Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-02-01

future to submit quietly to what you may see tit to
order Had the British parliament believed that
the colonies would resist their tax bills Revolu-
ton would not have occurred; but Lord North and
others declared that the clamor in America came
from few solutions agitators, and that the great
body Of the people were SO loyal to the Government
that they were ready to submit to the action of the
ger of resistance and least of ALL of their thinking
Of dssolving the union with tho mother country.
Our ancestors wisely determined that the cannon of
Grea. Britanfwe less dangerous than her acts Of
Parliament
Let us look at this matter for a few moments
calmly. At this time the population of the South
is nearly thirteen million, of which more than eight
million are free persons and four million slaves. At
the beginning of our Revolution the population of
the colonies both free and slave, was less than three
| million. The slaveholdng States are then far more
than four times as strong were the colonies when
they dissolved the union with Great Britain
Is it likely that after having been independent for
eighty years, our people are less attached to their
| rights? But many of your abolitionists say that
slaveholdng has enfeebled our people, and rendered
them so spritless that they are neither willing nor
able to make defense. Edmund Burke thought diff.
ferenty, and said that of all men shareholders
the most tenacious of their rights, and defended
their liberties with the higest and haughtiest spirit.
I do not refer to the war of the Revolution, when
all the States were saveholdng but in the last war
| with Great Britain the southern States sent out
more men than the northern, and it has never yet,
as far as have heard been pretended that Harrison
and Johnson Scott and Forsyth, were not as brave
as those who went from the free States to the Cana
da line, or that jackson and the men under him in
the Southwest did not exhibit proper courage.
To the war with Mexico, though much the less
popuous section, the South sent nearly twice as
many men as the North. A leading black Republi-
| editor that ono reoimpnt from Nayv Vorls
would be able to coneuersall the Southern States
regiment from the State of New York certainly
conducted itself well during the Mexican war; but
it has not, think been affirmed that it behaved
better than the regiments from the slavehoding
States. If you, therefore, think that one of your
regiments is able to subdue the South, our people
will probably differ with you in opinion. You say
that fear of the slaves will prevent any resistance to
you. As sudden movement of a few negroes,
stimulated by abolition emissaries might destroy
family or two, there is undoubtedly apprehension
felt. Fifty persons however are killed in this coun-
try by vicious and unmanageble horses to one who
suffers from the act of rebellious negro. There is
| in fact, about as much reason to apprehend gen.
eral nsurrecton of the horses as of the slaves of
the South when left to themselves. When, during
the war of 1872, the British armies were in the
slaveholding territory, though they induced num-
Der of slaves to join them they found no advantage
result from it. and their Government paid for all
carried of, at the close of the war; Though the
Spartans and Romans were the greatest shareholders
in the world and though, too, they held in the most
rigid servtude men of their own color and race and
therefore liable to rebel in great force yet they
strong enough to overthrow all their enemies. In
our opinion, the slaves are a positive element of
strength, because they add to the production of the
country, while the white race can furnish soldiers
enough. Every man. too, among US, is accustomed
to ride and carry weapons from his childhood .
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be taken into the account. During the last fiscal
year the exports of the United States exclusive of
specie were $278, 100000. Of this amount the
free States furnished exclusively, 1921 900, the
slave States $18S, 500, 900, and the two sections
jointly, also, ss4, All 900. OF this latter sum of
1000, the slave States probably furnished
one-third, but certainly onefourth. Afourth added
to the amount exclusively furnished by them, makes
total of $210O000O0 as the value Of their exports
to foreign countries. They also exported large
amount to the free States New England alone re-
ceived about fifty million dollars worth of southern
productions and to the rest of the free States
sent, doubtless more. The entire exports from the
saveholdng States to the free States and TO foreign
countries combined, must greatly have exceeded
three hundred million dollars. As the South sells
this much, it. OF course, can afford to buy like
amount If, therefore, it constituted separate
confederacy, its imports would exceed three hun
dred million dollars; duty of twenty per cent on
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generally been paid under our tariffs heretofore
would yield revenue of $60000O00 More than
fifty millions of this sum could well be spared for
the defence Of our section and the support of larger
armies and navies than the present Government has,
Though it may seem strange to you that the South
should in this way raise large a revenue as the
whole Union has ever DONE this, too with a lower
tariff you must remember that most of the tariff
taxes the South pays CO. in fact in the shape of
protection to those northern manufacturers who
threaten us with negro instructions and subjuga-
ton. Do you think that with these prospects be-
fore our people they ready to submit uncondi-
tionally to you? They have the strongest feelings
of contempt for the avarcous and greedy, the can't
ing and hypocritical, the mean, envious and mali
cious abolitionsts. Little they may think of the
free negro, he is, in their Judgment respecta-
bic than the white man who comes down to his
level; and with all the world to choose a master
FROM your negro-worshipper would be their last
choice.
In making up our calculations, we must also look
to the other side The free States have popula-
ton of seventeen or eighteen million Though this
is consderably more, numerically, than strength
yet it is much less relatively, than the popula-
ton Of Great Britain; in 1776. l have no doubt
that your people are courageous, generally; but the
best and bravest of them are in the Democratic
if attacked, doubt if they would easily be induced
to assail us. Many of your Abolitionists belong to
the 'psacs partly, and have little appetite for cold
Steel though they are most efficient in getting up
popular clamors, and are formidable at the ballot
box. 1t is also true, that while everything the
South needs she can either produce commonly
get cheaper in Europe under system of free trade
your northeastern States are especially dependent
on the South for its productions and freghts How
many of your manufacturers and mechanics would
emigrae to the South to avoid the payment of tariff
taxes? If were known that one third of the stores
in New York could not be rented, how much would
real property fall then2 Deprived of southern
freghts what would be the loss on your vast ship
ping interests? give you, in this calculation tn
benefit of the assumption that all the free State
! would go with you. In fact do not believe tina
, the Northwest would remain connected with New