, 1862-05-31

-iA1- Nt4!c15 u AClAUEI VI LIZ SA6AHAA
S.nate, presented preamble and resolu-
tons to that body, few days ago, declar-
ing that Slavery is the fundamental doc
trine Of Southern civilization" and
That it cannot be justly tnterfered with in that
relation Of property by tho statcs neither By the
people in convention assembled to alter an exist
Ing constitution, or to form one for admission
into the Confederacy, nor by the representatives
Of the people In the State OF the Confederate Iegs~
1ature, Tor by any means OF mode which the popu-
1ar majority might adopt. and that the State,
whilst remaining republican in the structure Of
Its government, can lawfully get ridof that spe-
cies Of property, eyer, only By the Tree consent
Of the individual owners.
That is putting it pretty strong; but it
only expresses the latest phase Of opinion
in the South in regard to the rightfulness
of buying and selling men It is noticea-
bic that Southern writers have abandoned
the use Of the prefix, " African" !" in what
they say Of slavery, the doctrine first
brosched tg the Richmond Enquirer, that
1.-THE condition, not the color Of the en-
slaved, is the justification Of the master,n
being now the accepted faith OF the politi-
cal philosophers, who have undertaken the
regeneration and freedom Of mankind, by
means Of the whips and manaclcs of bar
barous age. In word, the slavery Of
white men, "who,'' in the language now
most common in rebeldom, "cannot take
"ca1e Of themselves, by reason Of their
"mental inirmities OF physical disinclina-
. "t lion to wofk," is as clearly the right Of
!" the superior classes as the enforcement
"of any other natural law" Hence, our
Northern people, who are or pretend to be
restive under the disabilities which this
war for the negro heaps upon them, have
no adequate comprehension Of the magni-
tude Of the stake for which the parties con
tend, when they attribute to Sambo and Di-
nah the origin Of the great tumult which fills
the 1aud The war is clash Of principles
not one Of races, nor yet one Of measures
arising from questions Of political
economy. And though in the open
ing Of all revolutionary movements,
the real object sought by the revo-
lutionary party is usually concealed
until success makes aYowal safe, We can
see in tha direction Of the currents Of
thought among the ablest men Of the
South, something far beyond "the safety
of the South in the Territories y "opposi-
| ton to negro equality" and the recogni.
ton Of African slaves as property, under
the Federal Constitution - THERE'S beyond
these things 8 purpose to so alter the form Of
Southern society, hence Of Government, as
| to make the subordination," chats the
term) Of the 1aboriDg classes, regardless Of
color, the basis Of both the social and po-
Itica1 structure In short, slavery, not
alone African slavery, but slavery Of all
who toll in the workshop or field, is the
one object aimed at. And that it is which
has kindIed this great flame.
We have little respect for the honesty, il
he is well informed, and not much more
for the ignorance, if he has had d chance
to learn, Of the man who could contem-
plate the reorganization Of Southern soci.
ETY., upon the basis proposed, without a
feeling Of horror at the prospect Of the
near neighborhood Of q power bottomed
upon principles so dangerous to the free.
dom and happiness Of our people aud the
perpetuity Of the Republic. Such an one
is already half q convert to- the atheistie
dogmas which underlie the secession move
ment, and should go over at once and arm
| against the equality which the North up
holds and which she will never surrender
Unfortunately, men with the inf1del notions
that are advanced to justify the South, art
! not rare even in the Northwest,