ned; but if it were to force the blacks into a
social and political equality with the whites, it would most certainly
and forever fail. For the government of these Southern States was, by
our fathers, founded on the VIRTUE and the INTELLIGENCE of the people,
and there we intend it shall stand. The African has neither part nor lot
in the matter.

We cannot suppose, for a moment, that abolitionists would be in the
slightest degree moved by the awful consequences of emancipation.
Poverty, ruin, death, are very small items with these sublime
philanthropists. They scarcely enter into their calculations. The
dangers of a civil war--though the most fearful the world has ever
seen--lie quite beneath the range of their humanity.

Indeed, we should expect our argument from the consequences of
emancipation to be met by a thorough-going abolitionist with the
words,--"Perish the Southern States rather than sacrifice one iota of
our principles!" We ask them not to sacrifice their principles to us;
nor do we intend that they shall sacrifice us to their principles. For
if perish we must, it shall be as a sacrifice to our own principles, and
not to theirs.

NOTE.--It has not fallen within the scope of our
design to consider the effects of emancipation,
and of the consequent destruction of so large an
amount of property, on the condition and
prosperity of the world. Otherwise it might easily
have been shown that every civilized portion of
the globe would feel the shock. This point has
been very happily, though briefly, illustrated by
Governor Hammond, in his "Letters on Slavery."

Nor has it formed any part of our purpose, in the
following section, to discuss the influence of
American slavery on the future destiny and
civilization of Africa. This subject has been ably
discussed by various writers; and especially by an
accomplished divine, the Rev. William N.
Pendleton, in a discourse published in the
"Virginian Colonizationist," for September, 1854.

Sec. VI. _Elevation of the Blacks by Southern slavery._

The abolitionists, with the most singular unanimity, perseveringly
assert that Southern slavery degrades its subjects "into brutes."
This assertion fills us with amazement. If it were possible, we
would suppose, in a judgment of charity, that its authors kne