The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-08-09

NuC'i'C IdoUItT vi inc TWO.
As natural consequence, negro slave
~ recedes willingly from the more north
ern climate, especially if it escapes by SO
doing from the peIilous rivalry Of free la.
Dor. You have only to present to the
planter an equally fertile region 10 the
south of him, You have only to show him
that II offers less facilities for the escape
of his slaves, and whether it be regard
for their increased health and consequent
longevity, anxiety TO retain his property
III security, or the mere desire to make
their labor as profitable as possible, YOU
may be sure of his willingness 10 remove
there. Thus we have seen the acGuisi-
ton OF Louisiana in 1900, and of Florida
IN 1919, make an obvious check on the
increase OF slavery in the old southern
states, by the inducements which they Of.
Tered TO their emigration further south.
Nearly 100000 slaves, as shown by the
census, have already emigrated into states
beyond the limits of the original thirteen.
leaving less than 100000 behind them.
BY this natural transfer il is that Della
ware has become to all practical purposes
free state; Maryland nearly so, and
Virginia to great extent the same
is operating largely in other states.
1t Texas is annexed to the United
States, with It's more fertile soil and war
mer sky, is ii not cettaiu that the parts of
it near the seaboard, which are peculiarly
adapted by nature to productions in which
the ncgro's labor is most profitable, will
be filed by emigration from the slave
states ! Can we not see that, in Mary.
land and Virginia and Kentucky, and the
other states in which slavery is already
on the decline, the opening of Texas must
necessarily hasten its departure and that
thus silently, without complaint, without
effort, this dark visitation Of anxiety and
evil, once The just stigma Of British cupi-
di,y, and now her unjust and insolent
taunl, may at last depart from our
shores
Whether, by any possibility, the abo-
lilion of slavery is ever to be effected by
other means--in advance of the arrival of
the period when it must yield TO the ST.
lent operation Of the pressure of popula-
ton, in this as in all countries where il
has existed, is problem which we do not
here feel called upon TO discuss. That
any compulsory power from without can
ever accomplish that end, such as the Ab.
olltoniss of the day are striving to apply,
1t appears the absurdest folly to suppose.
1t has hitherto had no other effect than TO
exasperate the master, and make heavier
and tighter the chain of the slave nor
does there appear much likelihood of its
exeitlng any other influence in its future
continuance. If, as has been ardenly
hoped and londly believed by many Of the
irner friends Of The negro, the result Of the
BRUSH experiment or emancipation in the
West India Islands shall be such as to |
prove It's safety and wisdom, so as to omen
the eyes Of the master himself 10 the ruth
urged upon him by his northern ncighbor,
the grounds of the question will be IN mol
respect changed by the existence Of Tex
as in the Union. The master in Texas
will be open TO the same means Of COZ
viclion as he would be if still on his old
plantation in Virginia. If, on the other
hand, that experiment shall not prove |
successful, so as to dispose the asserted
possibility OF the cocXstenCe of the two |
races and two colors, side by side on the !
same soil, in a relation of freedom and
equality of rights, how can any of the
friends of either desire TO keep them for.
chilly pent up within LIMITS where every
day is tending faster and faster to fermont
the dlscordant elements into result winch
threatens To be the desoalion of bo,li-
instead Of opening this safety valve by
which the noXious danger may pass Off
harmiessly and insensibly
Crowd, then, your population into the
southern states as you may, rapidly and
without fear. Texas will open before it
as an outlet, and slavery, retiring from
The middle and southern states of the pre-
sent confederacy, will find, for time,
retiring place there. But only for time
or the reversible law of population,
which DEGREES that, in a dcnsely peopled
region, slavery shall cease to exist, will
omancipa,e Texas in her turn, and the
negro will then pass to a land Of political
freedom and social dignity under a genial
sky. lie will pass without civil convul-
sion. and leaving no domestic ruin in his
path. As his labor becomes less and less
valuable, emancipation, gradual, progress.
'ive, at last universal, will pass him over
The southern border TO his more appropri.
ate home in Mexico and the states be-
You'd.
"Butlf Texas is to be the Quite, for Anne.