The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-03-18

zen If no cotton was furnished for
years. | will not stop to depict what
one can Imagine, but this is certain
England would topple leadlong, and
the whole civilized world with her. No,
you dare not make war on cotton. No
r on earth darcs make war on it. Cot
is King. Until lately the Bank of
and WIS king, but she tried to put her
IS as usual, the fall before last, upon
otton crop, and was utterly vanquished.
last power has been conquered. Who
doubt it that has looked at recent
s! When the abuse Of credit had
Dyed credit and annihilatcd confidence.
thousands OF the strongest CONNER
ioHaes III the world ere coming down,
iund,cds Of millions Of dollars Of sup.
property cvarora,ing in thin air,
you came to Il dead lock, and rcvo
Is were thcrcatenc,l, what brought YOU
Fortunately for you it was the com
cmcnt Of the cotton season, aud Wa
poured i'll upon YOU one million six
red thousand bales Of cotton Just ut
risis to save You from sinking. That
!, but for the bursting OF your spccu-
bubbles i'll the North, which produced
hole of this convulsion, would have
lit us SlOo,ooo,ooO. We have sold
$4,000, 900, and saved you. Thirty
million dollars we, the Shareholders
South, have put into the charity box
II magniii cent iinanciers, your cotton
your merchant princes.
sir, the greatest strength Of the
arises from the harmony Of her po-
and social institutions. This harmo-
IS her Il frame of society the best in
'rld, and an extent Of political free
combined with entire security, such as
cr people ever enjoy upon the face of
rth. Society prcc,lcs government;
1t, and ought to control it; but us
we can look back in historic times,
/ the case different ; for government
ooner created than it becomes too
for society, and shapes and mouds,
rs controls it. In later centuries
ogress Of civilization and of intclli-
has made the tlivcrgcnts SO great as to
&c civil wars and revolutions; and it is
g now but the want Of harmony be-
governments and societies which oc
all the uncasincss and trouble and
that we see abroad 1t was this that
l,t OH the American Revolution. We
ew oil Government not adapted to our
lal system, AMI made one for ourselves.
e question is, how far have we succeeded I?
c South, so far us that is concerned. is
I>iied, content, happy, harmonious, and
IS; crous.
In all social systems there must be a class
10 the mean duties, to perform the
ldgery Of life. That is, class recurring
Il low order of intellect and but little
u. It's requisites are vigor, dociIity, fl
ity. Such Il class you must have or YOU
uld not have that other class which leads
'gress, refinement, and civilization. II
lstitntcs the very mud silIs Of society and
political government; aud you might rs
II attempt to build house in the air,
TO build either the one or the other, except
the mud-sills. Fortunately for the South,
found race adapted to that purpose 10
+ hand. a race inferior to herself, but
incnt!y qualified in temper, in visor, in
cility. in capacity to stand thc clipate, to
,wcr all her purposes. We use them for
: purpose, and call them slaves. We are
fashioned at the South vel it is word
cardcd now by ears polite; but l will
characterize that class at the North with
1t term but vou have it; it is there; it
C'Si "hSiS ~ 10 CtSthiI.
he Senator from new n. York said ycster-
y that the whole world had abolished
very. Ay, the name, but not the thing {;
d all the powers of the earth cannot abol-
it. God only can do it when he repeals
fiat, "the poor yc always have with you :
the MAN who lives by daily labor, and
rccly lives at that, and who has to put
labor in the market and take the best
can get for it; in short, your whole class
manual laborers and operatives, as you
i them, are slaves. The difference be-
cen us is, that our slaves are hired for
} and well compensated there is no starry
on, no begging, no want Of employment
Iong our people, and not too much en-
,yment either. Yours are hired by the
y, not cared for, and scantily compensa-
!, which may be proved in the most de-
'rable manner, at any hour, in any street
any Of your large towns. Why, sir, you
'et more bcggars in one day, in any single
eet Of the city Of New York, than you
uld meet in lifetime in the whole South.
lrslaves are black, of another, inferior race.
e,status in which we have placed them