The true Democrat., 1857-02-24
The Re.nal ol me S.a,. Trose.

It should be gratifying to every one euliah- tened as to the true interests of the sontb in watch the decided reprobation with which this lire brand has been received in the south and by the south. As the Charleston Courier re- marks t will at once prevent division in the south, and dsarm agitation at the Lorth, and thus give new security and permanercy to the institution of slavery, in the southern States. The following Is a portion of letter Written by the eminent Marylander Reyerdy Johnson to the Buchanan and Breckiuridge banonet at Fanueil Hall:
 trust no man m the States. now without slavery, will Tor moment believe that any se. rlous purpose exists, or can ever exist. in the pnoic mind oi the south, to revive the forei,n slave trade. think am right in sayino that agalnst such measure the public voice in that section VIII be as decided and uuanirnops oo m any other part of the country. Such q sten would, and In my opinion should shock inc sense oi the civilized world. After we have made It piracy, and again and again punished It as snch, to legaize and engage it ourselves would justly subject us to the condemnation of Christenl.om.
 Slavery as It exists with us, is quite diff ferent matter. For its origin we are not TO- spohsloe, and Its continuance besides beino under the protection of the constitution is ab. soiuteiy necessary to our own general peace ana welfare. To set at large more than three millions o1 slaves, unfit for self-government ana incapable by nature of being amagamated With the dominant race, and to have them re
 man where they are, all will admit to be eoual. iy impossible. What, then, could be done With them! Would the other States receive them! Would the laboring men then aoree to such competition with their own labor2 | hese questions admit of but one replv and that shows how idle it is to look forward to sucn day as possible, as long as the present condition of the country remains.
 Ii our system of slavery be wrono-;f if conflicts with morality, and religion, in the ab stract, or Tn the particuar-the united influence or christianity will, in Gods own time. primo if to an end. When this shall occur, His good- ness and mercy will provide that it shall not De followed by greater evils, to the slave and me master--tO the cause of "Deace on earth ana good will to man'-that flow. or can flow rom Its continuance. It may be that it has had It's orgn, and owes its existence, to some scheme by which, in its nscrutable wisdom rroVldence intends to spread the light Of chris. 1iah ciVllizatlon, through the darkness of Afri- can oaroarIsm. This. however, is beyond hu. man Knowledge, but may, in time, be its direct result. ''' "''eo'
 All that we do know is that with us the in- sututon Is of the mildest form, and infinitely better Tor the slave, that he would be to free nm, and have him to remain in necessarily degraded condition. No candid citizen of tho north could visit the south and see the general comfort and happiness of these people, without admitting that it is infinitely better than that of the free negroes amongst themselves. Tbe uesradalioh or slavery Is not felt, whilst that of such freedom is felt, as a general thipg in almost ho! every form which human suffering can