Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-12-29
THE GORDON OF FIRE.

England. The article from which we make some extracts commences and is headed as fol- lows:
 Texas and "Free-Soil'-A Flank Move
 ment.
 We publish, for the instruction of our Amer. ican readers, the proceedings of an important meeting held on the 18th of September, at Manchester. The special features which char acterized the advertisement calling the meeting, the abolition sentiment at the bottom of 1t, the evident tendency of thought which flows in a solid current In one direction, with the single exception of General Campbell's protest, iusti- hes the opinion that the free negro party of Eng land is determined to transplant to the soil of the south, the policy that has blasted the West h. dies, and sown the seed of sectional animosity and distrust in the minds of our friends who live in the northern States of the Union. We regret that Mr. Cordovo has used his name as southerner @ and his position as Texan to this undisgulsed attempt on the part of the British free negro party to revive in Texas the issue as between white and negro labor.
 Originating under any other auspices, we would not have noticed the matter But, stand ing as we do in the very midst of the free ne- gro camp, 1t is our duty to sound the alarm when danger, immediate or remote, threatens the south. If the southern people are not vigilant they will soon be placed between raking cross- fire from St. Louis, Baltimore, Texas, and Georgia. The principal gun of the abolitionists was spiked in Missouri when Mr. Blair, by the vote of plurality, was consigned to the shades of private life But Mr. Henry Winter Davis continues to represent Baltimore, and to invite, by his example, that border warfare along the whole line of the tree-so frontier which ex- poses our friends in Maryland and Kentucky to the deadly incendiarism of the abolition agi- tators."
 The Cotton Plant further notices "the cor don of fire" as the abolitionists threateningly term it, attempted to be placed around the slave holding States.
 "A company was formed in London last year for the purpose of invading Georgia with agents, under the name of free cotton labor ers' A similar scheme in Western Virginia is we presume, working gradually to that point of abolition population which may enable Mr. Thayer to raise defantly and openly the stand ard of rebellion The Georgia invasion has, We believe, been postponed as utterly hopeless The Virginia example may recol upon the in- vaders by exciting greater interest in the minds of the people of the Old Dominion as to the institution of labor which enrches their State, and the importance forthwith of getting rid of the liberated or free,' or emancipated blacks by forced emi grafton to the northern stateS.-- In the north these negroes would cease to pre- sent living and actual condemnation of the social system of the commonwealth on the one hand, and on the other will give the abolitionists practical illustration of the beauties of free negroIsm For we believe that if all the free negroes in Virginia were sent off to Boston, the inundation would revoutionize the politics of the Bay State As an inves tment 1t would pay the other southern states, especially the cotton states to raise by individual, county, or state subscription luuds to defray the expense of i'm porting into Massachusetts all the free negroes of the south. And the south could well spare these slumbering elements of disorder. Free negroism anywhere is bad enough.
 h Jamacia or l1ayti, Sy. Domingo or Africa, the negro population is sufficiently revolting. In Canada and the Northern States the idea of " ffee' negroism Is almost as bad; but what must we say of ' free" negroism existing at the south, with the consent of the south, aud by the de- liberate act of the south? II it is right to free" one negro, it is right to lberate all. The pre-. sent inconsistency is glaring. The example is contagious. The moral is degrading to the poor white man, and deadly in its taint upon our southern system. And the contemplated free" labor, or rather anti southern movement in Texas, proves the folly of thus tampering by any modified form of abolition or emancipation with the southern philosophy.
 The main argument used is that the climate was peculiarly adapted to the labor of white men, and not adapted to the labor of negroes, hence the importation of English laborers would enable them to raise a supply of cotton. In this however, as the Cotton Plant justly re- marks, they may find themselves mistaken, for it says:
 |" In the first place, the European emgrant, when Tn Texas, will engage in the pursuit which to him seems most agreeable and profitable. If he finds that raising stock and hunting wild deer suits him better and pays better than toil- ing under hot sun, for the purpose of grow ing cheap cotton, hen will he become "a stock raiser and huntsman. No legal process can force him out of his own inclination, because the moment the white emigraut reaches Amer. lean soll he becomes free, and no civil contract can be enforced which entails coerced labor- The poor and ensaved white laborer may, in- deed, long to escape from his chains and his dreary factory dungeon in Europe, and crawl wofmlike and abjectely to the republic of white men in the new world. But, once arrived, the glorious sunshine of our free democratic in- sttuilols works a magical transformation, and expanding from the "operative" into the citi- zen the unfortunate IS away upon joyous wing lar beyond the reach of Mr. Cordova or the cotton supply association."
 But what particularly interests us is the fact that while the emancipationists in Missori are urging the employment of white slaves on the ground that the climate is not adapted to ne- groes, we find the cordon closing around us, by like attempt made in Texas. Now if a eli mate south of Us Is not adopted to negro servi- tude, and if the crop scan be better cultivated by white labor, as the renegade DeCordova ass erts 1t follows that Arkansas is in the same catego- ", but, if it be as we have heretofore asserted the proper climate for the negro where the master choses to work him-ours is a slave state And the contrary doctrine once admitted will do infinite mischief for we class this humbug of "climateS and crops" with that other hum- bug of Ca necessary evil"
 The rich cotton lands of Arkansas are too great prize to be overlooked by the abolition. ists and we hope that any attempt to colonize them from England or the northern states, will be properly met at the outset and resisted to the last extremity. Abotionism is of English origin and growth and not content with the ruin of their West Indian colonies they seek to spread the same ruin here
 The Cotton Plant further adds:
 |" In conclusion, we have only to do ourselves the pleasure of recording the very emphatic man. ner in which our worthy Consul at London, who was invited up to Manchester on the occasion. entered his protest against the free negro theory of Mir. Cordova:
 General R. B. Campbell avowed himself to be by nature, by education, and by observ alton, pro-slavery man. He was a Texan also; and he said to the people of England, : if you come among us for civilization of the soil and the in. crease of the cotton supply, we shall be de- lighted to see you in Texas.' (Cheers) But he said too, that if they came there to uproot the institutions of the State, he would rather see them at the bottom of the Atlantic Oaugh- ter;) and he did not know but that if they came they would meet with lynch law He main. taned that the system of slavery was a patri- II I IL Al. T