Year: 1861

Frederick Law 0lmsted, than whom there
is not closer student Of political and social
economy in the country, and who hes COM
piled many very valuable articles upon those
subjects, has just issued = work entitled rThe
Cotton Kingdom from which we take the
following extracts upon "suIiugation"; ";


Il is said that the South never can be sub
iugated. 1t must be, or we must. Il must
be, or not only is our American Republic
failure, but our English justice and our Eng
lish laws and our English freedom are fail
ures. This Southern reputation Ct obllga-
lions upon the result Of an election is but q
clearer warning than we have had before,
that these cannot be maintained in this land
any longer In such intimate association with
Slavery as we have hitherto tried TO hope
that they might. We know now that we
must give them up, or give up trying 70 ac-
c0mmodase ourselves 10 what the South has
declared, and demonstrated, to be the necess-
tiles of its state Of society. Those necessities
world not be less, but, on the contrary, tar
more imperative, were the South an indepen-
dent people. If the South has reason to de.
clare itself independent of our long-honored
Constitution, and Of our common court Of our
common laws on account OF past want of
inyariable tenderness on the part Of each one
of our people towards its necessities, how
long could we calculate to be able to preserve
ourselves from occurrences which would be
deemed to abrogate the obligations Of a mere
treaty of peace7 A treaty Of peace with the
South as foreign power, would be coward
" armislice, a cruel aggravatiOn and prolon-
cation Of the war.


Subiugation do not choose the word,
but take il, and use it in the only sense which
it can be applicable. This is a Republic, and
the South must come under the yoke Of free
dom, not to work for US. but to work with
us, on equal terms, as a free people. To work
with US, for the security Of state OF society,
the ruling purpose and tendency Of which,
spite of eli It's bendings heretofore, to the nee
essities Of Slavery; spite of the ineongruOus
foreign elements which it has had constantly
to absorb and incorporate; spite Of strong
element of excessive backwoods individual
ism, has, beyond all question, been favorable
to sound and safe progress in knowledge,
civilization, and Christianity.


To this yoke the head Of the South must
now be lifted, or We must bend our necks
10 that Of slavery, oOnsenting and submit
ting, even more than We have been willing
to do heretofore, 10 labor and fight, and
pay for the dire needs Of 3 small portion Of
our people living in an exceptional state Of
society, in which CoWper's poems must not
be read aloud without the precautions
against the listening Of family servants
in which it may be treated as 3 crime
against the public safety to teach one oi
the lsboring classes to write; in which the
names Of Wilberforoe and Buxton are exc
Grated within which the slave trade is
| perpetuated, and at the capital OF whose
rebellion, black sesmen born tree, taken
prisoners, in merchant ships, not in arms
are even already sold into slavery with 81
/ little hesitation as even in Barbary. One
system or the other is to thrive and extend
and eventually possess and govern this
/ whole land.