The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-11

Hayti exported larger quantity OF cotton
than the North American continent. 1t ex-
lists in Persia it exists in Brazil it exists in
| Egypt, and China in Spain, in Malta, and in
Mexico it exists in Africa itself. The pecu-
liarity of climate and soil necessary to its pro-
duction has been greatly exaggerated, in my
opinion. I attribute the vast production,
| swelled from one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds to four million bales in seventy years,
to the combination of moral and physical quail
| ties which have been associated in this cul-
! ture.
The southern planter is not the indolent,
aristocratic nabob which he has been repre-
scented to be. He is, in general, careful pa
tent provident industrious, forbearing, and
vet firm and determined. 1t is these qualities
which have enabled him to take race of I'M
tanned savages with no habits except such as
inspire disgust, with no arts, no information,
and out of such people to make the finest
body of fixed laborers that the world has ever
seen. Sir, England has imported Coolies,
| Chinese, natives from the African coast, into
her colonies and yet she has been unable to
compete with the southern plantations. There
| is no product which requires such constant
| and unremitting attention, such continuous la
Dor, as the cotton plant. The great complaint
in the British colonies is, that the fruit of each
years effort is lost by the broken and irregular
| labor of the operatives. Now, sir the south
ern planter has secured continuity, consisten-
| CIV, and steadfastness, in the most INDECENT in
consistent, and capricious of the human race.
Burke, in his speech upon Cancellation with
American, paid to the victorious industry en-
ployed in. the fisheries of the colonies of New
England Just and glowing tribute of admira-
ton. The perseverance, the dexterous and
firm sagacity enlisted in that perilous mode
of industry, is worthy of his esteem. Some
thing of the same qualities are displayed by
the southern planter in the production of these
benificent results which have flowed fTumkthe
southern States.
The southern planter penetrates the dense
forests, the tangled brake, the gloomy wilder
ness of our river swamps, where pestilence
has its abode, and there, day by day and year
by year, amidst the exposure, privation, and
sickness, are his foresight, his prudence, his
selfreliance, his adaptation of means to ends,
called into requisition. In the communion
with himself-which his isolation makes in
dispensable- in the daily and yearly pro-
vision for a large body of domestics and de-
pendents for whom he has to think, and whose
labor he has to direct, he forms those quail
ties which enable him to emerge from his iso-
lation to fill the county court, or to become
member Of his State Legislature, to discharge
the duties of local magistrate, or to take his
place in the national councils.
The solution Of the enigma of the slave
power" so mysterious to transcendental and
infant-school philosophers, may be sought here
Its basis lies in that cool, igorous Judgment
and unerring sense applicable to the ordinary
affairs and intercourse of men which the south
ern mode of life fosters. The habits Of indus
try, firmness Of purpose. fidelity to dependents
selfreliance, and the sentiment of justice in
all the various relations of life which are nee
essary to the management of a well-Ordered
plantation, fit men to guide legislatures and
command armies.
see gentlemen are disposed to smile at this
suggestion. In Confirmation of what | say,
have only to point them to the fact it was in
such communities as these that Washington,
a Jackson, Taylor, a Scoot, a Twiggs, a
Quitman, a Davis, Lee, Ringgold, Bragg,
a Butler, and host of others, acquired those
qualities which enable them, in the positions
in which their country placed them, to add
such undying ulster to the American name.
1t was in such communitties that such men as
Jefferson, Madison, Moore, Polk, Lowndes,
Calhoun, Clay, Macon, Marshall, fancy, and
a host of others that could mention acquired
those characteristics which their countrymen
North and South instinctiyely discerned when
ever called upon to face some awful moment
to which Heaven has joined great issues, good
or bad, for human kind
have sought, sir, in cursory way, under
the whip and spur of this hour rule, to show
that there is nothing in our institutions which
cannot stand justified before impartial history
for our mode of dealing with the race which
Providence has placed in our hands. | do not
pretend to say that, in the adjustment of our
economic forces, there may not be ameliora-
tons. / do not pretend to say that we have
arrived at standard of ideal perfection. But
| do say that there is a reach of thought and
a maturity of Judgment brought to bear upon
this subject in the South which is always ade-
quate to envolve the greatest good. We GER
tainly can learn nothing from the enemies OF
our institutions and conspirators against our
COMIC 10 rrre rEsr consideration think #
proper to urge upon the attention of tn.
Is it the part of statesmen 10 attempt to ex-
ercise the powers of this Government in spirit |
to the institutions and interests in
volved in the political and economical system |
which | have been discussing? The father |
Of the Constitution, Mr.. Madison, on the floor |
Of the convention. which framedit, expressed
different sentiment
g He admitted that every peculiar interest, |
whether in any class Of citizens or any de-
scription OF States, ought to be secured as far |
IS possible. WHEREVER THERE Is DANGER OF
ATTACK, THERE OUGHT To BE GIVEN A CONSTR
rUTIoNAL POWER OF EDFENsE. But he con-
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not by their difference in size, but |
by other circumstances, the most material of
which resulted partly from climate, but prin-
cipally from the effects Of their having or not
having slaves. These two causes concurred
in forming the great division of interests in
the United States. 1t did not lay between
he large and small States 1t lay between
he northern and southern States and, if any
defensive powers were necessary, 1t ought to
,e mutually to these t,po. interests. He was so
strongly impressed with this truth, he had
oeen casting about in his mind for some
icheme that would answer the purpose"
do not anticipate that the magnanimous
,ounsels of wise and patriotic statesman,
whose provisions embraced in their scope the
,ntire Republic, will obtain such authority as
% secure additional guarantees to our institu-
dOnS. 1ACSC VIC IldfO uOL dShtt. w e ASK
'nly our constitutional rights in the Union.
The southern people demand that this organ
zed "irrepressible conflict" shall stop-that
he institution of slavery shall be maintained as
"A exitisng fact in this Confederacy. The
ointment is rapidly approaching to unanimity
mong them, that any attempt to impair it's
or q single political privilege
which it confers, or any of the constitutional
lights by which it is guaranteed, or to place
yer them the party which arrogates to itself
he right to do any of these things, will be
atal blow at the peace and stability Of this
reat country.
YAZoo VELLEY RAILRoAD.-We had the
leasure last evening of an interview with Mr..
!. B. Trezevant, who has inst returned from
be survey ofthe proposed Yazoo Valley Rail-
Dad, on which he has been employed for the
lst nine weeks. Along the valley of the
Iallobusha for seventy miles, the road runs
yer ground as level as the prairies, and the
rice of construction will be very light There
only one spot of decidedly high land on the
quite, that is the dividing ridge of the Yallo-
usha and the Tallahatchie rivers. When
ompleted the travel from Memphis for Jack {
On, will proceed by the Mississippi road to
pot twenty miles below Pamela, where he will
inter-, in the same cars, on the Yazoo Valley ,
bad, which will take him to jackson in POS :,
liles, from whence he can pass to New Or
rms on the Northern. The route will save
change of cars and sixty miles distance
he entire road will be 1856 miles in length.
. 7. Trezevant, Esq, is still ON the spot, $
there he is rapidly obtaining stock. It's ex-
ected that ground will be broken during the i,
ext fll-Menaphis appeal
On the 9th inst, at the brides residence in !
arroll county, Miss, by the Rev. Mr.. Pitt !,
ian, Hon. w. c. OLIVER, of Green county,
Ia, to Miss LIZZIE WHITEHEAD c
At the residence of Mr.. Jas. j. Droomgoodle, a
Jar Clinton, on Wednesday, April 4th 1860,
: the Rev. John Hunter, Mr.. JAS n. DAN
L, of jackson, to MISS. JULIA RAGLAN, of
10 former place.
Black Republican Congressman b
Properly Treated. t
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