The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-06

Again the number OF slaves IN 'ho on os. S'aes
in 1870 was 697 ,697 IN io4O was 80 800 pro
portion botw eco tho two periods, ! 10 '''
The Whine population Increased In the same period
from 3 I72 AGA to II, 1883 7O5 proportion ,r.,
Bot the ~ mites increased IN greater proportion
than the slaves, not only when me ~nose 1' -
considered but q comparison between .ne .e" 80
1880 ana that OF le4O will show mat TINS
the case Ia the slars States faAsn o''"e' "''s
intervening year, -. that
IL follow, therefore as effect follows cause 'na'
the time will arrive when slavery must ai've
cease, by being gradually swallowed up u, Inv us -.
pond rating white population ho" "iuoh W,
may be hastened OF deferred by olher cfcuih''
is matter Of serious importance
These views OF the case-particulariy me lac, u''
the addition Iof Louisiana and floIloa W 'ne -,
has not had tendency 10 Increase slavery ou' 'a
the result far has been directly me reverse ~
pear TO have very close connection win the a. pre-
,ent) much debated subject the annexation OF eh.s
TO the Union. The committee wish to alluds 10 t,ls
question only far II is connected WIN inc SUD
ect Of slavery and in relation 10 ITS bearing upon INC
statistics connected herewith viewing te anhsa'
alton of Texas in this connection the committee nave
come 10 IN. conclusion that all other obsoitos being
removed the question OF slavery, and all msues con
nected with IT, will not offer any valid ooJeeuo"s 10
tho union On the contrary, this union ioo"'d se,'e
tapOrably thai question IA oil us osar"S'' ano
committee would regard such union - ono I III
means which Providence has ordained Tor grsauaiiy
freeing country from this dangerous lnsfeaen'
It's social composition.
Many causes may prolong or abridge tho exist
of slavery in the United States, bot none oil Gun
seem capable Of syertng It's ultimate destny
may say Of Ii, ss Of man-the doom oil us uea'i'
though know not the time or the mode, is certain
and rreyOcsble.nt
MIR. Senator Walkers statements upon this subject
(see his letter TO the people Of Carroll county, Men
tucky) are deserving Of very serious attention.
"Since the purchase Of Louisiana and FLORIDA,
Ar lkFF
and Mississippi there have been carried into this re-
gon, the census demonstrates from the States OF
Delaware, Mary land, Virginia, and Kentucky, haita
million OF slaves, including their descendants, that
otherwise would now be within the limits OF those
four States" Now, If we doubt the rate Of dminu-
oD certainly will by the Ie-snnexsllon OF lex
as slavery will disappear from Delaware In ten years
and from Maryland IN twenty, aud have greatly On
minished in Virginia and Kentucky In the DIS
Irict Of Columbia would disappear IN twelve years
As slavery advances IN Texas IT must recede 10 Inc
same tIlsni from the more northern OF the slayohod-
ing States and, consequently, the evil TO the nor
thern States, from the expulsion into them oil Tree
blacks, by abolition gradual or immediate would
thereby be greatly mitgsted If not entirely proven
ted" " This remuneration, then, would only change
the locality If the slaves, and of the saseholdIng
States, totthoA dugmenting their number" AS re-
CARDS he slaves, the African being from tropical
climate his comforts aud condition would be greatly
improved by transfer from northern ATTITUDES TO the
,
tho annex alton of Texas, as the number o. Ire
blacks augmented in The slave States, they would be
ifused gradually thru ugh Texas into MEXICO and
& snra and Southern America, where nlne-tenths of
the present popuatiU already Of the colared IA
ce. and where, from their ysst prcpondersnce in
number, they are not degraded caste, but ufon a
footing not merely of legal, but what i faI more
important of actual equality with the rect Of the pO-
pulatiun" The process (of dlhuslon) will be gGa-
dual and prog Tsssive, without shock, without con
vulsion whereas, by the loss Of Texas, and the i'm
prisonment of the slave population of the Union with
In its present limits ddrsry ro,d increase IN nearly all
the saveholdng States and change IN their condition
,ooid become impossible or, If II did take pace by
sudden gradual Abolition the result would as GER
tany be the sudden gradual Introduction of nun
dreds of thousands Of fire. blacks into the States of
the north" Z" There is but way in which the
North escape this evil and that is the re-anney-
alton Of Texas which is the only safety-vaNe for The
whole Union, and the only practicable outlet for the
African popu alton, through Texas, into Mexico and
Central and Sout hem America. There is cuDgen-
al climate for the African race " There the bound
less and almos, unpooplsd territory OF Mexico, and
Central and Southern America, with it, delicious
climate and most prolific SO renders most easy he
Of subsistence; and there they would not be
degraded caste, but equals among EQUALS not only by
law, but by feeling and association.
" If slavery be confined within its present limits
| do not perceive when and how IT is to terminate
1t Is true, Mr. Tucker has demonstrated that within
probably less than eighty years from the density
of population in all the slavrho!ding Sta,e-, hired
labor would be abundant and cheap slave labor
and that all pecunia,y motive for the cont nuance of
| slavery would then have ceased But would IT,
therefore, then disappear No, ncertainly would not
for at the To-" est RATIO the slaves would then num-
| Der at least ten millions Could such mass be
emancipated No; ten millions of Tree blacks, per
mitled to roam at large in the limits Of The South
could be tolerated Again, then, the question
is asked Is slavery never TO disaPp ar from the Unon2
This startling and NONE Cous question but The
ans is easy and the proof clear ,cH certain
IN disappear If Teras is reannered TO The Union-no
by abolit on, but slowly and gradually by diffusion,
has already thus nearly rsceded from several OF the
more northern of the slaveholding States, and it
will continue thus more rapidly Ieceie by the
annex alton Of Texas and finally, in the distant fu-
lure, without shock, without abolition, without
ulsioD, disappear into and through Texas, into
| Mexico, and Central and Sou hern America" "Be-
yond the Del Npre, slavery will not pass not only
because it Is forbidden by law but because the color
ed there PR ponderae in the ratio Of ten one
the whites and holding, as they do, Il govern
meo and most of the Offices IN their own possession,
| hey will permit the enslavement Of any por.
| ton Of the colored race, which makes and executes
| The laws of the country"
| "Mexieo. Central America, and South America,
contain together area Of S,376,000 square miles,
| and population Of 94,000,O00; of whom about
2,T 0GD0 white, and Lie rest Indians, Africans,
| mulaltoes, and other colorej races"
"The outlet for negro rnce, through this vast
region, be opened but by the alton
of Texas but n that event, there in that extensive
country, (Me1Ieo, Central and South America bor-
| dering upon our negro population, and four times
greater in area than the whole Union with n spar. e
population Of but three to the square mi e, where nine
tenths of the population is of tn. coored aces,here
upon that f. rifle soil and in that delicious climate so
admirably adapted to the negro race, all experience
has now clearly proved, the free black would find
HON There, also, az slaves, in the lapse of time,
from The density of pop llation and other causes are
| emancipated, thy Will disappear from time time
west OF the Del Norte, and beyond the limits Of the
| Union, among Of their color; will be diff
fused throughout, lis 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, they occupy, among squalls, a