The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-17
IA NORTHERN WE'VE

We copy the following extract, upon an
all-engrossing subject, from the New York
Express. 1t contains food for reflection, al
though we think the writer is mistaken in
regard to Maryland, Virginia. Kentucky and
Missouri. The Express is talking of the
probability of Kansas coming in as a free
State, and says;
In the bitterness Of their disappointment
and It is a very bitter one, We see, Ly the
Southern journuls-the South must make nm
directing, when it is ready to start, its CO.
Inmns of emigration elsewhere. Nature and
climate have marked ont quite distinctly on
tins continent where white men en- labor
healthiully in the fields, and where they can
not; ana IN the regions Of malaria and of the
tropics, the slaveh"lding column does and
must m"n"Poze all the soil. White men,
as hrld lab"rers, cannot even enter there Ia
compete. II the South will wait, only wait,
the inevitable course of human events, and
not precipitate Providence us the Abolition
ISIS love TO do, Cuba and Central America.
and the Terra CdiieHte of Mexico will soon
be open 10 it. True, some fifteen or twenty
Tree States are in embryo between Kansas,
Nebraska and Minnesota, and the Pacific
Ocean; but Time is "anneving" trnpira! re-
gl"ns of America great deal fnster than any
Walker iIlibustrrs, who but obstruct this
march of Time. The absurd ideas prevail
ing at the South, that it il to be crbbrd,
cabned, and confined between the Rio
Grande and the Potomac, and thus stiRed-
even in this big broad space is all absurd
Time IL already opening to the South, even
the now distant AmazCn,-where it is al
most death for the white man TO work. The
Southern Statesman is blind, who does
not see in the Liverpool and Manchester
Misunderstanding meetings, and in such Wis
lis as the Aboitionist Lord SALISBURY made
To Lord PalmerstOn, the beginning of great
Revolution in England as to tropical labor
But the world is not to begin nor to end in n
Walkers lifetime. Have patience, and wait
for there il II power that Overrues the
Earth far mlghtier than man, or mans gov
ernment, or schemes. Fee States are to he
more in number,-and Delaware and Mary
land, VirgiEia. and Missouri and Kentucky,
are from interest t" be "Iree," by the irresis'-
lille Law Of political economy,-but while
this is beginning, even English Trade and
commerce Is becoming "pro-snvery.' and
movements ARE in embroy0 that threaten to
pour out both Asia and Africa into the Ian
Of sugar-ralsng, c"tton-growing, tobacco.
planting America True, EngIard talks as
if this were labor TO be "frre,"-but every
body knnws, that wherever the African
comes into competition with the American
or Anglo Saxon, whether in New York,
Massachusetts, or Louisiana, "lhe freedom"
of that African, in the conflict of races, il
only on paprr,-nOthing more. Keep cool
thcE, down South. We Northernrrs, who
have had this Kansas fttrore, only laugh now
nj ourselves over what we did and said,-
when the chIorofurm gas was within U.s.
There is row,-if sugar and cotton keep mp,
much more danger of the Slave Trnde's
heng revived by England, than in any Eng-
fish etlurts operating through our Abolition
ISIS Of the abolition Of slavery in the States
of this Union.