Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-17

| nation the world ever saw. The present high prices of slaves must either force the South to reopen the slave trade, or grad ually introduce white labor. The effect oi the latter is too apparent upon black labor to require recital to your readers. The inevitable consequence would be the des- truc,ion of slavery. What Seward, the great exponent of Abolitionism, terms the 'tirrepressible struggle" e"between white and black labor, would soon terminate. By enlarging the area of slavery we give il power and wealth, which will enable it to resist aggression from freesoilism, and suc- eessfully drive back the white tide of popu- lation which is gradually creeping over so much territory now occupied by slaves, South of Mason and Dixon's line. Our fertile lands once occupied by slaves, we shall monopoize the markets of the world for our great staples; England and France will forever cease their bootless efforts to rival us in these great productions. Their dependence on us for the raw material will bind them to us in fraternal bonds never to be severed by jarring interests. The same spirit will animate the North. | On the contrary, should we, by blind 1 fatality, listen to the counsel of those in the South who dissuade us from the undertaking, by circumscrlbing the boun- daries of our institutions, we not only dimln- ish our power of resistance to domestic and foreign aggression, but positively in- vite it from our own weakness. Sir, na- tions exhibit the same traits as lndlvldu. als. The rich and powerful man has hosts of friends, so with nations. Re- opening the slave trade will not only si- lence the present outcry of the North, but make them suppliants at our feet. Our boundless wealth will convert their inso- lent interference with our domestic affairs into humiliating sycophancy. The man who lawns upon tyrants IS sure to be in- solent to his supposed interiors.
 So with the North, even admitting the worst should come of re-opening the slave trade, ourAmercanized negroes would go to our manufactures, the Native African to our field. Our demand for labor supplied from Africa at mere nominal price would be regulated by the prices of our great staples and their consumption. With the raw material from our fields, towns and villages would spring up like enchantment by the wand of manufactures. Internal improvements, which the South so much needs for developing her vast resources, would receive new impetus, we should enter upon a new career of progress from the life-infusing element into the body polite, now stagnant for want of labor. Instead of deprecating as we now do, the conduct of our Northern allies (our worst enemies, for they defame us at home and abroad) and talk about secession under certain contingencies, the election of black Republican for instance, let us re- open the slave trade, carry the war into Africa, we shall read their fulsome praises of our prosperity, whilst they depore their insane folly which drove us from them. Let not the lessons of history be lost upon us. Let us turn our eyes to England and contrast our present condl- ton with our colonial vassalage. Say not, sir, the parallel is unsuited. IL is. We are vassals, slaves of the North in every thing but the name, when that too IS fastened upon us twill be too late to devive means of safety. The South with her sunny climes, her verdant fields and rich savannas, have ever invited the cupidity of the North from the reign of barbarians down to the battlefield of Sebastopol. Are we, sir, quietly. with that supineness which ever marks the South, to fold our arms and become a prey to the North ? How stern and memorable Is the law of necessity. The tyrant pleads it, so does nature. Peter the Great willed all Europe to his successors. His passing wisdom after his super-human efforts on the Neva too plainly saw that without a commerce he could have no navy, and without foot.hold upon the Mediterranean Sea the resources of his vast Empire could never be developed. Bonaparte the First when England sided with Russia against France, predicted what afterwards oc- cured more that quarter of century al Sebastopol. A celebrated Fren oh Abbe predicted nearly half century ago what Napoleon III is now doing in Italy. Sir, the senseless twaddle about treason, des- tructon of slavery and all that cast from our opponents will no more prevent the re- opening of the slave trade, than they who oppose 1t can disturb the Copernican sys- tenn. Misguided legislation, the power. full influence of great minds upon the mas- ses may for time disturb and delay the natural laws which control nations as we have seen above cited, but memorable ne, cessily (manifest destiny) is at last but the law of cause and effect and the puny ef. forts of the greatest of men to disturb it
 control or direct it, are as fruitless and bootless as Canada to stay her tides.- Only let the South present united from in favor of re-opening the African slave trade, twill stem forever the abolitionists
 of the North and the world. You and and they too know full well that blacl
 slavery is not the only serfdom in the civil
 ized world
 | Yet it is the black target for shooting
 excursions, to practice their skill in fraud lying and hypocrisy, of all the parties 0 the Christian world. How different from
 the precepts of Christ, founder of the I Christian church. "Oh tell itnot in Gath publish it not in the streets of Askelon.
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