Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-10-20

present directed, unite in representing those
countries as agricultural regions, similar in
their productions to our middle States, and &C.
nerally unfit for the production OF the great
staples, which can alone renoer save Iaoor
valuable. If we are not greatly deceived
and it is difficult to conceive how we can De
the inhabitants of those regions, whetner
they depend upon their ploughs or their herds
cannot be shareholders. Involuntary LABOR
recurring the investment of large capital, can
only be profitable when employed in the pro-
duction of few favored articles confined by
nature to special districts, and paying larger
returns than the usual agricultural products
spread over more considerable portions of the
earth.
In the able letter of Mr.. Buchanan upon
this subject, not long since gwen TO the pub
| lie, he presents similar considerations with
great force Neither" says the distinguish
ed writer, "the soil, the climate, nor the pro-
auctions of California south of SO deg. 80 m,
nor indeed of any portion of it, north or south,
is adapted TO slave labor; and besides every
facility would be there afforded for the slave
TO escape from his master. Such property
would be entirely insecure in any part of Cal
ifornia. 1t is morally impossible, therefore,
that majority of the emigrants TO that por-
ton of the territory south OF Sc deg. 80 min.,
which will be chiefly composed of our citi-
zens, will ever re-establish slavery within its
limits.
In regard to New Mexico, east of the Rio
Grande, the question has already been settled
by the admission of Texas into the Union.
Should we acquire territory beyond the
Rio Grande and east Of the Rocky mountains,
it is Still more impossible that majority of
the people would consent to re-esta6l1sh sIa-
very. They are themselves colored popula-
ton, and among them the negro does not be-
long socially TO degraded race"
With this last remark Mr.. Walker fully CO.
incides in his letter written in 1874, upon the
annexation of Texas, and which everywhere
produced so favorable an impression upon the
public mind, as TO have conduced very mate
rally to the accomplishment of that great
measure. beyond the Del Norte," says Mr.
Walker, " slavery will not pass; not only be-
cause it is forbidden by law, but because the
colored race there preponderates in the ratio
of ten to one over the whites; and holding, as
they do, the government and most of the Off
ces in their possession, they will not permit
the enslavement of any portion of the colored
race, which makes and executes the laws of
the country
The question, it will be therefore seen on
examination, does not regard the exclusion of
slavery from a region where it now exists,
but a prohibition against its introduction
where it does not exist, and where, from the
feelings of the inhabitants and the laws of ma
ture, 90 it is morally impossible" as Mr.. Blu
chanan says, that it can ever re-establish it.
self.
/ 1t augurs we'll for the permanence of our
confederation, that during more than half a
century, which has elapsed since the estab-
lishment of this government, many serious
questions, and some of the highest importance,
have agitated the public mind, and more than
once threatened the gravest consequences :;
but that they have all IN succession passed a.
way, leaving our institutions unscathed, and
our country advancing in numbers, power,
and wealth, and in all the other elements of
national prosperity, with a rapidity unknown
in ancient or in modern days. In times of po-
litcal excitement, when difficult and delicate
questions present themselves for solution,
there is one ark of safety for us; and that is,
an honest appeal to the fundamental princi-
Piles of our Union, and stern determination
TO abide their dictates. This course of pro-
ceeding has carried us in safety through many
trouble, and trust will carry us safely
through many more, should many more be
destined to assail US. The Wilmot Proviso
seeks to take from its legitimate tribunal a
question of domestic policy, having no rela-
ton to the Union, as such, and 10 transfer ii
to another created by the people for a special
purpose, and foreign to the subject-mater in
volved in this issue. By going back to our
true principles, we go back to the road of
peace and safety. Leave TO the people, who
will be affected by this question, to adjust it
upon their own responsibility, and in their
own manner, and we shall render another tr-
butte TO the original principles Of our govern
ment, and furnish another guaranty for its per-
manence and prosperity.
am, dear sir, respectfully, your obedient
servant LEWIS CASS.
A. 0. P. NICHOLSON, Esq, Nashville, Tenn.
From the Washington Union
The following campo gn song has been handed
US by that ever-felcitous poet, J. E. Dow, Esq, OF
: this city.
Such of our co-laborers in the Democratic cause
as are in singing mood, may we'll employ their
vocal propensties in setting it to music, and ANU
sing themselves by thus hitting off the busy Chair.
man of the Wing Executive Committee and his
disciples -
, THE DEMOCRATS SONG.
BTJ DOW.