Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26

the Soih. Another circumstance, tenulng III
the sana1irection is the gradual liberation of
the morlNorthern slave States from slavery by
the salezr removal OF the slaves further South.
In this Wv Delaware, without formal act of
emanci1hpn, has become, to all practical in
tents. fse and her Senators and Represents
Mves haI frequently shown more devotion TO
The catsg of freedom by their votes than those
from SOL Of the free States. Maryland, like.
wise, isha state of transition from slavery toI
freedomA and in view Of all the moral, social,
and political engines at work for the overthrow
of slaverk. it may safely be predlcated that the
institutob cannot last ten years in that State
The siiation of Missouri and Kentucky is
similar u that of Maryland and at day not
much mdle distant, they will he ranked among
the fred States. As an engine OF sectional
combintion. the Institution Of slavery has al
ready ceased to exercise that omnlpolent con
troll which it exers further South. The affin'
tiles Of the people are more and more becoming
Northern, BY the increase of the white popula-
ton. and the relative or actual dlmnutlon OF the
number of slaves. The growth Of the manu-
featuring interests in these States is the great
secret Of the decline of the Slave Power; and
even the agriculture which those interests en-
c0urageis of a nature not suited 10 slavery.
FromtIlese various causes, the South likely
to be greatly weakened, and the North strength
a seT sRs Al t ansoW9t9g S as P ana
the strong stronger, while the tide Of European
emigration is all The while swelling the North
Northwestern and Pacific States. The South
is therefore doomed to decline far more rapidly
than ever in poll zeal Consequence, until Its IN
terests and institutions cease to be distinct from
those of the Northern portion Of the Union.-
So rapid is this tendency Of things, that we
might almost venture to predict that in twenty
or twenty five years, there will be less OF sec
tonal difference and sectional prejudice between
Massachusetts and South Carolina than will by
that time have arisen between the States east
and west of the Mississippi. We however an
tcpate no strong Or Footed prejudice between
the different quarters OF the Union after the eX-
tinction of slavery. There will doubtless be a
continuation of the Tariff squabhlo, and sec
tlonal strife about the public lands, an the i'm,
provement of rivers and harbors, and the con
struction Of railroads, by the Federal Govern
mcnt but these different Interests can never
give rise 10 the furious passions which the slave
propagandlsts have displayed.
The greater increase Of the Northern popnIa-
ton thin that Of the Southern will affect the po-
Utica power of the two sections in The House Of
Representatives and in the electoral college
The pnponderance of the North in the Senate
will depend upon the erection OF new States.-
The most superficial glance at the present con.
dition Of things must convince every one that
two orthree free States must, in the nature Of
things, come into the Uuon before another
slave state is admitted. There is at present no
slave territory belonging to the Union. Every
foot Of the public domain has been declared
free by Congress. or by the people Inhabhlng IT.
and we see little probability that the law OF
freedom can be superseded by that OF slavery
west of the Rio Grande, or east OF it, within the
proper limits of New Mexico 1t, therefore
any more new slave States are created, they
must be manufactured out of Texas, with the
consenl of Congress; and it is well known, that
so sparse and inconsidergbIe is the population
of that State, that no more than one new State
can be made out of its immense territory. con.
tanning the requisite number of inhabitants, tol
several years to come.
With the Northern territory the case is quite
different Already we have California and
New Mexico knocking at the doors Of Con
gress for admission into the Union; and in
lthsesa ~ four years, Minnesota and OoFegon vii
N ~ ~ fpr,rssstafe Gov
feff'iiiehts. Indeed, Oregon, from the recent
discovers Of gold in great abundance, may be
expected to demand a State Government il
twelve or eighteen months from to-day. The
whole tide of western emigration, which crosse:
the frontiers of the Western States, now finds &
home on free soil and it is not to be forgotten
that The slave States themselves now pour on
their myriads, only to people the future Tree
States Of the Union,
Southern men may therefore as well abandon
the chiherico project of preserving the balance
of power between Freedom and Slavery
"Manlest destiny" has declared against Slav
cry, and no amount of political energy, II
which the South far exceeds the North can stay
the overshadowng influence of the latter in tho
affairs of this country, in very few years.
DisnniOn would be ten thousand times the wors
remedy that could be adopted. The fiat has
gone forth, that the spirit Of freedom Is to rule
the North American continent; and the effort:
OF the friends of slavery to extend the nstltn
ton have only served to awaken the dormant
love Of freedom in the hearts Of the People,
The tme wisdom of the Southern people would
consist in adapting their condition to the order
OF Nature. They cannot ''stand from under
the Avalanche of free principles which thei
COMPUTATIONS in behalf of slavery have precp
tated upon them.
But we hold that slavery cannot exist in this
country many years in the present form of tina
institution, even if there were no moral engn
cry at work against 1t. 1t has within itself the
seeds Of its own dissolution. Slavery is incon
patlble with density of population. Labor be-
comes 100 cheap, and the necessares Of life toe
dear, to warrant the holding of half Or two
thirds Of the people in that condition. A spe
cles of serflom might continue, and the domes
tic services might still be performed by slaves
in Pagan or Mahoneton country; but wher
the institution has no more hold upon mems
pockets than that amounts to in this country,
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