Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-01-16
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The eriSIS--Syi'ai is our HulS !

TO be let alone, She has even
been satisfied with the constitution
nj guarantees Of protection to her
slave property. Although her
Northern ncighhors have grown
r'ch and fht of OF almost II monopo-
~ ofintcrnal trade, and discrim-
ination of governmental patronage
in her favor, yet the south has sub
mittcd, and she would now submit,
were her internal affairs lct'alonc'
Thirty ycars ago the north com,
menccd an aggressive policy against
the south-a policy to weaken us,
and consolidate wealth and political
power in thcm. Previous conccs-
sions wero clainod as cstablb hing
political rights. The admission of
Missouri was contested, but it was
finally bought by I'M improper con-
ccssiQn that slavery should be pro
.hibited in the Territories north OF
1920. An ingcniously devised
tariff, on indirect taxation, for pur-
poses of national revenue, amount
ing to millions annually, and for in
cidcntal protection to northern
trade, MAS been perpetratcd upon
us. Texas Mas grudgingly admit
ted into the Union, at the expense
of prohibiting slavery north Of the
Missouri Compromise line. Not
satisfied with that, they attempted
to wrest large portion of our Ter
ritory from us; and flourishing the
sword over our heads, offered us
gold for it. Texas humiliatingly
bought peace, by taking the gold
and conceding her territory. The
north bitterly opposed the Mexican
war, but us soon rs it terminated in
the acquisition Of valuable terrific
ry, it was flooded with northern
harpies, and southern emigrants
with slaves were excluded. Prohi-
bition of slavery in the Territories
at any cost has been the watchword,
and the blood Of Southern men shed
in the defence of their lives and
property, now cries from the ground
of Kansas against their insatlatc
but victorious northern brcthren,-
1t is said by our Southern States
men, who have made the computa
ton, that S70,0O0,000, is raised an
nually by duties, of which S5O,OOo,-
600, is drawn from the South, and
$40, 100000, from the north and
when the same comes to be cXpcnd-
cd S50,000,000 is lavished ut the
north, and $20,G00,000, grudgingly
expended at the South. No labor
or expense is spared in keeping the
Indians ut bay in Oregon, but there
is no arm to save the Frontier OF
Texas from plumber and the scalp
ing knife.
1t would seem, from all this, that
IL concession and compromise could
buy peace and security, we have
bought and paid dearly for it long
ago. 1t is hard for us, in a govern
mcnt of equality, to bear all these
agrcssions from our northern sisters;
but we have borne them peacably,
This, however, is not the half For
Years relentless social war has
been waged against the most vital
institution of the South, and now
unmistakably threatens our very
existance as people.
There must be Il !aboring popu-
lation in our country. Our labor
ers in the main, are African slaves
an institution handed down to us
by our fathers. They are black
race inferior socially and mentally
they arc by nature a subject race,
They Eow numb over 4O,00O,OOo.
Experience teaches that slavery is
their normal condition; and as 1t
exists at the south is a blessing to
them and the world. The white
man, poor though he be, who works
beside slave is an American free
man, can vote and act asa juryman,
and socially is an equal Of the best
in the land. Slaves are suited to
the culture ofsugar and cotton-the
whites to the grain growing and
the mechanics. The south has the
best and most perfect laboring sys-
tenn Of the world, as Europe now
begins to see and feel.
Not so with the north. They are
flooded with free white labor-and
this flood increases by emigration
every year. The tendency is for.
the poor to become poorer, and tE
rich richer. There is a war between
capital and labor; the laborer can
vote,-and labor can at any day say
at the polls to capitol, divide with
us" Hence the policy of northern
Statesmen t. push emigration in to
the territores-to get up aid soci-
cites to help them away. Hence
the cry, make way for free labor
For twenty-fveyears there has been
at the North a growing religious IA
naticism on the subject of slavery.
Puritanic enthusiastics, in the garb
ofreligion, after working themselves
up to the belief that they are moral
ly responsible for slavery, have set
about forcing their notions of mo-
rality on the south, and working
out the emancipation Of slaves
Like malarious disease, this has
spread, until it has infected the
whole northern religious mind. 1t
has severed nearly all the churches,
and swept on on, until now to
question the eriminality of slavery
is considered an act of barbarism.-
In the mean time northern States
man, seeing in the perspective the
necessity for more room for the eX-
pansion of their free labor emigra-
ton, seized upon this popular en-
thusiasn, and set about the work Of