Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-08
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life's blood: we believe, too, the condition of
Nthe, enslayed African 10 this civilized and
CHRISTIAN country to be infinitely better than
that in his native land; but still we say. God
forbid that the slave trade should ever again
he prosecuted under the flag of the Union or
the flag of the South.
2. The revival OF the slave trade woald
deteriorate, barbarize and heathenize, or
supersede, our now civilized and Christian
slaves, by an unceasing and ever increasing
infusion of native Africans, and Introduce
the insurrectionary element among our now
orderly and contented slave domestics and
peasantry.
g. The revival of the slave trade would
brutalze ourselves. Were it cheaper TO import
Z than to cure or rear slaves, instead of null
tiplying and replenishing the earth. as our
happy slaves now do, they would be annually
decimatcd, as they were formerly in Jamaica
and Brazil and still are in Cuba, and the
places of the dead supplied by new importa-
lions of the raw material. and UncIe Toms and
Legrees would be no longer fabulous person
ages in the South. For proof of this, see
the obsolete colonial legislation against
cruelty to slaves, too revolving and DISCUS
ting to be specifically mentioned yet unrepealed
on our statute book. AS a coroliary, too,
would cease the patriachal character of the
slave institution, compensated for its admitted
evils, by the widespread relation of humane
attached servants.
T. The revival of the slave trade would
speedily abolitiOniZe the border Southern
States, by rendering slaves of no value, and
| the institutions an incubusamong them.
5. The revival of the slave trade would
! ruinOusly impair the value of slaves, and
destroy the culture of short staple cotton
in the Atlantic Cotton States, and build up
at their expense the prosperity of the South
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that region, cultivated by imported Africans,
bought for a song, would render short cotton
so cheap as to be of impossible production on
the Atlantic border.
6. The revival of the slave trade would fill
Northern pockets at the expense of Southern
interests Let the slave trade be re-opened,
and Northern cupidty and Northern capital
would at once seize on it fOrNOrtberD en-
richment, and certainly not forSOuthern good
New York and Boston, in spite of Northern
fanaticism and bypocritical freesOilsm, are
the great centres, from whence now issue
covertly flOtillas of slavers, in defiance OF
the laws of the Union and the cruisers of
England and France; and, were the trade
legaliZed fleets of the like character would
openly bLQckeR the ocean.
7. The very agitation of the question is
calculated to distract and divide the South,
f, the harmony and unity of which is especially
/ necessary in these disjOnted and distemperod
| times when "a large portion of the Northern
| people, faithess alike to the country, the
! Constitution and their oaths, are waging
! internecine war against the rights interests
| and domestic peace Ofthe conservative and the
| Constitution-loving South. Its tendency, too,
| is to ALLEVIATE friends and Strengthen enemies,
and to precipitate the downfall of the
| Republic, on the perpetuation of which, in
| its whole constitutional integrity, rest at once
our own happiness, greatness and glory, and
| the hopes of our race.
| 8. Lastly we are happy to say that our
views are in concurrence with those of most
| of the leading men and minds ofthe State and
| the South