The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-05-02
1or por,so,,s .,tra.cav DAILY Advertiser.

FROM pouIsoN's AMERICAN DAILY ApVERrtssR.
On The increase of Shares in ths present Century,
ifhs Missouri Question should be Jtnally de'
iern,in I'd an farour offksir admission hsre.
will endeavour TO take a--w view OF THIS SUB
iect, not heretofore taken, believe by any o'her
writer. so far as have seen that so the increas-
ing horrors of the inhuman traffic IN th'. sonis
and bodies of our fellow men, may appear III
their really tremendous forms, TO the view oil
mankind.
II appears by Melshis Travellers Guide. that
ali the Slave Countries in the United states, east
of the Mississippi, including with il all that part
Of the ne W State of Louisiana, when Is situated
west Of the Mississippi, contain IN the whole, a.
bout 445, 900 square miles OF Territory. Ana u
appears by the different Census's, that not more
than 3 or 10 slaves on each square mile, are rec
ousite to do all tAs Agricultural ahonr, either OF
MARYLAND or South Carolina most Of the other
Slave State. have less: therefore. II this whole
445. 900 square miles of country, should he fnily
peopled with slaves, 10 TO the square nile, the
whole number at the end of this century. would
amount to about a,45o,0O0 slaves, exclusive OF
the usual proportion of free men they would
not probably exceed this number, II not suffered
to exist as slave. west OF the Mississippi. In 1900,
there were in the United States 800, 900 slaves
if these we're confined within the limit of4d5,0oO
square miles above mentioned, they would not
probably increase by the end of this century to
more than ALSO, 900 slaves, or 10 to the square
mile. because more than that number could
not be proftably employed on territory Of that
extent. =,
But if you open grand market for slaves, in
the vast regions belonging to the United states,
beyond the Mississippi, which cover 935,25O
SQUARE miles of territory, you comprehend in all
on both sides of the Mississippi, 100000 square
miles. liable to be filed with 10 slaves t. every
square mile, making in the whole, Ia, 100000
slaves to exist in the United States in the year
1900. And 10000, which was the number in
1900 will surely increase to that amount, II free
scope is given to the slave holders to spread them
over all this 430, 900 square miles of territory
So that in the one case, there would be in the
United States in 1900, Il, 300,0 0a slaves where.
as, if confined to their present limits of 100000
square miles their amount IN 1900, would not
exceed 800, 900 slayes-making diiereace Of
ten millions of slaves existing within our limits
in 1900. who would have had no existence as
Slaves, although they might as free men,
Men, Brethren and Christians, free born sons
of Columbia. look at this frishtful difference in
the state of our country in 1900, in one case or
the other! Can you answer it to the God who
has granted you to live in land of freedom, if
YOU do not exert yourselves in the cause OF this
oppressed race of Africans Therefore, exert
yourselves as becomes freemen, to promote the
rights Of man, and the causesof liberty among
mankind, and especially among your own coun-
trymen. Are bound to suffer the aVarioc OF
the slave holders to make trade of b'ackenins
all the Western regions with Slavery, for CEN
turtles to come, that they and their posterity may
flourish and revel on the blood and scars OF our
fellow beings who would otherwise be born free
as ourselves or their cruel masters
o tell it not in Gath Publish il not in the
streets Of Askelou Let US, like sons of true
and genuine Liberty not unworthy oil our great
forelathers, arouse in might, aud restrain this
desolating plague from extending itself any
farther
Are we bound by any treaty, constitution or
compact. TO work out our own destruction, by
suffering this deadly gangrene to spread further
and get itself establishedi We certainly are not
in the sight of God or MAN, ] hope this warning
will not be soon or easily forgotten.
FRANKLIN.
Washiagion, .4prt 10. Congress are again
ioooing on leisurely and the prospect now 10