The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1864-01-13
Under Which King

Several publications have lately appeared in
the western United States defending the insti
tuition ofs,avery upon grounds Of scripture and
reason. The Yankees in general viii say thar
the time for such discussions has passed We
agree With them in this. Whether slavery Is
lawful or unlawful is nor the question now.
Whether scripture and reason are for it 81
against it is matter of entire indifference to in
fdels and madnens. The great practical issue
is, who shall be the masters? The man who is
absurd enough to believe chat the yankees in
tend the permanent emancipation of the negro
is ft for straight jacket It suits their pur-
poses at present to deceive the world with the
pretence Of pAiIanthropic mission, and, fore
ing the stolen blacks into the ranks Of the army,
to mock them with the name Of freemen. Bat,
the su5iggation Of the south once accomplished,
We should hear no more Of abolition. The
slaves would BE taken from their present mas
ters, it is true; not one Southern proprietor,
great or small, would be permitted to own a sin
gle ''chattel," animate or inanimate; not ne
gro would be left him any more than any other
description of property; but property of no kind
would be abolished. It is not in the nature of
the aboiitionist, or any other thief to abolish
property. 1t is only a transfer to their own pos
session Of the goods, lands, tenements, and ne
gr0es OF their southern brethren that they
design and fully intend to accomplish They
have not gone TO all the expense and hard knocks
Of this war for the qualification Of any moon
shine philanthropy. They mean to reimburse
themselves for all their outlay 70 the IastIarth-
ing. Any one who doubts that proposition may
doubt that there are any such beings as yam
KEGS.
Who knows better than the yankees that
the abolition Of slavery in the southern States
would destroy forever the cultivation of the
great Southern staples, and with it all the com
merce and wealth Of this glorious Union? 1t
needs no books on slavery to convice them Of
It's lawfulness or Divine sanction They care
not whether it Is lawful, or has the Divine sane
ton or any ether sanction. They simply I'M
derstand that it pays, and anything that pays is
their highest law and the only god that they
worship. The ruinous results Of every attempt
ever made under the sun to cultivate earth, es-
pecially in hot countries, by free negro labor,
is as familiar to their minds as it's to ours. They
have no more idea of permitting the south to
become Jamaica orSt. Domingo than we have.
They will simply take the administration of the
labor into their own humane and mercfuI hands.
Ofall the miserable victims ola Yankee con
quest Of the south none will be as miserable as
the slaves. Of all the woes their race has ever
suffered none will equal the horrors which will
be piled mountain high upon their heads should
they, ever exchange southern for yankee mas
tiers. We have only to look at the cruelty Of
their snip captainsto free white sailors, and at
the marble hardness Of heart which they have
displayed in this war, to form faint idea of the
hell upon earth which awaits the negroes Of the
south should the yankees once get them into
their greedy and romorseIess hands.
[Richmond Dispatch