New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-04
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I..vpoCRIsY or THE wORLD--sLAVEl
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| mis- world. is q great hypocrite. It may be set
down as q stupendous deceit without wandering far
from The truth II says one thing and does another.
1t Is gigantic on precept and diminutve IN practlee'
II is always ecious in reproving the honest uhioftu
nate. and ever foremost in layshng praises upon tne
rich and Fortunate matter their skirts are talnteo
with every meanness known to the calendar. IL sell
dom finds fault with gded vice. but never discovers
ANYTHING to commend in poverty. 1t invariably goes
on the prosperous side, the rich side and tire winning
side If there any objects it scorns with supren
est zest it is those whom 1t was won't to honor when
the sunshine prosperity illuminated their pathway
Int whom misfortune has stricken sorey and to the
| ground. Shakespeare described the world with won
Sernl accuracy when he said in truthful and undying
yerse-undying because Of its literal truthfuness-
| that S
| ..Piate sin with gold and the strong ~ i-6a u |
| Lance Of Justice hurtless breaks. .., ID
Cothe in rags, and pigmy's straw may pierce IT.
Well, the world is right, the world goes, and as
the world goes SO must we all go, Or else be swept
aside. The current of the worlds progress is more
irresistible than the current of thousand Mssis
sippis and the ingenuity and science of man have
yet been impotent to devise plan to control the
surging flow Of single Mississippi. Therefore, the
against the waves of the worlds opinion. If he isn't
fool it makes no sort of difference. He will be
washed from his mornings and will only come to an
anchor in the Dead Sea Of popular oblivion. Then,
| again, we would like to know what business the
world or anybody else has with " sin" to use the
words Of the divine bard clothed " in rags Rags
are sign Of mendicity rags are usually dirty =
we all have contempt for rags )" and although it
is possible /" rags may cover honest and true
/ heart as ever beat in a human bosom-may he the
1 habiliments of as bright genius and as noble a
/ mind as ever adorned the earth-stl the wearer is
only entitled to the munfcent accommodations OF a
4 workhonse, furnished by an aff1uent, tax-paying
world Philanthropic carpers may interpose obJec-
tons to these conclusions but their objections are of
no consequence. The fat of the world is against
them and there is no appeal from the fiat of the
i world. Can any cite instance wherein the fiat
Of the world has ever been set aside? No! ..
The hypocrisy Of the world with regard to sayelabor
in the South is the hugest hypocrisy the world has
ever attempted. It is the worlds chef dGurre in the
way of discrimination. 1t its masterpiece of work
manship in the line of deceit is the cnpola Of its
pharisacal temple Of fraud. 1t caps the climax Of
unmxed humbug, false philanthropy and unmitigated
charatansm There is nothing like it, nor has there
been anything like it, through all the ages of the past
and all the events of the present. 1t is its own only
parallel-its own only comparison own only illus
. tration.
q The whole civilized world, outside the Southern
States denounces fercely vndictivey and causeessy
our system of domestic slavery The world SANDER
US the world stigmatzes us the world applies ever.
odious epithet the language furnishes to the wor
never tires in heapng opprobrium upon us and tn
world never wearies in circulating fasehoods abou
I u.s. The world is our relentless enemy, taking TIN
word in its broadest and deadiest sense, if the WORT
is to be believed-if the world is not practicng tn
most contemplate hypocrisy the world not don
! what the poet said people attempted by tryn
y TO- p
n ..Compound for sins they are inclined to;
:. By danning those they have no MUD to-
,e The hypocrisy of the world concerning slavery
t. made continually manifest The changes Of the SET
sons the division of the hours into light and darkness
the laws of nature that vegetation to germina
ID in the bosom of the EARTH to sprou bloom, blossom
to mature and decay and the ebbng and flowing of til
tides of the not more apparent ormore ce
tain than the hypocrisy we have mentioned.
IL Yet the world would as soon apply knife to /
H. own throat as to abolish slavery if it had the power
nd Why? The world can afford to denounce slavery
but the world cannot afford 20 quit making money o
of slavery.
If At the present time the commercial world watch
IN the slavehodng States Of the South with the most
II, sorbing anxiety. No other section of the globe
ceives tenth part of the attention. And what tn
se which is watched so acknowledgement is that whit
is considered so attentively2 Why, whether natu
has been bountifu has withheld FROM the slay
I'D grown cotton crops of the South favorable seasons
fe has decreed unfavorable seasons The pivot OF 81
est worlds commerce is cotton. Cotton vtazes the ira
~ of the earth. Cotton is to the business world VIII
lis blood is to the systemwhat the handspring is to
Pile time-piecewhat the sun is to dial-what the pol
ier are to the compass-wiat the pilot is to ship-w
electricity is to the wires that bring Halifax and NJ
of Orleans in instantaneous communication. Witho
cotton the world knows that millions OF wheels loon
rps spindes locomotives, vessels, steamships, and hi
ss dreds of thousands and millions OF people would
tho thrown out of employment thousands ofmilio
of property, now paying profitable returns upon
of investments, would become galueless-and that
er industry progress capital and power Of the varit
en- nations would receive shock like unto that of
ZAP lent paralytic stroke upon healthy man. Hence
world keeps its wide open as to all matters a'
fter ing the probably supply of cotton
ems The unfavorable weather in the month OF Al
M caused the world to sigh deeply. As soon as
world learns of favorable May weather, the w
B u Will feSpFe more ireely luH Glop vi Soe'o'
the one scale, and the welfare of all the negroes
ad Chrstendom in the other, with an understanding
the Judgment must affect materially the one or
ey other and the world will decide in favor of cottor
ibid the tme and let the negroes go to perdition will
oa'a the slightest provided fu
full crops of cotton are not to be injured thereby.
ion In looking over our English and Northern {
Of slavery exchanges we have frequently been am,
20 ~. with the anomalies they present. In one column
here, system of slavery is cursed-in the next the
ssrs. intense anxiety is manifested about the prob
yield of the cotton culture! In one place stra
If to the facts would be led to infer that they desired
,een abrogation of slavery at all hazardsin the othe
niy would k1o,o that they wanted plenty of cotton
eries CARELESS Of principle morals or expense What
~ass become Of England--what would become of MI
chusetts-if the slaye.g grown cotton of the
rner should utterly fail for a single year? We neet
come enter upon an answer. The nervousness of
styles commercial papers, whenever they touch the su
of crops is sufficient response for all the purpose
Office nave IN view.
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