The Hillsborough recorder., 1858-11-17
4, NAV depend, despite ,heS insoient boasts Of

may depend, despite the tnso'ent boasts OF
the Aboltiou;sis Of what they will do when
they get the Government in their hands. The
North has only to be made clearly sensible
how far she can go. and what the South will
not submit to. She willnot trespass beyond
that, but will content herself with the glory
of CARRYING the alternate biennial elections,
as she has just done--always leaving it to
the Democracy to carry that which makes
the President.
** - The rock Of Gibraltar does
not stand so firm on its basis as our slave
system. For quarter Of century 1t has
borne the brunt OF hurricane as fierce and
pitiless as ever ragged. AT the North and in
Europe they cried Z havoc" and let loose up
on US all the dogs Of war. And how stands
| it nowi Why, in this very quarter OF a
century our slaves have doubled in numbers.
and each slave has more than doubled in
value. The very negro who, as a prime
laborer, would have brought s4o0 in 1928,
would now, with thirty more years upon
him, sell for $500 What does all this
mean? Why, that we ourselves have set
tied this question of emancipation against
all the world, in theory and in practice, and
the world must accept our solution.
But il am all wrong, il my facts and
reasoning are false and my hopes delusive,
il in $50 they beat US, what then? These
are questions that may well be asked. And
the answer is obvious. We must be pre-.
pared; and the very efforts we must make
to prevent such results will better prepare
US than any course wscan pursue that can
see. We must be prepared, say, to take
care Of ourselves. whatever may come. II
is clear that the slaveholding States of this
Confederacy, whatever hazards they may
choose to incur by remaining in alliance
with a majority Of non shareholders now 50
inilamed against them, must ever and at all
times hold their destinies in their own hands
They can never permit any foreign ppwer TO
legislate in reference TO their peculiar in.
dustrial system, whether 10 abolish or to
modify, or impose undue burdens on il.
Such legislation must be resisted with all
our means, and without regard to any con-
sequences.
II it should so happen that the free States.
Of this Union, being now. and always TO be.
in majority, do establish political line be-
tween the two sections and the two systems
Of labor, legisate upon il and maintain il.
then they will constitute power as foreign
TO u as any nation in the world, and W can
not submit TO il. Whatever the weak and
defenceless colonies of other countries may
have submitted to, before these Southern
States will be placed in the condition nf ST..
Domingo or Jamaica, or one at all approx.
mating to il, they will rend this Union into
fragments and plunge the world in ruin. II
is in their power 70 do both, for the world can.
not get on without them; and. if ruthless ia
natlcism and brute force combine, under
whatever names and with whatever authority.
TO ride them down. they will carry with them
the pillars OF the temple of civilization, aud
force common fate on all mankind.
There are many who believe that some
such catastrophe Is inevitable. II cannot
be denied that from appearances, here and
elsewhere, i Is entirely possible. and il mas
not Be unwise for ali o. us 70 suppose Il pro.
babe. Although think that the ranks If
our enemies are broken and the moral slcio.
~ won, | an far from proclaiming that the
battle is over, and that We have now only to
gather the fruits of our success. MANY a
battle has been won and lost again. by over.
weening confidence. BY reckless pursuit. or
by turning aside for the sake of spoil Let
u. fall into none of these errors I: for We are
still IN the very heat and turmoil of this
great conflict. and al might yet be lost
What ! wish 70 impress upon sou j.. that
there Is hope for effort, triumph Tor union,
energy, and perseverance.
II has fallen upon the shareholders Of the
South to condact this question Of African
slavery to its final conclusion. Such is our
tate, il Is inevitable. Let US cheerfully ae.
ceptand manlully perform our destined parts.
and DO i with no distrust &c God. with no
misgiylngs Of our cause Or Of ourselves. with
no panic. no foolish attempt to ~ from dan.
gers which cannot be avoided, which have
not been proven TO be insurmouniable. and
which 1, for one, believe that we can con.
quer.