New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-16
Ts1E KEsoURcEs- OF THE SOUTH.

4 VTNE 1NASOOASoAAS-o \ AAAA - 4
For several weeks we have had lying on our table
palnphle. copy Of speech delivered by the Hon L.
~ Keitt, of South Carolina on the 18th of January
last the main theme treated Of being Slavery and the
Resources of the South. g5-gy,-
We have read the speech with care and Afternoon,
and are free to say are much pleased with II. IL
isa ervent, bold and brilliant effort full OF historical
references powerful illustrations and practcai arga
mens as well as statistical data Of the most convinc
ing and forcibe character. The orators devotion TO
his section in his defence and vindication OF that sec
ton, gows in every line and sparkles in every SEN
tence. None read and not appreciate the honest
ervor that animated the speakers heart and soul no
matter what exceptions they might take to his pre-.
misses and conclusions, n 4:n5l5 ~.
We have not room for the entire speech. Indeed,
we shall be forced to content ourselves with few
brief extracts, comparatively speaking, accompanied
by such running commentary as win keep up the con-
neetion. es+rsegS $685. FiH~G
y Who can peruse the suhjoined paragraph and not
be struck with its truth and beauty Read 'p,
have said that slavery was primordial and uni
versal fact and have traced it up the stream OF
time to those awful mysteries which enshroud the
origin Of society. | have appealed to long line OF
monuments, historical, poetical aud philosophical
sacred and human to codes and creeds, to show its
primitive existence. Voices from the east and voices
from the west voices from the precincts of Eden and
from the summit OF Sinai voices from the depths OF
darkling antiquity and from the glare of civilizations
voices from the sanctuares of God and from the seat
of the Pretor voices from every tradition OF every
nation that lived upon the tide of time past proclaim
the primitive, consistent and undeniabe fact OF ofs
nal slavery. 15s=1 4.s y "i
True-most true But what avails the power of
truth when launched against the gorgon offanaticsm
Nothing absolutely nothing. The Northern aboi-
tioniss would not hearkeu to the Saviour OF Mankind
should be appear again upon the earh point out their
errors rebuke themfo their wekedness and threaten
4 them with approaching punishment Instead of lis
tening and obeying, they would elamor against him
and strive to cruelty him. Such has ever been fanat
4 cism and such ever will be fanaticsm 1t has neither
soul, honor, courage, nor an ennobng attribute On
the contrary the sentiment it embodes is full OF bru
4 talitv cowardice, phrenZy meanness and uncharita
4 bleness. 1t humans a man. and unsexes a woman
backens the heart vtates the brain and posons the
whole mental system puts thepersons SO lament
ably situated beyond the influences of reason, equity,
Justice or even common honesty. EnH}
q But, truce to DEPRESSION. The eloquent orator,
Il after asking what :" modern philanthropy has done
to burst the bonds of the slave, proceeds to draw
thrilling paralelas to the modus opeTunds OF the IN
auguration of the doctrine Of universal equality In
Paris it was baptized in torrents OF blood In Lon
don disciplined steel pressed it back into the gutter.
In Europe whenever it has risen in nsurrecton, it has
been crushed beneath the tread of armies and then
the question is asked how many social systems there
and here would survive but for the presence OF force
n adequate to put down disorder !? New York and
4 Philadelphia employ large numbers of policemen to
Il protect their citizens from theft murder and arson
We now quote: -, rs jlf
i And have not both girdIed themselves round with a
the violence. of their own free white citizens! Are
these the lowerage and ruage Of free society! The
legal bands of slavery may be dissolved but neces-
sity imposes still sterner one Serts were enamel,
4 patea because hireng labor was cheaper. Capital
and muscle are facing each other and the
between them in free society seems to be beyond the
reach of Legislative lead-line. There Is gathering
conflict between socialism and slavery. The North
British Review of November. in an article on the
!, workmen of Europe, says:
Que difficult and pressing questions Of the pres
ga 50 dissurbg present order Of things tat The yio
ece Of The remedy would Be Verse nsm me n
class Of iorosy for daoher.p .....
This is said of the workmen of England, of philan
thropical and civilized England who propagate hel
abolition theories through blood and ashes and tears
The significance, truth and applicability OF the fore
going will strike every intelligent and dspasslonate
= observer of the signs Of the times.
q After stating that slavery, in ancient days, was
UNIVERSAL and that the advancement of the Caueas
sian race has only proved their capacity for improve
? Inent, the interrogatory is propounded
How fares it with the Ethiopian? For five thou
sand years he has been in contact with higher
civilization. He has hasked in the civilization oil Fer
sia and had his Numidian wars with Carthage, has
= been in contact with Phuncia and Egypt before the
age of the Ptoemes has been in contact with Greece
and Rome and England and France, and he Still Is
and ever has been savage. II the providence oil
God did not make him an inferior if the necessities
OF civilization did not require his subordinaton, how
happens it that he has been sagnant and stationary
for five thousand years How happens IL thae Ms
intellectual nature has ever been mpehetrabe 10 SCI
ence and freedomf A.
In reply to the foregoing questions MIR. heitt says
t that it is no answer to say they have never beer
: educated. Nations educate Inconsistencies edu
! cate themselves" And then he proceeds to demon
strate by series of nterogatores the verify OF the
affirmative to which all scholars will testify TO, thai
the principal countries Of antiquity did educate them
T., seves-Phnnicia, Egypt, Greece, Rome aud the ma
tons ofmodern Europewhile the African has tailet
d to do so because he was destitute OF capacity An'
10 we will say that, as it has been with the African
through all time so is it now. The African i'll hi
e native iunges in the nineteenth century, is an eA
act counterpart of the African that existed two thor
sand years ago-not whit less brutal, beastly an
Cd ferocious. All other people have improved excer
the African and there is no accounting for it, say
that the curse of Noah has chung to the race eve
" since it was denounced down to the present momen
Outside of Africa, and in state of slavery, the
ty rcan has improved, morally physically and mentally
us and no doubt would have continued to improve ha
not fell fanaticsm nterposed its internal barriers
After having disposed OF the slavery portion of h
argument, the honorable gentleman proceeded to di
euss the ability of the South to establish and mail
: tain separate and independent government" Pas
ing over his Indictment against the North for wanto
X aggressions insults and expressions, we come dow
'eA TO the following
Ne What then, make up the power of nation? Pop
Nc ation territory, commercial facilities aud the valt
M OF her material production. What is the number
the population OF the South? There are within ht
limits more than eleven millions of inhabitants, fol
times as many as inhabited the original thirteen col
NC MES, when they won their independence from Il
e mother COUNTRY. With more than seven millions
II whites, and fonr millions of African slaves to till hi
IL soil even amid the exigencies of she not d
fend her territory from invasion and protect her fla
~ from insult against all corners Is there danger
jnsurrecton? Did the slaves of the South rise again
their masters in the war Of the revolution when HI
in soil was scourged with civil strife, when master a
rayed against master, and when British armies e.
canped upon her plains, offered them their flag an