Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-08-07


in the rear! Must we always look to see improve
ments made in a neighboriDg nation, and even then
be slow to copy them?
Great Britain's Designs on the south. -s.--
No American statesman studied the slavery
question, in all its bearings, with more earnestness
than MIR. Calhoun 1t % his opinion, often express
sea- That England hadbe actuated quite as much
oy cupldlty as by philanthropy in emancipating her
slaves when she discovered her mistake, in sup
posing that tree labor could easily supersede slave
LABOR and be more economical. it was too late for
her 10 retrace the lost ground. She began, however,
persstently to work, in order to bring other coun
tries to the level of her West India colonies. She
could bully Spain and Portugal at any time into sub
MISSION to her will but it was otherwise with the
United States Here different course was neces-
sary; While her manufactures were fourishing,
chiefly through the steady receipt of the products Of
our slave labor, her politicians phlanlhropists and
public writer's were on every occasion eliminating
the South
The present movement in England to encourage
the growth of cotton in British colonies and thus
duce the price, and at the time her to be
Independent of the Uuted States for her supplies of
that staple is no sudden suggestion. As far back as
August 10, 1884, Mr.. Calhoun wrote from the De-
partment of State to William R. King, as follows:
9 In order TO regain her superiority, she not only
seeks to revive and increase her capacity to pro.
duce tropical productions, but to diminish and de-
stroy the capacity of those who have far outstp-
ped her In consequence of her error. In pursuit of
the former, she has cast her eyes to her East India
pOssessions-to central and Eeastern Africa with
the view Of establishing colonies there, and even to
restore, substantially, the slave trade ITSELF under the
specOus name of transportating free laborers from
Africa 10 her West India possessions in order il DOS
sibe, to compete successfully with those who have
refused to follow her suicidal policy. But these all
afford but uncertain and distant hopes of recovering
her lost superiority Her main reliance is on the
other Alternative, TO cripple destroy the produc-
tions of her successful rivals. There is but way
by which it can be done, and that ID by abolishing
African slavery throug hout this continent and that
she openly to the constant object of her po-
hcy aid exertons. 1t matters not how, or from what
motive it may be done whether it may be by dplo-
macy, influence or force by secret or open means:
and whether the motive be humane or selfish, with
out regard to manner, means or motive. The thing
itself, should it be accomplished, would put down all
triVaIry, and give her The undisnuted supremacy in
supplying her wants and those of the rest of the
world, and thereby more than fully retrieve what
she has lost by her errors"
The thirteen years that have elapsed since Mr.
Calhoun wrote these remarkable words, have tended
to prove their truthfulness. England seeks today
even with more avldty than then, commercial supre-
macy, TO be gained; no matter at what cost. Even
Wi the past experience she acquired in the West
lndies where emancipation has been followed by
bankruptcy TO the planter desoation to the land and
degradation to the negro; with the evidence of
the utter failure OF the free labor system of her one
hundred and thirty millions of dependents in the
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military rule of the severest nature, that with all
the natural wealth OF Englands possessions in the
East they actually do not pay expenses; she still
eagerly strives to interfere with Southern institutions.
She has nnumerable emssaries at the North, both
native and foreign, who are working constantly to
bring ruin 10 the cotton fields of the South. Ne
talsehood is too base for them, misrepresentation
too glar1ng no extravaganza too absurd. Their wo
men rayesty men, in their eagerness TO crafty their
morbid vanity; their men receive cuffs and kicks,
| anHS ShN fhon hV,k ckslI III:
tongues and pens wag on Eagerly are their words
re-coped into English papers and read from the plat
form of Exeter Hail. and thus is the mind of The peo-
pie of England abused-for every Southern journal
is carefully excluded from their sight, lest they should
become familiar with The true state of affairs.
The manufacturers of Lancashire have succeeded
in carry ing the cotton question to the House of Com.
mons, and we presume each year 1orId debate will
take place there, the facts being borrowed from Mrs.
Stoves romances and Mr. Greeley's Tribune, and
the charitable spirit displayed By being that of Judas
lScariot rather than Christian men.-N. 0. Times.
Gazette says:
Two gentlemen got into an argument yesterday as
to the stock of Whiskey in market and as is often
the case the conversation led to bant er for bet
Oae of The parties is extensive liquor dealer and
the other sells the "red eye" as it comes from the
still. The latter finally declined bet, and assigned
a that if bis opponent wished to reduce the
stock OF whskey, he could convert one fourth of the
supply into wine, cognac or rum in few hours: or,
it he wished to increase it, he might Tectify five
thousand barrels in day, and thereby increase the
stock ten thousand barrels He thought if unsafe to
bet with who could SO easily and speedily con-
vert whiskey into imported liquors, or water into
whiskey.
4 Liberal Iranslation.-T same legal authority
is responsible for the following anecdote of the
| judge =
Judge E, when at the bar, somewhat
noted for his frequent quotations from Shakespeare in
which, however, he generally broke down before he
got through. Upon one occasion, when he rose to
address jury, behalf of the plaintiff IN slander
suit bets were freely offered and no takers, that be-
| fore be sat down he would bring in the well known
quotation, Who steals my purse etc.
Sure enough when he came to the pathetic part of
his speech, out it in this wise
Who steals my purse steals trash; but he who
St ais from my good name, takes that which
which-does him no good, and makes me, gentlemen
| makes me-feel very uncomfortable indeed n'
| AS he said afterward, he had the ldea;' what
| difference did it make about tlfe words"