The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-04
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THE SLAVE TRADE.

THE SLAVE TRADE.
Shareholders know. indeed, that the existing
slave population of 3,20O,00O is quite inadequate
to supply by its reproduction the area of a vast
continent with slave labor That it may be re-
sisted, repelled, overborne in the contest by the
native reproduction Of free labor from stock Of
20, 600. 600 native born American citizens, aug.
mented and reinforced by immigration from Great
Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden. Norway
and Spanish America. Speech Of ". H. Ss,cGrd,
at Rome, ~ Il
Mr.. Seward is right; shareholders know
perfectly well that the increase of our pres
ent slave population cannot enable the South
to keep pace with the North in territorial
wealth and extension. e is right when he
tells ~ that the vast valley Of the Mississippi
aud the wilds OF the Southwest must remain
an uncutivated waste for half century,
unless we look to some source for the supply
of labor other than the S,250,OO0 negroes
now in the South. Mr. Seward knows AS
well as we do, that while the numbqr Of
Southern slaves is so great that emancipation
Is an utter impossibility, yet the number is
so small, that it cannot promote Southern
growth and greatness with that degree of
rapidity which mi ght render our strength and
wealth dangerous to Northern political ab :
solutsn The sources of Northern labor are
concisely and justly stated by Mr.. Seward in
The extract from bis infamous speech, which
brealh4s pestilence, war, rapine and pIunder,
from the beginning to its conclusion, and
from which we have made the extract above
quoted.
But, 10 what consists The remedy for the
evils SO papable to US, apparent 10 him9
How are we to protect ourselves ?-or must
we sit calmly here by our Southern fresides,
and, folding our hands in sIolid indifference,
cry, "peace, peace, when there is no peace r.
Must we be robbed of another Kansas he
cause of the inequality OF the production of
labor at the South AS compared with its in.
exhaustlble supplies at the North Is there
a renedy9 Can some dreaming phiIauthro
phist, who would sacrifice tile South and her
institutions to an insane prejudice against
the African slave trade, tell us whether there
exist any other means hfn this, OF staying
the progress of national calamity ST. forc
bly, presented by the reasonable statesman,
Vim. H. Seward Can white men till our
corn and cotton fields ?-can they toll in the
measureless swamps of our great valley,
where wealth enough lies hidden, until de-
veloped by slavs labor, to make the South
The greatest empire OIL the globe Can the
Caucasian race cultivate our rice and sugar
fields beneath the rays OF vertical sum- in a
land where fogs aAd miaslns forever float an
atmosphere that nothing but an African can
nhalel Tell us, ye pretended friends of the
South, who admit the impossbiIity Of eman>
cipatlng the slaves We now have, why we
should not have more, when Mr.. Seward
himself presents such irresistible induce,
neuts for the increment Of their numbers 7
The morality Of the African slave trade
cannot be- denied, for ott elwse the impety
Of the Interstate slave trade is Mess d,
and the latter cannot be abol shed, since it
would be go rvalent to the abolition Of
Southern savery-lhe abolition oil which
being incompatible with the existence of the
two races, is not required by GUd-and hence
its continuance cannot be vIoative of his
laws. If we cannot question tho morality
of slavery, (nor the slave trade, an institu-
ton ordained by God Himself, for His own
wise and beneticent purposes, which have
al.eady developed themselves ia the advance
nent made by Southern blacks in physical
and intellectual growth; if this difficulty be
removed from the paths in which reason
travels, are there not other considerations
inducing US to reopen the African slave
trade even stronger than those presented by
Mr. Seward a. bs
Mr.. Seward is a corrupt, trading politician
While endowed with the genius OF an Arch
angel, his soul is blacker than that of any
demon who raves IN the lowest caverns Of
hell. His ambition, like that of Lucifer,
would destroy. heaven. and convert it into
Pan lemonum, il Seward might reign SUI
preme as the occupant Of its throne. He
would embroil the different States Of this
Contederacy, to which patriotism gave birth,
ID ceaseess wars and revolutions, that it
might disappear in the gloom and darkness
which overshadow mis- damnable ambition
With mistaken nerves, he beholds in the no
distant future the certain superiority of the
North over tbe South resulting from the
absence here of the sources when the de-
mand for labor can be supplied. He knows
that, as popular sentiment and prejudice
now exist, the slave trade laws cannot be re-
repealed, the slave trade laws cannot be re-
pealed, and he contlives by every species of
lalsehood and misrepresentation to fray the
more powerful against The weaker section OF
the confederacy lie designs using his de,
Iuded followers for our overthrow and for our
utter subiugation, and 10 lhwart him, many
men believe that only two modes present
themselves, II they may deduce anything
from the recent Northern elections; the one
is, the secession of the South from the Union,
the other, the re-opeuing Of the African
slave trade ~
There are, as we have above suggested,
other reasons for this measure too unan,
swerable be overlooked, and too potent to
be resisted. The North itself may, perhaps,
be made to comprehend the fact that even il
is rs much, perhaps more, interested in The
repeal Of the present odious laws, than we
Of the South. Mr., Seward himself will not
deny that the North to day receives greater
share OF the net profits Of slave labor than
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