Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-01


~ IN the territories II slavery should be permitted 10 ex
there, since the act Of Congress fobds the importation
slaves after the sos from any other country could
be carried there except those that taken from of the
United States But those slaves are already counted and
presented II is obvious therefore, that by transferring part
oil the slaves from the old States to the would not
their numbers Being represented only this House
the Senate, as all know, different basisyou would
in nowise increase the slave representation by the addition OF
new slave States Whatever added to their population
by emigration from the old States would to the same extent
weaken the latter.
This view Of the case il So obvious that when hear
soEs speaking of the increase of slavery and strengh
enng the slave power they pardon me for questioning
he sincerity Nor can any entertain serious npPrehen.
ons ha the slave States will oyerpower the free and
troll the action Of the Government The free States
the ascendency in all the branches of the Government and
their majority OF than fifty this floor and in the
electoral colleges greater than they had in former times
MS excess must be Increased OF the
territory IN the northwest being intended be carved into free
otaes ana being more than be filled up for centuries
10 come and those States increasing they do faster in po
puaon Than the slave States This circumstance is
times referred 10 evidence that the continuance Of slavery
IS injurious to us nation II may be remembered how
ever that the view derived from the decenna well
calculated TO deceive. More than hundred thousand
foreigners annually arrive in the United States, who settle
down almost eny in the free States Those who emgraie
from the old Northern States almost all go to the free
States WHILE on the other hand, very large portion Of the
emigration OF the old Southern States goes into the free States
Of the Northwest This as have observed myself emf
neny true Of the North Carolina emgrants and may add,
TOO but for this emgaton population would increase in that
oe as last as could in any country there being an album
dan supply OF the necessaes OF life among the entire popu
ation Nor does the condition Of the negro population read
its increase The opinions Of Nautilus and other writer's that
slavery IS unfavorabe to increase of population proba
bly, founded observations of such live in cities and
used domescs. Appan's authority is decisive the
rapid multiplication Of slaves employed in the agricultural dis
trcts OF the Roman empire This accords with expert
ence in the United States The physical wants of the slave
are sure Of being provided for because he be
ed by paupr is due TRUTH that the negro
race in the Southern States when considered with reference
to Their physical comforts industry and moral qualities
IN advance of the either in Africa in the North
ern States am ready admit sir that the Southern States
would be more prosperous whole, if filled up with such
population the reemen of this Union The white race
being superior TO the black, of country filled with the
former is more vigorous and prosperous than filled with
mixed race That however, is not the question 10 be settled
The abolons show that these very negroes if Free
would be productive aboers and manageable
as Citizens than they Before they accomplish
this, they must however account in satisfactory
for their inferior condition, only in Africa but where
they have been liberated the West Indies in the North
ern States AS we have the negro in the country and
cannot get rid OF hem the true question whether they
be better disposed of in any other mode Whatever evils
may be attendant the condition of slavery will be rather
aggravated by crowdng them together in few States.
Again. SIR popular appeals are made from time TO time by
aboionsts and others the preudces of the North
against the competition of slave labor These ought
know that berang the slaves would produce the very evil
they complain of The free blacks of the North, speak
duce the wages of labor the North than the slaves occupied
as they are chiefly in the cotton RICE and tobacco fields
of the South.
Others say that slavery must be extended any
territory because the constitution provides for the calling out
OF the militia to suppress Instructions and therefore they
press immense terror lest they should be obliged to aid in sup
pressing slave Instructions When they shall in one
instance be required for this purpose if they
should find the burden ntocabe than the other requ
stions OF the constitution they will doubtless then have good
grounds for asking such amendment may relieve them
from this onerous imposition II is not however, oil like
y that any instruction will sufficiently extensive 10
give time for the coming of persons from other States sup
press il.
Much of the agitation sir, which the country has under
in relation to this subject is due the action Of
slavery or abolition societies Such societies have existed
since the foundation of the Government though for reasons
which may presently aude this influence has been great
er for dozen past than formerly Those societies
composed of variety Of elements There in them con-
scenous and benevolent men, who feel to be their duty 10
exteminate evil and who have selected this the
object OF their exertions. With them class who OK ter
naly resemble hem but who may be better descrb
ed in the humorous lines from Hudbras, as those who
"Compound for sins they are inclined to-
BY damning those they have mind to-
Like the Pharsces Of old they publicly giving thanks
that they not the pubcans and Of the South In
country like this where the general diffusion OF educa-
ton produces many competitors for each PRICE, of
bion and secondrae talents finding the high roads emil
nepce occupied by their supeo search of new paths
to distinction Some Of them have sought notoriety and po
puary by preaching up crusade against Southern slavery
There is still fourth cass-consistng Of those who are de-
termned to live off of the publcwho have selected this as
humbug by which nfame the popular passions and obtain
money by cheating the confdng and creduous They are
INSCRIPTIONS about the they employ as was the inn
poster Mokanns, who cloak his hypocrisy and deceive bis
followers, on his banner
"Unfurled,
Those words Of sunshine, Freedom to the world -
As the societies are therefore composed chiefly those who
design to deceive, and Of persons Of an imaginative cast of
mind who naturally shrink from Examining facts and are easily
led away by their impulses it strange that the matters
published by them should contain oil manner of absurdtes
Works pure fiction written the most garnp fasehoods
Misrepresentation published and circulated and ncorpora
havet to work WITH surprised the to which
they come. as TO attempt 10 build up sys-
tenn Of philosophy upon the facts stated in the History Of
AIseds of Gau, the Arabian Nights Entertainments.
What strikes the observer most perhaps is the wonderful
diversity in doctrine which exhibited by these societies
says that elf all TO become even uniformly mad
they might agree toeraby well with each other" This has
been exempfed by scots Of fanatics Unfortunately
however, for the abolition society WHOLE members are
not mad and hence they disagree most infoabv
Even in their national conventions OF delegates YOU have
nothing but the whrl and confusion of argument" It's
aring elements remind Of the struggles Of Chance and
Tumu in the reign Of ancient Night when Chaos sat as u-
pre- and by decision emboed the frayy Il might
be supposed that their collisions would be the means of cor
recng their errors but they seem 10 be in the condition of
the Schoomen who because they built upon the errors and
logical acies of their master Aristotle argued with each
other for two thousand years asceranng any