Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-12
Total in free States lO,I59
Total in slave States 1850
Total acres located


Total in slave States 1850 --
Total acres located l,775,520
"Thus it appears, that Of l,775,520
acres, the total number located 81 | 800
were located in the six free States, while
only 263,7 2O acres were located in tho six
slave States-makirg proportion Of near
~ sac acres entered in the free for one acre
taken up in the slave States.
at appears, also, that Of the 1900 war
rants, representing az we may suppose,
the same number of soldiers, or other hold
crs, who bought of them, l0,l59 have gone
10 the free States, and only $50 TO the
slave Slates-being in the same proportion
Of Slr men, or rather more than six, who
preferred locating their warrants IN free
States, to every one man who was willing
tochoose his land in Il slave State"
All this will appear still more significant,
when it is recOllecled that Of the volunteer
forces engaged in the war against Mexico,
some forIy-three thousand wore from the
slave States, and twenty-three thousand
from the flee States. The fair presumpt-
ion, therefore, is, that a large proportion of
the soldiers who have located the warrants,
is from the slaveholding Slates-ard yet,
but $50 out of $4,000 represented by the
warrants, have selected homes im those
States.
Can any man doubt, after looking at
these facts, that were it left to the decision
of the soldiers, by whose arms the Terrific
ries of New Mexico and California have
been acquired, whether they should be kept
free or not. six. scvenlhs of them would pro.
nounce in favor of their continued freedom
The shareholders tell us that those Terri
tories have been acquired by the blood of
all the States. True-but whose blood
has flowed most freely? Not that of Slave
holders, Capitalists, or Land Spectators.
The men without slaves in the South, and
without wealth in the North, have borne
the burden of the contest-and, if any claim
is to be set up to an equal participation in
the Territories en- the ground stated, then,
by every principle ofjustice, the soil should
he held, not only free from Slavery, but
from Speculation--a home for the poor
ireemen of the South, who are oppressed
now by shareholders, and for the industri>
Gus irecmen Of the North, who are obeving
the Divine injunction, "By the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat thy bread"
What the Shareholders Ask.
The Albany Evening Journal thus points
out the moderate requests of the slavehold-
ers OF the South, when they insist upon car
rying slavery into the new territories
"Those who seek to carry Slavery into
the new territories, also ask to take the
Slave Code with it The former cannot ex.
ist securely without the latter. They are
inseparable. Where the one goes the 9TH
or must follow. Hence, if Congress per.
mIts slavery TO go TO California or New
Mexico, it must allow that law to 90 with
it which provides thirty ashes for the ne
gro, whether bond or free, who has the har
dihood to preach the Gospel; which secures
one years Imprisonment for any one who
shall teach a slave 10 read, and twenty lash
es for the slave who is found at a school
learning to read; and which provides the
enormous penalty of six months imprison-
ment and $500 fine for whipping slave 10
death !
II must do more even than all this. 1t
must provide for the imprisonment Of every
dark skinned sailor who visits either New
Mexico or California Virginia and South
Carolina have not only shcwn us the prac-
teal workings of such law, but have de-
clarcd 1t indispensable to the safety of every
commonwealth where slavery exists. Eve
ry nOrlhern ship, therefore, which shall visit
any harbor in either of those territories, ar
ter slavery shall have become one of their
legaIzed institutions, must purge itself of
cofored sailors, cooks and cabin boys, or
abide the consequences. Congress must al
So provide in the event that New York or
Massachusetts shall send on Il grey-hcaded
commissioner to protest against the impris-
Onmenl of their free citizens, that such com.
mlssioners shall be supplied with a coat of
tar and feathers at the public expense.
Ii would be folly to sanction slavery in
these new territories, unless such sanction
was accompanied with these essential ac-
compartments. Slavery must have its code.
or 1t becomes as helpless as a hyena with
out claws or teeth. The question, there
fore, is not merely whether they shall be al
lowed TO take their slaves into New Mexi-
co, but whether they shall be allowed to die
tate the color of our seamen, imprison our
citizens, punish the preaching of the gospel,
and whip men for learning To read"
HoERIBLE ACCIDENT.-We have receiv-
ed the painful intelligence of the death of
Col. DraytUn Jones, one of the most respect
ed citizens of our county, which was occa-
stoned in the following manner On the
9Th inst. while engaged with a number of
men threshing at his barn in the township
of Wayne, he fell through the scaffold in
The loft TO the floor of tie barn, where his |
feet striking on a pile of sheaves, he was !
thrown across the end or corner of the CYL. |
ender of tho threshng machine, which was !
in motion. His hip ana thigh were man.
ged in n most horrible manner, even the
breaking off pieces of the bone. He lin
gered until Tuesday last in the most excru- |
ciating agony, when he expired, mer,ifica> |
ton having commenced the evening before. /
-.3shfabHa (O.) Sentinel, l6fh.
Sereye but Just Sentence. Pough-
keepsie Journal of Saturday says, man
named Charles Smith was found guilty at
the recent Oyer and Terminer in that viii
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