New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-18
couRTrNG RUIN.


The London Times concludes very long editorial
on Mr. Sterling's letters from the Southern slave
States:
The mother country and our Anglcssxon sell
emsncpateq coon'sis q Amer,eS ny po.n W..
$500 y 9s is l dsr ma M extinction
Of 4 common dishonor when The slaves Of the Union
obtain Declaration Of Independence.
Whether any fault Justly attaches to the original
planters Of African slavery on this continent or not
the fact is absolutely ncontroyertble that slavery
would never have existed here but for Englishmen
and the English Goyernmcnt They first brought
the negroes 70 this country, encouraged the trade,
reaped the lions share Of the profits, and are now
making more money from the manufacture of slave
grown cotton than are the shareholders themselves
And no matter what abstract notions the subject
of slavery may be entertained by honest and conscen
tious men, one thing is evident and indsputabe The
civilized earth may be searched in vain for parallel
showing such improvement, morally. socially, men
tally and ndustrialy, as the negroes have made in
the slave States. In their native land they are bar
barians cannbaIs enthusiastically above the level OF
the brute creation In free States and countries
general thing they worthless depraved, idle, dis
spated pests to good society and objects Of universal
detestation. In the slave States they SOBER in
dstrious, useful advance continually and are gradu
ally reaching as high pitch Of improvement as
Nature intended they should Let the case be stated
justly and mpartialy and the yerdct OF any honest
and intelligent jury IN Christendom would be in
favor OF slavery
But TINS is not tna issue we propose 70 discnss
Southern slavery needs no JustIication 1t has made
Its mark and has proved itself as beneficial to the
slaves as the products OF their labor are indispen
sable to the commerce Of the world. OF all the ma
tons OF the earth England Is the last that should
desire the abolition ofslayery this continent She
originally planted slavery on the Western hemisphere
She afterwards emancpated the negroes in her West
India possessions, and utterly ruined those colonies
and at the same time degraded the negro from the
condition OF slave, to which be is alone suited to
that OF barbarian, to which he has naturally sunk
since he has been cursed with the unbsaable repon
slbsiify OF freedom and now England could better
stand war Of live years with combined Europe than
go without the snowy staple of the cotton States for
twelve months. She might, and probably would,
triumph over her continental enemies bat il her fac
tories were closed as they would be by withdrawal
q the cotton crop, she would be irretsievaby ruined
And yet the London Times-the newspaper spokes
man Tor the last anchored isle declares that it
will be glorious day when the (" slaves of the
Union obtain Declaration Of independence" 1t
will be the blacklist day for England that ever
dawned on her long and magnificent career. 1t will
be black day for the United States, for such De-
caratcn, successfully enforced would result in the
utter ruin OF the firest most prolific and richest
portion Of the coniederacy. It will be a black day
for the negroes for they win be obliged to emigrate
to other lands or he ar 10 cn,nel fheir