The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-04-08
SENATOR HAMMoND's sPEEcH-BLAcK AND
WHITE SLAVERY

WHITE SLAVERY.
About two years since, Euv. Banks of Massa.
| chusetts u Freesoil star new-rsen in tho black
| sky of the North, was invited by some thousands
OF the merchants of New York to address them
OH the great political questions of the day. From,
balcony in Wall street, he spoke to the mer.
chants, brokers, freedom. shriekers and fanatics
Of all grades and coors, chiefly in relation TO the
relative prosperity aud dependence of tho Eortl,
and South
If Bonks was to he believed, the South was in
an unenviabic prcdicament. She was poor re-
lntion, n weak dependent, a croucliing vnssal at
the feet Of the North. The luminous and pro.
found Waltham pedagogue made n hit and his
ridiculous twuddle was applauded by his Freesoil
brethren, who vilify the Southern people because
they are too philanthropic to permit the negro to
relapse into tho savage condition from which
they have rescued him.
In striking contrast with the speech of Banks
is that Of Senator Hammond, Of South Carolina.
delivered in the United States Senate on The 4lh
of the present month, during the debate on the
admission Of Kansas under tho Lccomptom Con-
stitutlon. This speech, so able and so eloquent,
must still more extend his already wide repu;a-
lion. lis the most mastery, scholarly and con
elusive yet delivered upon the subject OH which
hc treats. lie overthrows completely the shall
low conclusions of Banks and his Frecsoil follow
ers. and shows that the commercial prosperity of
the North is founded upon the agricultural pros.
perty of the South in word, that the South
holds in its hands tho vital interests of its great
sectional antagonist. But il is not our int enii0u
here to follow him in his statistical calculations
and the application Of their results. We will
only say that he eXhibts-accorting to that in
fallible lest Of peoples wealth, the ratio of its
production to its number of consumers.-; pro-
ductive capacity in the South which is approx.
mated by no nation on tho face Of the earth ex-
ccpt England, namely Sl6.G6 per head while
that of the North cannot exceed SIG per head.
That part of Senator Ilammond's speech
which contrasts tho social aud industrial systems
of the North and South, we regard rs most inter
esting and timely. 1t is here, particularly, that
he proves himself TO he no minon Of tho dead
Past-no incnrnate ghost chattering ghibbcrish
over dry bones, or mutterlng unntelligihle in
Expectations Of enignatical inscriptions tomb
stones-no paraiytic slave of antccedcut wrong
or customary rrror-but all erect, robust man,
full Of vitality, wide -browed clear headed deep
and far sg ghted-a man who lives up to the pres
ent, and is ready and able to live into the future
Ii is hero that he quits the walls Of mere de fence
aud apology-a policy so long deplored by us
and carri.s the war with terrible effect into Af.
RIGA. lie reduces the question between the two
sections tn its true conditions. He shows that
resolved into its tru. meaning, it is Il deadly
struggle between While Slavery and Black SIu-
very.
There must be mcnial class in all social sys
TENS The social system of the South would limit
this class tn natural and acknowledged nferi-
GRITTY; it would make race and color, not acci
dental condition, the basis of social distinction
every white man belonging to the governing
class. and enjoying the real and not only the nom
innl dignity of freedom. Thus black slavery be.
comes the most conservative element of Demo
cracy; and, this moment, the Democratic masses
Of the North have no truer friends than Southern
shareholders, no more valuable auxiaries than
tho Southern slaves. This is an immense fact
which it is time those same Democratic masses
should learn and act upon, before they are plung
ed into anarchy, trOd,len down by despotls,n
by giving their opposition to the South-by ma
,onalizing negro slavcry-by removing all re-
strictions upon the supply Of negro slaves from
abroad-by making black slavery, in n word,
the "mud.sill,' rs Senator Hammond aptly char.
actcrizes it. "of society aud political govern
ment;" i'll that way they could possibly save the
Union, save themselves from submitting to gal
ling degradation or rcsorting to revolution, and
save their section from the danger which, il would
be in of drifting bnck under English dominion
Will they look to:it i'll timer If they do, they
must put behind them the FrecsoiI demayorues
and hypocritical philanthropists who ure teach
ing them ignorance and leading them into wors,
than fuily-and do that very soon.-N. u. Delta
----.-.~
Lieut.. Maury thus briefly. but forcibly, dc.
scrbes the Gulf Stream:
"'Fhere is II river in the ocean. In the severest
it never Ovcrflows. It's banks und it's bottom are
Of cold water, while its current is of warm
The Gulf Of Mexico is ITS fountain, and its moutl,
is in the Arctic seas 1t is the Gulf Stream
There is in the world 10 such majestic flow oi
water. Its current is more rapid than the Miss.
ssipPi or the Amuzon, and its volume more thai,
n Thousand times greater. Its waters as far out
fom the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an
indigo blue. They are so distinctly marked. that
the line of junction with the common sea water
may be traced by the eye. Often one half OF
the vessel may be perceived floating in gull
stream water while the other half is in the com.
mon water of the sea, 80 sharp is the line and
the want Of affinity between these waters; and
suct too the reluctance, SO to speak, on the part
OF those of the Gulf Stream to mingle with the
common wntcr of the sea-"
Pursuit by Foreign Detectiues.-It is stated
that Mr.. Allsop, the Englishman suspected of a
completely III the recent attempt upon the life OF
the Emperor Napoleon, and who has for several
weeks been secrcted in New York, has been com.
PEELED TO lenve that city in consequence of the ar
rival there Of three French detectives and four
or five British, i'll pursuit of him. They found
out his hiding place and knew oil his movements
Their first notion was to kidnap and carry him of
secretly, but this was abandoned, and. while
they were waiting for the necessary papers ia
arrest him, he decamped. Information of ALI
sop's Judgments was communicated to the New
York police by the British consul. Pittsburg
papers mention report TINT Alsop is there, and
OH Thursday gentleman called upon the May or,
informed him Of the fact and urged his arrest-
The Mayor declined to interfere. probably for
the very good reason that he had no authority
----.-s%
alpine Rct'tges.-The tourists who cross the
Alps i'll the summer, WREN the mountains have
lost their thick covering Of snow, can form no
idea of the dangers to wish the inhabitants of
those mountainous regions are exposed when
obliged to trnvel over them in the winter In
order to ALLEVIATE their suferngs as much as posi-.
BILE, the project of the Hautes Alpes has just de.
voted the sum bequeathed to that department by
Napoleon'I 10 the establishment of places Of re.
.fpge for travellers in the most dangerous passes
Of the mountains. These houses, eight in num-
Der, are inhabited by trusty man and his fami'y,
whose ebusness it is to give assistance to trav
ers in cases Of danger. During snow storms a
signal;light is placed at The top of each house,
a., and when dark bell is kept constantly ringing.
These places benr the name of "Refuges Napo-
leon,' and the advantages which will be derived
from them cannot fail to be gratefully apprecia-