Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26

First and chiefes slave labor can be more proGtaby en-
poyed in the planting States TO the South, IN nee end
cotton fields than be in the and stock
raising regions the middle States hence there strong
motive interest and gain to transfer slaves where they can
be most profably employed.
Second In growing grain and raising stock the unsku
and careless management and habits OF the slave and the
praccaby of furnishing him constant employment after the
country cleared farms improved and population become
Dense renders cheaper for the farmer hire labor is
wanted than keep slaves of all and sexes who are
be fed clothed and provided IN all respects at his expense
throughout the year.
Third As our free population increases there will be an
increased competition among those seeking employment This
naturally brings down the price Of labor, and enables the far
not only obtain free labor whenever he but
at such reduced rates make profitable than
labor The inevitable consequence that the masters ine
rest requires him send his slaves further South into
soils where labor more in demand and commands higher
wages, and produces better crops.
Fourth The climate and mild temperature Of the ATTITUDES
below thirty degrees better suited the constitution
and habits Of the negro than those north Of that line
believe the negro better fitted by TO labor under
southern than the white man. All these causes
tables, and they will continue to operate with the same
effect until the cotton, sugar. and rice lands of the South
fully brought into cultivation and adequately supplied with
slave labor Some unlokedfor revuson may render slave
labor profitable in corn fields and meadows. In that
event. they will be retained in the growing and grazing
States where they now are.
But sir the time is rapidly advancing when crowded po-
puaon will every where reduce the price of labor and bring
about active competition among those seeking for employ
ment Long before population dense that Of Eu
rope slave labor will be undermined subdued and expelled
by free white labor, from all those States Of the American
Union where the white is not physically enervated by
the climate and rendered thereby unable enter into
full competition with the negro. When the Of subss
are inadequate the full supply of the wants of
dundant popuaton it is not difficult TO foreee that then the
suengs from hunger will fall with greatest severity upon the
nj eore time
arrives from the utter inability of their support
them upon the products of an exhausted SOIL 3
Now, hold it to be the duty Of statesman contem-
plate this subject in all its aspects before the time arrives
when necessity will force upon children if upon
selves have long looked at it, and have come to the
cluson that wisdom philanthropy might unite upon sys
tenn of coonzaon calculated in its results to bless the white
and the black, relieve America of class whose
nuance here regard evil, and whose removal AT
RIGA would under the providence of the Almighty cvze and
chIsanize that savage and pagan continent
Now, sir with these views think that scattering the slaves
have wider territory would promote rapid de-
of that population in those States where it d
mnhng and hasten the period when with safety they might
initiate the examples of New York and New Jersey. We'd
make another slave by spreading them larger
face And shareholders contributed the with
Mexico their quota of men and money! hold that act OF
justice allow them to participate in the enjoyment of the
Territories with their slaves III be refused then the slave popu
aon will be confined the limits of the States where slavery
now exists The gentleman from New York (Mr Dizzy has
declared his intention conne it, upon the ground that
by the laws of population slaves would increase faster i'll the
excitement health and abundance of Territories than
they would if penned up where they are.
The gentleman forgets that the laws of population which
operate upon free do not affect slaves. Free and
restrained, and will readily contract marriage
until they have before them reasonable prospects OF comora-
bly, providing for family. Hence difficulty in supporting
family great restraint upon marriage and check 10 the
increase of free population. But such considerations
these operate upon the slave he has providing for
wife children That the business of the MASTER and con-
sequenty nothing will check the natural increase Of the slave
but the existence Of such deprivation of physical comforts
produce disease and DEATH Happily for the slave popua
ton Of the Souh there not and has not been any thing like
physical suffering for want Of food and raimen to pro-
duee general state of disease and prevent their increase
1t will require long time yet trust, before the Southern
States incapable Of supporting in comfort their whole popu-
ation but the day may and probably will, when
peabundan population the South may feel the pnchlngs
of cold and hunger they have been felt in starving heand
My philanthropy teaches me to look ahead and egate with
TO postpone those days OF pesence and famine far
possible Hence desire to reduce the wds Of Africa to
cultivated fields and by scattering slavery to alleviate its pres
But the gentleman from New York adopts contrary
policy He for dammng up and combining TO It's present
limits and bringing 10 the starvation point posi-
BILE. Such the inevitable effect Of his policy and all this
is be done in the of liberty and philanthropy, under
the sanctmonous pretence that free soil is not TO be polluted
by the feet Of slaves Sir believe the true motive is to OBJ
tain political power and the whole OF ter
rory the of the redundant population of the nonsave
holding States, and those who entertain strong peudces
anpathies, against shareholders Seeing this, do
wonder that gentlemen representing Southern States suffer
their Indignation TO threaten the dissolution OF our Union
er than submit Now, sir, for myself shall make such
threat will bear almost any thing than dissolve the
federal ties which bind the States together nation
do not believe that the idea of preserving the institution Of
slavery by dssoyng Union has the least soundness in at
On the contrary the dissolution Of the Union would instantly
emancpate all the intelligent slaves in the border slave
holding States From Kentucky they would cross the Ohio
river in droves and reaching the northern bank would be
safe they when they reach Canada We should be
left with the old and helpless take Of and the young
raise The thing would in all the border States
Every must that slavery exist after the dssou
ton of the Uno in those States binding upon dsmembered
States which would not deliver up fugitive slaves. =
The Union will be dissolved under the idea Of better
securing slave property. There danger TO the Union
from that but the danger lies in this that Northern
members Of Congress- Northern ministers and members Of
churches, and the whole Northern people, will so accusom
themselves to speak and nvegh against Southern South
en institutions and the entire people Of the South TO
gender sectional feelings and parties TO create sectional ea
lousles and animosites and establish public sentiment
IN favor OF separation and intercourse IN order TO avoid
the bitterness and hatred which spring from association be-
tween parties when the side arrogant assumptions of
peorty pepeuay manestng their for the prnc
pies and practices OF the other. Sir, is just impossible
IN the nature OF things for confedeaed States to remain uni
ted for individuals continue their friendly intercourse
after every eeng OF mutual respect has been suppanted by
mutual contempt and adherence Nor the citizens OF
consolidated Government born and raised under such free in
sttuons as ours with the most perfect enjoyment OF the lib
ey OF speech and Of the press, adhere to common Gov
ernmen when they divided into sectional factions and
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