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WY DAVID BATES.
Tb?* ii ?u angel ever near, ? - ?.
Wbei toil nml trouble vex and try,
TbaLhVJs our fniuting hearts take cheer.
Ana whispers.to ue?"By ami by."
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Veltw it at our mother's knee,
With tender smile and love-lit eye,
She grants some boon oir childish plea,
In ibese sweet accents?1"By and by."
What visions crowd the youthful breast?
What holy aspirations high
.K%rve the young heart to do its best,
And wait the promise?"By and by !"
The maiden, silting sud and loue?
Her thoughts lmlf utter with a sigh,
Ni.n.. .1- -i ?- ? -
<?? ?"V( TIKI BUt Un U,
Anddream* bright dreams of ? By and by.
The pale roung wife dues up lier tears,
And stilln her restless infant's cry,
Toeatch the coming step, but hears,
How sadly whispered!?"i'y and by.w
And manhood, with his strength and will,
To breast life's ills aud fate defy,
Though fame and fortune be his, still
Has plans that lie in ? By and by.
The destitute, whose rcuuty fare
?' The weary task can scarce supply,
Cheats the grim visage of Despsir.
With Hope's fair promise?By and hy.
me millions wliom oppression wrongs
,, Send up to ltetven ibcir wailing cry,
Atid, writhing in The tyrant's thuug*,
Still lipjKi for freedom^- By and by.
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Thus ever on life's rugged way,
'Ill's angel, bending from thesky,
Beguile* our sorrows, day by uay,
With her sweet whisperings?'By and by.*
a Iflrrt Itarij.
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^**77. /. Ft?w the Uo*n?youraab J i
of EocafrooUg.
nv DKKftOH 3. I.OS8INO.
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Uv*i.n? the lovely Indinn aummer tjme,
ia.th* autumn of 1008, I bare was a marriage
on the bank* of the Powhattnn, where
the KngHsh had laid the corner-stone of the
great fatoieof Anglo-Saxon Empire in the
i*eur Wesid. It wasioelebrated in the sec
end church which the Engjish se.tt'ers hod
erected tbere. Like their first, which Uro
had devoured the previous winter, it wa? a
Md* structure, whoeeroof rested upon rough
frftfa eolumn*, fresh from the virgin forest,
MM whose adorning* wore little indebted to
the hand of art. The officiating piiest was
"good Master llunter,'4 who Tuul lost all
hi*<taek? by .the 0011 fingr alion. History.,
poetry, and mm, have kept a dutiful silence
respecting that frtt English marringe % AJBtqrws,
because John Laydon and .Anna
D???? n?w common popple, the biidegroom
wee ft carpenter, among the first adveolwvere
who ascended the Howhatan, then
named James in honor of a had kino; and
the bride w*e w*Hinrwaid to"MSste?ss For8?
A the Jamestown settlement.
cr. marriage at Old Jamestown, in honor of
ona Mix****
Th?W<r <*>?>. was
* Jdhn"*??: honest gcn^^pir\Uv,*ncl of
h lit til OdiNwwAfrO-iy.. l* ftwM( ^.fijpt.\Mft
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GIIEENYILII
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p^Pr^rv-v^?r^rfpn^^
nndcr \\ hitakcr, a noble apostle of Christi- ?
auity, who went to Viigiiua for the cure of J
souls. Sir Thomas Dale, then Governor of I
the colony, thus briefly tells his masters of i
the Company iu London, the story of Pocn- ?
honlas : "Pbwhntan's daughter I mused to *
be carefully instructed in the Christian rem
gion, who, after sbo had made a good prog- c
ress threin, renounced publicly her country's f
idolatry, openly confessed her Christian faith, I
whs, as she desired, baptized, and is since li
married to an English genjlctnan of goad <
understanding (as by his letter unto me, C
containing the reason of his marriage of iior, I:
you may peiceire,) another knot to bind a
this peace the stronger. Her father and M
friend* gave approbation to it, and her un- c
cle gavh her to hint in the church. She J
lives civilly and lovingly with hiin, and, I g
trust, will increase in goodness, as the know- li
ledgoof God increased in her. Sho will go to .ll
England , with me, and, were it but the gain e
ing *f this one soul, 1 will think iny time,
toil, and pi went *ta v, well snout." k
^ So discounted Sir Thomas Dale. Curios- p
ity would know more of the Princes* mid lior li
marriage and curiosity may here be grntifi- h
ed to tue extent of the revolutions of recor- ?
ded hutory. I
The finger of n special Providence, point- a
ing down the vista of ages, is seen in the r<
character mid acts of Pocahontas. She I
was the daughter of it |wgmr liiny \?1.a.W1 . s
never heard of Josus of NaxarctTi, )'et her h
heart was overflowing with the cardinal vir- a
Lues of a Christian life. ci
"She was a landscape of mild earth,
Where all was harmony, nnd calm quiet, c'
Luxuriant budding."?Byron.
When Captain Smith, the boldest nnd the *
beet of the early adventurers in Virginia, ^
penetrated the dense forest, ho wr.? made a
prisoner, was conducted in triumph from vil- j j
lage to village, until lie stood in the presence |'
of Powhatau, the fupremc ruler, aud was J
condemned to die!
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Upon the barren snnxl I y
A single captive stood ; 1 r.
Around him came, with bow and brniid, i j.
The red men of the wood. j v
Like him of old his doom he hears, J j;
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ivock-douiiu on ocean's run :
The chieftain'* daughter knelt in tears, L
And breathed a prayer for him. ^
Above his head in air ^
The savage war-club swung:
The frantic girl, in wild despair,
Her arms around him flung.
Then shook the warriors of the shade,
Like leaves on aspen-limb?
Subdued by that heroic maid I
Who breathed a prayer for hiin.
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"Unbind him !" grasped the chief? I tl
He kissed .away her. terns of grief, "I
And set the captive free. j u
'Tie ever thus, when in life's storm, 'J
Hope's Star to man grows dim, j1.
An angels kneels in woman's form, .ai
And breathes a prayer for him. cl
Glorge I*. Morris. m
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How could that stern old king deny g
The angel pleading in her eye? w
How mock the sweet, imploring grace n
That breathed in brenuty from her face, a
And to her kneeling action gave ti
A power to soothe and still subdbe, h
Until, though humble aa a slave, c
To more than queenly sway she grew, h
William G. Simms. i
The Emperor yielded to the maid, and
the captive was set free.
Two years after that, event, Pocahontas "
again became an angel pf deliverance. She
hastened to Jamestown during a dark and V
stormy night, informed the English of a conspiracy
to Exterminate them, and was back
to her couclibefore^awn. Smith was grate- ^
ful, and the whole English colony regarded j
her ae their deliverer: But grniiiude is of .
ten a plant of feeble root, and the canker of '
selfishness will destroy it altogether. Smith ^
went to England; the morals of the colonist* ,
became depraved ; and Argall, a rough, half- j
piratical navigator, unmindful of her char- *j
acter, bribed a savage, by the promise of a a1
copper kettle, to betray Pocahontas into his T
hands, to be kept as a hostage while coin- "
pelliiig iS>wV*U? to make recti tutien for "
Injuries inflicted. The Emperor loved his '
daughter tenderly, agreed to the terms of
ransom gladly, and promised unbroken 11
e_l t. ii _ iv- - l ri
rieiiuvmp lur mi iingiu>n.
Pocahontas whs uow free to return to ber ] "
forest h<Vme. But other l?onde, more holy r
than those of Argntl, detainod her. White
iu the custody of the rude buccauecrT a inu- *
tual attachment hod budded and blossomed 8
between heir mid John Rolf, and the fruit wan 11
a happy marMajre?"another knot to bind 1
the peace" with Powhatan much stronger.
April, 10 the Virginia peninsula, whore (j
thb English settlers flrst built a city, is one w
? the loveliest months in the year. Then i
winter has pnjhlen a final adieu to the ?
middle, region* of America ; the trees are I
robed jn gay and fragaut blossoms ; the rob- I
inj the) blue bird, and the oriole, are iust gir- <
$<%. w ??; rre'uj<* ""? 1
m$r QQJicerjs in thp woods, and wild flowers i
are iW^iing mvr.lv in every hedge, aqd I
opon the green banks of every stream. "
fvbemttoff and Pocahontas**^ at the mm- <
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K, S. ft: THURSDAY
iage altar in the now and pretty durx'j M
fameatown, where, hot long before, the biido
lad received Cliriatmn baptism, and was
tamed the Lady Kebecca. The auti had
nnrcbed half way up tpvrard the meridian,
t hen a goodly company had assembled l?otenth
the temple roof. The pleasant odor
i the "pewa of cedar" commingled with the
rag ranee of tfio wild flowers wliich decked
he festoons of evergreens and sprays that i
mug over tlio "fiiir^ broad windows," and
lie conunandim-rit tables above the chancel.
)vcr'lbe pulpit of black-walnut bung garltjds
of white flowers, with-the waxen leaves
nj scarlet beniea of holly. The coinmuion
tablo was covcrod with fair white linn,
and hore bread from the wheat liclda of
nincstown, and wine from its luscious
Tapes. The font, "hewn liollow between,
ko a canoe," sparkled with water, as on
lis morning when the gentle princess utterd
her baptismal vows.
C>f all that Company" assembled in llio
roan spaco between the chancel and tin:
??s, the briJe and gioom wcf? th? ceh- I
?1 figures iti fact aiul significance. 'l*??ea- '
<?ntus was dressed in ft simple funic of
bite muslin, from tint loom* of l>acc?.?
ler arms were bare even to the shoulder*;
nd, hanging loeaely toward# her feet. whs h
obo of rich stutV. prrwerited by Sir Thomas
Jalc, and fancifully embroidered by bet-self
ndluir xiiauJeii-. A ?? >?.- ftpcirclfiti
er head, and held the plumage of binUaiui
veil of gauze, while her limbs were adornJ
with the simple jewelry of the native I
orkshops. liolf was alined iu the gay [
iothiug of an English cavalier of that j??-i i !
d, and U]k>ii his thigh he wore the short I
word of a gentleman of distinction in soci- |
ty. Ilo was the personification of manly !
eauty in form and cn/tingc ; she of woman- j
; modesty and lovely simplicity ; nutl as I
[) ,*y eainu and stood before the man of j
lod, history dipped her pen in the indes- j
tillable fountain of truth, and recorded a ;
M phecy of mighty empires in the New
Vorld. U|m>ii the chancel steps, where no
tiling interfered, the good Whitaker stood
i his sacerdotal robes, and, with impressive
ukv- pronounced the marriage ritual of the
turgy of thr Anglican Church, then first
Innu-d on the Western continent. On his
ight, iu a richly carved chair of state,
ronght from England, sat the Governor,
itlt liis ever attendant halbertifrrOvithlwa
rti hemlets, at his b:u-k.
Thcro wcro yet but few women in the
olotiv, and these, soon after this memorable
rent returned to native England. The
ninety young woman, puro and uuccrrup:d,"
whom the wise Sandys caused to be j
?nt to Virginia, as wives tor the planters, j
id not arrive until seven years lutcr. All 1
len at Jamestown were at the marriage.? j
lie letters of the time have transmitted to
* the names of some of them. Mistress
ohn Itolf, with her child, (doubtless of the
.?nily of the bride{ vom ;) Mistress Easton
nd child, and Mi' .ress Morion and grandbild,
with her mnid-servaut, Elizabetti Par?ns,
wbo on a Christmas eve before, bad :
inrrieil Them as Powelit wero yet in Vir- \
iuia. Among the noted men then present, |
as Sir Thomas (into#, n bravo soldier ill '
i.iny Willi, and as brave an adventurer i
niong the Atlantic perils of any who ever 1
rusttal to the ribs ot the ships of Old Eng
md. And Master Sparkos, who had bvon
^-ambassador with ltolfto the count of Powat
an, stood neat1 Bic*>ld inlilinr, wiibj:oao0.
lenry Spilman at his side. " l IlcTe,' foo,
as the young George Percy, brother of
io powerful Duke of Northumberland,
hose conduct was always as noble as his
lood; and near him, an enrnest spectator
F the scene, was the elder brother of Pocaontasj
butnot tho destined successor to
re tli rotio of his father. There, too, was a
outiger brother of the biide, and m*Jy
out lis and maidens from the forest shades;
ut one noble figure?the pride of the Powatau
confederacy?the father of the bride
its absent, lie bad consented to the mar
age with willing voice, bt?i wo?M not trust
iinself within the power of the English at
aiiiestown. lie remained 111 nta habitation ,
t Weroworomooo, while the Kos* und ToUM
were being wedded, but cheerfully com- j
rissioned his brother, Opachisoo, to give ]
way his daughter. That priuc* performed !
is duty wtM, ami then, iu careless gravity,,
e sftt and listened to tlie voice of tho Aposie,
and the sweet chanting of the Httle cho
Islei*. The tnueic censed, the benediction
>11, tho solemn * Aided" echoed from the
udo vaulted roof, and the joyous company
pft the chapel for the festal hall of the Govt.
Tbtts "the peace" was made stronger,
nd the Rons ' of England lay undisturbed
ipon the Hatcur* of the Powhauns, while
he father of Pocahontas lived.
Months glided away. Tho brido and
rroom "lived civilly and lovingly, together,"
intjl Sir Thomas bale departed to England,
n 1616, when they with many settlers, noompanied
him. ., Tomoeouio, one of the
hrewdest of Powhatan's councillors, wont
dao, that lie might report all the wondew
>f England to his master. The Lady Reacc'a
received great attention from the ooert
unl all belnw it.* *sjhe accustomedherself
Lo civility, and carried herself as daughter of
s king." !>? King* the Lord Bishop of
London, euteHmned eer "with fc timl'ttate
and pempsT V*J*nd: itfmt hd bad -atf *ife?
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' MORNING, .UXt'AI
U) other ladies ; and nt court tdio wa? received
with ilio conrlesy duo to bcr rank as a
princess. lint tfio silly t>igot on the throne
was highly Incensed, tMk'xwe one of his
tvhjcctx had dared to marry a lady of royal
Ifbod, and, in the midst of hi* dreams of prerogatives,
ho absurdly apprehended tliat
Uolf might lay claim "to the crown of Virginia
!" Afraid of the royttl displeasure.
Captain Smith, who was then in England,
would not allow her to call him father, as
alto dcriicd to do. She could not comprehend
the cause ; a;ul her tendct, simple
heart was sorely grieVed l?v what seemed to
lie his want of affection fi?r her. She rej
tnained in England wbonf a year; and, when
ready to embark for America with her husband.
alto sickened, and died, at Oraxewcnd,
in the flowery month of June, 1017, when
not quite twenty-two Years of age. She
left one son, Thomas ltolf, who afterwards
became quite a distinguished man in Virginia
He had hut one child, a daughter.
From her, some of the leading families in
Virginia trace their lineage. ^Vmong these
nra the Boilings, Murrays Guvs, Khlridges,
and Randolphs. But iVienhontas needed
tlil rULgtmitr In noer^l.iuta l?"- 1 -*
? i' j*v.? I'uiMtuw aiv4 usual' u
imperishable preserved in the amber of history.
f' - JL. lii-"!11 ~n . ii'n jmjjuiew?
J#batj) JUoiiiiig.
1 j] fffTn c I of f r q ij c I-.
l'KAxru the natural act of a dependent
being. It is the voice of nature shaking to
(jod. ^e observe something like prayer
ev?-n in inarticulate nature in "The whole
creation groanelh and travnilcth in pain."?
'Hie em tii, onlivartJ, and lacerated hy earthquakes
and volcanoes, seem as if struggling
to give utterance to aom i mighty sense of
woe. The deep, ulway* re#llest and moaning,
seems h? if a vaugo sentiment of terror
was p;issiug over its breast. The cries of
animals, the bleating of sheep, the lowing of
flocks ami herds, may easily be interpreted
as the dim conciotiMicas of want and weakness,
seeking expression.
Mut it is in the breast of humility that
this divino instinct becomes audible. Man
nloue knows bow helpless he is, ami is capable
of turning consciously to a higher Power.
Ilis life from infancy to age teaches but
one lesson?that of ignorance, of weakness,
and of dependence upon God. The wisest
4,-cla that he is ignorant, and that he needs a
liviun illuminntiiiii II > ImiMlt tiirtli vvilli
the dying Goethe, "Light, Lord, more light."
The strongest feels that ho is weak. Ilis
pulse bents faintly, lie feels-that his existence
is a detached fragment, a frail and fragile
thing, and that he needs to join himself
to the center of all life. II j is miserable,
and he would como to the Fountain of Happiness.
lie is guilty, and he would go
whero M?rcy can be fotiud.
The natural expression of his painful con
sciousitcs* is to pray, l'rayer is the voice of
man crying to God out of the abyss of misery
and giult into which he is plunged.?
Left to hunself; he is like a traveller lo>t in
one of the awful gorges cf the Hiintnalehs.
From the mountain's base ho looks aloft to
the strip of blue sky which is alone visitblo
through the parted summits, and cries to
Him who is enthroned above the hills to
bring him m> frum-tU y*ni' qMe?I?i. Oppressor
with such uueerLainty und fear,
there is hardly n man who does not at all
times give utterance to a bitter sense of his
weakness, and cry to Ood to help him.
It is then natural for man to pray. lVidc
may stifle the expression of distress. Shame
may bury its head in its bosom to hide its
secret woe. lint the soul, feeling the breath
of hearen upon it, longs to o|>eu itself to
God h* flower* open themselves to tlio sun.
There is not a warm, gushing emotion of
our nature which does not naturally breathe
out in prayer. The heart demands nn object
to love, and God is presented to its affection
as the best friend and confidant. Innocence
draws toward** God as her natural
protector; and gratitude chants to the Deity
an eternal hymn.
Sqtl) of jt)e IU # 1 ?i i 3 flqOiTub
path of the sun is a radiant path.?
It is not only glorions. That exprosses but
half the truth. It is glorious because it is
radiant. The sun is not like the moon?a
mtra mfteetor, trhuerintr with borrowed
light. God low given it light in itself; and
therefore it shine*, end cannot but shine.?
If the mountain* could be lifted up until
they should enclose it like a wall, and the
clouds, ascending from the mountains, should
concentrate their maasoa, and overarch it,
lifce.a roof, it would shine still. Nay, uimlc
the more intense by the confinement, it
would turn the mountains into diamonds,
and the Clouds into crystals, and flash
through them eK, and All the Work) with
new splendor*.
(So with the path of the just, llis glorj
is from within.^ It is a radiation. Put him
where y?U will, he shines, mid cannot bui
shinC. God made him to shine, for?esUnc?
?imprison Joseph, and ho wilt shine out on
all Egypt,cloudless as tbo sky wbore the rain
ISf / Vr:%? jylll Ij) P.T jft tlj
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never fall#. Imprison Daniel, and the daz<
zled lions will retire to their inirv, and the
King comes fo'rth to worship at his rising,
ami all Habyfon bless the beauty of the
brighter and better daj\ Imprison Peter,
and, with an ntigel for a harbinger star, ho
will swell his aurora from the fountains of
\ Jordan to the well of Deershcbn, and break
like the morning over mountain atid sen.
Imprison Pual?and there will be high
ni?on over the Rasmn. Empire. Imprison
John?<*nnd the isles of the ./Kgcan and all
the coast around, will kindle with sunset visions,
too gorgeous to be described, but nevIci
to be forgotten?a boundless panorama of
prophecy, gliding from-sky to sky and en'
ehimling the nations with openings of Henv
en, transit of saints and angels, and the ul- <
liimtle glory, of the city ruul Kingdom of
(?od. Not only so : tor modern times have
similar examples : examples in the Church,
II and example* in the State. For instance,
bury Luther in the depths of Black Forest?
and "the angel that dwell iti the bush" will
' honor liini there: lite trees around him will i
: turn like shrifts of ruby, and his glowing orbs i
htf?ni up ngain, round and clear as the light j
of all Europe. Thrust Bunyan into the
gloom of Bedford jail?-and at Ite leans his
head on his hands, the murky horizon of
lhjj>;t<U flunto with fiery symbols?"delectable
mountains" nn<l cslesiial mansions,
with holy pilgrims grouped on the golden
hills, and bauds of bliss, from the gates of
jtea'ri, hastening to welcome Uicni home. I
[F. II. Stockton. j
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I ^olitirnl.
From the New Orleans Delta.
I be Soqlheirn StjsUh) of
l*bot. ;
Otr all the disgusting, mawkish things
that meet us occasionally in politics and politicians,
nothing is more nuascating than the
j apologetic, deprecatory tones of the palter|
ing and siuistious class of defenders with
j which the Southern people have been afflic,
tod. They are those who conceive that black
slavery is nnNcvil?that it is wrong economically,
politically and morally?but that owing
to imperious circumstances, it should be
tolerated tor a lime. Unfortunately, Mr.
Clay, who with nil his acknowledged statesmanship,
rather skimmed over the surface of |
groat questions limn dived to the bottom,
was misled into this weak and namby-pam- j
by view of the subject ; and his defence of
the South was scarcely less dangerous than
Seward's open and formed attacks.
We are glad to see every day indications
that the Southern people are determined to
discountenance this whining tone and supplicating
cant in their behalf, by weak or
treacherous advocates who take the South be
' fore a Northern tribunal for trial, and open
[ the pleading with a confession of guilt. We !
trust the political days of such are numbered,
and that they will bo pushed into harmless
obscurity which they merit. John C.
Calhoun well know the dangerous tendency |
of this species of left handed vindication, j
and it is mainly duu to his philosophic mind |
and masterly statesmanship that black slav-1
cry at the S^outb lias been placed on the sol-1
id basis, moral, political and economical,!
wTiieli it now occupies. By tlie Vawa of j
i mental nihility, bis thought has attracted the
best thought of the country, and of all par-.
| ties, until philosophy, statesmanship, as well j
| as enliglifeued plnlanlbrophy, are all compelled
to proclaim that the black slavery of the
South is right in principle and expedient in
policy. Upon this basis the question must
| l>e kept, or yielded altogether.
! Northern and English philanthropists and
I fanatics who are so eager to reform the South,
, act ii|K>n the assumption that the negro is a |
black white man, and qnaliiied to live in .
perfect social and political equality with the
white or Caucassiau races?a fallacy that
we may . expect to be established when
the leopard changes his spots, and the sooty
Etheopian is washed white in the fountains
of the Nile. Meantime the moral justification
of the South lies in facts against which fana.
1 k..i. ? ti? ?
; iivi?iu .iiiu uiiii i%* w uuu 1 it-^, All ry uio
j those, to wit, thiil the nogro is interior to the
, white man by nature nij't by destiny ; that, lie
' never can be hU equal until the law efflod are
abrogated ; and that wherever and whenever
i the two come in juxtaposition, dominion on
, one aide and servitude on tho other?are the
, legitimate relations between them.
As a polilicid institution, we find black
slavery a blessing in the fact, that it prevents
tho enslavement of any class of the whites,
and obviates an evil which has been the
fruitful source of nearly all the agrarian
movements and sanguinary revolutions
which have reiit and convulsed society?thai
j of wnut and Cimine in tho poor class. In
free society, or where there is no slave pepu,
lation, a content is always wnging between
capital and labor?betweon tho rich and
poor classes?the tendency of which is to
make the rich riehor and the poor poorer,
until extremity drives the latter to satiate at
once their vengeance and their want by
slaughter and repine. Free society, no mat
tcr under what form of government, has not
been able to find a remedy for this evil, and
Its continually recurring catastrophe. The
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gnatu spcctrM of famloo is ever haunting, the
nominally fried aociety of Western Europe,
and there it not ohe of its thrones that
is able to rtmid before the mail cry for
bread. But under tl?o system of well regulated
black slavery there can be no scanty,
no faminn and consequently no wild cry
for bread, agrarian outbreak* and carnage.
In an economical view, black slavery is a
blessing?imleeJ, an institution indispensable
to Uie agriculture of tho South at least.
In the free State*, men are inclined to shun
agriculture, the simplest but the rudest, most
repulsive and least remunerated of all labors,
r.ftd crowd into the professions, trades, arts
<fce., ut the expense of the productive resources
of the country. The effect is. a coustant
tendency to a decline in agriculture,
the demoralization of tho laboring classes,
an increase in the price of food, scarcity, and
possible famine.
The tendency to neirlect aci iculttire would
be much greater in southern and tropical
count tie", where tho whiles cannot enduto
field labor, and the blacks will not work
without a master. The present condition of
Jamaica and Ilayti are illustrations. Mexico
is fast verging to the same condition, atnl
all serve to convince us that on the cessation
of slave labor directed by intelligence, the
most productive countries in the world will
begin to assume their wild fauna and flora,
and to lapse into savagery. Black slavery
secures tho South from such a doom, while
it guarantees her against poverty and famine,
nnd the social and political evils which they
engender. It is only that which can yet
restore Jamaica and ilayti, and yet save Cuba
from desolation ; and it is that also, and
un accession of new white blood which
are necessary to regenerate Mexico give her
political stability and do justice to her natural
resources. History, geography, political
economy, abound in evidence to vindicate
the black slavery of the South. She wants
no apologists?she ouly challenges injury.
SehioclrgclJ.
The New York Express is discussing the
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v ...vn.iuijj \ji iin; ttrurc? hi (lie ncad hi lilts
article, ami says :
There has never been a word in the English
language more perverted from its true
meaning than the word Democracy. It ia
derived from two Greek words u Demos,"
a people, and "Kratos," power?and signifies
"the power, or government by the
'l?eople." Of course, then, a "Democratic
government is one where the people rule
themselves. Now in this broad sense we
sre all "Democrats," and it is absurd to
ttyle any particular party the "Democratic,"
because all parties iu the United States recognize
this as their primary principle. Who
irotim People of any country! Common
tense at once answers, the natives oftuat
country 1 Would it not bo absurd, were
it asked "What are the people of Ireland
jailed ?" to reply, "American," or 4 English."
If then, the people of Ireland are the natives
>f its soil, so we say that tiik People <A
America are the natives of thy country ; they
tre American*, and not French, etc. Now
tpply this tost to the so called "Democratic"
|>a ty. Will any sane man pretend that the
?ell'styled "Democratic party" ?* a party
:omposed of Tiid people of the United States!
Is it not notorious that that party has mainlined
itself by the fact that it is largely
join posed of toreiguers 1 The People, then,
>f the United States do not rule themselves..
jut ure controlled by the natives of other counties,
\vlu> have come to litis country to retide.
We repeat, that it is a gross misnoner
to call tiic party of oflice holder*, uiauv
>f whom the Priests direct, the Democratic
iarty. The truth is, it a party of politicians
who euro chiefly, for the spoils of otlice, harng
held and hunted oftlec so long thoy Jo
not care to bo outed Yttul will support any
party which seems to promise the host pay.
Having had coutrol <<f the country, through
ihe aid of foreign prel itos and votes, for the
major pari 01 tins ia?l thirty years, lliey have
deemed themselves invulnerable, and have
resisted all attempts at reform. But now
they begin to quake at the prospects of ih?
campaign of lb50. Wo should not wonde*
now thai they find that political Priests are
poor sticks to lean on, that they will leave
them in the lurch, and fur iht mkcol rttairing
will h?rome loud-mouthcJ America
us. Can a party of men, political tricksters,
holding office through foreign votes,
bo in any souse a Democratic party ? We
maintain they cannot.
True Democracy is when a poople of a
country, tho native* of its soil, rule lh?taseives,
either directly or through their tcproseniativcs.
But, with some noble exceptions,
the so called Democratic officeholders
represent chiefly the foreign vote, for which
they baagesnud, and which elected tliein to
their nlnces. But the American people intend,
liencefoi th. ts be represented by men
vho wifl not truekle to Foreign Prolate* or
consult Uiem in any political mailers.
A man must possess fire in himself
before ho can kindle up the electricity
that thrills tho great popular heart.
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& Ostt angry word sometimes raises a
storm that time itself cannot allay.*