Year: 1859

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a. If the South chooses to make slavery the great.
leading exclusive topic of public discussion, no
doubt it will be done so according to its choice. If


in every convention or public proceeding the
speakers leap first at this mark, and hasten to de-


fine their position where they need take no


position at all slavery WILL Of course, become
the central point Of political action. If Mr..


Rhett is followed by Mr.. Stephens, and Mr.. Ste
phens by gentlemen still less, necessarily required
to discuss wholly of slavery any of these gen
teuen wonder that THE topic orerrides all Others
10 the northern states? The south is no shaping
our political course, as well as it's own political
course. 1t is for the south tc say whether the
next great political trial shall hinge on slavery,
sd 1t is in the power Of public men in thai sec
tion to decide that there shall be sonethinS else
considered in that canvass, IT they choose TO so
direct public attention There Was no necessl7
~ requiring Mr. Stephens to speak two hours up-
on slavery on the occasion of his withdrawn trom
the repres ntatiou of his district He wholly mis-
takes the age I've lives in, and with thousand
more such TO aid him, he cannot cause civilization
to return along its track of thousand years.


We do not want african stock" for the labor q
this continent. and have no need OF slavery as
asuLs.ructure for new free States Tho statesmen
of the revolutionary age we're not mistaken as 70
the right or propriety Of sllvery-on the contrary


Mr.. Rhett and Ms. Stephens are mad man on the
subject A diseased excitement against advancing
civilization moves them to do and TO say what
they now do and say, and certainly as time rolls
Oh, this morbid slavery worship will die out, and
ab. olutey disappear at the end Of a brief period
Of years. i9 r. .aioi. lol s-' -rl 30 oaAastI
etJ ust at this moment we need the public atten-
tion TO of internal policy and to those
points which engaging the earnest attention OF
every civilized State We earnestly appeal to the
south for opportunity to bring thess 10 an lis
sue, and we ask them to join the effort according
to their interest and stake in it. How is it with
the internal condition of the range OF Atlantic
States from Delawareto to Georgia Have they
fair share of prosperity in town and country! If
not there must be q reason for it, There is very
little actual prosperity in those States. as we all
know. Agriculture does not improve, and more land
is,thrown out every year to waste.1 There is no
steam line TO Europe from Norfolk nor from
Charleston. Those States hardly pay their wey
as partners in the confederacy, costing much and
bringing little in 70 the general stock. Every pub
lie man in the Union, in short knows that the in



wrong on some great and essential points, and
though we may get along tolerab!y at the north
under these circums stances, we do so in spite OF
the great difficulties, and not because none arctic
be encountered. We wish to avoid the
vexed questions arising from the puint of
political power simply, and to address our
selves to the care Of national affairs, not
as rivals, bur as joint partners in common
interest alone. and not as the darling idea of the
SOUTH touch upon which Is to insult the loftiest
pride Of southern There is no necessity on
their part to maks incorporate discussion of it !
matter of excessive sensitiveness; and even i'll
many at the north go astray in this respect. there
is no consequent necessity that southern man
should think, speak and write Of nothing else than
slavery. -.' f.i' a+''


Much as the North may justly be held respon-
sible for in this prominence of slavery for ten
years past the south is responsible for much more
They will never have done with it; they cannot
spead the Fourth Of July without talking of it,
and from November till October, on market day
is speaker writer there sober this intoxicat
ing point. What do they suppose the consequence
of this course will be on the rest of the Unon9
Who can talk of tariff or line of foreign policy
WtnouV uaNihR tue "oIus chuSht out Va MS Woulh
BY some W cferous declamer for more:"African
stoek' or for or against slave code in the terri
tories The case is in the hands of the south, we
repeat. Give US something else than this pet in
stitution as the theme Of hope for the future when
you speak or write Slavery is not the corner
stone Of single State composing it. Slavery Is
not 70 be the goal Of future advancement, and
bsrsiste be no happy future in which negroes