Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-02-17
From consspondenee N. \. Day Book.
Letter from Ealsas. 8
WEsTPoRr. Mo-. Jan. Z 1851.

/ Letter from Kalsas.
WEsTroRr, Mo-, Jan. Z 1851.
Believing that so long as your sec
ton was at war with mine, ! was
bound, as q true man, to render no
aid or comfort to the public enemy,
and remembering, too, how the Sum
day, Times and the Herald, that for
a while were Landed as conservative
and national papers, had, like our
southern toadies of northern opinion
crippled our cause by ''the logical
consequences of their silly conces-
sions, and finally betrayed it, | had
made it point Of dnty not to patron
ize or encourage any paper North Of
Mason and Dixon's line; not that !
have prejudices against your people
as individuals !; have none such; in
deed, some of my most intimate
friends are northern people. But
your section was intermeddling in
| the internal affairs ofmy section, and
was insulting US, by seekingto domi-
neer over us, and 10 lake the keeping
ofour destinies out Of our own hands.
II could not, therefore, bat regard
your people as enemies my section,
and all OF them as alike until proved
to the contrary. Thus prepossessed,
of course, heard with much distrust
that your paper (the DAY.BooK) was
national, conservative, and held the
true ground on the slavery question;
and Ihave inst perused some OF your
latest numbers with every inclination
to condemn. To my surprise, ] find
you no mere time-seryer, healing
mortal wounds lightly-nop petty char
latan with mercenary aim, rashly
vending quackeries-no mean spy
among one set, pandering to the blind
passions of ,another--no miserable
demagogue skulking from one shall
low pretext to another, and vainly
seeking to reconcile lineompatibilities
but l find you the true and perfect
representative ola great idea, and
thoroughly possessed }. and Imbued
with it, and that idea the duty and
necessity of keeping the head of hu-
manity at the head, and, in accordance
with natures laws still letting the foot
perform its proper frlnction-in short
las you term itl the true"Amcrican
idea' of white superiority and white
supremacy, and Of negro inferiorits
land negro subordination. Void q
4 partisan heat, coldly and calmly you
teach men to open their eyes, and re-
I cognisethe indubitable fact that a ne
gro, and not a white man-not his
superior, unlike him, and therefore
unequal to himzthatin juxtaposition
with the white, IN the relation Of
master AID slave, the only contact
the superior race can toleratc) the ne
4 gro is in his nornial and health bring
ling condition; and in the only school
of progress his dependent and iniita-
Five nature is adapted to-ia short,
that slavery is right, and is q trust
given us of God. for the benefit d
both races, and ought to be maintain
ed--that thc Republican is better
than the aristocratic or nonarchical
form Of eovernment-that in Re
public there should be true and
practical equality among the citizens
that idiots, infants, and races incapa-
bic of self:government have not, in
|, nature or common sense, any Just
right to participate in the admins:
1tration OF public affairs, but should
be Kept in appropriate hardship till
removal of their several disabilities
that slavery is the negro's only
practicable wardship--that out Of il
| he sinks to barbarism, and drags the
I white down to his own level, or is
exterminated by him--that Republi:
can institutions cannot co-exist with
negro equality, nor long last unless
Itonghened with the alloy Of absolute
slavery, in aclass or race, distinguish.
able by physical signs from the citi.
zen caste-that slavery avoids the
dangerous conflict between labor and
capital, and conduces to a true prac.
teal equality among the free-thai
negro labor is essential to a produc.
Etion Of cheap clothing, sugar, coffee
land other tropical products, common.
snrate with the wants Of a progress.
sirc,ciyilization that slavery is the
conservative element Of orr institu.
tions, the basis Of the present power
l and glory Of the American name, and
the Indispensable instrument Of fiji.
ittnre progress, without which right
4 arm, the whole body polite mus
withcr and decay. That knowing
these things, England, and other ri.
walls and enemies, With the. view Il
d stop our progress and make our he
publican institutions iinpfacticable,
BY precept and example ,hayc PERSIA
Ided the northern people that slavery
was sinfal, and Of, little or no nse any
way-vthat negroes are the same. al
whites, only nature has taken a little
more pains in painting and perrin
ming. them and cnrling their baif
and il giving some Of their boHcs |
; twist ours haven't got-that cottoi