Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-06-23
Communicated
ON SLAVERY.

never faltered in his political faith, nor eve
bowed the knee to strange political gods,
claim a short space in your valuable paper t
refuts a-mischievous Islander east upon an oil
Wing, by the ever-pure Democracy. EpwAR
EVERETT. than whom no higher, or noble
spirit exists throughout the length an
breadth of this land, is now before the peopi
a. the Opposition candidate for the Vic
Presidency. upon the same ticket with tina
staunch old patriot, JOHN BELL, of Tennessee
Democracy with that pure hish-minded low
of fair play and honesty. has already com
menced its filthy work of traducing and de
nouncing Mr.. EVERETT as an Abol,tiouist
and as an enemy to our great Southern insti
tuition of slavery. For the benefit of. thos'
who may not be posted as to the p%olltica
antecedents of this great man, ] beg leave te
make an extract from a speech delivered by
him in Congress in 1924, and which will be
found fully reported in Gale and Seaton':
Register Of Debates, Vol. II. p. 1879. Thi:
record plainly shows that Mr.. EVERETT is d
safe man for the South, aud that he has beer
a friend of the South for more than thirty
years. 1t is we'll known that he has never
changed his opinions, since that time despite
the changes going on around and about him,
even when som Of his warmest and most
devoted political friends had found sanctuary
in the Black Church of Abolitionism. His
position upon the que stion of slavery is not
well understood by the masses of the South
ern people who take it for granted that be-
cause he is a Northern man he must be an
Abolitionist.
If such men as the Opposition candidates
can be placed at the head of public affairs, |
am firmly convinced that we should once
more see a happy, united and prosperous
country. There would of course be some
disconnected ones, but they would not te
contented in Heaven. If we had h President
wao would retain good, attentive ard COM
tetent officers, and dismiss unfaithfuI ones.
or as Gen. JACKSON said, call who had
brought their official patronage into conflict
with the freedom of elections" we should
soon have the Government restored to its
former purity, and the legitimate object of
its foundation, and a free and contented peo-
pie.
l hope in these c~hangeable times that you
will pursue your Independent course. and
stand firmly by the principles you have always
advocated:
IF there are any members ia this House
of that class of politicians to whom the gem
from North Carolina (Alr. Sarsndefs)
as having the disposition. though not
the power to disturb the compromisa con-
in the Constitution on this point. 1.-THE
three ftths representative principle. | am
of the number. Neither am one Of
those citizens OF the North to whom another
honorable member lately referred in a pub
LEGATION to which his name was subscribed,
who would think it immoral and irreIigious
to join in putting down a servile Instruction
the South. | am n" soldier: sir nv ha5-
its and education are nnmili'ary: but there is
no cause TO whrh / would sooner burkle a. khan
sack to my back and put u musket on ny Shout
der than that. | would cede the whole con-
tinent to any one who would take ito
England, to France. to Spain: | would see il
slnk in the bottom of the ocean, before |
woald see any part of this fine America con.
verted into a continental Hayti, by that ax-
il process of bloodshed ard desolation bv
alone s1ea = catastrophe could be
on. The great relation of serritude in
some farm or other ,cth greater or less deDort-
from the theo,etic equality Of man is ,uscp-
yable from our nation. Iknow of 10 uay bv
the form Of this seruitude shall be fred,
mt by political institution. Domestic slavery,
| confess not that form of servitude
seems to be the most beneficial to the
naster-csrtainIy not that which is most ben
iciai to the sIave-is not ia my judgment 20 be
yet down as immoral and irfeligious relation.
:annot admit that religion has but one voice 10
he slave and that this voice j.. Rise aua,nst
vour master" No, sir, tie New Testament
'ays, slaves, obey Your master;' and though
know full vel! that in the beniynant oper-
of christianity which gathered master
md slave around the same communion table
unfortunate institution disappeared in
yet ! cannot admit that while it
its duties are not p%re-snpposed and
by religion. And though | GER
am not called upon to meet the char
yes brought against this institution, yet truth
me to say a word more on the sub
Iect know the condition of the working
classes in other count S; ] am intimat, Nv
acquainted with it in some other countries;
and | have no hesitation in saying that | he
|ieve the slaves in this country are bette,
clothed and fed, aud less badly worked, than
tina peasantry of some Of the most prosperous
states of the continent # Europe. 10 con-
slider the checks on population, read Mat
lhers. What keeps population down? Pow
erty. want, starvation, disease, aud all the
ills of life it is these that check population
all over the world. Now, the slave pop"la-
ton in the United States increases faster than
the white, masters included. What is the
as to the physica; condition of the
two classes of society? These are opinions /
haze long entertained, and long since publicly
professed on This subject, and uhirh There repeat
in answer to the intimation to uhieh I have al