New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-20


live IN our aye-holding South, and flourish there ana
- ne haupy for centuries after they VIII have us
naSo Ia their very last vesge, from every
= f,rmurity north Of the Potomac. This, we hrniy
believe is God inevitable decree, not MADE oy him
- the xercse of an al normal Providence, IN espeoal
svor 10 ms but graciousy educed by theregular work
inc OF His own sublime, benefcent, eternal laws
have but little more to say. Ii, after the disruption
we are contemplating shall have been cons,minateu'
england, our natural ally to whom we would nrst 60,
,hoad treat unjustly and oppressively, SEEKING ~
''covcr and "devour, as she probably wolu nHe ;tS
as she always has done, and viii where sne can Nun
impuuity-as all strong nations do IN tnen ueanusS
With the weak when expediency seems TO dic'a'S II
as ve ourselves do with Mexico-why then-see scS'
ueu 81 the North What trump card our new o2u' IL
,r,, Coafcderscy will hold in her cotton why, uen
,ve viii withdraw from the wing of England that
sanrcd ms too severely while il covered us an apply
60 Franc> Well play France upon Englar d. Per
baps weuay nestle more securely ana pesSS y under
leon want any better fun, think you 10 an to deprive
England of os$ton- thus putting his hs Ted enemy in
state 81 revcaion, without the sla of his Zonayes
Wilsa two years after withdrewal from England
ithis nsnper Napoleon ILL., woul, perhaps be able to
cross the Channel in his yacht aAd ride to London at
the head 81 a regiment of Chasseurs France would
gladly seiae tnis opportunity 70 cripple ana annoy En-
same mTtive. No sensible man believed In any
other motive to the aid extended TO us by France in
,our Revolutionary struggle No respectable history
ever assigned any other. Our interest happened, Tor
tunatejy for u.s. to coincide with French pohcy-and
sle aided us. So il was; and so it would be again
Kings and States don't sell their men to fight and be
killed any more than African slavetraders sell their
mento work--with0ut consideration. But the con-
alteration will always get the men, whether TO fight
and be killed or to work. And the one trade, in the
eye Of reason, is Just odous and as degrading and
wrongful to humanity, IA The other.
In conclusion, men Of the North I've limited at it
before think-but it will bear experimentation IL
King Cotton is King Cotton is King And you,
voureyes are of its subjects Abstract Northern
prorerty all it's really Southern elements, and what
large what rnnous deduction would instantly follow
from your commercial and manufacturing wealth F!
Snty-sx per cent could hardly be considered an eNg
serltea estimate. You want cotton--you must nave
it-you know YOU must You know that every pound
of il Is the production Of slave labor You hold Sav-
cry to be soul-damning sin, and you are never
aweay of manufacturing pixies rifles, and maledletons
for the destruction of Shareholders; yet, without COM
junction. you buy and wear slave-grown cotton with
easy conscience, at the time holding hands, you
think clean up TO Heaven, thanking ii That you are
net as other men-prayng God that he will be pleased
TO let John Brown murder us, and afterward damn US
HIMSELF Why Sirs, in the sight, Of God and
Reason, you, yourselves are as guilty OF Slavery
rs the rnfians who so TO the Coast of Africa to
steal and import the slaves, as we of the South VINO
own and work the slaves. And thus L prove It,
Do you not know, proverbially keen dIseerners
of Your own near mterests-pr0verblal penny
splitters that you are-do you net know that We
odous slayeowners and slyewOrkers of the South do
not make slayegrown cotton just for our am''se-
ment for the pleasure Of working negroes nor to
Do you not know that, If we could not sell 1t, we
would not make il and that if made no cotton our
slaves would be than valueess to and Slavery
would cease to exist And yet you buy our slave
grown cotton. And you wear our siave-grown cotton
And yet You must have our ,vegrown cotton. Is not
the Wul receiver and Of stolen goods as bad as
the thief Let the hypocTtcal canwells of the North
of England, and OF Europe, to buy and con-
sumo slave-gr0wn cotton, and Southern Slavery will
cease In years they would thus enancipate ninety
in hundred OF slaves ard there would be more
talk among us Of rcopenng the save-rade. And yet
there is not a Of We but has save-rOwn Southern
cotton on lis own person. from birth TO death-nOt q
woman OF We but wears a Southern lave-grown cotton
petticoat beneath her silks she signs pledge
of total abstinence from saye-grown sugar lit being
cheaper and more convenient 10 maple sugar..
There's pulling babe in all your land, but Is swad-
died An Southern slave-qown cotton and furnishes
the wndng-shee of ye all With all this, you lave nc
part in the sin Of Slavery! Your hands are held
10 be clean and Divine vengeance Is invoked upon us
alone Oh, Reason where is thy logicl Oh, Consist
ency where is thy blush On, Conscience where ii
thy sting
And it is at the dictate of this illogical inconsistent
shameless opposition to Slavery, that you, of thu
North, have instituted and cherished policy OF hos
tlity to the South which, reaching Its climax in thu
late election of Mr. Lincoln is driving the Slave States
from the Union. Your injustice and unkindness com.
pel US 10 this course We go only because must.
True It's the South that actually cuts the cord of our
Union; but she may look, she does II, full in the
face Of wronged and weeping Humanity, and say to
her, sadly, calmly, proudly, Thou caMt not sag did
Ut! w. W. Mann.
Keio- York Nov. l3, 1860.