New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-10

Lewis Cass, in late speech 10 tue senate, Is
thus reported:
"Tte .tion that peaens taelfs not question fhe
ncrease but the diffusion Of Saveywhether is sphere
he stationary or progressive lie amount will be tho
Yhe rejection this restriction will not add one 10 the class
~ Eetyiude nor will It's adoption give freedom single
being who placed therein; the zane ndmbers will
be spread territory and so a as compression
With late EVIL be- msasd bs
porting slaves country and giving them larger
space 10 occupy"
proposition may be literally true, and yet in
spirit false; or it may be true in letter and spirit
and false in it's connection and intent. This is false
in all three pbases 1t is false that slaves not
increased by diffusion II the hogs or horses first
introduced into Michigan had been confined to Mr..
Cass's county would there have been as many
now as there In all that State If all the slaves
ever brought into America had been confined In
the vessels bringing them over, would there now
have been near three millions in the Union 7 This,
then, is false in letter; for MIR. Malthuas assertion
that population and subsistence depend upon each
other is not contested by him. 1t ia false in spirit
1t does not follow asserted, that the neoesaarea
of life are increased to any advantage to the living
slaves by diffusion. The slave of Texas. when the
Slsve is used up in production, is not as literally
treated to the necessarieR Of life he 10 in Ken
lucky where he ia bred for market. Yet here is
case of diffusion The attention to young children
where the evil is least fet with the increase of
the meana Of life by new territories, may abso-
lately enlarge the mass of slaves, while the suffer.
ipes Of manhood may be greatly increased under
the system of using up in reproduction ofcapital,
in the culture Of sugar and cotton
The proportion is, lastly, false in intent. II it
were true that slaves are not increased by ditfu
zion. and their condition bettered, yet the argu-
nent ia s,il false because of its leaving out esaen-
tial elements in controversy. For this is not
question confined 70 saves bat TO non.saveholders,
who constitute she large MAS OF the whites OF
| slave States, il is also vital,
40 that when Mr.. Cass has made out case OF
justification for bis participation in slavery extern
sion, 90 far as the African ia concerned he is but
at the threshold of bis necessitated defense !
Neither is it true that it does not affect the
freedom of the slaves one way or the other. Be-
fore Texas annexation, slaves in Kentucky had
fallen to $500 and less, but after the diffusion
they advanced to $500 and more Now, will any
| intelligent man venture 20 say that as may ind
yidual acts Of emancipation will take place 10 both
ceaes of price
The f" diffusion of alaves, 30 far from being neu
tral in ts Influences emancipation, 10 double In
| ts perpetuating force.
! FIRST; 1t holds on the slave breeding States
long after all other causea have ceased to operate
| This Ia now the case in Mary land, Virgn and
| Kentucky, and perhaps somo other states, whore
| the rise of land would more than compensate the
slave owners for the giving their slaves up to
freedom. But the eding" syStemia fed by the
"difosion" into new lands! Mr. Meade of Va Ii
reported az having said lately in Congress Viz
eipin has slave population of near half Million
whose vaiue is chiefly dependent Southern de-
maud.n And that demand ia of course regulated
by The opening of new markets by diffusion
Second By diffusion" the dangers OF compreG.
sion and servile inaurrect on are put off Tue "lad
in black, MIR. billiard Of Ala is thus aso reported
mWe muas make up our minds either TO re5iat the
Introduction of the progress of Slavery, submit
to an organic change In our Institutions Who is
right?
pro tanto, the powers Of God. In bic wisdom,
"1aYSis evil seems universal good"-she "long
run" must be regarded. In that view, neither the
good of the whites or the blacks OF she existing
States is to be exclusively considered, but the veal
or wo of the millionR who are to populate this
vast consine Mt for untolo centuries to come
bad hoped, in common with many creduloug
persons, that a lie would at last die cut Nr.
Secretary Walker had, l thought, used this one
up n Jaw in tina "Se annexation OF Texas the
door OF diffusion vide open, and emancipation
following fast in the wake of this modern Exodus !
That was the Northern 1itS0 But for she South.
Messre. Upham and Calhoun-men not regarded
generally as idoss-as the frat officers OF state,
were making ready to go to war with England and
the world, if necessary, to prevent Texas from
being Free State; because, rs they said, Texas
40 q FIRE. State would be the death Of American
Slavery Who lied
And now, when Free Mexico is by the sword
partisioned, as Poland for desposiam far more IN
sufferable than that of the q Holy Alliance We
sve insulted once more with this same old lie
BY and by, when States are to be made of shia
aye.anr exasion,' We shall have new edition,
acme " has after the following manner "Oat Of
Texas, make four Slave States, and by dliiasion'