The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-28

ou may of right assume the necessary facts 10 support
hem In 1900 the senator from South Carolina says the
population OF The free States 977 $50 the popula
ion OF the slave States 952, o72-makng difference in
ayor Of the free States OF 1877 only In $780, this die
erence had increased he says TO 2394s3, in round
iumbefs 100000 And this increase is all accounted
or by immigration andiis increase Butte OBJ tain accu
ate knowledge OF what has been the relative growth OF
he two sections OF the conederacy you throw out
he slave population from both Sides because, although
hey add 10 the property they do not add 10 the citizens
of the country Take that rule In 1870, the slave popu
alton OF the North 40 1857, that the South CAS-
ieduct these from the population OF the two sections oil the
country which they belonged and leaves Inference in
he free population in $780, in favor ofthe North, OF 625
DO. Now, take the population in $780, and deduct the
slaves in the way from the Free and leaves diff
ference Of 4,soOAo3. in round numbers, near five mil
lions in favor OF the North That is the actual increase
on the original difference of $4,000.
MIR. FOOTE. Will the senator bear with me Tor one
momentl [Mr. DAYTON yielded the foor;l would put
Il him, whether il is fair and reasonable to argue as
though the prosperity OF country depended on the ex
tent of its populations Why, according 10 that rule
China and other countries. where, in consequence OF su-
perabundant population, they compelled from time 10
lime to put to death large numbers OF children lew
days hours after their BIRTH to prevent the population
becoming too numerous in an extraordinary state
q Mr. DAYTON was not speaking OF the merits Or
wealth OF the sections but OF the increase OF popu-
laton, from which think in this new country, their
prosperity may be inferred do not mean TO argue Inc
effect OF that increase. -
Well il is said that this ncrsase of five million is to be
attributed to immigration and IFS Increase. Now, have
looked little into the statistics upon this subject MI
Macgregor published work upon this subject IN lS4
and he has given the results upon this subject from cal
culaons made from the OF 1880 up to that OIL
and gives the result OF each decade some WIN
and with less accuracy But he has collected
and collaed all the known facts relative to ms
ton and their increase for the last fifty years. and the
whole number OF foreign emgrants and their increase
he says, amounts to million souls that IS 70 say,
Just fifth Of the actual excess q difference nee between
ton from the South must have been comparatively unm
porant And yet sir, the senator from South Carolina
assumed, without giving the smallest data ihat me ene
difference accounted for by immigration and It's IN
crease This is mistake. You cannot account Tor the
unparalleled growth OF the free States, and the unnatural
and comparatively dwarfed condition Of the slave ones,
on any such ground. call it unnatural, because the
southern States first setted they have as WHOLE
as good climate, better SOIL good water power, 2
line inland navigation, and high minded, intelgenl
population II be attributed think, to nothing but
the result OF their peculiar nsttuonto the fact that the
labor OF slaves less productive in proportion 70 the
number employed; is more expensive to the employer,
though habit makes it unelt and epels from ITS side
that labor which labors for ITSELF and will only labor
where labor is respectable. :,
Well. Mr. President, shall be asked What, then will
you vote for the Wimo Provso! Is that your prncple
My is, that am willing 10 stand upon the doc.
trne Of "nonniervention" as to New Mexico and Desc
ret But if you force me TO vote on this question: II a
territorial bill be presented and the ordinance OF l7S7 Is
moved, will vote for it, but ii voted down, may YET
for the bill that will depend upon other clfcum
stances. have doubt that the power to insert the
but do not to it exercised now IN this case,
you are willing 10 stand upon the doctrine oil non inter-
venon But then il will be asked, Do you think slave
ry will go into the Territories If you do not, why
should you vote for the Proviso! do not think that
slavery will go into these Territories as permanent or
principal institution The adaptedness OF this territory
to negro slavery may be judged OF, not only IRON the
character and features of the country, but from
the additional fact that negro slavery has not gone there
during the hundred and fifty or two hundred
wears when il was open under the Spanish power,
whilst has gone into all the other Spanish colonies IL
must be remembered that ST. Augustine and Sane re are
the oldest European cities this continent; that the
ella was explored before the Mississippi was known,
and that California gold was sought after before The first
white found a home on the barren shores oil New
England. Still, think that il you will fill Texas with
slaves up TO the line they will go over just as ney wen.
be still some three hundred and twenty-odd But u
there doubt in my mind, confess strong repug-
having my vote stand on the record against the
application Of the ordinance OF 1857 TO territory now free
posteny will not stop to analyze very closely our rea,
scrutnze motives, but the vote Will stand oil
record, carrying with It Its own maicons'facon ~
understood that slavery cannot reach that country,
to me that the question has come down 10 small
point indeed. Why not insert the Proylsoi We are
told that will offend the Souh that Il will touch their
sensibes. Now, do not want TO DO that and yet "
il be question OF sensibty between the North and
South, suppose may say that there are as many per-
in The North whose sensibes will be touched BY
lis omission, there persons IN the South whose
sensibes will be touched BY its insertion. But now
this great question f be admitted that slavery cannot
go there is whitfield down 10 point like this aques-
ton OF dehcacy APPOINT OF etiquette between the North
and the South, and we have had all this war OF words
and intense excitement about question OF this Kind
Why, California OF the way, before was there
such an insignificant cause for such upfoar We
have the North and the South coniendlng with each
other TO desperation upon the small chance an admitted
decimal only OF slavery going where AZ SAID cannot
into these Territories now free The subject.matter ~
not worth the effort the play Is not worth the candles
But. sir there other questions that have been call
ed into this debate TO wit the abolition OF slavery IN tins
District in the forts, arsenas, dock yards &c. the slave
trade between the States and the boundary OF Texas
My answer all this matter is, these questions are
pressing should be happy TO them all settled,
but do not desire TO anticipate events l fear that TO
this subject more than TO any other, applies the remark
" sufficient for the day is the evil thereof We may set
tie these things in detail, may work them oil piecemeal
when il could not well be done whole all at once
II bring all the combusube material together, we but
see every question Of dissension and dscord like witch
es ll-broh boil and bubble IN the same caudron.
admirer oil that domestic philosophy which pre-
fers that when the child has the measles should take
the mumps the scarlet fever, and chickenpox Just that
il may 20 through with and end the series II is all we'll
child Let dispose OF California rst and then the fug
1--we slave bill will thus have gotten rid of two OF
The greater elements OF excitement Then, as TO New
Mexico and Deseet, let them alone the South cannot
very well secede, because do nothing In the mean
lime Nature will work of the disease herself. II is true
The country will be feyeed little longer BY this process,
but that is better than any legislative pill or bous. war
ranied kill cure" Let Nature take her course, and
she will work her way through without ultimate injury
10 the constitution OF the patient The Territories will
lake Of themselves.
have no idea, Mr.. President, that any considerable
portion OF the people Of this country desire dsunon AT
The North they do not and the South, think
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