Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-04-08
THE WORTH AND THE SOUTH

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THoRsBuEr PLANTATION, MAR ,s- HAL LIZ
ga IN. Ez;tors Of the Raleigh Standard:
MrssRs. EDITORS My position and that OF all my
f.r;lv as Quiet unpretending planters, ana never e
rseog in active politics, being known IN TINS o!ae
for many years, trust may, without presumpuo''
ask of you fair consideration OF the Opinions &C.
expressed in the within letter to northern news
paper. 80.
NV opportunities for becoming acquainted with
&be opiniops both of politicians and private lndvld-
ais ut the north and especially in the leading State
Of Massachusetts,; and also of the principles and
views, for the future of the so-called Republican
party are such as Southern men rarely have offered
them. For eighteen years have mingled freely
with al! classes there, have numerous relations and
connexions IN Connecticut and Massachusetts,; for
eighteen years have discussed the question of sla-
very with all ranks and parties, and been watch
full observer Of the progress OF Aboltionsm, with
ito more modest, but near kinsmen, "Free Sell"
"Ant-Slavery in the District of Columbia" "Anti-
Domestic Slave Trade and now flick Republic
can" parties all nearly allied and all gradually as
Stimulating in purpose, if not in open principle. But
little more than twenty years SINCE when living IN
New York, / saw Arthur Tappan and his small clique
Of ten or q dozen unknown persons looked down
now hesitate to .rample the constitution under their
feet and proclaim higher law" in support OF the
very same principles then declared by that very sn
band of fanatics But they were armed with .tanat'
zeal r. solution. and the lone idea was unused ny
Tappan, with his then large fortune and energetic,
though i'll regulated mind till it acquired numbers,
and was found to be admirable subject OF appeal
BY the political demagogue. And now we see these
abstractions-anda all the more powerful on mems
minds, because they are abstractions-made the
prime indeed almost sole political principle of the
dominant party at the north, and which, unless
checked at the north, will unquestionably destroy
this confederacy, and thus destroy the only refuge
of struggling civilized liberty on the continent OF
Europe and there, for indefinite period, more Sc
eurely fasten the chains of despotism. Now the
question is, how is this check to be effected? How
is this blow so threatening to the Union, to be
weakened? Bear with me, and excuse my presump-
tion in nv anxiety for a continuance of the bless
ings merciful God has given us-and of which
felt so severely the deprivation, while in the despot-
ic countries of Europe-whie give you my sug.
sestions founded on a knowledge of the New Eng
land people and their opinions on the savey ques-
tion which last are based chiefly gross fals:f-
cation OF facts and sickly sentimental literature.
mere politician or the fanatic. l shall not do So
One Of the best means to effect change in the nor
the.n mind is to give them correct Information upon
this great question. Let the true situation OF the
southern slave be made known, when it will be
found that instead of the greatly abused and wretch
them, lie is the best fed clothed and housed and the
happiest day laborer in the world. Let the negro
himself bis psychological and pathological nature be
shown, and he will be discovered to have been pro-
nounced, by the first scientific men-AgaSsiz and
ethers-inferior to the white man; thus indicating
by the Creator himself the position he has occupied
since the days ofthe patriarch Abraham! and which
he is destined to fulfil to the end of time, despite
the combination of English and American Adolf
tionists.
Again, could the magnitude Of the interest which
the north has in preserving and even augmeEtng
the prosperity of the South as the great consumer
Of its manufactures the freighter Of its vessels, the
provider of its European exchanges with long cat
alogue of other benefits that materially to
make up the prosperity of the north-could all this
be laid before the men of New England, who GER
tainly not lightly alive to their material interests,
the demagogues of the day would soon find their Vi
tuperation and false statements of Southern ag-
gression," "Kansas suffering" &C., fall upon heed
less ears, and their " trade" would be gone. There
are even who believe that slave labor operates
to the disadvantage of the South in keeping back
II advancement in prosperity, and thus with the
S,s.ator from Maine, would forbid any more slave
fsftetto the Union because they think they know
Wbethh bat is for our good than we do ourselves
the neon,e be not, it is for to decide, and
NAV he brous, territory before whom the question
ilv he shown to This opinion, however, can read
onlv the best for nserroneous. Slave labor is not
Be controlled in this cot is the only labor that can
mate, land we should be y or suitable to the cl'
suffering ourselves 20 be whedyy OF great 1ohy IN
it, In the thickly populated ar threatened ont OF
tries Of Europe where labor goes depressed coun.
starcation, it becomes the worst kind * 70 keep OIL
In the free States it is labor that controls isnor
ls the mechanical power governing the Directing II
erH IS the army commanding the general, it is the.S-
directing the head, and when these forces become
antagonistc, commissions occur hence the frequent
INSTRUMENTATION ard ''strikes" of the operatives al
the North, and in the future these must becom,
truly formidable; while with us our labor though
probably not quite so cheap the transitory labo,
picked up as it passes and thrown aside when is
useless. from sickness or OLD age is free from ali
such objections, and is very profitable when proper
" directed as it is now beginning to be- sec the re-
ports in the American Farmer and elsewhere of the
great improvements and profits in MARYLAND. Yir.
ginia and North Carolina.
speak very decidedly on this point from 7,racti.
cal experience. Being educated at the North and
passing SO many years there became fully irnbued
with the idea common to that country as to the adj
vantage OF free labor, and both my brother and N.Y.
self tried it thoroughly about fifteen years ago. We
imported two vessel loads, one from Boston and one
nom New York Having invested a large amount
IN the experiment, and fully believing in its being
successful, it long time before we could be in
duced to change our opinion and give it up but af.
ter trying every expedent, were at last compel
ed to do 80. and at heavy loss Since then. l
have travelled in many parts of Europe, and III.
derstand something Of what free labor is there
and in au particulars, even of personal liberty,
and religious teaching, excepting in France,
ing, our negroes are far better off throughout
the whole South; in truth white labor is of the most
compulsory nature through all Europe, and in Enc.
land and Italy, especially in the former, is of the low
est and most debased character. without virtue with
ont dignity or pretension, without hope which, to
CAL 1t slavery" (as known with us,) would be to
ooH hoaor If any of your readers think this ex.
e&ggeTatlOn LET then, A.