The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-01

nea. Nathaniel Macon, of Montgomery,
Alabama, friend of Senator Douglas, is
addressing a series of letters on political at
fairs to Charles OConor, of New York,
through the Philadelphia Press. In letter
No. 5, which appears in the Press of Tues
day, we find the following singularly frank
admission of truth which has been avowed
by the Anti-Slavery men of the North from
the beginning of the movement against
slavery extension and perpetuation-as an
answer to all who predicted fulfilment of
the threats of dissolution by the Southern
Fire Eaters. 1t was always argued that the
slave system-resting solely on force and
fraud-rendered the South too weak, and
placed her in too much peril ofinternal con-
vulsion, to leave it possible that sane South
ern men could seriously contemplate the
! fearful step of secession from the Union
! All experience of late years has proved the
correctness of that view, and now Mr. Ma
thaniel Macon, of fiery Alabama, says
{" This brings meat once to express my
own conviction that the success Of slavery,
! the successful management Of the black
/ race, as impossible Out Of the Union. 1t is
/ the Union that gives to slavery perfect Sc
/ curity, to slaves their present high value,
and TO slave labor its largest measure of
success.
moral power of the most successful Govern
ment in the world-which upholds slavery.
( 1t has arrayed against it all the great States
Of civilization. 1t has arrayed against it
almost the united moral sentiment of man
kind. 1t has arrayed against it a vigilant
fanaticism, bedecked with orders of nobili-
ey, and sustained b, boundless wealth. 1t
has arrayed against it the universal teach
+ ings of Christianity, the instincts of beRev-
olence and philanthropy, and, above all, the
spirit of the age, which presses heavily
upon every species of despotism, and seeks
to maintain, everywhere, the cause Of free
government.
"The slave States, by the compact of
Union, have secured TO themselves the po-
litical support of the free States, in behalf
Of slavery. The latter are identified with
it through every channel of our foreign and
domestic trade. The success Of the Union,
and all the power it has achieved in the
eyes of the world, are justly regarded as
the defensive scorka Of american slaOeJy.
"What slavery has most to fear is physi-
cal conflict Shielded by the Federal Union,
it can well afford TO meet the criticism of
the world. Its products fairly Justify its
existence. 1t is able to buy up its OPP
poneuts with the profits Of trade, while its
policy is indicated by the character of the
great Government under which it exists.
Dissolve that Government. through the
Vaccinations and bad faith of Shareholders,
and you will have arrayed against slavery,
by natural law, not only the people of the
free States, but in a little time also the peo-
pie of the northern or border slave States.
The latter, at first, will have TO meet the
brdut of the conflict. This may not as
sumo the character of open warfare, but il
will, nevertheless, be conflict of opinions
bearing directly upon the institution OF
slavery. Thus endangered, it will recede
first from the frontiers, and later from the
entire border slave States. 1t is doubtful
, indeed if this movement of slavery to the
South will not be precipitated by the greater
profits of its labor there, Independent of all
matters affecting it's safety where it now is.