The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-01
COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, Sept. l, 1865:
Letters on Slavery.

ters addressed to Henry Ward Beecher,
in defence of negro slavery, in which
he puts his propositions pertinently
and with force. We have marked GER
tain passages for extract, which the
reader will find elsewhere in our col
umns. We shall probably contine
ourselves to this single specimen.
The further discussion of the subject
may well be considered iule-a gratlli-
tous waste of time, temper, thought
good capital, better employed IN any
other province. Negro slavery is as
legitimate Iii morals this day as it was
fifty or q hundred years ago, when
Old and New England equally made
their profit out Of it. All that VIC
need to say to these parties is that they
are bound by every principle Of NOR
ais to refund us the money which We
paid them for the property which they
now confess to have been stolen. And
thero we may let the matter rest, sat
isfied, at all events, to make the de-
manl without the slightest notion that
their tenderness Of conscience will
prompt them to make honest restitu-
ton Of our money!! BE it so You
may rest assured of this, that so long
as the vanity, the sclf-cstecm and the
cnpiditv Of the factions, improperly
called fanatical, find their capital in
making the subject of negro slavery
their hobby, Just so long Will they
pursue this. interest, regardless of all
right, Ill law, all argument, and the
dicta equally of God and man. They
will pursue the institution to the death
in Brazil and Cuba, until they have
converted everywhere the compara-
lively useful ana moral slave into the
licentious and worthless freedman
They Go not care fer The consequences,
nor regard for one instant, tho peace
of The white man, or the comfort and.
safety Of the negro In his State CT
bondage, the negrr was protected b.
MS very bonds. Occupying nis pro-
per position as an inferior, ha pro-
voked no hostility. Elevated beyond
MS morals and rs Intellect, a2d c12a1-
longing the contest with TIE superior
race, as al equal, he is doomed, Ike
the red ma: ). to perish from before It.
But all tbs has been already said 8
thousand times, and when argument
was permitted without the :ncerven-
ton O. the sword. Why argue now
il defence Of negro slavery, when, II
order to attain the objects Of passion
and faction, the Northern people sec
riGce all the securities of their own
liberty, and deliberately deny, defy,
sat at cought, and fight against, the
very principles upon which the Re
public planted Itself, when it shook
Of the despotic rule Ct England. Can
we hope that they will consider any
peculiar interest Of the South, when,
IN order to punish the South, for dar-
ing to assert its independence, they
blindly surrender their own to the will
of single man, and behold the hourly
subversion of their most cherished So
cial and State maxims. We are not
astonished at any of these things
Has it not been the experience of the
nations for six thousand years ? All
the confcderacics Of the world have
been broken up by what is briefly call
ed ':Centralism, or Capitalization, "
which is simply the concentration Of
the Whole power Of the confederacy in
few hands, in certain tribes or States,
in the blended efforts of certain pow
crful States, against the fecbler; and
especially in the aggressive nature OF
commercial communities operating
against the agricultural and the re-
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