ALEXANDRIA, July 10, 1860.
. . . I feel little
interest in politics and certainly am glad to see it realized that politicians
can't govern the country. They may agitate, but cannot control. Let who may be
elected, the same old game will be played, and he will go out of office like
Pierce and Buchanan with their former honors sunk and lost. I only wonder that
honorable men should seek the office.
I do not concieve
that any of the parties would materially interfere with the slavery in the
states, and in the territories it is a mere abstraction. There is plenty of
room in the present slave states for all the negroes, but the time has come
when the free states may annoy the slave states by laws of a general
declaration, but that they will change the relation of master and slave I don't
believe.
All the congresses
on earth can't make the negro anything else than what he is; he must be subject
to the white man, or he must amalgamate or be destroyed. Two such races cannot
live in harmony save as master and slave. Mexico shows the result of general
equality and amalgamation, and the Indians give a fair illustration of the fate
of negroes if they are released from the control of the whites. Of course no
one can guess what the wild unbridled passions of men may do, but I don't
believe that the present excitement in politics is anything more than the signs
of the passage of power from the southern politicians to northern and western
politicians.
The negro is made
the hobby, but I know that northern men don't care any more about the rights
and humanities of the negroes than the southerners. At present negroes work
under control of white men and the consequence is the annual yield of
$200,000,000 of cotton, sugar, and other produce that would not be without such
labor; and so long as that is the case, I don't fear a change in this respect.
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