Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-06-01
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Tht Northern CsassaliUn ani tht Slave
Trade.
This body has recently held Is annual
convention, II Montgomery, Alabama.
and It's proceedings were marked with
ability, and bold. independent thought.
This. however, Is Inc characteristic e an
bodies of southern men, From lie Ia
homer to The Senator, The same features
distinguish our people. Tie convention
tn No legislative spower-its whole OBJ
ject an4 plan, Is advisory hence, the
weak aud the tIioughtless win Be dis
posed tp rislicnle IL. Its nucleus,
around which the talent and ethe patriot
/ iauiof the South may gather. Ths idea
an annual meeting of Southern men,
for consultation about The mode Of devel-
oping Ole interests 81 tlic South and sug-
casting the means of eSpediting her pro
gress the supremacy which osgdf to Be
hers. i pleasing TO the Southern mind.
The men who compose it, are ior the
most part, from tie body of The people.
Tho tiinid politician. the time serving
plsceman, and the cautisus political
foundIing. have venturcd, but in few in.
stances. 10 attend ilese conventions. and
then only to disturb their harmony
Thattthefe should b division and CON
siflictinEthese conventions, i both natural
and desirable Gontiict. division, and
violent controversy, Is tie natural conse-
quence offree thought and manly indie
fpendence! Such1has been the prominent
feature Of every great people !; in truth.
!, from this, grows The greatness both IF
peoples and individuals.
]. NV observelthatit the re-opening Of the
Slave Tfade--in other words, the clear.
ing up. and rendering subservient to the
wants Of civilized man, The vast forest and
Iboundless plains 81 the South --occapied
The greater portionof the proceedings Of
the convention. This, too, is most nat
4Fural. For surely. no Southern man Of
sufficient capacity to contemplate the in
fuence pr cotton, sugar. coffee and other
tropical products, and the comforts and
progress ofthe nations, and especially Of
The South. can failto turn his attention to
the means by which these great results.
are be effected. WhenBwe look on the
vast and boundless fields Of ths great
Southern Country. to Be rendered tribu-a
tary to the wants and comforts of the ma
TONS, BY The labor Of the African slave,
and By no other labor than his--when
we reflect that good Being, forpurposes
infinitely wise, has spread these fertile
plains abroad, and suited them to Inc pro-
auctions Of human food and human cloth
ling, preculiar to them--that the same
Wise and infinite Power, has given to one
portion Of his family. man, j physical or
ganization exclusively adapted 70 labor IN
these fields of fertility, and whenwe con.
slider, that the same all-wise Power has
denied to another portion Of his creatures.
The capacity to labor ID these ATTITUDES. |
cr render them tributary to his own No.
csssities--that re has denied to this same
branch Of bis family, the mind to guide
their own physical poweriand adaptation
NJ this labor. and given to the other, the
mind to guide that labor, to preserve and
perpetuate il, in Che capacity ofI leasure
and tho shade, we can but mark the
finger of God, pointing to the unity. ofthe
white man and the negro slave. for the |
comfort, the food, the raiment, and the
eternal progress Of the. whole
What becomes Of the miserable fanati-
cism 81 the hour, when contemplated BY
the great mind Of our race from this, the
elevated seat Of its contemplation and its
thought? The timid may quail, the
weakmay tremble, old men. may dream
dreams, and the iedgeless young may
prophesy, the Pharisee may preach, and
the armed hypocrisy Of England may
thunder, but the curse Of human Eneces-
sity. and the eternal progress Of human
society like the pillows Of tho ocean, will
cast back these grains Of sand upon The
shore time. and roll OH eternally. How,
then, could this subject fail to engage,
deeply and solemnly, the assembled Wis
dom Of that race IN fheISoutll, to whom
her plains n her fertile fields, expanding il
The silent grandeur of primitive ages, are
intrusted !? Is the sordidI and fill.born
thought n high prices for young Virgin-
"a Negroes, to be thrown, as a Stumbling
block, before tie march Of civilization ?
AFe the forests Of the great South, 10 re-
main useless 70 the necessities ofdhe mill
ion poor. for the purpose Of securing
high price t. the Virginia sIayeIholder?
II England to b allowed Is po On ii