The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-02-02
sYNo. SIS OF Mr.. CLINGMAN's DlsuNloN
Speech.
JANUARY, p, 1850.

0NN-it . @uHuti message 10 Inc appropriate COM
mlttees, MIR. Gngman Of North CarolinI, obtained
the floor
lie mad great confidence in the judgment, ntegri-
", and patriotism, of the President aud he admitted
Iuiy the right of the citizens of each State to settle
Tor themselves questions of domestic policy referred
TO IN the message There was no difference of opn-
ION betwesp himself and the gentleman from Geor-
ga tif Icembs] upon the questions which now agi-
tate the country. He believed that collision with
the North was inevitable, and the sooner it came on
the better for all parties. The South would be sufl-
ceny united to successfully repel the aggressons of
the North. lie had voted against the gag-ruIe and
favored many compromises for the sake of peace but
all to no purpose
The force of the ant-slavery sentiment of the
Nofth Is not understood at the South. He had sup
posed that to make California and New Mexico free
would allay the excitement; but he was now con-
Vlnced that this would only be regarded as triumph
ana accelerate the general movement against US
10 prohibit slavery all the Tert )res of the Unit
ed States to abolish it in the Distrc of Columbia in
our forts and arsenals, wherever we have urislic-
ton and to abolish the coasting slave trade and that
carried on between the States, is the object of the
North.
This, need not argue, is at war with the Consti-
tuten. He (Mr. c. was opposed to the idea that
the people of California and New Mexico should give
laws to their conquerors. 1t was preposterous.-
mat people would doubtless be glad to exclude not
only Shareholders, but all other Americans if allowed
to do SO by simple vote. The anti-slavery agita-
ton had prevented Southern men from taking their
slaves into that Territory; but for that our slaves
would have been taken there in great numbers to
work the Mines
ms anti-slavery agitation operates seriously upon
US by way of heavy losses in our property Great
numbers OF slaves are daily escaping to the North,
and, though pursued, they seldom captured by
reason OF the conniyance of the free negroes and ab
olltionists.
The extent of the loss to the South may be under
stood from the fact that the number of runaway
slaves now in the North is stated as being thirty
thousand; worth, at present prices, little short of fiji
teen millions of dollars. Suppose that amount of
property was taken away from the North by the
Southern States, acting against the Constitution ;
what complaint would there not be- what memorials
circumstances, land legislative resolutions would come
down upon US! How would this Hall be filed with
lobby MEMBERS coming here to press their claims
upon Congress. Why, sir, many of the border
counties IN the slayeholdng States have been obliged
TO give up their slaves almost entirely.
1t was stated in the newspapers the other day, that
few counties named in Maryland, had by the eff
forts of the aboltonists within six months .upon COM
Paiaiion. lost hundred thousand dollars worth of
slaves A gentleman of the highest standing, from
Dea@zres assured me the other day. that that little
State lost, each year, at least that value of such pro-
perty n the same way. A hundred thousand dollars
Is heavy tax to be levied single congressional
district by the abolitionists.
II slavery has any evils it does not offend the
North The slave trade has benefited the North as
well as the South: waste lands at the South have
been improved and the prices of our staple articles
have been brought down from very high rates to the
present low rate The negroes no more exist in
state OF freedom out of the tropical regions than the
horse. They have never any where, when left to
themselves, attained to respectable state of barbar
Ism 1t You expect the foreign population of the
North, 1t will be found that the white population o.
all the slaveholding States has increased much E.ste,
/ than the free States
We are in advance of the North in wealth, even i
we do not count our slaves as property. The slave
states are much richer than the free States in pro-
! portion TO their population We have also yastl,
less paupersm and crime in the slave States than il
the free States. Looking, therefore, at all these diff
ferent elements viz: greater increase of population
more wealth, and less poverty and crime, we have
reason to regard our people prosperous and happy
NO higher state of civilization eriStS than in the sa
holding States Much is said of our slave population
but, sir, it will compare with any of the white labor
ing population of the North
4 Said Mr. c., not only will California, Oregon. New
Mexico, Deseret, and Minnesota come in soon as free
states, but we are to be hemmed in and oyerpower
ed In both branches OF the National Legislature az
that, ere long, the abolition of slavery in the States
either by change in the Constitution or otherwise
VIII be strongly urged and effected. The North ey.
er openly avows that slavery shall be kept within il
present limits, that we shall soon become like Ire
land or, by the increase of the negro population and
the decrease of the whites, like ST. Domingo.
There are those now living who would probably
see this state Of things but it would be certain to oy.
ertake our children grandchildren These facts
are staring us in the face as distinctly as the sun In
the heavens at MONDAY Northern men not ONLY ad.
NIT it, but constantly, in their public speeches. ayow
u TO be Their purpose to produce this very state Of
things. If we express alarm at the prospect, tbev
seek to amuse us with euoges on the blessings Of
the Federal Union, and ask US to be still for time
They do well, for it is true that communities have
usually been destroyed by movements which, in the
beginning, inflicted no immediate injury, and which
were therefore, acquiesced in till they had progressed
too tar to be resisted. They have, too, constant ex
amples IN the conduct of brute anmales that do NOT
struggle against evils until they begin to feel min
They are doubtless, too, encouraged to hope for orr
submission on account of our acquiescence under
their former wrongs. They know that the evils nj.
ready inflicted on US, to which have referred grent
~ exceed IN amount any injury that Great Britain A.
| tempted when she drove the colonau ;,,o -oz:a.-