Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-03-10

Extract Of . Speech oiKr. Esiit, Of s. C.,
on slavery aud the Resources OF TIL
South, Delivered In the HOnSe OF Rep
rtssatatiyss, January li,'fsl
Mr.. Chairman, I have said that
slavery was a primerdial and nm
iversal fact; and | have traced it up
to the stream Of time to those awful
MYSTERIES which ensAroud the origin
of society. / have appealed to a long
line of monuments, historical, poeti-
cal, and philosoahical-saerel and
human; to codes and -creeds, too, to
show its primitive existence. Voices
from the East and voices from@tfhe
west, voices from the precincts OFF, l.
en-, and from the SUBMITS Of Sinai;
voices from the depths of darkling
antiquity, and from the glare OF high
civilization; voices from the. sanctua-
ries of God, and from the sea- of the
| Petor; voices from every tradition OF
every nation that lived upon the tide
oftime past, proclai:, the primitive.
consistent, and undeniable fact Of Or
liginal slavery. J =. '-~ &
- Need i ask to what extent modern
philantr 9phy & modern progresshave
burst the bands of the slayet Need
/ ask how tile doctrine of universal
equality" has Lnen inaugurated q In
Paris it has been baptized behind
barricades, and with torrents Of blood.
In London it has been pressed back
into the gutter by the. disciplined
steel. All over Europe it has risen
instruction, and been crushed be-
Meath the tread of armies, How many
Idynasties in Europe wonll survive
for twenty DAYS the disbandment of
standing armiesl How many social
systems there, would quickly perish
in Instruction, IN the coavulsive
grasp Of WHICH throne and temple
would sink down togetlierl And
\ have no streets on thi, continent been
stained with blood, and no cities,
through mob violence, been wrapped
| in fiames2 Does not yonder city IN:
Ivy pay 81 ,00Q. 700 to save her qaiet
from brawl and fray, and her people
| from theft and murder and arson!-
And does not yonder other city Phil,
adelphia pay 100000 for the same
vital purposes And have not both
| been girdled themselves round with
a standing army, policemen to save
themselves from the violence OF their
ownfree white citizensl Are these
| the fewerage and fruitage OF free So
1cietyl The legal bands o. slavery
| may be dissolved; but necessity, i'm.
poses a still sterner one. Seifs were
4 emancipated, because bireling labor
was cheaper Capital and muscle
1are facing each other, and the antag-
onism between them in free society
seems to be beyond the reach of leg
islatiye lead line. There is a geuer-
al conflict between socialism and sla-
very. The North British Review OF
November. in All article on the work
men of Europe, says: 4: + -. !
Zone Of the most difficult and pressing
questions ofrthe present day is how to
ameliorate the condition of~the working
classes, without SO disturbing ahe present
1order of tn ings that the violence tzof the
remedy would be worse than tile original
levil. without merely shifting the burden
ofinjdstice, and substituting one <class Of
wrong for dnother?" e -
| Thisis said of the workmen Of Eng
and-of, philantrhopicai and civilized
England, who propagates herabolition
theories through blood and ashes and
tears. - =
r But, sir, it is not my purpose to
engage in retort Of invidious compar-
ison, and | will therefore leave this
| line of remark ; .--,' =
Slavery, in ancient days, was uni
versal. Hwas existent in frame work
| Of all people who make up mqdern
nations. As an inevitable conclusion
| it either exists now, or it does now,
mot exist. Hit does not exist now,
then the Caucasian race, though so
fetal metamorphoses, have passed out
Fof it, and have. vindicated their capac-
[ities by making it, an instrument, or
rising superior to it; for the, very
|Saxons, the boosted standard Of civ
|ilization and mortality, for ages ex-
listed under asIayery tenfold more se-
were than that of the slaves of the
South. In ten centuries, it would
then appear, the modern nations of
Europe have worked theirway through
barbarism and slavery to a high civ
ilization. How fares it with the Eth
fopianl, For five Thousand years he
has been in contact with 3 higher
civilization: he has basked in the civ
ilization Of Persia, and had his Nu-
indian wars with Carthage, has been
in contact with Phenicia and Egypt
before the age OF the rtolemies; has
been in contact, with Greece and
Rome, and England and France, and
he still is and ever has been a savage.
1.-THE providence of God did not make
Him an ir6arior-.if the necessities OF