The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-10
WASHINGTON CITY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IL, 1853

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tury slaves have doubled in numbers and each say,
has than doubled in value. The very negro who
as prime laborer. would have brought four hundred
dollars In 1928, would now with thirty years upon
him. sell for eight hundred dollars What does all thi,
meant Why, that for ourselves have settled this
question of emancipation against all the world in theory
and practice and the world must accept solution The
only inquiry is how long this new found superstition will
survive and how Ear il may carry its voaes elsewhere
What changes in production, in commerce. in society,
government may effecf Reproduction commerce. socie-
y and government must yield and change whenever they
come In contact with the great fundamental principle of
the sub.rdnatlon of the inferior TO the superior man
as made by God and especially of the coored to the
white 1t is say only through the evils that th is
superstition may bring upon other peoples and especially
those of the North and of Europe, with whom
80 closely connected that the South can be materially
damaged by it, standing. she ioes firm, assured,
| united. How, thcn is it with others
Permit me to that in my opinion the tide of abo-
ltion natcsm has begun to ebb everywhere aud will
rise again When the English freed the negroes
in their colonies it was not wholly sentimental move
ment dictated by political radicals and the saints of Ex
eter Hall Her statesmen III their ignorance, thought
that what is called free aborthat is, wages slavery
would succeed in tropical culture we'll better than
slave labor In their arrogance they believed also that
all the world must follow their example in this silly
scheme of abolition and that from her great wealth
and world encircng colonies the monopoly of cotton
and sugar culture would fall into the hands of England
Nature and the ndomitabc spirit and intellect OF the
South, have disappointed all their calculations The
South still horshes, and cotton and sugar, and coffee
and rice and tobacco still the heritage of the slave
holders.
Called by their utter dependence upon for cotton
without the free of which they would both tumble
into ruin in day. England and France who in their fire..
qucnt fenzes at length destroyed all their colonies by
emancipation have ransacked the universe to find chimes
and soils adapted to the cheap growth OF this great staple
They have failed everywhere. 1t is not that the soils
and climates do not exist; but that this and the other
great agricultural staples sugar ce tobacco Coffee
never be produced articles Of wide extended commerce.
except by slave labor This they at length found out
But such labor they had repudiated everywhere No,
not everywhere Not in France nor in Great Britain
| where they still hold sacred splendid thrones and
palmy aristocacies amid starving aborers only for
outside barbarians they ordained freedom and equal
ty but failing in all their schemes and finding that
with all their costly expenditures and high sounding
manifesoes they had simply ruined their colonies
and made themselves the vassals of the Shareholders
what have they done Why, renewed the slave trade
| Not in name Oh, no! Exeter Hall and the Par
| lament houses still thunder excavations against
that while the colonss under governmental protection
| and with English money, wrung by taxation from
her wagcs slaves, importing by hundreds of thou
sands Chinese and Hndoo coolies under conditions
pared with which Algerne slavery OF the last century
merctul. They'd It hold then do our
slaves, for better for in sickness and health in
childhood and old age. No in their prime of life they
seuce them from their homes transport them to distant
and unwholesome climcs for the merest pittance of
wages their best years in the severest abors and
then turn them out to dicthe dest slavery that brutal
man has ever instituted France less sensitivehaving
Exeter Hali-cmbracing the schcme-resorts to
Africa, and openly makes purchases, for they may be
called, from slave catches nay she buys from the Pres
ident Of Liberia the far famed settlement of own Col
onization Society buys the coonists, own enamel
patcd slaves, who, sick of freedom, prefer any form of
slavery and in their desperation do not hesitate to make
their pios patrons in this country the laughing stock OF
the whole world.
Thus these two natons--France and England, whose
adoption Of this abolition crotchet alone made it respect
able and intiuential-haye thoroughly renowned it,
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perhaps the greatest power of the world sustans these
movements while in France the newspapers openly
discussing the question of importing negro slaves, by
name, into Algeria think it may be fairly said that
in Europe abolition has its course. Brougham,
Palmcrston, RUSSELL and all the old political agtators,
are hanging their harps upon the willows Even the
of Wilberorcc the fanatic approves OF ooolie slavery
which abhor But recently the British government
openly surrendered its claim to the right OF seacha
claim set up mainly to put down the African slave trade,
and without which all attempts to do it will probably be
idle And there is nothing to surprise us in all this, if
correct in views Of African slavery. If it is
sustained by the religion of the Bible if neither hui
manty sound philosophy oppose it if
vnced it is social POLITICAL and economical benefit to
the world then it was inevitable that later
the abolition crusade must die outand why not now!
If there is truth in what have stated to youf the
abolition fever has nearly quite exhausted itself in
Europe time and facts have proved there that it
absurdity seems to me should not doubt that its
is about to close here Such is my opinion how
pearances take their from agitang politicians
ask any to tell upon what measure upon what
the boltioniss of this country again
their lcgions they did in 1856 Kansas is squeezed
dry 1t snks in the nostrils of all people. They can
do no more there. Will they try scry against the
Supreme Court for the bred Scott decision What is
there in that to inme popular sentiment 1t is always
hill business to atate against Judiciary but espe-
cay against the Supreme Court of the United States
which the northern people have been taught to
the bulwark of their liberties. Will they demand the
abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia They
have been able to do much with that though they
have often tried That issue is little too practical and too
dangerous Not many are bold enough to embark in it,
They might well make the question of dsunion naked
ly Will they take up the abstract and, probably,
again to be other than abstract proposition of mo
slave States r. They have done 1t. They have already
split upon IT, The Northwest will not take IT, and the
free States, at bottom, all want Cuba. They love
Isses and banker after trade with that rich island
Where, then, they to go, cannot They do not
appear to themselves. viii any state the prac-
tical question: il we offer them none-and We have none
to offer which they next to rally for the conquest
of the Sonth2 The measure or the MANI " does seem
to me that this great fire is DYING out for waIt OF
fuel that this crusade many crsadcs have done has
exhausted ITSELF and that there is argument leader
that keep it alive Their Peter Hermts, their God
freys their Baldwins their lion hearted Rchardswhere
are thcy It that they will scarcely agree on
their Louis TX. who shall lead their last pious campaign
and suffer martyrdom.
And let say that If the aboltonists cannot unite
the free States purely aptsayery party in the pesi
never hear of them political party and it
is only political party that they worthy of
notice There always will be aboIitionistsfor fools
enthusiasts of morbid Vaccinations bent on mis-