The Arkansas banner., 1847-08-23

""'uiou asiu uitfty -elAut VOteS, anu tbe stdVe states ninety. heeleesoral college, which college, which chooses the President, the Tree states have one hundred and sixty .eIght votes, and the slave states one hundred and eighteen. Besides, the country is extending on every side; the regions of the northwest, Oregon anu Northern Texas, are sufficient to form dozen new States: If, then, the Wilmot ProvisO becomes a law, lIie slave states, even in the Senate, will be outnum- bered by four states.
 The most calm and liberal mind must come to the conclusion that at some day the slave stales will be so completely hemmed in by the free states, that they shall he in- dueed 10 cleanse themselves from the lepro- sy oG slavery which consumes them; at the same time Il should be considered that they have all necessary time to prepare for the change. ithe worst they can exist in q minority without peril. They should mol therefore be violent. They have merely io yield to the pressure of external opinion. and that opinion, if it would attain its object, should, be indnlgeni. if the slave states ! shall desire il, they could by division main- tain their equality in the Senate. But this course would not satisfy Mr. Calhoun. He would have the slave states equal the free states in number hereafter, as well as al pres ent, and to each he would assign an extent ol limits sufficient for an empire. In other words, i. is necessary iha, the Union should conquer new territory expressly 10 spread slavery, in order that the equilibrium may al, ways continue between the free and slave sIates; consequently, If the free states should spread over all that part of North America which IS now actually wilderness, il would be necessary to push slavery even to Cape Horn, that the balance might not be disturb ed.
 Mr. Calhoun has taste for theories. He has constructed one for this occasion and he has based 1t even upon the constitution of the Union. Washington, Jefferson, and Ham, ilton never dreamed that their labors would be applied to such an end. He has drafted some incredible resolutions into this new system. He has spoken not only ef lhe prosperity of the slaves, but even of the free- dom they possess, and the extension of sIa- very into those regions which the alexicans, while independent, purged of il, is put upon the right that all men possess to emigra.e with Meir property. The theory and the resolutions of MT. Calhoun met with roor success in the Senate. MT. Benton called for the previous question, saying tha. there were important matters 10 be acted upon, aud that il was not desirable to lay them aside for distractions That was keen. fIowev- CT the majority of the Senate rejected the Wilmot Proviso. The bill was returned to the House of Representatives, which body, after much hesitation, and with very ill., grace, finally assented to the amendment, chiefly because the close of the session was al hand. Thus the advantage in reality ter minated on the side of Mir Calhoun aad his plans
 We do moi anticipate that the hopes of the partizans of slavery will be realized. We believe they will not he. They will answer we'll to urge their country on tn the path of territorial aggrSndIzemeut, but they will gain no strength fromii slavery will never follow them in those vast conquests. As was said by one of the most eloquent men that North America has produced, Doctor Cumming, whom death has struck down so premature ly--n will be as impossible to arrest the de- cline which has commenced in slavery, as to stop the waters of the Ohio in their course to the ocean. IL is an affair ol lime which may be longer or shorter. Before tea or twenty years North America will be the oa- ly civilized country in which slavery will exist. Can il be possible that she wishes to preserve such privilege