The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-05-30

founded by the United States. Great Britain
forces them into her own colonial possessions,
and there, under the name of apprenticeship,
compels them to larbor. More horrible still
while preaching her crusade against the do.
mestic institutions of the United States she
is engaged in a trade for race of men suffic-
iently high in the scale of creation to value
family ties and to feel the sentiment of home
coolies kidnapped; boys tolerably well edu-
Gated; tradesmen; apothecaries in abundance.
caught up in China and brought to be sold to
the eultivators OF colonial sugar estates This
offence against nature has met with some sol
emn retributions. The rising of these misera-
bic captiycs against the captain and crew, and
the horrible barbarity with which the trade il
pursued, are TO be seen in the accounts of
wrecks where the matches are battened down,
the ship deserted by the crew, left beating on
the rocks, and these miserable prisoners, with
out the light of heaven left there to hear the
rush of the relentless wave, and to weep for
their fatherland. from which they were borne
By men more relentless than the wave which
rushes on to their destruction. With such
manifestations as these, how can they pirate
philanthropy 30 us who hold in bondage a race
of men who never were free: who, for thous-
ands Of years. have occupied the condition
they did in the American colonies, and 10 now
in the Southern States, and Tho live in quie-
tude and happiness which she might be well
employed in bestowing on the suffering peas
antry of England, and colonial dependencies
of the East.
Among the great purposes declared in the
preamble of the Constitution is one to provide
for general welfare. Proysion..for the general
welfare implies general fraternity. This
Union was not expected to be held together
by coercion, the power of force as means was
denied They sought, however, to bind it
perpetually together with that which was
stronger than triple bars of brass and steel
the ceasless current of kind sffices renewing
and renewed in an eternal flow, and gathering
volume and velocity us it rolled 1t was
function intended not for the injury of any. It
declared its purpose to be the benefit of all
Concessions which were made between the
different States in the Convention prove the
motive. Each gave to the other what was
necessary to it-what each could afford to
spare. Young as nation, our triumphs I'M
der this system have had 10 parallel in hui
man history. We have tanned wilderness;
we have spanned continent. We have built
up granary that secures the commercial
world against the fears Of famine. Higher
than all this we have achieved moral triumph.
We have received by hundreds of thousands,
constant tide Of immigrants-energetic if
not well educated, fleeing, some from want,
some from oppression, some from the penalties
of violated law-receiyed them into our So
scity, and by the gentle suasion of Govern
ment which exhibits no force by removing
want and giving employment they have sub
sided into peaceful citizens, and have increased
the wealth and power Of our country,
If, then, this temple so blessed and to the
roof Of which we were about to look TO see it
extended over the continent, giving protsc-
ting arm to infant republics that need tiff
this temple is lettering on its pillars, what, |
ask, can be a higher or nobler duty for the
Senate to perform than to rush to its pillars
and uphold them, or be crushed in the attempt
We have tempered with question witch has
grown in magnitude by each years delay. It
requirs to be plainly met; the truth TO be told.
The patriotism and the sound sense of the
people, whenever the Federal Government
from its high places of authority shall pro-
claim the truth in unequivocal language, will,
in my firm beir-i, receive and approve it,
But 50 long as We deal like the Delphic oracle
in words Of double meaning, so long as we
attempt to escape from responsibility, and ex-
hibit our fear to declare the truth by the fact
that we do not act upon it, we must expect
speculative theory to occupy the mind of the
pubic, and error to increase as time rolls on.
But if the sad fate should be ours. for this
most minute cause TO destroy our Govern
ment, the historian who shall attempt philo-
sophically to examine the question, will, after
he has put on his microscopic glasses and dis
covered it, be compelled to cry out, veritably
SO the unseen insect in the course of time de-
stroys the mighty oak. Now, | belieye-may
| not say l believe-if not, then hope there
is yet time by the full, explicit declaration of
the truth, to disabuse the popular mirfd to
arouse the popular heart to expose the dan
ger from lurking treason and ill-concealed
hostility; to rally virtuous people to their
countrys rescue, who circling closer and
deeper, as the storm gathers fury. round the
ark of their Fathers covenant, will place it in
security, there happily to remain, sign of fra
ternity. justice, and equality to our remotest
posterity.