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lighting population. The destruction ofthe Southern system of labor goes nan-.in hand with the conquest 3^ the* country,and by no other system can tnosc peculiar staples of the South, which are t^.e !basis of Northern commerce, be c Itivn- ited. The moon-struck'theories of aboli- stion fanatics upon this subject are in on iposition to all the teachings 01’ expi-i tuncu ]from the earliest known history of the• *African race. Unvti and Jamaica are fair specimens of the industrial capacities of the negro when endowed with the gift ot freedom. The negro will not work voiuu I, tari'y ; the white uian, h Souti.; n lleids, cannot. The North is, therefore, destroying itself by the prosecution of this war and the more successful its : as the morecertain i - destruction. It we fall, we shall fall like the strong man in the tom pie, and bury ihe Philistines in a common ruin.— Columbia Carolinian.
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The Weekly Intelligencer

Wilmington, North Carolina, US

Tue, Jun 28, 1864

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