The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-11-10
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and mongrels wlro now lroid theso coun-
tries We would not enslave the qudi.
aus ! Experience has proven that they
are incapable OF steady labor, and are
therefore unfit for slavery. We would
not exterminate them, even if that inhu-
man achievement would not cost ages of
murder and incalculable sums of money.
we would hardly think of attempting TO
plant The black race there, superior for la
Dor, though inferior perhaps in intellect,
and expect TO maintain a permanent and
peaceful industry, such as slave labor
must be, to be profitab e, amid those idle,
restless, demoraized children of Montezu.
ma, scarcely more civilized, perhaps more
sunk in superstition than iu Lis age, and
now trained to civil war by half centu.
ry OF lnceSsant revolution. What, | say,
could we DO with these people or these
countries 10 add 10 southern strepp,h9 g.
Nothing. Could We degrade ourselvesso
tar as 10 annex them on equal terms, they
would be sure TO come into this Union
free States all To touch them in any
way is to DE contaminated. England and
France, have no doubt, would gladly
see us take this burthen on our back, RI
we would secure for them their debts and
neutral route across the lsthmus. Such
route we must have for ourselves. and
that is all we have to DO with them. If
we cannot get it by negotiation or by
purchase, we must seize and hold it bp
force of arms. The law of nations would
Justify 1t, and it is absolutely necessary
al
condition of those unhappy States is cer-
ta'niy deplorable, but The good God holds
them in the hollow of his hand and will
work out their proper desiines.
We might expand the area of slavery
by acquiring Cuba, where African slave
ry is already established. Mr.. Calhoun,
from whose matured opinions, whether
on constitutional principles or southern
policy, it will rarely he found safe TO de-
part, SAID that Cuba was forbidden fruit"
to us, unless plucked in an exigency of
war. There Is no reasonable ground to
suppose that we can acquire it in any
other way ; and the war that will open
TO us such an occasion will be great and
general, and bring about results that the
keenest intellect cannot now anticipate.-
But II We had Cuba, we could not make
more than two or three slave States there.
which would not restore the equilibrium
OF the North and South while, with the
African slave trade closed, and her only
resort for slaves to this continent, size
would, besides crushing out our whole
sugar culture 10y her competitor, afford Il
"a lew yeais market for all the slaves IN
Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland. She
Is, notwithstanding the exhorbilant taxes
imposed on her, capable now of absorb.
ing tie annual increase OF all tie slaves
on this continent. and consumes, it is said,
twenty to thirty thousand year by her
| system OF labor. Slaves decrease there
largely. In time, under the system prac-
aeed, every slave in America might be
extermnated in Cuba as were tn. indians.
However the idle African may procreate
IN tue tropics, it yet remains to be proven
and the facts are against the conclusion,
mat he can, in those regions work and
thrive. 1t is sail, Cuba is to be african.
led rather than the United States
should take her. That threat, which at
one time was somewhat alarming, is no
longer any cause OF disquietude TO the
South, after our experience Of the Afri-
can'zlng of st. Domingo and jamaica
What have We lost by that d.? think
We reaped some benefit; and, if the slaves
o; Cuba are turned loose, great sugar
culture would grow up in Louisiana and
Texas. rivaIling that OF cotton, and divert
ing from it so nuch labor that cotton
would rarely be below its present price.
You must not suppose, for moment,
that am opposed to 'the expansion of
the area of African slavery" On the
contrary, believe that God created ne
gros for no other purpose than TO be "fhe
hewers OF wood and drawers Of water
that is, to be slaves OF the white race :;
and | wish Is see them in that capacity
on every spot on the surface Of the globe
where their labor is necessary or bepef.
cial. Nor do | doubt that such will be
the final result Much less would op-
pose the acquisitions Of territory that
would place the slave States on numer-
! ica! equality, and n,oze, with The free
States in the Union. But this review
and scrutiny Of the -esources of the South
SHOWS, tbinH, pretty concluslvely, that
we have not now the surplus population,
nor suitable territory, within our present
reach, TO create any number Of slave
States that to attempt it by costly, yet
lmpracticable and abortive. enterprises,
will be to waste our strength TO no pur-
pose and that the idea of recovering
the equality in voting Of the slave and
free States, whether on the floors Of Con.
gress or elsewhere, is visionary. We had
better then, | think, at once make up our
minds according to the facts, and giving
up all bootIess efforts, look every conse.
quence Of our position full in the face
For one, ! can do so without dismay--
without the slightest trepidation. Why
the South numbering twelve millions Of
! people, possesses already an imperiaI1do.
main that can we'll support an hundred
aiillions more. What does she need lc
seek beyond her borders, or what has she