Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26

A Mississippi paper 1.-THE Cross City thus
gives its reasons for iavoring the re-openIng Of
the foreign slave trade:
"a great deal can be said pro and con. We
shall confine ourself to arguments in favor Of
the foreign slave trade. And the first is, that
it will give political power to the South. 1t
were a fatal blindness to ignore the truth that
the two great sections of this country are dis
tinct, and a fatal error to suppose that there
can be an equality of rights without m equality
of political power to sustain them. If the
North has an access, the North will govern,
and Uice e;ersa. 1t is utterly impossible that
all the paper instruments upon earth can give
political equilibrium of social and political con-
ditions. Under these circumstances. the only
road to security is the road to political power,
The slave trade will give us political power
Every fifty thousand slaves that come will give
US the right to thirty thousand votes in the Ma
tional Legislature, and thus. thereforeswil con-
tribute directly to the political power of the
South. But more than this. The labor basis
at the South is too small to sustain even our
present superstructure Or direction. Slave Ia
Dor is too efficient and too cheap to permit Of
hireling labor in competition with 1t. 1t is TO
valuable in agriculture to be used ut cotton pri-
ces, in manufactures and the mechanic arts.
The difference at the South will be har-
monized by the foreign slave trade. Every
white man of capacity will own his slave
Every man of enterprise will own his labor
All of the ruling race will come to the same So
cial standpoint all will cast their votes from
the same position as well at home as abroad,
they will have a commo interest, and q eon-
mon cause the institution of American Slave
ry will become refrigerated and erect, and 30
compact and firm, will stand not only to sus-
tain itself, but to sustain the South, sublime
and composed, among all the storms that rage
among other nations of the earth.
A an act of justice to the poor as to the
rich, to non-slaveholders as to shareholders, it
is important that this state of things should
come about. The basis of slave labor, as / have
said, is too narrow for all to stand on. To men
of wealth, it does not matter much it is
equally well with them, whether they are on or
off the platform. Ifof, they can purchase back
again, and it does not matter whether the tick
ct OF of admission be at one hundred or one
thousand dollars. 1t will be the index of its
value, and it is of little concern to him whether
his wealth have this or any other representa-
tive, Bat to men compelled to work their way,
1t makes all the difference between their being
slave-oWnerS or non-slave-owncrs. They are
out Of the ranks of masters not from choice
They may affect indifference to q privilege from
which they arc excluded. but they have no re-
plgnance to that condition perhaps the most
common wish is that they may approach it;
and it is but fair and just to that large class of
our citizens, that slaves shall be allowed to
come in numbers sufficient for them all, and
that they shall have not only the opportunity
Of joining the class of slave proprietors, but
shall have every motive of interest, as of feel
ing. TO do so, and affirm the nature, and expand
the fortunes of that particular form of society
with whose fortunes they have CHANGED to be
associated"