Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-04-30

aud in 1880, the result demonstrates an
increase IN the free States altogether dis
Ipropnrlioned in amount to that of the
States still infected with slavery. In
some of the latter, as in Virginia, the
number of representatives 10 Congress has
actually diminished in all it has increas-
ed with far less rapidiiy than in the North.
The contrast is drawn TO lis SharpcSt edge
between the contiguous States of Ohio
and Kentucky. The free State was foun-
ded IL wears, later than the slave State
their soil and climate are equal; yet in
less than half century Ohio has a mil
lion of citizens more than lis neighbor.
The consequence has naturally been that
the North has by its natural growth ac
Iquircd a constant augmentation of that po'
Ililica aScendancy of which Mr.. Calhoun
and the South complain. But that fact is
inherent, not in the political institutions
of the Union, but in the social condition
of the States themselves; and the injustice
or inequality against which MIR. Calhoun
protests are the direct consequences of
that very state Of things which he attempts
To perpetuate and TO extend. The North
has gone ON with gigantic strides to cross
the Rocky Mountains and subdue the pra-
iries of the West; the South has infinitely
less force to multiply itself, 10 expand, to
increase. But the reason is clear; the
institutions of the North tend to this rapid
and audacious progress, those of the South
clog even the natural progress of society.
I'm The North labor is honOred, and every
man is the chief workman in the fabric OF
his indepcndemcc-in the South it is ser
vile, and the possession Of other beings
alone commands the cultivation of the soil.
Towards the North ceaseless stream Of
emigration from European nations swcllS
the population with fresh ofscts-but the
brilliant regions of the South tempt no
foreign cmigrant to their tropical soil. In
the North the land is the prize and the
means of labor: in the South land is use
ful only TO the STAKEHOLDER. The North
presents all the conditions favorable to the
increase ornative populatlOn--in the South
population increases more slowly, and
One-(ourlh Of it con its, not of cltl'
zens but Of slaves, and political power
follows the same law. The one is the
living incarnation of a principle of fear.
! The freedom Of the North seeks TO eX-
tend itself to new commonwealth and to
multiply confederate States-the slavery
| of the South clings to the old States, and
views with jealousy the rise of powers
which divide or lessen its authority in the
| Union. The social condition of the North
ncites and invigorales man for energetic
enterprises--that of the South enervates
and degrades him; the one aspires to
complete individual freedom, the other is
sometimes compelled to sacrifice freedom
itself TO security and precautions; the
men of the North live in Jealous indepen-
dence of any interference Of Government
in their public aflirs-those of the South
are daily reminded that the authority OF
stringent laws and vigorous Government
are needed to preserve them from the
worst calamitics of social war. These
causes are amply sufficient TO detem Inc
The inequality of the two sections of the
Union, and it is by The immutahIe laws OF
human nature that the one ilourlshes IN
vnboundpd luxuriance, whilst the other is
crippled by the elements of lis own exis-
tencc.
MIR. Calhoun would remedy the evils
or the injustice of which he complains by
severlng the ties which are already I'M
paired, and By withdrawing from the pres,
rnt Confederation, unless it comedies an
equal range TO all the pretenslons OF the
South. But TO this solution of the dittl-
Gully a paramount contradiction opposes
itself. If the South is already too weak
to obtain from Congress due recognition
of what she terms her legal rights upon
the footing of the Constitution, how shall
she expect to exlort from her more pow
rrfuI rival fair conditions of separation
Who shall determine the limits OF her Ju-
risdic,ion over those territories where ihe
mere approach of her servlIe institutions
is mslinctivrlv repelled Who shall
protect even her own rights and her own
independence against superior aniago-
MIST as long as she is weakened to the
core by her black population ! 1t is clear
that if the question ever reached tins fatal
extremity, the force of the North, and moi
the pro,rstationS of the South, would dic'
tate the conditions and though struggle
I might cnsuc, the same power whose as
ccndancv calls forth this resistance woult
find means to enforce that ascendancy
? against The assallanls of the Constitution
and that contest which Mr.. Calhoun
= compares TO The War of independence
might end with greater probability IN the
>uhjuga,on of the (ecber party, These
. considerations cannot fail to strike Tho
= staresmcn and the people of the U. States
u and protesting as we do an interest II
: ihcir welfare. second only To HAT whlcf
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