Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-17

tbropist and statesmen. Paupers and mendicants are unknown among us. Cap ita, instead of warning against labor, and yice versa, is enhanced and multiplied, and seeks to protect it for it's own safety. In Europe free labor is oppressed by paul perism and the frightful accumulation Of it's wants. The misery and crime en- gendered by this should warn us to be- ware of similar condition, urge us by every consideration of public policy, na- tional safety, to cultivate and preserve the institution of slavery above all others as our sacred birth-right, the inviolable clta. del of our liberties, for upon this institu- tion rests the ark of our liberty. Sir, even were there no demand for slave la bor, the present amount adequate to fill all our wants, we should reopen the Afri- can slave trade for the two-foId purpose of extending it's area, and thereby multiply | ing it's resources and wealth and per- petuating 1t forever. Is it not self-evi- dent fact that should slavery ever be nar- rowed down to a crcumscribed area, the scenes of St. Domingo will be re-enacted here, we shall at no distant day be con verted into a continental Hayti. Are the opponents of this measure so wilfully blind as not to see the fatal consequences of the loss of the balance of power with the South How long will the North keep faith with us and observe the guarantees afforded slavery by the Constitution, when they have the power to break 1t, and we too weak to protect it! Not one hour. What was the conduct of the North in the rendition ac, of Congress offugtive slaves in the Dred Scott decision of the Su- preme Bench? Penal acts of their legis. latures against all and every State and Federal officer who aided and abetted in the capture of fugitive slaves upon their soil and the arch Magician of the North, the great exponent of freesoilism, the mordern Moses of the black exodus, open ly avows 1t in the Senate of the United States, upon the musings, the Supreme Bench must be changed, make it elective, in other words. Northernize It.
 Yes, they have virtually done 1t now. Will they reverse the Dred Scott decision? There is always a way to do a thing, when there is will. But, sir, our oppo- nents say the abolition of slavery will ruin the North. Their commerce, their mer- cantie navy, manufactories, regal palaces, banks, everything, depend upon slavery. It is true. How much did England pay to this insatiate Moloch of fanaticism 2 One hundred millions of dollars; and that, too, to ruin and lay waste her golden Hes- perides, her splendid West India colonies Have they, or the people of the North, profted by this errors No. Her ennis. saries, public and private, are banded with the North to do the work; and Lord Ly- ons. by way of inaugurating different policy from that of his predecessor, (for which he was recalled, complains to the State Department at Washington, that our stipulations in relation to the slave-trade are wholly unobserved--that Admiral Ba- by, or somebody, had counted twenty five slavers which had passed our vessels un- molested, laden with Africans, or mon- keys, for there is bare shade of differ ence between the native African and the higher orders of monkeys, which all natu- ralis,s admit.) Quickly an order goes to the Navy Department, to equip, with all dispatch, fast sailing vessels, of light draft, to do the bidding of the Court of Saint James; for Lord is there, mark you, to see it done; and our imbecile ad- mnistration obeys the order, notwithstand- ing il is fully advised, by the late trials of the officers of the Echo and Wanderer, of the southern feeling on this subject. Sir, what would Gen. Jackson have said and done, under similar circumstances? l doubt if his Lordship had made such complaint to Old Hickory, but if he had, the answer would have been: Your pass ports are ready. What did Gen. Wash ington do, when the French Minister in- terfered with our affairss Let history answer.
 But, sir, why should 1 turn my eyes from home, when see our public men, to whom the people look in the hour of trial, and have right to expect the means of deliverance, advocating the very measures of our worst enemies of the North, (see Virginia going with the abolitionlsts,) whose ultimate results will surely extin- guish slavery if they are successfula Mel ancholy as these reflections are to my mind, yet cherish hope that ere long the blind fatuity which has so long brood- ed over the South, like nightmare upon the bosom of strong man, will be shaken of-that when she is losing her farest provinces in this irrepressble struggle" with the North, Ga larger domain than she now possesses upon which the advocates of squatter sovereignty may revel in It. centious liberty, she will wake from her lethargy of masterly inactivity, before her enemies fall upon her and she is shorn oi her locks, and left blindly to perish among her own ruins and those of her foes.
 | Sir, let us ponder well our condition. Compare the present status of slavery now and al the formation of the colonies into State governments. Compare the numer- ical strength of the slave States in the Se- nate with the free-soil representation when the slave-trade was declared piracy [ by solemn act of Congress, with the re. vised numerical force now. Compare the natural increase of slaves to that of whites I and the host of immigrants from the east ern hemisphere. Is not our doom clearly shadowed forth ? Is not the handwriting