people. But the
annals of these States give no warrant to
the South to claim precedence in these, over
the frcemen Of the North. We cannot for.
g,t ,chere were fought the first and bloodiesi
battles and those ever-memorablesea fights
where, il ifanywherc, il can be said of Amer
lea. F" Eripuii sceptrum tydnnis Neither
is the Logic of History" in favor of the
prowes of slaveholding States. The war.
like tribes who overthrow the shlaveholding
and more civilized nations of Europe, dur
ing the decline Of the Rroman Empire, were
not the slaves of arrogant tyrants, but stern
freemen, following, Voluntarily, the stand
ard of elected leaders. So later history
bears us out and nations are now power
full in proportion as they arc free. Senti-
ments of Liberty only impart heroism to the
soul; and equality and dignity of labor on
ly give that energy and capability of physi.
cal structure, which are alike necessary to
success in peace or war. So long as nations
have been free in their municipal organiza-
ton, they have rarely fallen under foreign
conquest. Only when the masses of the
people have become servile, has il been that
they care no more to choose between mas
ters, and that their subjection has been
sure.
These, gentlemen, are the views, which
as citizen ofa slave State, have 50 often
and earnestly urged upon the South. Al
an Anti-slavcry question, 1t can only bc le,
Ultimately settled by the Slave States them
selves. There the founders Of the Rcpub
lie placed it, and there the wise men Of tn,
whole nation have been willing to leave i
for solution.
But the necessary consequences Of lis tol
Grafton has elevated this from n {" section al
to "a. national' issue. 1t is no longer
question Of" Slavery and anti-Slavery," bu
of Liberty and Republicanism on one side
and " Divine Right" and Dcspotism on tn
other. The slavery propaganda have re
opened the problem solved by the evolut ior
Of the centuries. and ignore ga law Of na
turc" which our fathers Of l776, sim.ol.
" re-enacted'' in terms in tho immortal ID &c
laration. The viper, warmed into life b.
our mistaken symathies, recovcrs its an
cient venom, and threatens to drive from
the home Of tho United States Constitution