The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-01-22
From the Vicksburg H1hig.
The Great sslmpossibillty.7'

I
The recent lettcr Of Gen. Cass is certainly a
very singular production. He opposes the
WiImot Proviso, first, because the people OF the
territories are just ascapabIe OF regulating their
concerns as the people Of the States;
secondl because ii is unconstitutional; third
~, because, it adopted, il would "sow the
seeds of future discord - fourthly, because it
only amounts to a %"temporary exclusion" OF
slavery, the attributes Of sovereignty recognize
ed as belonging to the State governments, rem
dering them capable Of establishing slavery
81 that it need not last beyond the existence Of
the territorial governments; filthy, because,
its adoption, or even a "general conviction
that such a proposition would succeed, would
lead to an immediate withholding Of supplies,
and thus to a dishonorable termination Of the
war;" sixthly, because, by transporting
slaves to a new country, and giving them large
space to occupy' we will mitigate the evil OF
Compression with less abundance of the me-
cessaries Of life;'' seventhly, because it would
amount to an 'erctIsion Of The cit,sens Of StGUe-
holding States from a participation in the bene-
fills acquired By The treasure and eTer1ons Of all,
and Chich should be common to aI" a
Now, in view Of all these objections, but es-
peclally the sixth and seventh-what a beauti-
full and interesting conclusion Of the whole
matter is contained in the following paragraphs
How gratefully seopld the people Of the South
receive the letter OF Gen. Cass! which comes
up 50 ~gallantly to the defence Of an "abstrac'
principle,'' in view of the ''moral impossibilt
typ OF its ever becoming a ''practieal question u
Read and admire: -@ w
l say this in the event Of the extension o.
slavery over any new acquisition. All the des'
c~riptions which reach us Of the condition o
the CALIFORNIA; and OF New Mexico, to the
acquisition Of which our efforts seem at pre-
sent directed, unite IN representing those coun
tries as agricultural regions, similar in thel
products to our middle States, and general.
unfit for the production of the great staples
which can alone render slave labor valuable
IF zoe are not grossly d~ecetved--Gnd d is di6tcu
10 conceive how noe can be--he inhabitants
those regions Whether they deprmd upon the
pIoughs or their herds, cannot be shareholders
involuntary labor, requiring the investment {
large capital, can only be profitable when en-
f ployed in the production of a few favored a
ticles confined by nature to special district
f and paying larger returns than the usual agr
/, c%ultura! products spread over more considers
BILE portions Of the earth. 5.l
"should we acquire territory beyond til
Rio Grande and east of the Rocky Mountain
n it is still more impossible that a majority Of tn
people would consent to re-esta6ih slavery
They are themselves acolored population, an
among them the negro does not belong socia
d " to a degraded race"
? The question, it will be therefore seen o
II examination, does not regard the exclusion
# slavery from a region where it now exists, b.
a prohibition against lis introduction '0here It do
d not erist, and Where, from the feelings Of The
n habstants and he Laws Of nature, s.itls moral
impossible" as Mr. Buchcnan says, Vlat II g
eoer re.estabhsA Itself.