The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-05-30

which are supplied hy the May number of Dc
Bows Review.
NORTHERN FREE LABOR.
The legislative action of slave labor then is,
to promote the dollars and cents value of Ia
Dor 1t opposes Internal improvements by the
general government, because they create pub.
lie debts, for which labor must be taxed. 1T
opposes protective tariffs, because it taxes Ia
Dor for the benefit of manufacturers. Paper
money scarcely enters its calculation for the
same reason; and thus You see why northern
free hJor sympathizcs with this great power.
In humility / bow myself and ask, is it not
Great shame that northern free labor in this
our nineteenth century, should be driven to
such source for its own protection.
Here is work to be donc--fhc case is urgent;
it admits Of no delay. This .frccman's stomach
is scarce six days removed from the starving
point; and tell you plainly and honestly, my
brother, that will not lift hand or move q
muscle to keep negro slavery out of Kansas,
until you help me remove my whitr brother,
here at our very door, from his imminent peril.
NEGRO SLAVERY AN ORDINANCE OF PROVIDENCE.
NV labor increases, and am almost oppres-
sed with its magnitude When | look over
the broad earth and see the eight hundred
millions of human beings who inhabit it, and
see SO many taxed beyond their capacity to-
bear, and Others with what is infinitely worse,
with moral darkness and inaction, and feel
that Christianity and civilization arc not pos
siblc without industry, and know that liberty
can only be attained through the rugged path
way of human effort, marked out by the law
of our being---I come to the conclusion can
not escape t--that negro slavery is one OF the
ordinances of kind Providence to equal the
burdens of her children. God has ordained
from the foundation Of the world that the re-
lation of master and servant shall exist. The
greater mind must rule the weakcr--all else is
chaos--theren all governments are upheld,
and Justice made possible. Let us look to it,
therefore, that our Congo brother does not
give us to the house of Pharaoh, to sell into
more irightful bondagcr
The wonder, perhaps of this nineteenth cen
tury, is the raluc Of cotton anil ats achievements.
Iron and cotton, mostly cotton, drove Eng
lands Corn Lqws to the wall, and introduced
cheaper bread to her starving millions. How
could the generation of men whose graves we
have just surveyed, have paid the $500, 900,
900 they were taxed to pay for the freedom Of
their black brothers, without cotton! | think
you will see by little calculation, that the
thing was impossible. 1t was hardly possible,
even with it, for history does not show since
the days of Pharaoh, parallel to the intcn-
sity of free labor, which wasscompellcd to apply
itself to this object. Men, women, and chill
dren Cet, and Anglo-SaXon worked till their
very sonls were crushed out of them. More
than one million of England's children in the
generation just gone by, have been sent with
empty stomaehs to the unbidden future, to
Al ~ nptl,
that she might secure the homage OF nations.
Let the ceaseless roll Of her drums that ever
echoes to the setting sun, be muflled, to beat
the solemn dirge of her furnished hosts
} THE POWER AND MIGHT OF COTTON.
Great and incaculable is the wondrous pow
er of cotton 1t earns the poor mans bread,
/ and fills the rich mans pocket 1t covers new
born infancy, and forms our garments for the
grave. We toll for it by day, and lay our-
f selves down on it by night, while it rcfrcshes
: and warns our hearts to the opening prayers
of morning The hopes and fears of millions,
born and unborn, clnster around those insight.
ly cotton bales, 1t permeates through every
, department of civilized, and it may be, uncivi
LIKED life.
! 1t invents cotton gins and spinniag jennies
and lifts inventive genius to Immortality II
: quickcns slow moving industry and sharpens
hungry ayarice. Roaring water fall and puff
ing steam, sing peans to its alternating fibre
| and gathering looms attune their notes in har
g mony. 1t cnlarges the boundaries of science
: and ddorns art. 1t fills the imagination o
G poets and diyines; and constructs cunning plat
forms for statesmen and politicians 1t insti
-, tutcs oigarches and perpctuatcs them, while
y it binds up with its tough fibre, the great de
: mocratc heart, and shields it from destruction
= 1t freights the ships of commerce and sends t
f missionary to every cline, and in hours o
y danger it barbados our cities and noby pro
= y tects us from plage and booty More thai
i this it has made salubrious and fragrant the
O once abodcs of hidcous reptiles and miasma
and perhaps, not least of all, has raised VI
o. more than three millions Of the children O
q e Ham, to an elevation above their sable broth
Is ers, which challenges comparison in history
{. Wonderfully most wonderful! is the powe
g. of cotton The universe is but a cotton mill
q celebrating the necessaries of men.
Il gGy"Thoy have pig in Ohio, SO thorough
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