The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-06-06
From the New York Day Book
PUTTING DOWN THE SLAVE TRADE
IN NEW YORK.


A time will doubtless come when the Amer
ic mind will cast off, utterly and forever,
that strange and indeed disgracefu mental do
minion which Europe, and especially England,
now exercises over it, aud the then generation
will really find serious difficulty in compre.
hcnding IFS absolutely despotic character.
The instinct Of hostile systems rs well as the
Evolutionary maxims of the British aristocracy,
impcls them pcrpctually. openly or secretly, to
war upon us, our political sympathics, or orr
social tendencies orr Democratic ideas, and TO
cmbnrrnss onr growth by fraud when they dare
not attack MS openly by force The New York
Times IN commenting upon and endorsing
" Lord" Napicrs speech, took occasion to say,
that if it were not for negro " slavery" there
would be perfect harmony between MS and En-
gland that is, if it were not for the natural
distinction Of races we would conform to the
British system, the artificial distinction Of
classes or, in other words, if it were not for
slavery" there would be no d mo ,racy, and
whatever name our system might be called by.
it would be substantially the same, or govern
ed by the same principle as that Of the former.
This vita aud self important truth. rs our
readers well know, we have earnestly labored
to inculcate, though we hardly expected a
Republican, Journal to acknowledge it
That the presence Of the negro on this CONT
ncnt, or that this subordinate element in onl'
Ipupnlntion, is the foundation and very CORNER
stone Of orr republican cdilicc," should be, and
will he, beyond doubt or question when this
question is honestly explained and properly
understood by the people. Indeed the fact Is
50 apparent, we might say, 50 sclfcyident, that
even with the wide spread misconccption Of the
real negro, it is strange, indeed that it is not
universally perceived, and the sole excuse or
explanation, is Of course, that ahjcct depend
cncc on European opinion which so disgraccs
the cdncated portion Of the people, especially
Mt the North
The aristocracy of ENGLAND Inov, instinct
lively, nay, neccssarxV, that the abolition Of
"slavery' is also the abolition Of Democracy,
or in other words, that the pcrvcrsion Of the
natural relation of races is the pervcrsion of
the natural relations which white men bear to
each other, that the destruction Of negro sub
0ydination is the destruction of the white eqnak
aty, in short, that the downfall of negro slave,
~ is the downfall or would be the downfall Of
American liberty.
Hence they began their indirect and fraud
lcnt warfare upon our institutions by under
mining them, by corrupting them ut the heart
by striking at the foundation, by obolishng"
the natural distinctions between white men and
negroes, and knocking out the undersfrnrturc
the very groundwork of Democracy And
here has been the misconception, the fatal mis-.
take not merely of the deluded and beSottcd
abolition rahble Of the north, but Of statesmen
Of true patriots and Democrats. They have
looked upon the British warfare upon the so
called slave trade as an end, u speciality, n
great isolated independent, unconnected fact
when all this time it was an Incident merely
means to an end the corruption Of the natu-
raj relations of races, and the consequent de-
basement aud destruction of Democratic inst
tutlons on this continent. And we ourselves
have labored for our own rnin--to put down
the slave" trade--to make it piracy to rem
der slavery" odious-to array the "moral
sentiment" OF the country Oh the side of Brit
ish policy-to aid them in their grand ultimate
object Of undermining our system, our institu
tons, our society, our Democracy our insubor-
dnotion Of negroes and equality Of white men