New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-03

lot. With teeming population which the soil
cannot support-with their wealth depending upon
| arts created by artificial wants-wth an eternal
friction between the grades of their society-with
their labor and their capital grinding against each
| other like the upper and neither millstones-with
labor cheapened and displaced by new mechanical
| inventions, bursting assunder the bonds OF
brotherhood amid these intricate perils we have
ever given them our sympathy and our prayers,
and have never sought TO weaken the foundations
Of their social erder God grant them complete
success in the solution of all their perpexitiesi
We, too, have our responsibilities and trials; but
they all bound up in this one institution, which
has been the object of such unrighteous assault
through five and twenty years. # we are true to
ourselves SHALL at this critical juneture stand
by It and work out our destiny.
This duty is bound upon us again as he co'lsti.
t,ted guardians of the syaues themselves. Our lot
is not more implicated in theirs than is their lot in
ours; in our mutual relations we survive or perish
together. The worst foes of the black race are
those who have intermeddled on their behalf. We
know better than others that every attribute OF
their character fits them for dependence and ser
visude. By nature the most affectionate and loyal
Of all races beneath the sun, they are also the most
helpless; and no calamity can befall them greater
than the loss of that protection they enjoy under
this patriarchal system. Indeed the experiment
has been grandly tried of preciptating them upon
freedom which they know not how to enjoy; and
the dismal results are before US in statistics that
astonish the world. With the farest portions of
the earth in their possession and with the adYan.
tage Of long discipline as cutiyators of the soil,
their constitutional Incidence has converted the
most beautiful islands Of the sea into bowling
waste 1t is not too much to say that if the South
should, at this moment surrender every slave, the
wisdom of the entire world, united in solemn coun-
Gil, could not solve the question Of their disposal.
Their transportation to Africa, if it were fea
sble, would be but the most refined cruelty; they
must perish with starvation before they could have
time to relapse into their primitive barbarism.
Their residence here, in the presence of the vigor
Gus Saxon race, would be but the signal for their
r.. Al.
away through listlessness, filth and vice. Freedom
would be their doom; and equally from both they
call upon us, their providential guardians, to be
protected know this argument will be scoffed
abroad as the hypocritical cover thrown over our
own cupidity and sefshness; but every Southern
master knows its truth and feels its power. My
servant, whether born in my house or bought with
my money, stands to me in the relation OF child.
Though providentially owing me service, which,
providentially, / am bouud to exact. he is, never
theless, my brother and my friend; and | am to
him guardian and father. He leans upon me
for protection, for counsel, and for blessing; and
so long as the relation continues power, but tie
power of Almighty God, shall come between him
and me. Were there no argument but this, it binds
upon us the proyidential duty of preserving the
relation that we may save him from doom worse
than death. ~, 95o+z 7z
1t is duty which we owe, further, 10 The ciua
lied aoorld. 1t is O remarkable fact that during
these thirty years of uneeasing warfare against
slavery aud while lying spirit has infiamed the
world against u.s. that world has grown more and
| more dependent upon it for sustenance and wealth.
| Every tyro knows that all branches of industry
| fall back upon the soil. We must come, every
one of us, to the bosom Of this great mother for
nourishment. In the happy partnership which has
grown up in providence between the tribes of this
| confederacy, our industry has been concentrated
| upon agriculture. To the North we have cheer
fully resigned all the profits arising from manufae
| ture and commerce. Those profits they have, for
| the most part fairly earned, and have never be-
grudged them. We have sent them our sugar and
| bought it back when refined; we have sent them
our cotton and bought it back when spun into
thread or woven into cloth. Almost every article
we use from the shoe-lachet to the most elaborate
| and costly article of luxury, they have made and
| we have bought and both sections have thriyen
by the partnership, as no people ever thrived be-
fore since the first shining of the So literally
true are the words of the text, addressed by 0ba-
| dah to Edom. " All the men of our confederacy,
the men that at peace with us, have eaten our
bread at the very time they have deceived and laid
around under u.s." Even beyond-this the enrich
ing commerce, which has built the splendid cities
| and marble palaces of England as well as of Amer
| lea, has been largely established upon the pro-
| duets OF our soil; and the blooms upon Southern
fields gathered by black hands, have fed the spin
1 dies and looms of Manchester and Birmingham,
not less than of Lawrence and Lowell. Strike
| now blow at this system of labor and the world
itself totters at the stroke. Shall permit that
blow to fall? Do we not owe it to civilized man 70
stand in the breach and stay the uplifted arm \
4 the blind Samson lays hold of the pillars which
| support the arch of the worlds industry, how
many more will be buried beneath its ruins tllsr
| the lords of the Phstines? Who knoWeth
whether we are not come to the kingdom for such
| time as this"
Last of ALL in this great struggle see defend the
eGatSe of God dndretigion. The Abolition spirit is
undeniably atheistc. The demon which erected
its throne upon the guillotiue in the days of Robes
pierre and Marat, which abolished the Sabbath and
wor shipped reason in the person of harlot, jet
survives to work other horrors, of which those Of
the French revolution are but the type. Among q
liz, tt,n A
disguise must be worn; but it is the same old
threadbare disguise of the advocacy of human
rights. From thousand Jacobin clubs here. as il
France, the decree has gone forth which strikes al
God by striking at all snbordinatinn and law.
4 Ayaing itself of the morbid and instructed sym
pathies of men, it has entrapped weak consciences
in the meshes of its treachery; and now, at last
has seated its high priest upon the throne, clad il
the black garments of dseord and sehism, so sym
bolc fits ends. Under this specious cry of reform
it demands that every evil shall be corrected, OF
: society become wreck-the sun must be stricken
from the heavens, if a spot is found upon his disc
infinite and his own wisdom which is unfathoma
II BILE, can afford to be patient. But these sef.con
stituted reormeFs must quicken the activity of Je
hovah or compel his abdicat5on. In their furiou
haste they trample upon obligations sacred as an
which can bind the conscience. 1t is time to re
Il produce the obsolete idea that Providence mus
govern man, and not that man should contro
Providence. zp the imperfect state of human soc
ety. it pleasesf Sod to allow evils which check other
that are greater. As in the physical world, oh
jects are moved forward not by single force, Blu
by the composition of forces SO in his moral ad
ministration, there are checks and balances who's
intimate relations are comprehended only by hin
, self But what reck they of this-thsse fierce yea
OTIS who undertake to drive the chariot of the sun
working out the single aud false idea which ride
| them like nightmare, they dash athwart th
spheres, utterly disregarding the delicate mechaI
+ ism of Providence which moves on wheels With
wheels, with pipets and balances and spring
3 which the great designer alone can control. Th
+ spirit ct atheism, whseh knows no God who tole
t ates e1l no Bible which sanctions law, and n
: conscience that car.be bound by oaths and COW
nants, has selected MS for its Eietins and SLAYER
for its issue. Its baanertery rings cat already upe
the air" liberty, equality, fraternity which san
ply interpreted Iaean bondage, contiscation an
0 massacre. Wits its tricolor waving in the broez
r it waits to inaugarate its rsign of terror To til
, South the high position is, assigned of defending
: before all nations, the canse of all religion and
f alttfuth. In this trust resisting the powt
which wars against constitutions and laws aud con
e pacts, against Sabbaths and sanctuaries again
: the family tho State, aad,the church; which hla
/. phamousy in7ades the, pre1Ogatiyes of Sod, ar
l. irebukes the Most Highfpr the errors of ais admi
i lissration which, if it eanaot snatch the reins
s. empire ironals grasp with lay the universe in ruiz
at his feet. Isl possible shat shall decline t
y onset?
Il This argument, then, which Sweeps over the e
II tire circle of relations, touches the four Car
z nal points of duty to oatrSelDes, 10 our sldlGS
e The eoorl3 and to Alnai%aty God. It establishes Il