The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-15
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 Ii was in view. no doubt. of these facts
 that Mr. Davis, of New York, declared
 upon the floor of Congress, on the 29Ih ol December. lS43. that .'tha abolition of sla- very in the southern States must be followed by a delHge of Rlact poPHtationto 10 tle North filling our gQi{s and poor h6isscS, and bringing destruction upon the iaboriag portion Of oU
 Dcopleo Doctor Duncan also, of Cmcin nati, Ohio, in his speech in Congress on tht 9th of January, 1874, declared the result O abolition would be to inundate the Nortl with free blacks, described by him as 'spau- perS, beggars, thieves, assassins, and despe adoes; all, or nearly all, penniloss and desti- ute, whlthout skill. means. industry, or per. severance to obtain a livelihood; each pos sessing and cherishing revenge for supposed or real wrongs. No mans fireside, person. family, CT property. would be safe by day or night It noic requires the whole energies of the law and the whole vigilance oi the pc lice of all our principal cities 10 restlaln and keep in subordination the few stlaglmg tree negroes which now inlest them"
 If such be the case now, what will be the result when. by abolition, gradual or imme- diate, the number of these free negroes shall
 be doubled and quadrupled, and decupled, in the more northern of the slaveholdmg States, before slavery had reccded from their limits, and nearly the whole of which free black population would be thrown on the adjacent non-slaveholdin states. Much, If not all of this great evil, will be prevented by the remuneration of Texas. Since the purchase of Louisiana and Florida, and the settlement of Alabama, Mississippi, there have been car ried into this region, as the census demon- strates. from the States of Delaware, Mary land, Virginia and Kentucky, half million of slaves, including their descendants, that otherwise would now be within the limits of those four States. Such has been the result as to have diminished, in two of these States nearest to the North, the number of their slaves far below what they were at the census of l790, and to have reduced them at the census of 1S40, iu Delaware, to the small number of 2,605. \ NoW, if we double the rate of diminutlon. as VIC certainly will by the remuneration of Texas, slavery will dis appear from Delaware in ten years, and from Maryland iu twenty, and have greatly diminished in Virginia and Kentucky. As, then, by remuneration, slavery advances in Texas, 1t must recede to the same crteRt from the more northern of the slaveholding States; and consequently, the evil to the northern States, from the expulsion into them ol free blacks, by abolition, gradual or immediate, would thereby be greatly mitigated, if not entirely prevented. In the District of Goltlm- bia, by the drain to the new States and Ter ritores of the South and Southwest, the slaves have been reduced from 6,119 in 1850, to 4,69I in 1910; and if, by the remuneration, slavery receded in a double ratio, then it would disappear altogether from the District in twelve years; and that question, which how occupies so much of the the time of Congress, and threatens so seriously the harmony, if not the existence of the union, would be put at rest by the remuneration of Texas This remuneration, then, would only change the locality of the slaves, and of the slayeholdng States, without augmenting their number.- And is Texas to be lost to the Union, Tot by the question of the existence of slavery, but of its locality only' If slavery be consid- cred by the States of the North as an evil, why should they prefer that is location should be continued Ill States on their border, rather than in the more distant portions of the Union. It IS clear that, as slavery advanced in Texas, 1t would recede from the States bordering on the free States of the North and West and thus they would be released from actual con tact with what they consider an evil, and also from all influx from those States of a large and constantly augmenting free black popu- lation. As regards the slaves, the African being from tropical climate, and from the region of the burning sands and sun, his comfort and condition would be greatly im proved, by a transfer from northern attitudes to the genial and most salublious climate of Texas. There he would never suffer from that exposure to cold and frost, which he feels so much more severely than any other race; and there, also, from the great fertility of the soil, and eXubeIance of it's products. his supply of food would be abundant If a desire to improve the condition and increase the comforts of the slave really animated the anti-slavery party, they would be the warmest advocates of fthere-annexation of Texas. Nor can il be disguised that, by the remuneration, as the number of free blacks augmented in the slaveholding States, they would be difused gradually through Texas into Mexico, and Central and Southern America, where nine teaths of their present population are already of the colored races, and where, from their vast proponderance in number, they are not a degraded caste, but upon a footing, not merely of legal, but what is far more impor- tant, of actual equality with the rest of the population. Here. then, if Texas Is re-an- nexed throughout the vast region and salu- brious climate of Mexco, and of Central and Southern America, a large and rapidly increas- ing portion of the African race will disappear from the limits of the Union. The process will be gradual and progressive, without shock, and without a convulsion; whereas, by the loss of Texas, and the imprisonment of the slave population of the Union within its present limits, slavery would increase in nearly all the slaveholding States, anda change in their condition would become impossible; 41l.-l l. IL