Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-01-06
+ Fer the Kama wha Valley Star
\ A Glance into theiPutafe.

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To Gov ADAMS. ors. Il: N
! / have read, with profound attention
and interest, your views in reference to
the re-opening of the Slave trade, as il is
economy called. Permit me to c fer some
reflections to which they have given
rise. o.. -. ss
The existing relation Of the two races
in the South was not the result of oar
work. 1t was originally forced upon us
by the policy of Great Britain, and sub
sequently rivetted on us by the still more
selfish and calculating policy of Yankee
DOM England, during our colonial
state, not only permitted, but seduloasly
encouraged the trade, desiring to in
crease to the uttermost the product Of
her Cis- Atlantic settlements, to be en-
crossed by herself. After the Revolu-
ton, the Yankee States seized on it with
chacteristic avidity, as sure means Of
extending their commercial marine and
accumulatng individual fortunes. A
great additional amount of tonnage, and
immense fortunes, were realized from
the traffic. On the adoption of the Con-
atitution, the Southern States expressed
their opposition to the traffic /; but the
Yankee States insisted on its continuance
until the year 1905 1t was, TO them, far
more profitable than the fisheries or man.
ufactures. have, in my possession, an
original document, never published, Civ
ing an account of the number of the
slavers engaged in the trade on the coast
of Africa, during the year 1891. Oh
the thirty-two slave-ships then employed
in the traffic, but two were from the
Southern States-one from Baltimore and
one from Charleston. The rest, with
their captains and crews, were from the
Yankee States. Up to this period, there
were not more than two States in the
Union that were not slaveholding; but
the trade, for obvious reasons, concen-
trated in the South. AppreHending its
prohibition after the year 1903, the Yam
kee States, with calculating provision
which has ever characterized them, com.
menced what they called, and still call,
their system Of emaneipotion-a misno-
mer well calculated to deceive, flor de-
ccption, is AMI ever has been the soul OF
their intercourse, foreign and domestic
but which, in fact, was nothing more than
the conversion of the foreign into the do
mestic or internal slave trade, which is
now so offensive to them. They sent
their si0res TO The South and so1dthem for
Goid.I Nothing was said about conscience
or Constitution. They sold them for
money, and received the price in CON
science satisfying coins! =. AS soon as
they bad consummated this bargain, Dea-
con ''Pebiddy" and his associates, BE.
came troubled, and the cru
SADIE of Abolition began. Such, in brief,
is the history>of the whole affair, and l
shall make no comment on il.
The. South being thus converted into a
market for slaves against her own remon-
strances, and to gratify>the cupidity of
Yankee Adventures, was compelled to
make the best of their destiny They
took the barbarian Hottentot into their
families, provided for him in sickness, and
in health, civilized and Christianized him,
converted him. from an idle and ignorant
vagabond, having scarcely ought more to
distinguish him from the Ape of his ma
tive forest than the outward semblance
of a man, and made him useful, hu.
name and pious creature. From the
depths Of his benighted regions, where,
for unnumbered ages. he had claimed and
enjoyed no higher privilege than abject
brotherhood with the wild beasts of the
forests, he suddenly sprang up, under the
careful culture Of his master, into the
full statue of a man, with all the heaven
ly gifts and sympathies of his nature
fully developed, springing back revolt
ingly from his Cannibal orgies, he, too,
learned the angelic harmonics of "wife,
children and friends"
=. And have we done well. in our dav
and generation Have we fulfilled our
obligations to them? We are answered
in the negdtrre but only by those whose
Internal lust Of money. whole oceans of
liquid plumber cannot .appease. With
item money is Con and the po,cer it con-
fers, is the Holy Spirit of God. Cold,
calculating and corps-like, they are dead
to all human wants ands ympathies. In
tolerant and bigoted, crowned with the
quenchless fires of lust, ambition and
avarice, they either will rule or ruin.
AND CAN WE MUCH LONGER REMAIN con.
NEcTED WITH SUCH BoDY> OF MEN? |
answer boldly-WE CANNOT. With their
present plans, purposes and enginery oil
mischief, We must separate from them or
perish. This is manifest to any rejecting
mind; and in view of it YOUR recon-,
mendations TO the Legislature of YOUR
State, become Of momentous interest,
| have neither the ability nor leisure to
write an ARTICLE on the subject. Nv
remarks must be briefAzvery brief.
Whether we separate Or not, we must
have slaves. The institution is utterly
incapable Of change, much less of aboli-
ton. If we cannot preserve our monop-
oily of cotton, sugar, &C., through their
labor, We must become their slaves, or
fly the country. There is no other posi-,
BILE alternative. England, sees this, and
in order to break down the monopoly, has
in her own West India colonies, sacrificed
notices. than $500, GOO, 600. France Is
united with her, and pursuing the same
line Of policy, has made her West In
dia possessions a desert. See the statis-
teal tables of NJ. Jolbioet, delegate from
Gina rda lniIpa IN tho Eraroh 49,. {