Democratic banner., 1849-06-18
FREE sOILIsM-ITS TENDENCY.

1NO dIkUu1Shh ~ -
supporters of modern abolition measures,
than that the free soilers advocste merely
freedom in the territories, but disclsim all
interference with the subject Of slavery
further. We design no angry reflection up
on any of the supporters Of the free soil
doctrine, when we term it an Abolition mea-
sure. That every man who supports that
measure is an Abclitionist at heart, we dep.
recate the charge. Not that il is none ti'e
less an abolition measure--the most power
full ever sprung upon the A"ericah people
we fiji mly believe. Its potency is in the TACT
that thousands ~supportit who deprecste the
interference by Congress with the subject
of slavery any where than in the territories.
They lend there aid to the originators Of
this measure, which serves as an entering
wedge to a system of aggression tending to
the same end--the final abolition Of slavery,
and the dissolution of the Union. No one
will deny that free soilism originated with
the a~bolitionists. No one will deny that at
the last election il was supported through
out the Union by aboliiionists. No onswill
deny that lis success will embolden its pro-
jectors-sdd to their political power, and
throw wide the doors of Congress to legis-
late upon the subject. Don't tell us that
you will oppose any ferther Entertainments
from the North, when "the sceptre has de-
parted from Judiah!" Your opposition will
then be like chaf before the wind. Hav-
ing the slave States chained around by ter
|ritory made free by National enactment, all
prospects of Kidding these States Of slavery
will forever be dispellcd, save by direct
emancipation.
The system to which we allude is then
commenced, slowly but surely. First after
their success in the territories, follows le-
Igitimately the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia. Do you want the
evidence of this? Look to the repeated
speeches, petitions aud resolutions in the
last Congress to that end. Are you not sat
listed with them? Look to the extract
from the address of the Free Soil party Of
the New York Legislature, appended be-
low, in which they make it one Of the car
,,dinsl points Of their doctrine. Having &C.
complished this outrage upon the rights Of
those people, they then proceed to abolish
the slave trade between the States, and to
declare slavesfree the moment they are up
on the high seas, or out Of the jurisdiction
of the State whose laws held them as slaves.
And do you want the evidence OF this?-
Look to the same Congress for demonstra-
tons to that end, where ten years ago, such
an idea would have been hooted as mon
strous and intolerable. Look, too to the lam
gusge Of the address below, which says:
ave believe that the General Government
should relieve itself from the shame and sin
of human slavery whever it is responsible
for its existence" The General Govern
ment, they will argue, is as much response.
BILE for its existence upon the high seas as in
the District Of Columbia. The effect Of
this doctrine is, that a slave is free the mo-
ment bis master ships him upon a vessel at
Baltimore or Norfolk to settle in North or
South Csrolina. And how easy is it for
such phianMropic fanatics to spPly it to
the great "inlsnd ses"--the Mississippi,
that washes the shores Of free and slave
States.
Then follows blow at the basis Of represen-
tation IN the South, in which wo- ffths Of the
slave population is represented, as provided by
the constitution, and which is also alluded to in
the address below. No more slave States they
say are to be admitted, but free States are to be
multiplied until their numerical strength and po-
%litical power will enable them to alter the U. s.
Constitution, if indeed, they have any respect for
that instrument. And slavery in the States leg
Ultimately falls, and with it falls the bands of the
Union, if they are not long before that broken.
This is no imaginary conclusion. The language
of the free soil address below looks right plainly
to that end. Why talk about the fall Of slavery
in Turkey, Great Britain, France, Denmark, &C.,
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