The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-27

| e''"i "nu V.ner southern papers an(
periodicals, with Senator Hammond, of Soutl
Carolina, were prominent in this defense.
Their object was to educate the Southern
mind to this belief. Such course has be.
come vital to the existence of slavery, because
to concedo that negro slavery was morally
wrong was virtually to concede the whole
argument to the Abolitionists. As the con
troversy warmed we become sensitive, and SC
morbidly so that the North might have threat
ened with impunity to deprive us of horses OF
other property, yet the whole South would be
ablaze if some fanatic took one negro. Such
was the public sentiment South at the am,
bloody struggle. But revolutions shake up
mems thoughts and put them in different
channels. / have recently talked with South
ern Shareholders from every State. They are
tired of negro slavery, and believe they could
make more clear money and live more peace
ably without than with it. AS for the non
Shareholders of the South, honestly thought
the struggle was for him more than for his
wealthy neighbor. That to free the negro
would reduce to comparative slavery the
poor white man. I now regret that, instead
of a war to sustain slavery, it had not been
struggle at the ballot box to colonize it. This
will clearly be the next struggle. (,
am of opinion that whether it is divine
institution or not, negro slavery has accom-
plished its mission here. great mission 1t
had. A new and fertile country had been
discovered, and must be made useful. Inc
development. Negro slavery was the instrn-
ment to effect this. 1t alone could open up
the fertile and miasmatic regions of the South
solving the problem of their utility, which no
theorist could have reached 1t was the
magician which suddenly revolutionized the
commerce of the world by the solution OF this
problem. 1t peopled and made opulent the
barren hills of New England, and threw Its
nowerful influence across the great North
west.
Standing as wall between the two sections
It caught and rolled northward the wealth.
and population of the Old World and be'a
in their places the restless adventures oil ne"
ENGLAND. or turned them along the great prai-
ries and valleys of the West. Ihus Nc"
-a-I--l -Aaahad its climax, and the North
west was overgrown OF It's age, wniIe Tne oUuth
with its negro laborers, was sparsely settled
auu cumparauIvefy poor. Thus slavery mac
done its uttermost for New England and the
Northwest, and was weight upon the South.
II, at this point, its disappearance could have
clearly commenced, what untold suffering and
sorrow might have been avoided.
It's existence had become incompatible with
the existence of the Government For, while
it had stood as a wall, damming up the cur
rent and holding back the people and laborers
of the North, it had, by thus producing free
intercourse between the sections, produced a
marked change in their manners, customs and
sentiments. And the two sections were grow
ing more divergent every day. This wall Oh
the Government one must give way. The
shock came which was to settle the question
7 thought that the Government was divided
and negro slavery established forever
erred. The Government was stronger thai
slavery. Reunion is certain, but not NOR
certain than the downfall of slavery.
As I have said, the mission of the latter
ACCOMPLISHED. And as his happiness mus
alvavs be subordinated to that Of the whit
man, he must, err long, depart on the 100
hrinss of the red man, whose mission belnt
accomplished, is fast fading from our midst.
While 1 think the mission of the negro Il
accomplished here l am clearly of the oplnlor
that the time will come when civilization an'
learning shall light up the dark abodes o
four hundred million people in India, an'
when their wants and necessities will put tn
patient and hardy negro to toiling and open
ing up the great valley of the fertile but mi
asmatic Amazon, But such speeulations ar
out of place here.
Let us, fellow citizens, endeavor to be calm
; Let us look these new ideas and our nov
: position squarely in the face. We fought IL
nscro slavery. We have lost. We may ha1
D 10 do without it. The Inconvenience will
great for a while. The loss heavy. Ihl
however. is already well nigh accomplishe'
i yot bebind this dark cloud is a silver lining
i If not for us, at least for our children. In th
{ nlaee of these bondsmen will come an IN
meuse influx of people from all parts of tn
world, bringing with them their wealth, art
and Improvements, and lending their talent
and sinews to increase our aggregate wealth
q Thrift and trade and common destiny wi
E bind us together. Machinery in the hills
e Arkansas will reverberate to the music
: machinery in New England, and the whirr
I Georgia spindles will meet responsive echo
e upon the slopes of the far of Pacific. =,
! Protective tariffs, if needed, will steteh
their influence from the Lakes to the Gu
+ and from ocean to ocean, bearing alike,
It last equally upon Arkansian and Vermonte
il and upon Georgian and California. Ditfe
r ence Of section and sentiment will wear ava
e and forgotten, and the next generation
it more homogeneous and united then any sin
r. the day of the Revolution. And descendan
Of these bloody things will read, with as Is. mu
g pride and as littlejealousy, of these oattl
4 of their fathers, as the English and Scot
g. descendants Of the heroes Of Flodden Fis
,s read of their ancestral scheivementin
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