The North-Carolina standard., 1844-04-17

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exceeding eighty years, and probably less. from
the density Of population in all the slaveholding
States hired labor would be as abundant and cheap
as slave labor, and that all peculiarly motive for
thecontiuance of slavery would then hare ceased.
But would it, therefore, then disappear No, il
certainly would not; for, at the lowest ratio, the
slaves would then number at least ten millions,
Could such mass be emaRcipated2 And if so
what would be the resulta We have seen, by
the census and other proof that one-sixth of the
free blacks must be supported at the public ex.
pense and that, at the low rate Of $50 each, il
would cost @50,000,000 per annuln to be raised
by taxation to support the free blacks then in the
South requiring support, namely: 1860, 6,666, n
manumission were permitted; but as such tax
could not be collected, emancipation would be as
it now is, prohibited By las0, and slavery could
not disappear in this manner. even when it be-
came Improbable. No, ten millions offree blacks
permitted to roam al large in the limits of the
South, could never be tolerated. Again, then,
the question is asked is slavery to disappear
from the Union2 This is startling and NOM
entous question, but the answer is easy, and 1he
proof is clear 1t aoiU certainly disappear # Ier-
as as reGnnered to The Union not by abolition,
but against and n spite of all its frenzy, slowly,
and gradually, by diffusion, as il has already thus
nearly receded from several of the more northern
of the slaveholding States. and it will continue
thus more rapidly to recede by the remuneration
of Texas, and finally, in the distant future, with
out abolition, without convulsion, disappear in
to and through Texas into Mexico and Central
and Southern America. Thus, that same over
ruling Providence that watched over the landing
of the emigrants and pilgrims at jamestown and
Plymouth; that gave us the victory in our strug-
gle for independence; that guided by His inspira-
ton the trainers of our wonderful constitution
IL, & IL;
dangers so many and imminent and is DOW shield
ing it from abolition, its most dangerous and in
ternal foe-wil open Texas as 4 safety-valve, in
to and through which slavery will slowly aud
gradually recede, and finally disappear into the
boundless regions of Mexico, and Central and
Southern America. Beyond the Del Norte,
slavery will mot pass not only because it is for
hidden by law but because the colored races there
preponderate IN the ratio Of ten to one over the
whites; and holding, as they do, the government
and most of the Offices in their own possession,
they will never permit the enslavement of any
portion of the colored race which makes and ex-
rcutcs the laws of the country In Bradford's
Atlas the facts are given as follows
Mexico-area, 100000 square miles; popu-
lalion ,00o-one-sixth white, and all the
rest Indians, Africans, mulattots, zambos, and
other colored races.
Central America-area, 1876, 900 square miles;
population nearly 1000 OO0-one-sixth white, and
the rest negroes, zambos, and other colored races
Sonth America-area, 800. 600 square miles !;
population $4,000, 1000, 100000 white, 4,OOO-
600 Indians; and the remainder, being 5000 600,
blacks and other colored races.
The outlet for our negro race, through this vast
region, can never be opened but by the reannexa-
tion of Texns but in that event, there in that ex
IensiVe country, bordering upon our negro popu-
lation and four times greater in area than the
whole Union, with sparse population of but three
TO the square mile, where ninetenths Of the popu-
lation is Of the colored races there upon that fer
tile SOIL and in that delicious climate, so admra-
bly, adapted to the negro race, as all experience
has now clearly proved, the free black would find
a home. There, also, as slaves, in the lapse of
lime, from the density of population and other
causes, are emancipated, they will disappear from
lime to time, west Of the Del Norte, and beyond
he limits of the Union, amonga race of their
own color; will be dlffused throughout this vast
region, where they will not be degraded caste,
and where, as to climate, and social and moral
condition, and all the hopes and comforts of life,
hey can occupy, among equals, position they can
never attain in any part of this Union,
To be Continved.)