Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-07-15

these not worth preserving? In eighty
years we have matched the greatness that
| Rome and England were centuries in at
tanning. What may be done in the next
eighty?
L heard sagacious statesman say,
| about three years ago, that in twenty
years from that time, if we kept together.
we would drive England from al the
markets of the world as first class ira
der. They were words Of cheer, but
there was the inevitable IT, In what
markets we should rival England, or even
the petticst kingdom of the earth, after
dissolution of the Union, tllat statesman
and no other has ventured TO predict
See what prosperity would come to us
OF the North in the process Of the grand
rivalry predicted by that statesman
Manufactures and navigation have built
up the greatness of England, and they
would do the same for us rs a nation. and
and for our section of the nation Manu-
featuring has already made us great In
no one respect are the rise and progress of
our country SO remarkable as i'll It's manu-
tacturcS. The narrow minded English
statesman, who would not have Us manu-
tacturc even a q hob nail" could he be
carried alive through the factories of
Philadelphia, Pittsbure or Lowell, would.
to be consistent with himself. curse the
false gods who had inspired his unreason-
able wish, and hasten to die again We
shaH necer need to depend agun on aay for
e7Gi' nation for q taJ17c tst cctt Je made o +
cotton, IRON or ,cood Thus far, at least.
we have come. And what cities, and
towns, and railroads, and canals have we
built up III our progress How much
personal wealth and social happiness have
we created-what additions to our popu-
latIon-what accrctions in the value Of
our farms and minerals-what industry
have we stimulated and rcwardcd-what
commerce have we Won, Think of these
things, fellow w-cOuntrymen-con them over
one by onc-disscct and analyze each fact
trace It's connections and consequences
and then, when you combine them all in
one glowing picture Of national prosperity.
remember that COTTON, tie product Of
stare hb0r, has been one of the indispen-
sable elements Of all our future prosperity.
say it must be. The world cannot and
VIII not live without cotton. There is not
a matron in all the Union that can clothe
her family or herself without it. Nor
can England do without our cotton. Her
mills and ours would rot, and her opera
tlves and ours would starve, if the negroes
did not raise cotton. Manumit them and
they will never raise another crop. They
need the authority Of q master and the
eye Of an oversee" to compel and direct
them to the duties to the cotton plant
which must be rendered at the right sea-
son precisely, or the crop is lost.
And thus it happens, that the Provi-
dencc Of that Good Being who has watch
ed over us from the beginning, and saved
us from external foes, has SO ordered our
internal relations as TO make negro slavery
an incalculable blessing to Us and to the
people of Great Britain. l say to us ; for
do not enter into the question whether
the institution be an evil to the people of
the Southern States. That is their con-
cern, not ours. We have nothing TO do
with 1t. And to obtrude our opinions
upon the people of sovereign States con-
ce1nlng their domestic institutions. would
be sheer impertincnce. But do YOU not
see and feel how good it was for us to
hand over our slaves to our friends OF the
South-how good it was for Us that they
have employed them in raising staple
for our manutacturers-how wise IT was
to so adjust the compromises of the Con-
stitutlon that we could live in union with
them and reap the signal advantages to
which | have adverted? We consico
them to no heathen thrall, but to Chris
tlan men, protesting the same faith with
us-speaking the same language-readinq
the golden rule, in one-sidcd and distorted
shape, but as it is recorded, a rule to
slaves as well as masters.
This allusion to the golden rule reminds
me Of an objection which will be urred
TO much that have advanced Ii will
be said that slavery is sin against God.
and, therefore, that all reasons drawn
from our material interest, for f;.vorinr
or abetting it must go for nothing.
If 1t be q sin, | agree there is an end to
my argument, but what right has the
Abolitionist to pronounce it sin? say
Abolitionist, because the pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church of BROOKLYN.
IN a sermon preached within a week. de-
fined an Abolitionist 10 be one who holds
that slavery is sin. | accept the defini-
ton, and according to it many Of our best
Christian people must be accounted Abo-
for it is astonishing how cx-
tenslvely the religious mind of the North
has admitted into itself the suspicion, not
to say conviction, that slaveholding is a