Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-03-26

interest, the black population of Virginia and
Maryland and North Carolina, Missouri or Ken
lucky quietly empties itself out upon the sugar
and the cotton lands OF the Territories or OF the
lower South, where the torrd sun is so propl-
tious TO their constitution and labor, and when;
as consequence of this removal, freemen enter
into and occupy the homes they have lett; what
is there in this to lament! What shock does ii
iunict upon personal humanity or general tree
dom. that those of us here who are the profess
ed il not the exclusive supporters OF both should
denounce and deplore it I!
But Mr. Chairman. let this transfer OF the
slave to the lower more eengenaal, and more
profitable satit,ldes OF the South be stopped be-
Gin the stoppage of it here, by shutting hun out
of your territories in Mexico let that act oil
yours be followed as it surely would be, by
prohilitory acts Oh the part OF tue savcholding
States themselves. mutually torbl@dlag lmpor
tations from one another, then the relative spro-
rresson of the black. over the White race will
| rapitl}v advance. anda disastrous future to them
| both will begin at once to be Swallowed out
Not only is the increase of the blach race great
err under al circumstances than that OF the white,
because of the absence i'll their.case of all pru-
dental restraint, but when no emigration is al
lowed TO keep Gown that excessive growth, it
will follow of course, that that race will absorb
all the occupations upon which f4le laloring part
quence. will be driven away W hen all the
| field labor when all the handicraft trades, such
as carpenters, coopers, tanners, 4blacksmltlls,
| shocmakers, &c, gare engrossed by the slave;
and tax Ell away from the resources OF the labor
ing White man when in addition to this, the
hopes and means of common education are all
cut off by contiguous settlements OF slaves over
whole districts of country when this comes to
pass, what earthly consideration can prevent Il
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up his family and going to some other commu-
nifty where he might hope to improve and better
their condition Nothing could prevent him.
Thus throrg after throng OF this class amongst
the very soundest and best of all-would PASS a.
way from amongst US, almost as numerous and
and as unremitting as the passengers to the tomb
and so they would continue to pass away, until
I by-and-by in the seyot a few generations,
the whole population in our saveholding States
would be reduced to the slaves upon one side
and the masters and managers on the ofher--a
disproportion so great, SO palpahleto every eye
so suggestive to the slave himself of the fearful
secret OF his gigantic physical power, that
nothing could take from his heart the temptation
to try it. and try it he would, no matter what
the consequences; and thus catastrophe would
follow catastrophe, and our sunny and happy
South would be covered over with scenes of con.
flict and OF weeping. Concentrate the slaves
act of the energies and protecting presence o.
; the laboring white man, and the bloody process
Of st. Domingo emancipation will Ebe tried a.
morgst ourselves-vainly, @but yet a1lictngl,
tried.
The only preventive for this which is at oul
command, the only constitutional mode in whicl
slavery is accessible to us at all, is to open up
as far as we have the power, every practical out
let for its diffusion. You thus cut up the great
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parcel outamongst greater number of States
thereby rendering it comparatively harmless fol
evil, and thereby, too, so reducing the magnitude
of it wherever considered burden, that each
particular State upon which it, presses will be
better able than before to- COPE with and to mas
1 ter it.
But this is the exact relnedwin the case which
gentlemen here so strenuousy and so ardenty
resist Instead of dividing out and draining of
this population they are for hedging it in; they
are for accommodating it mass upon mass into one
vast store1louse, of conflict and calamity. Like a
turbid and swollen stream, if its channels are o.
pen and unrestricted, it will flow gon without
4 danger; but if they are choked and damned a.
cross, and the living and swelling waters, thrown
back upon themselves, are to be sent up and con.
: fined, they will gather, wave upon wave ittio al
; impending deluge for the overwhelming of en-.
banklnents and all that they were raised tc
protect
/ Well, gentlemen, go on with your schemes
carry out your proposition of ''free labor and
free son,2 to the utternost rnle cut fine slave
from your territories rule cut the South, your
true and loyal partner i'll every extremity tor
seventy years rule her out from all due partici-
patton in these territories use all the liberty and
all the faculties which your union with her has
/ impaired 10 yourselves to crush her right 10 a
coequality with YOU in the use and enjoyment Of
a common property call upon her to bow down
and submit to conditionsas conditions precedent
to such enjoyment which. or the equivalents Of
/ which, in your own case, you would indignant.
ly refuse; do all this, and do il in such way
as will 90 the furthcs to Offend her sense of JUS
tlce and constitutional rieht-to wound fhershon-
or, to mortify her quick and generous spirit and
what, at last, will youhaye accomplished by il
all? What amount ofpublic good at all COM
mensurate with SO much sectional wrong
What, in fact, will you have done by it, except
to deropulate the South in great measure Of heI
white inhabitants, and to put the residue; to-
gether withtlleir slaves i'll a-state of aggravated
and appalling danger to4one another? This is
all you will have done. And is this an achieve
ment worthy OF your philanthropy and your Ia
bors Is this an object for which, in the iudg-
ment OF patriots, statesmen, and christians, the
angricst passions of the country ought to be
aroused, its great divisions thrown into commo-
ton with one another, and our blessed Union
itself brought into danger-that Union which,
next to personal liberty land it is high protec-
tor even OF tllat)ls to every American the rich
est OF all public treasures Whil II Heaven has to
give--that Union which, considered even as an
tagonistic to the hopes OF the slave Though it is
not so. would still in the righteous Judgment OF
the world, be worth more, UNNECESSARILY more
to us and to mankind than all the slaves of ali
the globe together! Extnguish it, if you can
in a ruthless and senseless crusade for the slave
and he and his advocate and his master wilIsuf-
fer and perish together. Light up, if you can,
the warfare andtthe spirit of another. Peter the
Hermit, and in'this case, as ni1hat, YOU will be
rewarded with desolaton and tomb
That slavery has been permitted to establish
itself ON this Continent for purposes both of wis
dom and of mercy, no reasonable man who is
accustomed to look for the origin Or ahe progress
of events in a power and "a knowledge higher