The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-26

for Polk, Dallas and Texas. This gave us
the Mexican War; and that immense terri
tory, its spoil. A territory which, although
it may not be favorable for slave labor, has
increased, and will, in many ways, extend
the slave power.
A. This leads me to say that God put il
into the hearts of many Northern men, es-
pecially abolitionists, to believe what Great
Britain said, namely: that free trade would
result in slave emancipation. But 10! the
stakeholder sOanted free trade. So, North
ern aboltionists helped to destroy the tariff
policy; and thus to expand the demand for,
and the culture of cotton. Now, see the
gold of California has PerpetUated free trade,
by enabling our merchants to meet the en-
ormous demand for specie created by free
trade. So, California helps the slave pow
er. But the abolitionists gave us Polk, the
Mexican War, and California.
S. God put it into the hearts of the North,
and especially abolitionists, to stimulate the
settlement of new free States, and to be the
ardent friends of an immense foreign emil
grafton. The result has been, to send down
to the South, with railroad speed and GER
tainty, corn, wheat, -four, meal, bacon,
pork, beef, and every other imaginable form
of food, in quantity amazing, and so cheap,
tina the planter can spread wider, and wider
the culture of cotton.
6. God has, by this growth of the North
west, made the demand for cotton enor-
sn &ba
He has made English and French expert
ments, to procure cotton some where elso
than from the United States dead failures.
In the East Indies; Egypt, Algeria Bra
zl. God has thus given TO the Southern
planter an absolute monopoly. A monopo-
ly SO great, that he, the Southern planter,
sits now upon his throne of cotton, and
wields the commercial sceptre of the world.
Yes, it is the Southern planter who says to-
day, to naughty England, 20 to war, if you
dare Yes, He who sits on the throne of
the cotton bag has triumphed at last over
him who sits on the throne of the wool sack.
England is PROSTATE at his feet, as well as
the abolitionists.
z. God has put it into the hearts of abo-
litionists to prevent half a million of free
negroes from going to Liberia; and thereby
the abolitionists have made them consumers
of slave products to the extension of the
slave power. And by thus keeping them in
America the abolitionists have 80 increased
their degra dation, as to prove all the more
the utter folly of emancipation in tho Unit
ed States.
8. God has permitted the anti-slavery
men in the North, in England, in France,
and everywhere, SO to blind themselves in
hypocrisy, as to give the Southern slave
holder his last perfect triumph over them.
For God tells the planter to say to the North,
to England, to France, to all who buy cot
ton: "Ye men of Boston, New York, Lon
don, Paris-ye hypocrites-ye brand me as
pirate, kidnapper, a murderer, demon
fit only for hell-and yet, ye buy my blood
stained cotton. o! ye hypocrites. Ye Bos-
ton hypocrites-why don't ye throw the cot
ton in the sea, as your fathers did the tea!
Ye Boston hypocrites-ye say If acc had
been in the days Of our fathers, zoe aoould
not haze been pdrtdkerS Nth them in the
blood Of the SLave trade? Wherefore, ye be
witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the
children of them who, in fact, kidnapped,
and bought in blood, and sold the slave in
America For now, ye hypocrites-ye
buy the blood stained cotton in quantity 80
immense, that YE have run up the price of
slaves to be more than thousand dollars,
the average Of old and young o ye by
pocrites-ye denounce slavery, then ye bid
it live, and not die, in that ye may buy SUI
gar rice, tobacco, and above all, cotton -
Ye hypocrites-ye abuse the devil, and then
fall down and worship him! Ye hypocrites
-ye New England hypocrites-ye old En-
gland hypocrites--ye French hypocrites-
ye Uncle Toms Cabin hypocrites--ye
Beecher hypOcrites--ye Rhode Island Con-
sociatiOn hypocrites. O.! your holy twad-
die stinks in the nostrils of God, and he
commands me to lash you with my scorn,
and His scOrn, so long as ye gabble about
the sin of slavery, and then bow down to
me, and buy, and spin cotton-and thus
work for me as truly as my slaves. o! ye
fools and blind-fill ye up the measure OF
your folly and blindness, and shame. And
this ye are doing. Ye have, like the French
infidels, made reason your goddess, and are
exalting her above the Bible. And in your
unitarianism and neology and all modes of
lntidelity, ye are rejecting and crucifyiDg
the Son of God"
|. Now. my brother, this controlling slave
power, is world wide fact. It's statistics
of bales. counts by millions. It's tonnage
counts by hundreds of thousands. Its man
ufacture is reckoned by the workshops Of
America and Europe. Its supporters are
numbered by all who must thus be clothed
in the world. This tremendous power has
been developed in great measure by the
Abolition agitation controlled by God.
believe, then, as have already said, that
God intends one of two things; he either
intends to destroy The United States by this
slave power, or he intends TO bless nv
country and the world by the unfoldings Of
his wisdom in this matter. believe he will
bless the world in the working out of this
slavery. i rejoice, then, in the agitatios
which has so resulted. and will so termi-
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