Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 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 sedltious agitators and that the great
body of the people so loyal to the Government
that they ready to- submit to the action of the
Parliament. They affirmed that there was no dan
ger of resistance and least of ALL of their thinking
of dissoying the union with the mother country.
Our ancestors wisely determined that the cannon of
Grea. Britain less dangerous than her acts of
Parliament,
Let us look at this matter for few moments
calmly. At this time the population of the South
is nearly thirteen million, of which more than eight
million free persons and four million slaves At
the beginning of our Revolution the population of
the colonies, bothfce and slave, vas less than three
million. The slaveholding States are then far
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, people are less attached to their
rights? But many of your abolitionists say that
saveholding has enfeebled our people, and rendered
them so SpiriteSs that they neither willing
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 haughticSt spirit
l do not refer to the war of the Revolution, when
all the States were Slavehoding but in the last war
WIN OreaL britain the southern States SCnC out
more men than the northern, and it has never yet,
as far rs have heard been pretended that Harrison
and johnson, Scott and Forsyth, were not as brave
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 Republic
can editor says that one regiment from New York
would be able to conquer all the Southern States.
A regiment from the State OF New York certainly
conducted itself well during the Mexican war; but
it has not, l think, been affirmed that it behaved
better than the regiments from the Slavehoding
States. If you, therefore, think that 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 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 killed in this
try by vicious and unnanageble horses, to one who
suffers from the act of rebeious negro There is,
in fact about much reason to apprehend gen.
eral nSurrectOn of the horses of the slaves Of
the South when left to themselves When, during
the war of 1912, the British armies were in the
slaVchOldng territory, though they induced
Der of slaves to join Them they found no advantage
result from it, and their Government paid for all
carried off at the close of the war. Though the
Spartans ard Romans were the greatest Shareholders
in the world, and though, too they held in the most
rigid Servitude 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 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
There are, however, other important elements to
be taken into the account During the last fiscal
r
specie, were S2TS, 00D,000. Of this amount, the
free States furnished, exclusively, So 2S1 ,00O the
slave States $lSS 693, 0U0, and the two sections
jointly, also, $S4 900. OF this latter sum of
$S4,000,000, the slave States probably furnished
onethrd, but certainly onefourth \ fourth added
to the amount exclusively furnished by them, makes
total Of S2100 900 as the value of their exports
to foreign countries. They also exported large
amount to the free States New England alone
ceved about fifty million dollars worth of southern
productions and to the rest of the free States
sent, doubtless, The entire exports from the
slaychOdng States to the free States and foreign
countries combined, must greatly have exceeded
three hundred million dollars. As the South sells
this much, it, of course, afford to buy like
amount If, therefore, it constituted a separate
contcderacy, its imports would exceed three hun
drcd million dollars; duty of twenty per cent on
this amount, which would be lower rate than has
generally been paid under tariffs heretofore,
fifty millions Of this could well be spared for
the defence OF our scctio and the support of larger
armies and navieS than the present Government has
Though 1t may seem strange to you that the South
should in this way raise large revenue as the
whole Union has ever done, this too, with lower
tariff, you must remember that most Of the tariff
taxes the South pays so, in fact, in the shape Of
protection to those northern manufacturers who
threaten US with negro Instructions and Subuga-
tim. DO you think that with these prospects be-
fore our people they are ready to submit uncondi-
tOnally to you? They have the strongest feelings
of contempt for the avaricouS and greedy, the can't
ing and hypocrtical the mean, cnyious, and mali
cious abotionists Little as they may think of the
free negro, he is in their Judgment, more respecta
bic than the white who comes down to his
level and with all the world to choose master
from, your 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 considerably more numerically than our strength,
yet it is much less relatively than the popua-
ton o! Great Britain in 1916. | have no doubt
that your people are courageous, generally; but the
best and bravcSt of them are in the Democratic
ranks and, while they would defend their section
if attacked doubt if they would easily be induced
to asSail US. Many of your Abotionists belong to
the ''peace party" and have little appetite for cold
steel, though they 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 OR commonly
get cheaper IN Europe, under system of free trade
your northeastern States are especially dependent
on the South for its productions and feights. How
many of your manufacturers and mechanics would
emgrate to the South to avoid the payment of tariff
taxes? fit known that third of the stores
in New York could not be rented how much would
real property fall then? Deprived of southern
freights, what would be the loss your vast ship
ping interestsS give you, in this calculation, the
benefit of the assumption that all the free States
would go with you. In fact, do not believe that
the Northwest would remain connected with New
England still less that you could retain California
and Oregon.
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