Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-30

tn more gentle, more dogilc, and already
ensIa,o1 and debased African to the genial
climate of New Mexico and Eastern Caliior-
mia
Sir, there is no climate uncongenial to sla-
very. II is true it is less productive than
fee white labor in even tropical climates
Labor is in demand quick in ali new coun-
tries. Slave labor is cheaper than free labor.
and it would 60 first into new regions; and
wherever it goes it brings labor into dishon-
or, and therefore free white labor avoids COM
petition with it. Sir, might rely on eli
mate If had not been born in land where
slavery existed; and this land wHs all of it
north of the 10th parallel of latitude; and if
| did not know the struggle it has cost, and
which is yet going on, to get complete relief
from the institution and It's blleiul cOnse-
quenccs. desire to PROFOUND this question
TO those who are now in favor of dispensing
with the Wilmot PrOyisO. Was The Ordi-
nance Of l561 necessary or not? Necessary,
we all agree. 1t has received too many eu-
logiums to be now decried as an idle and SUI
periuous thing. And yet that Ordinance eX-
tended the inhibition of slavery from the 37th
to the 10th parallel of north latitude. And
now we are told that the inhibition named is
unnecessary anywhere north of 36 degrees
" 'iihhAtos We Nit Ablu AiltN We Iitll IVY
upon the laws of God which prohibit slave
labor north of that line, aud that it is absurd
TO re-enact the laws of God. Sir, there is no
human enactment which is just that is not
re-enoctmcnt of the law Of God. The Con-
sttuiion OF the United States and the Con
stitutions of all the States are full of such re-
enactments Wherever find law of God
or law of nature disrcgarded, or in danger
Of hpiuu liarnuarIaI IL thorn I eball yofa IN ra-
affirm it, with all the sanction of the civil au-
thority. But find no authority for the po-
sition that clnlute prevents slavery anywhere.
1t is the Incidence of mankind in any climate,
and not the natural necessity, that introduces
slavery in any climate.
shall dwell only very briefly on the argu-
mcnt derived from the Mexican laws. The
proposition, that those laws must remain in
force until altered by laws of our own, is sat
isfactory; and so is the proposition that those
Mexican laws abolished and continue to pro-
hibit slavery. And still | deem an enact
ment by ourselves wise and even necessary.
Both OF the propositions have stated are de-
MED with just us much confidence by South
ern statesmen and jurists as they are affirm
ed by those of the free States. The populu-
ton of the new Territories is rapidly becom-
ing an American one, TO whom the Mexican
code will seem foreign one, entitled TO lit
tle,lifercnce or obedience.
Slavery has never obtained anywhere by
express Legislative authority, but always by
trampling down laws higher than any mere
municipal laws-the laws of nature and of
nations. There can be no oppression in SUI
peraddiDg the sanction of Congress TO the
authority which is so weak and so vehement
ly questioned. And there is some possibili-
v, it not probability, that the institution
may obtain ioothold surreptitiously, if il
should not be absolutely forbidden by our
own authority.
What is insisted upon, therefore, is not a
mere abstraction or mere sentiment us is
10y those who waive the Proyiso.
And what is conclusive OH the subject is,
that it is conceded on all hands that the effect
of insisting on it prevents the intrusion of
slavery into the region to which it is propo-
sed 10 apply it.