The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-14
= Ftom tie Free Trader.
DR.. sam'l Cartwright---Facts vs., Fancy


: This gentleman, quiet in his habits, thor
: ough going Democrat, has published in tn
last New York Day Book, areply tow. Il
Seward, the arch-iend of abolitenism, ant
+ the following is an extract from that reply
: DIR. Cartwright lived in Natchez twenty-five
years, was known to all as gentleman
high character and talents, who thoroughly
understood medical and political science. III
loved the South from boyhood, and took ar
enthusiasts pride in studying the status O
races and our institutions generally. lie
! built up name in eur midst, made friends
and fortune by his honesty and industry, and
he never wavered in his devotion, Or thought
ofabandoning the South in the hour Of calam-
ity. He was willing to stand in the front OF
danger, like true hero, and form a barrier
against the march of fanaticism. In this
campaign DIR. C. has been unusually active,
and his voice has beep heard on several occa-
sions. Though feeble in step-haying reached
an age when quiet is needed-he still goes
into the political arena and expounds, in his
own bold and Scientific way, the true theory
ofour government. These great men, Southern
lights, are passing away. They have fought
hard the battles Of Constitutional Democracy
against the mongrel hordes of Abolitionism,
Know Nothingism and Squatter Sovereignty.
and they will soon repose in death, leaving
the young politicians to follow in the path
ilumined by their genius.
This is a DEPRESSION, but DR.. Cartwright is
one of those rare men, who has labored so
zealousiy with pen and tongue for Democracy,
that we have no excuse to maksf for this pass
ing tribute. In the following extract he
proves the fallacy of Stewards doctrine that
the negroes of the South are discontented and
would fight against their masters. He quotes
facts, and facts are stubborn things. Ii the
Abolitionists generally could read, this speech,
they would be satisfied, and change their
opinions. Read this extract
Senator Seward says, that VIrginia and
Isras are throsCn isst0a panic euen no1u By the
appearance or euea the suspicion Of handful
of men toit]sin their borders instigatiRg csml
qoar.'' Carl Schurz dwells much on the same
topics. Senator Seward ought to know that
Washington sent 4, GOO captyes OF Burgoyne's
army from Boston to Albermarle county, in
the centre Of Virginia, for safe keeping during
the Revolutionary war, and large lot of tories
and traitors, captured in Philadelphia, to
Staunton, in Virginia. Albermarle county
had as heavy a negro slave population in the
Revolution as it has now. No one in the |
South began to distrust their negro slaves |
until after the death of Washington. He re- |
fused to strike for independence until he was |
perfectly assured that the slaves could not be.
seduced by British armies in their midst, |
promising them liberty, land and money. He |
observed that, like women and children, they !
clung closer to their protectors in wars |
alarms than in peaceful times, and were much |
easier governed The British thought, like
Senator Seward and Carl Schurz now think, /
that the South had an inflammable material |
in its midst and dare not resist aggression |
from ioithost, for fear of a rising of the slave-
population within. The colonies fbegan the |
conflict without arms, money oreaidit. = The
labor of the negroes ..sod 6ais |
afMIy No spaniel or q
more faithful to his mast1 ca But
after Washington died, Great Britain resorted
to a series ofmeasures, le most neiarious that
ever dIsgraced nation, to rend Hayti from
France and to transfer its rich indigo culture
. to her East India possessions. Advantages
were taken of he circumstances which there
transpired, to make the people of the United
States believe that there had been terrible
insarrection of the negro slaves against their
masters in Hayti, and that the black heroes
had whipped one of the largest and best
appointed armies of Napoleon, sent to reduce
them to su6jection. Many people in the
South, who had no other means Conformation
than that acquired through British or North
em books and publications, were led into the
egregious error, and are still IN the error Of
believing that the negroes actually had met
and conquered Napoleon's army. Hundreds
came to New Orleans with wounds received
Il in defence of their master, and of the hum
deds of masters who reached our shores, not
asingle one Of them evet kacio Of "a single in
stance Of a negro slave rising against has
master.
i One of tina highest attributes of great gen
ealship is to throw into the enenly's camp
| the seeds of panic to take root. The British
have out generated us, and sent us the seeds
by the servants and dupes of the ruling
arstocracy, and published in Boston, New
York and Philadelphia The same class of
persons control, in great degree, the books
. used in our public schools at the present time.
and have filed them with British ideas
misstating facts to promote British policy, and
| omitting TO mention altogether many facts
and circumstances which would explain the
tfue theory and principIes of our Republican
4 government. Our public schools, instead of
being a teneft, are a nuisance, as they fasten
BritishisDs instead OF Aaaesicanism, upon
| scholars educated in them. They are not in
a dependent as schools should be, each to select
its own books and to have its own system Of
instruction but the same books are forced
4 on all of them without any means of correction
). No public schools can correct the errors Of
j other public sehools--such. for instance IS
NEGRO sLacery is sin against God'-'tncopt-
potible NTH Republican iastttutaoas'-'fh
slape population a dangerous and inRananaa6le
clement '-'the iaaseearity Of tie Sonhs''---stae
iDeakaess of the South Suck British iallaeies,
taught in our public schools, have brought the
northern and southern States to the verge OF
great calamity, whielI il not averteds will
have the effect of depriying the Northern
States of their manufactures, and will pro-
mote British policy By putting down amuch
dreaded rival in the Manufacturing line. The
North has everything to loose and nothing to
gain by electing such man as Abraham Lin
coin TO the Presidency, with just sense enough
to use the Federal Government as he would
use q maui, to split the States asunder, instead
I Of linking. them closer together, as man Of
more ability acd statesmarship would do.
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