Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-27
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-. s. f9os unuer the pressure, thirteen
oHt OF fourteen wholesale merchants in one
department of business in one son,bsr
imposed upon their eastern creditors the ~
den OF renewing their matured notes Sir
tell the Wanting senator from Soptb Co.
ma that we OF the North buy the cotton
sugar, nee, and tobacco of the South. for oold
ana an sell you goods on six, eight, twelve. and
htteen months credit; and that tbess lono
GREATS are often renewed, and freqnentlS
never paid at all. The merchants and mann.
LECTURERS Of the North have lost hundreds Of
miliiohs OF dollars during the last. thirty wears
II, the slave states. have personally lost, in
!he senator own state, in Louisiana, Virgin
- anu NehtucKy, thousands of dollars more
than am now able to command.
But the senator, filled with magnificent via.
ions of southern power croSna ao,,no
king, and tells lis. that if thew sbonId stor
supplying cotton for three years. .tEneland
would topple headlong, and carry the whola
TTLI]ed word with her, save the South -
nat presumption The South, which owns
!anos ana slaves, the price Auctuating with
the production, use, and price of cotton.
having no other resource on means If en-
port-would go harmless; while the great
commercial centers of the world, with the
vast accumulation, with varied pursuits and
skiHed industry, would "topple" to their
i "a or suppose the coffee planters of
nlaN'i' the tea growers of the Celestial En-
Pste, ana the wheat growers on the shores
of the Black Sea, and ON tho bants If ,bs
Don and the Yolga, indulge in the same nao-
innocent illusions. l would remind the sepss
Tor mat the commercial world is not governed
oy %he cotton planters of the South, the coffee
piahterS OF Brazil, the tea growers of China,
nor the wheat producers of eastern Europe.
I 'el the senator that England, France, and
Germany, Western Europe, and the northern
0taees OF the Union, are the commercial. man
ulacturlng, business, and monetary cenlers of
the world; that their merchants, M anufactur-
ers' ana capitalists, grasp the globe that cot.
Von' ana sugrrand tea and coffee, and wheat,
ana the spices OF the isles OF the Oriental seas.
are sIowh lor them. Sir, the cotton planters
Vi Tue south are simply their agents, and they
perform their tasks under a necessity quite "a
great as their own slaves perform theirs under =
the taskmasters eye. l would remind the
senator that the free States, in 1850, produced
$o3O,00O,0O0 of manufactures, and that only
$oZ'O0O,OOO of that vast production, about
ohe-seVenteenth part of it, was made uo of
co'toh' Our manufactures andmechanlc arts
now must exceed twelve hundred million
dollars, and cotton does not make up
more than seventy million dollars. Does the
senator think the free States would "topple''
down Il they should lose one-seyenteenth part
OF their productive industry:
Inc productive industry of Massachusetts,
otate that manufactures more than one.
thiro oil all the cotton manufactured in the
country was, in 1865, $3.50, 900, 900 only
$26, 900, one-thirteenth part of il. was
cotton Does the senator believe that a State
which has productive industry of $780,
600, 600, about $3.50 per head Tor each person,
would perish if she should lose S26 ,0O0, 900
of that vast production?
1t is no matter of surprise that gentlemen
who live away off on the cross roads. where
the cotton blooms, should come to believe
that cotton rules the world but few months
association with the great world would cure
that delusion. "You are our factors!" ex-
claims the senator. "You bring and carry
for US. Suppose we discharge you Suppose
wewere to take our business out OF your
hands, we should consign you to anarchy and
poverty" Sir, suppose, when the senator
returns from this chamber to his cotton fields,
his slaves should, in their simplicity, say to
him "Massa, you only sells de cotton we
plants f; we hoes; we picks de cotton 'Spose
we discharge you, Massa - The unsophis-
located mud stills would be quite as reason.
able as is the senator. The senator seems to
think that the cotton planters hold US in the
hollow OF their hands; if they shake them,
we tremble; if they close them we perish.
But the senator from South Carolina, after
GROWING cotton as king, with power to bring
England and all the civilized world "toppling"
down into the yawning guphs of Bankruptcy
and ruin, eomplacently tells the Senate
and the trembling subjects OF his cotton
king, that " the greatest strength Of the
South arises from the harmony Of her polit-
Zealand social institutional" that " her
forms OF society are the best in the world -
that " she has an extent of political freedom,
combined with entire security, seen nowhere
on EARTH The South, he tells US, sis salts
hed harmonious, and prosperous and he
asks us it we "have heard that the ghosts of
Mendoza and Torquemada are stalking in the
streets OF our great cities that the inqusi-
ton IS at hand. and that there are fearful
rumors Of consultations for vigilance com
mittees J" Sir, this self complacency is
sublime No son of the Celestial En-
pire can approach the Senator in self
complaceney. That society the best in
the world" where more than three millions
OF beings, created in the image OF God. are
held as chattes-sunk from the lofty level Of
humanity, down to the abject condition OF
unreasoning beasts of burden That ..soeie-
ty the best in the world" where are mana.
Giles, chains, and whips, auction blocks. pris-
ons, bloodhounds, scoNrgings, lynchings, and
burnings, laws to torture the body, shrivel
the mind, aud debase the soul where labor is
dishonored and laborers despsed "Politi-
cal freedom in land where woman is i'm.
prisoned for teaching little children to read
Gods Holy Word; where professors are de-
posed and banished for opposing the extern
sion of slavery; where public men are exied
for quoting in national convention the words
of Jefferson; where voters are mobbed for sp.
pearing to vote tor free territory and where
booksellers are driven from the country for
selling copy of that mastery work of genius,
"Uncle Toms Cabin - A land of s'certain
security" where patrols, costing, as in old
Virginia, more than is expended to educate
her poor children, stalk the country to catch
the faintest murmur of discomfort; where the =
bay of the bloodhound never ceases where
but little more than Que year ago rose the
startling cries Of insurrectionS aud where men,
some Of them owned by member Of this BODY,
were scourged and murdered for suspected IN
surrection political freedom and "cer.
tain security" in land which demands that
seventeen millions Of freemen shall stand
guard to belize and carry back fleeing bond
men
Mr.. President, the senator from South Car
olina, with charming simplicity, which re-
minds us Of distant plantation, away from
the haunts Of the busy world, where . unas-
plEing' bondmen delve, where the cotton
blooms, with a frankness worthy Of commen-
dation, proceeds to unfold to the world, the
social ideas and political problems Of that
school Of which he is an accepted teacher.
He lays down axioma and maxifna as tho