Washington telegraph., 1850-10-30

| GEcRGIA.-The Union pa pers in Geor
gia are fighting the fireeaters in the mos,
mastery manner, and stating the case il
an nranswerable manner. The follow.
ing, we take from the Macon Messenger
and we commend it to the perusal 81
every Southern disunionist:
by secession, then, we will not only
fail 10 carry Slavery to the Territories,
but we will fail to acquire any new guar
antics tor the institution at home. The
power of the Union and tie restraints OF
the law and constitution Being with
drawn, the abolitionlsts would increase
their agitation at the North, their efforts
to excite insurrection and revolt among
our negroes. The border States would
gradually give way. Their negroes
would be sent South They would ac-
tually be paid to manumit them and be-
come our enemies. In self-defence, we
would he compelled to secede again
The slave population would then be shu.
up within narrow limits Their labor
would become Improbable, and they
would finally become burthen to their
wv ICIS. IlCIC "OuIu OC OIL tIlu W tUe
cherished institution. That end would
be forced upon the country by The dis
union of the States aud we have no
doubt it will be fastened by this very
agitation of the question Of secession, at
least half century. 1t is time for slave
holders to look this question of disunion
in the face 1t is time for them to CAL
culate its cost, and to make a careful
estimate Of ac]tut the South aciU lose bY
secession.
The slave property Of the South is
now estimated at about sixteen hundred
millions Of dOItarS 1t is a species Of
property which is, from its very nature
uncertain and Unstable in its value. 1t is
doubly SO in times of war, and particular
ly so in times of civil war, where one of
the parties may be opposed to the exist
ence of the institution. The Union can
not, as Gen. Jackson said in 1882, be dis.
solved without civil war-and a civil
would end in all attempt at servie war;
in less than six months. What would
slave property then be worth? Negro
men now worth $1,000, would not bring
50 o; and your sixteen hundred millions
of property would dwindle down to four
Hundred n1iLLiOnS Lands and other
property would depreciate in the same
proportion; aud Famine and Penury
would stare Us in the face
Where then would be the blessings Of
secession? California gone. New Mex
leo goue. Utah gone and Slavery itself
gone. And for what, Not because tne
Constitution has been violated by the ad-
mission of California No man pretends
10 say tina; such has been the case. Not
because we were not prosperous and
happy. The South never enjoyed great
er prosperity than at the present moment.
When this state of things shall come
to pass-when Georgia has become
bankrupt-when her industry has be-
co-ac paralyzed-when her planters have
lost their slaves-When her fields have
become teserted-and she has become
like old Spain. bye-word among ma.
TONS. it will be Il poor consolation to our
children, TO reflect, that their fathers en-
tailed upon them such misery, merely TO
attempt the visionary enterprise of carry
ing slavery to California. Wise men
will say that we were set Of sinpletons
for attempting TO force others to own me-
groes, when we had evidently Just as
much as we could do to take care of the
few which we owned ourselves.