The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-09-19

mas "iIeddy occurred. I
Viewing things, then, practically, we esti-
mate the real relative political strength Of the
two sections as twelve slavehelding States to
eighteen woodworking States: in which
case 1t will only require six more non-slaye- t
holding States, TO make a two-thirds majority, {
which, with the casting vote ofthe Vice Presi- N
dent, may amend the Constitution. I
We will show that in six years, six, twelve
nan-slaVehol ling States, will be admitted into
the Union, but, previous thereto we propose I
to examine the positions and prime iple of the
Northern States; 10 see whether it is likely that
when they have the power they will amend the
Constitution, and do away with the three-6fths
basis OF representation, and abolish slavery.
we think that there Is not doubt but that
they will do so whenever they attain tee pow
er' and further, they will, as they are now do
In by the hot-bed system, overrided the Con-
shutlon to free majoLity to affect their objects
These doctrines arc held in the North, and
are not PECULIAR to any party. That slavery is
moral evil, sin, and curse, and is oppos-
ed to the principles of our government, md
ought to be eradicated; that they of the North
are dlsgraced by their connection with the in |
sututlon, and are implicated il the sin, and re-
| sponsible for lis continuance and existence, i'll
they do not exert every constitutional power
which they can to oppose and destroy it,
| The resolutions OF twelve State legislatures, |
and Of enumerable conventions of the great
parties, have in every form set forth these prin-
clPles, and the representatives in Congress from
| the non-slavehoding States have almost en-
maSSe shown by their acts that they truely rep
resent the will of their constituents
We do not deem it necessary to lay particu-
larOresoutions before our readers, and will
clese this branch by reference to Colts resolu-
ton which virtually declared slavery TO be
/ contrary to "natural Justice and the tundlmen-
tai principles of our government" which res
olution passed the lower branch of Congress
by nearly the entire vote Of the Northern
States
The passage Of this resolution, more than
anything else, satisfies us that the South have
nothing to hope from the forebearance of the
North, when yer they have the constitutional
power to abolish slavery. No one will deny
that two-thirds can amend the Constitution,
and that those who have already violated and
sci at naught the spirit of that instrument will
not hesitate to change It's letter whenever they
have the power.
If as we have stated our belief, the seduc-
tons Of the General Government can command
four votes In the Senate and proportional
vote in the lower house from the Southern re
resentation,. it only requires six more non
, slavehelding st ties to give them twO-thirdS ma
Ijoriy. Every one can specu ate as to what
the result Of each s,ateOf affairs will be; we can
only set forh our views, and say to those who
think they can shift the evil hour off on pos
terity, that they are most egregiously mista-
ken. If this Union continues, the problem as
! 10 the continuance Of slavery can be forced to-
solution in six years, and will be forced in
J twelve years. The Union and slavery canno:
long continue to exist together.
Our territories, or rather the territories of
he tbat al
leo and reft or bribed from Texas, and held
prior 10 the Mexican war, are very nenr equal
in area to the populated portion Of the United
! States, and are sufficient to make twenty-five
2 States over the medium size and it is not gem
81 orally knswn or noticed that our front on the
: Pacific ocean is greater than that on the Allan
Itic, leaving out the Peninsula ofFlorida. From
the mouth of the Colorado, a: the head of the
Cult Of California, at the hirty-second degree
~ Of north latitude, TO the British line, at the
= forty ninth degree, is seventeen degrees oflat-
. itude; whilst, from the thirteenth degree in
It Florida to the fort, fifth degree, limit on
i the Atlantic, is only fifteen degrees of lati-
= tude. There are twelve States fronting en- the
Atlantic.
), Hardly beginning has been made in the set
>. Element of these vast regions, and yet six
=; States will be admitted therefrom in two OF
- three years. Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah OF
'' Desert, New Mexico, California and Oregon
u are all nearly ready to demand admittance in
p to the Union.
III 1t should be born in mind, that according Il
the precedent set, by the admission of Califor
ie MIA, and the attemptin New Mexico, it requires
of very few Inhabitants to make State
G. Nothing in the past history of the worlC
r.. equals what will be the rapidity with which
ID these territories will be settled up.
'IhOCn ftU If
!" who recollect when all the country West o
y the Allegsnies was wilderness, when Cincin
ne natl, Louisville and S. Louis were villages
mt are astonished when they think of the immense
i'll change which has taken place in SO short
A. time; but bear in mind, we were then i~creas
, ing from population of only five or six mill
81 ions and now we have twenty five millions, an
= foreign emigration is much la ger now tina
ever was before.
Pd There is a constant stream of foreign emf
SO grafton by way of Northern Lakes to the sUr
re per Mississippi and Missouri, and Imaginable
IA can hardly picture the masses who are movin
he and ready to move from the Northern an
u Southern States to California and Oregon: an
nd we may also calculate that there will be larg
'er foreign emigration to the Pacific seaboard.
I'm Our space is Limited, and we must cut sho1
nd these calculations; suffice it to say that it is
nd small estimate that half million of emigrant
lu- will annually &c into the territories per yea
or for the nextyears. As new routes and loo,
nd tons are discovered, this population will graC
us; ually spread over the whole area.
len In the first place, six large States will b
on formed, and then as the geography and natu
al divisions of the country are ascertained, tn
if process of division will commence
rol California has front on the Pacific eve
we equal to six seven of our Atlantic States ar
hat already has il been said in her Convention TIL
by she may be divided into six States.
al 1t is nearly the same with Oregon.