The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1856-01-31
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I OF all the disgusting, mawkish things
that meet us occasionally in politics and pol
iticians, nothing is more nuaseating than the
apologize, deprecatory tones of the palter-
ing and sinistious class of defenders with
which the Southern people have been afflic
ted. They are thosewho conceive that black
slavery is an>evil--that it is wrong economi
cally, politically and morally--but that ow,
| ing to irnperious circumstances, it should be
tolerated for q time. Unfortunately, Mr.
Clay, who with all his acknowledged states
lnaliship, rather skinned over the surface oi
great questions than dived to the bottom,
was missed into this weak and namby-pam-
by view OF the subject and his defence OF
the South was scarcely less dangerous than
Stewards open and formed attacks. .
We are glad TO see every day indications
that the Southern people are determined to
discountenance this whining tone and sup
plicating cant in their behalf, by weak or
treachcrous advocates who taketh South be.
fore a Northern tribunal for trial, and open
the pleading with confession of guilt. We
trust the political days of such are number
ed, and that they will be pushed into harm.
less obscusity which they merit. John G.
Calhoun we'll knew the dangerous tendency
of this species Of left handed vinlicatioil,
and it is mainly due to his philosophic mind
and mastery craftsmanship that black slav-
cry at the South has been placed on the SOL
id basis, moral, political and economical,
which it now occupies. BY the laws of
mental affinity, his thought has attracted the
best thonght of the country, and of all par
ties, until philosophy, statesmanship, as well
as enlightened pbilantllrophy, are all COM
ptlled to proclaim that the black slavery ofthe
South is right in principle aud expedient in
policy. Upon this basis the question must
be kept, or yielded altogether. x, E
Northern and English phlanthropists aid
fanatics who are so eager to reform the South,
act upon The assumption that the negro is a
black white man, and qualified to live in
perfect social and political equality with the
white or Caucasian races--a fallacy that
we may expect to be established when
the leopard changes his spots, and the sooty
Ethiopian is washed white in the fountain,
of the Nile. Meantime the moral justification
of the Southl;es in facts against which fana
ticism and cant are both powerlcss. They ar,
these, to wit, that the negro is inferior TO thC
| white man By nature anil by destiny that b.
never can be his equal unit! thelaws cfGod ar,
abrogated; and that wherever and wheneve
the Two come in jGxtaposilion, dominion OF
one side and servitude on the other--are tn
! legitimate relations between them.
As a political institution, we find blac'
slavery blcssingin in the fact, that it prevent
the ensayemcnt OF any class of the whites
and obvates an evil which has been th
fruitful source Of nearly all the agrarial
movements aud sanguinary revolution
which have reht and convulsed society--ths
of want and famine In the poor class. Ii
free society, or where there isno slave pspn
lation, contest is always waging betweei
capital and labor--between the rich an'
poor classesl-the tendency Of which is t
make the rich richer and the poor poorer
until extremity drives the latter to satiate n
once their Vengeance and their want b
slaughter and rapine. Free society, no maj
|. ter under what form Of government, has nc
! been able to find q remedy for this evil, an
Its continually recurring catastrophs. Th
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