Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-03-31

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OF fho fJaSnd thai5 eosefsany parts.u.ar supeF'
6cies q de copatry--as Alabania, or Louisiana
ct reIss, lei exampie-or upon che grou'n.' thai
il mag coTerAny other superacies, bat upoA that
oil intrinsic qualities; slavery, az established
amongst as, beiRg in their judgmen, prelH5-
ois1 and ssicked iHsii;GoE--wroug in pTiucl.
pic, wrong inrruciics, wrong every way--and
one, therefore, the strength and the growth Of
which, and the personal sufferers from which,
ogcht nerer 20 be increased hy any act OF the
Government, snd never shall be by any act or
concurrence oftkeirs This is their ground
And if che gentlemen who tske It can oay show,
that.by extending ibis institution into our hlexi.
can terftoriea lis bass il made lirmer and dec
perthan eyer.--ihat stronger supports of law are
thereby oTovidedio foser and sustain il---thai
new condition mud habit Of socieiy,more iayora
bic 10 cobtnuance than any pre.exsiing one
is esiahished--lhRt Nhen II is exlended ia that
direction it's not correspondenty weakened in
any otaeTeaad that ihe GGHber Of slaves Is ae'u.
ally eRcreased by the process; it they can show
that hythese means, collectively, or by other
means efeqiisaleni effect, the institution oil sla.
very, considered as a whole, isTcndsred by lis
ADM ssion into those territories a more powerful
nstiiaiiou than ever--bcter sustained by law,
BY social preferences, by private interest, aud
mora incapable, throughout the lcngth and
breadth Of il, OF voluntary control, --then theY
will make out q case 0ffeal and substantial sex.
tension aEd not OF ideal enly. But, Mr.. Chair.
man, deny that The admission Of slavery into
these territories will DO beloved by any such
general and invigoraiing consequences to Itself
rs these, and deny, therefore, that the 'exten.
H"h VI " tiHhEis w wy eAbs'1it'Ihi 9SHzst 70 III
extension IN ALL Nay, sir, 70 further than this
and maintain that such admission, 50 far from
being an extension" or inauguration Of the sys.
tom Of slavery, Is, on the other hand one Of the
direct means hy which its ultimate extinction
SHOULD lha, be ever desired by the people who
have sanctioned and who only have the right 10
control il )may be rendered more accessible
and moro easy. Every slave, be it recollected
that il taken TO California or to New Mexico,
makes one less in some the States. Let them
be taken by thousands ofby tens OF thousands, it
matters not, the whole process Of filing up the
territories with them whether faster or slower,
isnprocess for reducing, PRO fanio, the numbers
Of them where they now are, and, consequently,
amounting 10 national effect, 10 neither more
nor ltss than a iransieroltbete people liom one
potion Of the United States to another. And
mol only il this rne Of the first Greet, but also Of
the ultimate ono Of This transfer. Fort slave.
holding States, being altogether as fruitful in lha
.rodaoion Of everything necessary to hnnau
subsistence rs our territories are he people that
inhabii them are as remote nc any equal numbers
in the territories could ever be from the period
when their natural progression would be chceket
by the scan,incss lood. Whatever, then, the
numberoi which the emigrant slaves and ihei
poslery might grow up IN the territories, if ad
nted there, it viii be, allowing for the difference
at The outset, substantially the same as that I,
which it would have grown up ia the States, hal
none Of ttem ever been removed.
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