The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-08-01

descry the theatre of that consumation. Mexico
has no slaves, because her population oil The wllile
black, and red races is blended. In her nelglbor-
hood, and near, if not with her eope, the colored
inhabitants of this country may be united evenlu-
ally IN national numbers, with the strength, The
character, and the Institutions ofan independent
people That national combination may be &C
compIished without revolution or cOmnollon. An
African nation may arise, the descendants oil the
Moorish other African, and Indian pIogenltors,
with The improvements ol free governments EN-
grated in their sovereignty. Instead of eiernl-
zng slavery calm consideration OF its conneXlon
with the United States encourages the hope that
il may end m Texas-peacefuy and gratefully
disappear there. Liberia, Canada, Hyti, ahoil.
ton of slavery in the slavehodng states, even
gradual emancipation in the free states, all schemes
Of either uniting whites with blacks, or separating
them IN the same communities, without the deg
radiation of the blacks, often worse thar their
bondage, have proved abortve. Tho vision of
sIavery's enlhanasy, by its ALLEGATION to southern
parts of Texas and borders of Mexico, may be IA
deusion. But i, promises more TO rational hu-
manty than any other project yet suggested AT
all events, the annexation of Texas cannot but
tend to diminish the alleged evils and powers Of
snvcholdng."
IAGREE I.N NEARLY .aLL OF THE
| VIEIt'S expressed by the distinguished writer
as to the effects Of this measure. which can un
dersand, But the ALLEGATION OF the eulhanasy re-
quires key Are uot these startling views?
are they not enough ut least to induce SOUTH
ERN MEN to pause and reflect before they rush
heaplong into measure of such polrentous imPor-
lance, with more precipitation and less discussion
| than were even before known in a measure OF
equal magnitude? Mr. Walker, n very dlSlln-
gnished southern man, has published letter upon
this subject. 1t is divided into different heads.
One of which is the following
".fdmWing IeLas secures The extinction Of
Slarery.
sis slavery, then, never TO disappear from the
Union, If confined within It's present limits do
not perceive when or how it is to terminate 1t Is
true, Mr. George Tucker, the distinguished Virgin
! ian, and professor in their great university, has
demonstrated that, in Il period hot exceeding
eighty years, and probably less, from the density
of population in all the Saveholdins states, hired
labor would be as abundant and cheap as slave
labor, aud that all pecuni0ry motive for the
continuance of slavery would then have ceased,
But would il therefore,, then dsappear' No, it
certainly would not; for at the lowest ratio, The
slaves would then number, at least Ten millions,
what would be the result! We have seen, by the
census and other proof, that one sixth OF the free
blacks mus, be supported at the public expense;
and tina, at the low rate Of $50 each, il would
cost $50 900 900 per annum 10 be raised by tax
alton To support the free blacks then IN the south
requiring support, namely ,6G6, 666, If manu-
mission We're permitted; but as such a tax could
not be collected, emancipation would be, ms it
now is, prOhibited By iaw, and slavery could not
disappear In this manner, even when II became
Improbable, No, ten mlIlOns of free blacks,
permitted 10 roam at large in the limits of The
SOUTH could never be tolerated, Again, then,
the question is asked, is slavery never to d,sap-
p.ar from the Union; This is Il startling aud
mNnen,ous question; but the answer is easy, aud
the proof is cIcaI; il wW certainty disappear il
1'trGs is reuanercd 10 The Union; not by abo-
liion, but, against and in spite olall its frenzy,
slowly and gradually, by diffusion, as it has al
ready thus nearly recedcd from several of the
more northern eff The saveholdng states, and as il
will continue thus mole rapidly to recede by the
remuneration Of Texas, and finally, in the dis.
tant future. without soock, without abolition
without II convulsion disappear into and through
Texas aud Mexico and Central and South Amer.
Gu, Thus, that same everything Providence tina,
watched over the landing Of the engranls and
pilgrims Of jamestown and pymouih; that gave US
the victory in our struggle for independence: that
guided by Ills inspiration the hamers of ouI
wonderful Cons tuition; that has thus far preserved
this great Union from dangers SO many and immi-
ncnt, and is now shielding il from abolition, its
most danger Gus and internal foe open Texas
as safety valve, into and through which slavery
will slowly and gradually rocodc, and finally dis
appear INFO the boundless regions of Mexico and
Contra! and South America. Beyond the Del
Nortr slavery will not pass; not only because II is
forbidden by law, but because the colorcd races
there preponderaie in the ratio of ten TO one over
The " hes, aud holding, rs they do the govern
ment and most Of the offices in their own posses
sion, they will never permit the cnslayement of
any portion of the colored race, which makes and
executes the laws of the country"
If believed, with Mr.. Walker, that abolition
either was or would become beneficial or necessary
for the South, | should certainly be in favor of
annexation, as both the most certain and best
mode of accomplishing that object. BUT DO
.N'OTTHLNK so, hut believe, on the contra
~, that il would be injurious. deeply injurious,
and in the end destructive 10 the slaves them
selves, disastrous 10 the whole Union, and abso-
lutey ruinous to the South. Holding these
opinions, my object is, not TO postpone this result
for u short time, but TO PREFENT II
FOREPER. Will0uy one deny any of these
proposilions; |. That the most ellicucious
measure in favor of abolition would be TO destroy
the value Of slave labor! 2. Tina, the reduction
of the price of chiffon To three or four cents would
destroy the value of slave labor in the old slave
states; 3. That any large increase Of the quantity
of cotton produced would have the ellec, to reduce
lis price 10 that point, or even lower; say, FOR
example. sudden increase of five hundred
tI,nnsnnI bnles3 and 4 That thp unncxutinu Ol