Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-30
NEW YOnK CORRESPONDENCE


NRw Yoag, Do. 2s, 1859.
We ere living in rather an exciting and In.
torestiug period Of this worids history In
the old world, the peoples are endeavOring to
shake Of the yoke Of political bondage and
take Governments and Rulers into their own
keeping, and proclaim their own rightful sover-
oignty and power, aud here in this young Re.
public, "the worlds best treasure and last
hope" some Of the peop e, seem disposed to
60 back into leaden Despotism, to destroy free
speech, to muzzle the Press, TO put out the fires
on the Altar Of Liberty, and to inaugurate
Human Slavery as the one only really essen
tial good. There will be a slight breeze felt
before all these are accomplished Some little
discussion will take place before Free Thought
is ignored, and padlocks arc placed upon Yam
keo lips, for speaking out those great truths for
which SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND OF
MASSACHUSETTS, MEN in the war Of the
Revelation of l776, offered up their elves, their
fortunes aud their sacred honor"
We have no fears of the threats and scolding,
and sheep like stamping of our brethren of the
South. The Sons Of the Slave States may
leave our Northern Coeges--ther beautiful
and dark Dyed daughters may leave our Schools
aud Seminaries--their merchants may refuse
to buy Northern "gOod wares and merchau-
disc" and il this course on their part, shall
tend to make them build up and sustain Col.
leges, and Schools, and Seminaries at home
shall induce them to foster and encourage the
mechanic arts and useful manufactures, and to
make labor honorable and to give encourage
ment to all departments of industry in the
Slave States, so as TO render them independent
of all the worj. they will indeed have accom-.
plished great good, and they may bless the
day when the fire eaters of the South in Con-
gress and out, declared they would set mp
housekeeping on their own hook; although
they can't do it.
Maryland aud Virginia should bo manufac.
turing States; millions of dollars of cotton
should be spun and wove in Richmond, Va.
/ as there is water power unequaed in the
world; and does it turn q cotton spindle or keep
shuttle in motion
Virginia cannot build ships. for it has not the
money; and if it had the North would do its
carrying trade cheaper than she could do it for
herself.
But, of all the nations South; "little Ped
| lingtOn," South Carolina, is at the head of all
grand and lofty tumbing." Her Solons have
voted resolution to raise 100000 to put the
palmetto State" in line Of battle defence
( This State is the weakest Of all the Slave
States In the Revolution she could not when
called upon by Congress, furnish her quota of
men for the army, because her Legislature
said, "all the soldiers were needed at home to
protect them from their own tories and slaves"
Is South Carolina any better off nowl Her
negro population is RboGt 100 900 greater than
the white population; and in case she should
sever the Union she could not raise 10000 men,
nor the money to equip and feed them. She
would be as pOwerless for fight as the paupers
on Blackwelfs Island are to sever all oonnec-
ton with the city of New York, and when the
pauper set up on their Oton hook, South Carr
olina will, and not till then Some years ago,
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, said when
South Carolina was clustering terribly, " that
it was fit only for a guano depository"
| The Union meeting here last week was
largely attended, and some of the most
heathenish sentiments were uttered Mr..
Charles O'Conor in the Acadeu of Music, and
the venerable Judge Vanderpool outside, exalt.
ed Slavery. Mr.. O'Conor is up to the full de
mands of his masters-as he sal J, "Slavery is
not unjust-it is BENIGN in its influences
both upon the white man and the black man"
Mr.. O'Conor must have colored speetacles to
see the benign influences of Slavery upon the
white race. Slavery excites emnlation-it slim.
ulates to ndustry-it is the friend of improve
ment-it builds up towns and ciiies-it pro-
notes art, literature, scence-t cultivates all
the virtues, while it exalts, dignifies and en-
mobiles human character 1t is benign in its
| sKa ,v,I ,,n Nha -,
the Southern States proves 1t is a great friend
of education, as it is stated in the census ol
1850, thai one in twelve OF the white adult
population of the South and South Western
Slave States cannot read or write, while in New
England the proportion is only one in four hun
dred
| In 1885, a Mrs. Douglas, of Norfolk, Va,
w9s tried and sentenced under a law of Vir-
ginia to four months Imprisonment for learn
ing few little colored children to read the
Bible. Wonder If she thinks slavery is be-
nign in its influences !" ii Mr.. Charles o.
Conor should go into Virginia and declare
"that man has no right to hold property in
man" he would be liable TO imprisonment Is
this benign In 1889, Virginia had 4Os, 1888
more population than New York. 1t has
| Ia 1872 more square miles--a richer soil-inex-
| haustible mineral wealth-a better climate-a
greater variety Of prOductiOns-valuable for
ssts and location unequalled. Her prinei>
pie exports now are negroes, tobacco and wheat,
Her white population 5000; slaves 474 900.
In 1902 she had - Representatives in Con.
gress in 1859, she has 10, and one fourth part
Of her t0hite adult population cannot read or
lorite, "at this hour of one o'clock of this
18th century !" Gov. Wise boasted when in
Congress that there was not newspaper in his
| District How very "benign in its inAuen
ees is Slavery on the white man" and what
thorough student of stubborn facts Mr.. Charles
O'ConOr has been.
The following table, compiled with much
care from the census of 1850, and the "Whig
Almanac" of 1857 l think will not be uninter-
esting, neither will it be uninstructive to your
readers. l commend it to their careful atten.
tion. IL shows tho whole number Of slave.
holders in the Slave States in l950-the num-
Der of voters at the Presidential election in
1856, in the Slave States-and the number Of
voters over shareholders and the number Of
white adult persons who cannot read or write,
in the fifteen States where the benign influences
Of Slavery are constantly operating on the
ighn6 man.