The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-14
Security of Slave Property.

IL is commonly dlieSeu thdt save property
would be more secure in the Union, even I'M
der a Black Republican President, than in a
Southern Confederacy; or, in other words, |
that other peopIe-and those, enemies-can |
take care of mans rights and property bet |
ter than he can himself. So far as fugitive |
slaves are concerned it is rare that slave
holder can retake his fugitive now, except at
a greater cost than it is worth. With some
exceptions a successful escape is final, I'M
less, as is sometimes the case, the fugitive,
discovering that his new lot is full of hard
ships, chooses himself to return. In regard
to the suppression of instructions, no such
assistance is necessary, nor, if it were, could
it be rendered. The Army of the United
States, small at best, is scattered over an i'm
mense extent of territory. and cannot be con-
centrated in time to be of service in any such
emergency. We have all seen how long a
time it requires for Gen. SooTT to collect one
thousand regulars in Washington, and may
judge from that example, where the General
Government was working in good faith and
with hearty good will, of what practical
avail for the suppression ofservile disturbances
would be an army thus situated, and in the
hands of an abolition Administration. More
over, the history of the world affords few ex-
amples of successful instructions. The pres
ent generation has before its own eyes the in
structive instance of the manner in which
few thousand Englishmen held all India in
subsection, and of the thorough and complete
triumph, in the late memorable India mutiny,
OF 20, 900 English soldiers over an admirably
disciplined army of zoe, 600 Sepoys, abundanty
supplied with arms and munitions of war,
and backed by the moral if not material,
aid and comfort of $50, 900 of subject peo-
pie. II is absurd, therefore, TO talk of the
dominant race in the Southern States, domi-
nant in numbers as well as blood, and all ac
customed TO the use Of arms, being dependent
for their safety upon the army of any Govern
ment. Moreover, the inferior race in the
Southern States are, in general, contented and
loyal, and, as we see in South Carolina, not
only faithful to their masters, but absolutely
aiding to fight against the enemy. The intel
ligent among their number fully understand
that the real object of the abolitionists is not
to help the negroes, but to drive them out, and
put white men in their places.
The cause of abolition is known by them as
well as anybody to be what the Washington
Star has unguardedly admitted s'rHK FUTURE
OF WHITE LABOR IN VIRGINIA. Besides, II
military protection were necessary, an army
in the Southern Confederacy is already estab-
lisked, which will soon be as large as that OF
the United States, and will always be at the
command Of a slaveholding President. In
regard to fugitive slaves, there will no more
be an inducement to agitate the subject in the
Northern States because, having no Longer
any connection with slavery, the politician.
cannot use abolition for their advancement
Moreover, when men talk of bringinga Canads
down TO our borders by disunion, they forge
that the North has no more desire to be made
Canada of, Botany Bay for free negroes
than the South has that she should become so
In not a few of the free States there are alread,
laws forbidding free negroes to settle anon,
them, and this would be the case with all 1
threatened with such an influx Of pauperisu
and crime as would follow the wholesale es
cape Of fugitive slaves into their borders. /
Is very convenient for them now to run OF
fugitive slaves TO Canada, but when the ques
tion is, Whether they shall stop in the Nortl
instead Of going to Canadaf the practical Yam
KEGS would pitch them out at the point OF tn
hayonet. Is 1t likely that people who are la
boring now TO displace The slave population {
the Border States, for the purpose ofintrodue
ing their own surplus white labor, would b
willing, 1T any time, and especially after the
are deprived OF that outlet, to displace thei
own white labor by hordes Of free negroesy Tn
Hath -, me interests Of the North, as well a
Ihe femoyai Of the agitating cause of SLAYER
from Northern politics, would. In ths even
Of secession, render slave property safer /
s the Border States than ii has been for the la.
quarter OF q century. Besides all this m
custom officers who would be stationed ON II