The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-24

lue 1ofL OlDoou Acoctttcf VI tiio y 80 ---t
contains letter from Henry Hughes, the
able author Of thoughtful and striking'y
original treatise upon Southern Sociology,
in which be declares his opinion, that, in the
event of the election of Lincoln, and the
subsequent continuance Of the South in the
Union, the abolition Of slavery viii be ef-
fected in eight years. The following extract
from his letter, in which he explains his
views upon that point, is commended to the
attentive consideration of our readers.
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My views are these:
If Lincoln is elected, Abolition viii be
effected in eight years. This however, will
be not immediate but gradual. OF course,
merely state the practical probabilities but
you know that practical people must act on
the practical probabilities.
Black Republicanism is ''anti-slavery," and
therefore revolutionary. Its essential dogma
is that our peculiar labor system is essential
" evil. OF course, what is essentially evil
must be totally abolished. To revolutionize
our labor system is therefore the desire of
the Black Republican party.
"ReVolutioas neper 90 backwards" That
truth is not only scientific, but is so practi-
cal as to be proyerbial. 1t is an unbending
law of social movement, an unrelenting, I'M
exceptional and memorable law. To ignore
it is foolish, and to contradict it is rash.
Practical citizens, therefore, must do no such
thing.
The reason why revolutions never 60
backward but necessarily advance, is that
the desire and power to begin the reyolu-
ton are the desire and power to carry on
and complete it; the power to inaugurate is
the power to consummate. Such is the
practical probability.
The Black Republican Is an ''anti-slayery"
party. Hence when 1t ceases TO be ''anti-
slavery" it ceases to be Black Republican.
Now in United States politics, there can,
in the nature of the case, be but three "anti-
slavery movements.
The first movement is prohibition of "sla
very" on what we may loosely call United
States property, that is, the Territories,
Docks, Arsenals, and District of Columbia.
The second movement is prohibition of
the Interstate slave-trade."
The third movement is Abolition of "sla-
very" by amendment of the Federal Consti-
ton.
These three movements exhaust the Black
Republican Revolution.
Lincoln, if President, will during the first
half of his term, be scrupulously conscrva-
tive, and strenously conciliating. Such will
be the party's plain policy. The only ad-
vance against us and our liberties viii in our
section be the substitution of officers opposed
to democracy aud willing to serve under
Lincoln. That such officers can be found
in the Bell party, right before our doors
here, at home, in the heart of the cotton dis
trict, VIC by their avowal already know.
The Northern State elections in 1913, will
compel Lincoln's Administration to make
the first "anti-slayery" movement, The
prohibition of slavery" on United States
property or within the Territories, Docks,
Arsenals, and District of Columbia, will
therefore be enacted l say that this prohi-
bition will be enacted, because such is the
practical probability. For, from the necessi-
ty of the case, Lincon's Administration must
practically be either 'anti-slavery,p or limbo
ellie, and the least aggressive, practical "anti
slavery" movement is prohibition Of slavery"
on United States property. The party must
agrees, for, chat is the only alternative,
against imbeciIity; and the prohibition being
least aggressive is the most cxpedient. The
movement moreover would be indispensable
to influence the Free State elections in 1868,
to conciliate the Brown and Garrison fanat-
les, to revive the clergy and sentimentalists,
to confirm the professors and scholars, to
justify the journalists and orators, to stimu-
late the whole party, and above all to pre-
vent reaction in favor of the dcmocracy.-
Such, say, is the reasonable probability,
and reasonable citizens must act on the rea-
sonable probability.
Lincoln viii do nothing more than prohib-
it slavery" on United States property, and
prepare for the next canvass. In the canvass
of 1854, the issue will be the prohibition of
the Interstate Slave Trade" say this will
be the issue, because il not this, the issue
must be Abolition in the States, and the
former is the better issue for abe canvass
The Black Republican party of course will
succeed. Their present will be the proof Of
their future success. They viii six years
hence have in their favor the three-fourths
majority of the States. The Constitution
will be duly amended, and the amendment
Of course will give Cangress power ''to abol-
ish slavery" Slavery therefore viii in the
last year of the Administration succeeding
Lincoln's be abolished. Thus the three ''an-
movements viii be exhausted
Thus we viii be spuned, degraded, and sub