The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-21

They seem to rise from the eartt. the caterpil-
lar, pursue their course, dcyuurug all vegetation
no matter how green and lovely, in their progress
until they reach some ravno tr watcr-udge, when
they suddenly sink into. they rose from the Garth,
tost ana iorSoton, save "nty IT, bo remembered as
moving mass OF rabd corruption, devUuring all
That was lovely and d,ar To the heart OF man.
nmo unvrgnce is, tn' caterpillar runs its race
sooicf, ana Wo can all see It's termination; but Il
ration takes ages To fulfill it's destiny, and no
sinHlo man Or generation irrs through its whole
course, rise and decay, and thcrcfrr tho similar
Ivy III nature and propru-iirs il not 80 much
Noticed. But i, Is plai that man, however much
he may feel accountable aud Responsible as nm in.
aNldual, loses that Responsibility when no il
merged IN the mass. uatlun, or mass of pco
PIE, VIII DO what u" civilized or moral being would
do III his individual captclty. For the great
crimes committed by llttolis no single or inii
vidual citizen hangs his head with shame under
the wlthGring ex:crati.'hs OF moral ur Christian
world He tee himself to he but single cog in
the great machinery Uf sotrty, and fills his placC.
in tur, ing tho wheel, even thou III it should be
| the wheel of Juggornant crushing and crushing
tho bones of human victims thrown before lt Il w
scores to feed the vorariu,ls NAV or the nations
idol, under the wild and ianatical cry of Naiional
and feel that it is Gods aru that builds up na-
ton, and it is Gods arm alone that can pull down
nation They spring up, wiher' and perish as
that the time is longer with them, and that is al
we know. This great helpless negro race was
| brought among us by those protesting the strict
est Christianity, and after being protected and
elevated i'll the scale of civilization for two hun
dred years, they are now violently turned loose by
minors to be wanderers and vhgrants, and to
| perish, or save themselves by escaping to those
will swamps and forests from ..ce they orr
ginally came, and to sunk down tp the food thew
were doomed to eat as "n,pdt, on tho 9th day Of
creation. One Of the great difficulties hcrctoore
in the civilization of man secuted 80 be tho DIM
| Guilty OF clothing HIM on cucap scale. Civilized
nations had often conquered barbarian nations,
but those who governed them often sunk down to
| the Same level OF the very people iicy had con-
quered, for they were without the means of cloth
ing them on u large scale. naked man is ncces-
sarily savage man; cl'h him, and you tempt
him to trade and desire the comforts of hfe and
| this begets desire for industry, to acquire those
comforts, and that begets desire for prosperity,
and the desire Of prosperity begets desire Tor
law to protect it, and lao is cicaizdti0n In this
point OF view, the cheap cotton produced by the
enlightened regulation of what was called slave
labor, has been a great civiIizer among modern,
nations. 1t was the wo- derni production OF cheap.
| cotton in the Southern States, combined with
the wonde' full machinery of Old and New Eng
land (where slavery exists in another form) that
gave to the world cheap clothes for The poor and
naked, such as was never known before among
civilized men Give them clothing and you raise
life and you raise their comforts, and with their
comforts you raise their virtues. Give man OBJ.
jects around him, dear and worth living for, and
you necessarily make him creature of
society and civilization. Reverse it, and
send him forth naked and hungry, and Won
render him wild, with nothing to live for. In this
comforts OF life become, in fact, the yir-
tues of life Lord Brougham, in one of
his fine fourishes on universal education, once
declared he hoped to see the day when eyerv
man in England would be able to read Bacon.
Cobbett, in his cool unitarian style replied he
hoped to to see S the day when every man in England
ply than sarcasmin this remark. The maxims of
DR.. Franklin, enlarged and systematized by Jere-
my Benthan and his scholars, however short thew
may fall OF embodying high moral truths and the
philosophy Of sentiment, have done much to ad-
vance the condition Of the large masses Of men.
Under the burning of the south, congenial TO,
the negro, guided by the Intelligence of the white
race there has been developed the production of a.
cheap material for clothing the poor of the higher
latitudes, and they, Ill their turn, have been able
| to exchange the production OF their artisan and
mechanic skill and labor for this very cotton for
clothing their children. Thus, with their skill in
| higher latitude, they are enabled to enjoy the
comfor and even luxures of more tropical re-
gion. The exchangeahle values OF tho two Sec
tlons have thus advanced the comforts and cyili-
cation OF both. 1t has been the organized slave
labor of the South that has given a cheap article
FOR clothing the poor and that has sent comfort
and contentment to the iaboring sections of every
country in Christendom. All this has suddenly
been destroyed, aud the old system Of patriarcha
slavery has beon changed, aud the new system
OF modern slavery has been instituted, whereby
the whites and blacks shall b 'th be owned by
capitalists and associated wealth in the shape Of
corporations, through the power Of government
The negroes will make more oton this year
| than they will next, and whether white labor can
be permanently i! troduced to rely on for large
| think extremely doubtful. They may increase the
| crop in the billy and more healthful regions but
THIS Will not be done where u provision crop,
which ID 30 much shorter in its growth and less
tedious, can be raised to any profit There is one
thing clear,-that no cr0po any kind can be per-
manently produced in the Southern States unless
| u free and equal goVerpmentbe extended towarts
them. No men, or set of men, will ever work long
under government without law and without con-
stitutiona protection. Montcsquleu has remarked,
with profound wisdom, that no republic can at.
ford to conquer or keep subjugated another peo-
pie, Tor it Will requi arbitrary power in the
government than what ia compatible with the na-
ture OF the government, and must of necessity
ch .nge it. Whether this is not done already time
alone can prove. II Two million i've hundred
thousand bags of cotton not raised
this year, aud in a situation to be relied
on by the 18th IF October next for the
coming crops, then the thirty, .sxty, and ninety
day foreign bills drawn in the fall vii have to be
met by the shipment of sprcie. The cotton cannot.
De got We are all standing on n great ice bridge,
and, as the heat OF summer Progresses, the
thawlng will progress, aud wo will theu SEQ the
assures and the crack, that have been made by
the commissions through which we huvo passed.
For some great and wise purpose Providence,
suffered the Indians, who POSSESSED these vast
aud fertile fields, to be driven back with great
cruelty, and finally to perish; and now the negro
race seems destined to be forced to give way to n
more vigorous and higher race, aud the black
man is doomed to perish here AZ d his predeces-
sof, the red man. No doubt 1t is AL for some
wise and great purpose in the providence of Him
whose ways are not our ways, aud whose
policy Ii unknown to mort Il man.
havo til" honor to be,
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