The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-20


SOCIAL. FORMS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH
EQUALLY NATURAL AND EQUALLY LEGITI
MATE.
Plato and other philosophers taught that society and
government were human contrivances and inyen-
lions; Aristotle taught that they were of natural
origin, growth and development. The black-repub-
lican philosophers of the present day do little
than repeat the long-exploded visions of Plato and
Protagoras.
These men maintain that government and society
itself are mere human forms and conrivances. Aris
totle contends that the State is prior to the ndvd
ua =; that is that man is born in society," is subject
and belongs to society and does not form it, by
agreement and social contract" as Locke and Black
stone and other fashionable writer's of day, teach
States and societies have all had natural providen
tial, and necessitous origin, growth, and develop
ment Mere man-made political and social insttu
TONS like those of the Able Sieyez, of Lamartine
and his associates, hardly last forty-eight hours
Government, in all its FORMS grades, and relations,
is the result of human exgences and necessities the
creation of time and circumstances the creature of
compromise, the work of Nature and of God
sttution was of this character 1t grco out of the
necessities of our situation when we had declared
ourselves independent and suiccd for the hour but
was found inadequate for continuous existence. The
present constitution is einenty the result of nature
compromise, and necessty--not the work Of any one
man, nor Of any number of men.
In like manner, our colonial and State governments
that b.J
land were transferred to this side the Atlantic and
slightly modified to meet the exigencies and necessi-
ties of more sparscy -settled country. In the MAN.
they are natural growths, not human con-
trvances
African slaves were introduced into America be-
cause the Indian was too feeble for agricultural Ia
Dor, and the white man could not work exposed in
also carried North. This was unnatural; for there
the climate suited the laborng white man, and was
fatal to the negro. Because African slavery
natural and Improbable at the North it did not last;
because it was natural and profitable at the South,
most Of the slaves of the North were sold to the
South, where the institution of slavery continues to
flourish and to prosper. Free society is the natural
and proper form of society in the section slave
holding society in the other and this is proved be-
yond doubt cavil: first because the two forms of
society are of natural growth and development
among people of origin of like religious, moral
and governmental opinions, and equally intelligent
and conscientious secondly because the slaves of
the South have multiplied rapidly, and greatly i'm
proved in morality and intelligence, whilst the free
groes ofthe North class the
earth; thirdly because the North, under her free
system of society, is happy, prosperous and intel
earth whilst the South, under her slave system is
equally happy, prosperous, and contented, aud has
become the greatest agricultural people in the world
Social systems SO healthful progressive, and pro-
motive of human happiness and wellbeing, must be
natural and legitimate. They should respect each
other and live on kind and friendly terms for they
are mutually dependent Southern agriculture would
anguish and decay but for northern commerce and
manufactures and the North without the cotton the
grain, and the market Of the South would find her
ships and her factories of little value for neither
section can do double work. Our hghIy-respected
neighbors of the Intcuigensr lately remarked with
much truth that it would be fortunate for the world
if men would only be half as busy in finding out
occasion for quarrel The remark is eminently APP
plicable to the present sectional i'll feeling in our
Union.
CROPS IN ALGERIA.