The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-09
THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER g. 1856

trine (unconsciously, possibly, in some ins,an-
ces) maintained by the whole Southern press"
Negro Slavery will do for the present, but
when population grows dense in this coun-
try, as in Europe, Slavery will become indis-
pensable. "Slavery is right, in the general,
and in the abstract" The editor continues
"Forced to defend itself, it is barely possible
that the South may continue the war after the
defence is complete. Abolition thwarted, de-
feated, driven back, might teach us the art of
war, inspire US with the love of conquest, and
invite Slavery Propsgandism, to the invasion of
Free Society. We are already beginning to
feel our strength, and to discover the weakness
of our enemies. We are thoroughly convinced,
from the study ADMINISTRATION which Abolition
has provoked, of the justice of our career, and
the superiority of our institutions"
The next day, September IL, the Enquirer
contains a eulogy upon Fitzhugh's SOCIOLOGY
for the South" a book which undertakes to prove
that the laboring classes everywhere should be
owned by the capitalists.
On September IL, the Enquirer descants
upon the importance of securing Kansas as a
slave State, and the inestimable advantage to
the South of the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise:
"The only present chance of accession to the
strength of the South is by the admission of
Kansas into the Union with a Pro-Savery Con-
stitution. In two years, at the farthest, that
Territory will assume the sovereignty of State,
and in all probability will adopt the institutions
of the South. Then the South will recover its
equality in the Senate, and will be competent
to the protection of its rights. Though incapa.
BILE of directing the policy of the Government
to the end of Slavery Propagandism, (which the
South desires only for purposes of selfdefence,)
it will be fully equal to the defeat of measures
| it in the Senate, the South can compel the full
| ilment Of the stipulations of the Texas treaty,
by resisting the admission of other free States.
With Kansas to back it in the Senate, the
South can stay the march of Abolitionism, and
maintain its own rights and independence for
an indefinite period
But, Kansas would have been free State
if the Missouri restriction had not been repealed
and, instead of augmenting the power of the
South, would have recruited the ranks of Abo-
| litionism."
We might make equally copious extracts
from the Richmond Examiner, a comparative.
ly new, but talented and ambitious journal
which, like the Enquirer, is devoted to the sup.
port of Mr.. Buchanan. On the 18th of Septem.
Der the editor remarks, in the course of long
article, as follows:
Twist the question as we may, Slavery is
the fundamental bond of union in Southern So
ciety, and the absence of Slavery, the original
apple of discord in Northern communities.
And what are their fruits, respectively? Disor.
ganizatiOn and decentralization at the North,
healthy union, and the prospect of its indef.
mite continuance at the South. 1t is no exag.
gerated fancy which regards Slavery as the
palladium of the South and forbids ali tamper-
ing with this foundation rock of Southern con.
servatism."