The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1857-05-09
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tnrIviiui rights, et, N
this is daily done, NNir 0t5
tncky aud Missouri.
and their nnsounlness Ope
plans of action and i'd not raise snsF,ssr
among our friends, should be The prayer !
every true Southern heart. The editor
u The South \ III the very shenrt of Virgin
laboring for Southern rights, acts soflew
more consistently with the duties of thnAsl
fill lender &g#=I
1--WE are glad, he says, in . significant
Gle, to see Southern papers ieading ef lnghN
right direction, II, instead Of wasting leih
energies and weakening their influence in q
vain and hopeless attempt to extend slavery
into Kansas, Southern people would incline,
with their negro labor, toward the tropics,
where that labor is profitable, they would add.
greatly to their power and weight in the
Union. 1t is by the product OF the great
staple Of slave labor that the South holds the
rest Of the Notwithstanding the Northern
States Of our Union--in bonds Of peace and
amity. AS she augments this product, she in
~creases this dependence. let her, then. take
this labor to regions where it will produce the
llargest amount of these valuable articles of ne
cessity. to the whole world, and she will make
her slaves . source Of power and wealth.
He evidently regards annexation in this di-
~reciion as the true policy. aud says
".Nor is there any foundation for the appre-
hension that the South Would lose her impor-
tance and due Weight in the confederacy, by
the Withdrnwal Of the slaves from her more
Northern States, where they are d blight, to
more Southern regions, where they are i'm
niensely. productive. II voluntary emancipa-
tion should be effected in Virginia, Kentucky
aud Missouri, those States would still continne
to adhere to and sustain their equal rights in
the Union and, in the mean time, other new
! Southern States would be added from New
Mexico, Cuba aid Central America. or by the
division of Texas. This would be practical
equilibrization. This would be the: natural
course Of events. But Capitalization is no,
ESSENTIAL TO the safety Of The South HERR
lance should be on he constitutional compacts
These will protect her. though she were cui
down to one single State. Let her not provoke
and invite aggression by a p~roftless effort t.
leap the natural barriers which oppose her eX
tension toward the Northwest
1t is plain that it is idle to attempt TO con
troll the course Of the border Southern States
on the subject OF slavery, which will most Ger
tainly be directed by the p%romptings Of self
interest. 1t is equally idle to expect that an,
degree Of agitation whose object is simply tt
embitter the public mind and establish a pure
" sectional issue. will have any pratical bene
lit or tend to create any closer. union among
the population Of the slave States themselves
But there is something practical in this sug
gestion OF increasing the products of human
industry at the South--of placing ourselves il
The position the God Of nature designed "
should occupy-where we may hold the civil
lied world in dependence upon ourselves
Events little anticipated, that seem to shoy
the finger of Providence itself as the movin,
power, are now occurring which are as sur
guides to safety as was the pillar of fire and 0
cloud to the Israelites, in their journey through
the desert to the promised and.
Who that witnesses the new and nnprece
dented impetus given to manufacturing indus
try-the development of extraordinary popnla
favor towards internal improvement and part
cnlarly to the Pacific Railroad-the discover,
Of mineral treasures not supposed heretofore. i
exist in the borders Of an %alluvial country, We
essential to the highest development Of hnmaI
industry--the singular chain of events tina
points to the future annexation Of vast terrific
ries almost within the tropics better calculate,
in the hands of such a people as the Anglo
Saxon race to become the seat of dominion
than any other quarter of the globe-we say
who that Witnesses these indications of til
times, cannot see the mcans of greatness, dig
} nifty, power and respect for the South, that al
the agencies of fanaticism or political dema
gogues can not resist. The South is not. weal
To-day she is stronger than at any period sine
our government was formed. and She must cor
tinue to grow stronger, unless, fascinated wit
mere idle distractions, she neglects TO achiev
for herself her important mission. [Creole.