The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-18
From the Louisiana Courier.

CoitfOi nave 81 unexpectedly deferred our close
of this article, that We fear that much we have
said has been obliterated from our readers
minds, through the hurry bi,rly and progress of
passing events. The most we care for, however,
are I e points we put forth, and as we cannot
let go our hold upon them, until we have parted
with the subject, we must rapidly RECAP iuIate
them here. Our position was, hat The antiSLr
rery doctrine pds Ae reriest and riissitt hunbugs
ana inlpoStureS! In proof, whereof, we main
tanned that il WAS so,
Because, the doctrine most impously assaulted
Gods ordinance establishing the slavery institu-
lion, and clashed with and opposed those pro-
phecies of Scriptures, fore-telliDg the unler,bIe
destiny OF Hams posterity and which were
overwhelmingly confirmed in the destiny which
had already oyertaken the islalid OF San Dumitl-
go, and which was obviously awaiting The Il AL
terab'e doom of the balance OF the French md
British West Indies; .....
Because, the ancestors Of those who lloac deny
that thrre Was u property in slaves, We're those
who had sold them Ia Soutlier lers upoi full
consideration, and with warr,ntees that g. ey and
their poslerity forever We're slaves and D70grriV;
Because, tile'r fathers in ratif, ing the Coasti-
tnlion OF the United Stilrs had REQ! lied and
taxed them, and provided for their sure idcr rs
proEe ~;
BscauSe, they and their fathers had taxed them
through acts OF Co gress PROPERTY; -
B|cduse, they and thei: fathers had pr0vidcd
for the collecting Of more than $50 900 900 Vt
the public debt, by levying on aud selling them ;
as property;
Because, they and their f,thers have collected
millions upon niiIIion, of t cir private debts
through the Federal courts, by l.i yimg OH and
selling them. as property; ...
Because, thous HdS upon thousands Of them
annually visit the SoutIi,-who invest snme of
their hrst earnings IN lives pr0Deyfg Alid after
examining their pockets In tic SPOTS of their
Southern adventures, sell EN- out rs prJp1-iy;
Because, ttlrir fathers nor they, found cat III
they were not property until they had reaprd
fortunes from the slave trlda,--nor freed them
from slavery, UHiii Northern climates AID dis
eases mad rendered them bd.Ihen and OK pcnse;
and huhGahy had 1t s!aic Wh;,te.e r in their
liberation; 3
E|cuuSo, they forestai!>d the emarepatirg
laws OF their own States, or barlGuou,ly cvid, d
heir pro, lSions, Nv iraudulpnEiy removing ilIpir
slAvts to the South and selling them us yr0gerlv
Because, for these fifty years past, and ecen i
noao, they have held, and continue l., hold human
beings Ia bondage in their o,cn States, though at
the cost of II few brass f;irthngs per capi,G,
levied upon the whole population, they could
iiberate every one OF them
Because, while they will not pay few f.rth
ings per capita to free the slaves in their own
bid their doing SO, without compcnsating their u
owners-yet, these samr persons insist that their
Representatives in Congress shall cmancip TO -.
all the slaves in The District of Columbia, with
out compensation to their owners at all--thouch
the provision vt the Constitution of the y itsd
States dem lndng that compensation is Identical
with their own.
We defy all scrutincs Of men to adluee from
II" rhr"rrles of any other people 50 many aud
Gnnh ri ttcf, e
'ure these. But they do not end here.
We think, that no one who gves but tie
smallest weight to the facts we have thus
grouped together, can give an atom of credence
to the alleged repugiTlnce of the Yankees to
SLare labor in the federal territories IL is the
sheerest Hypocrisy and nothing else. In what
part OF the earth where 81 very has existed, and
IN whit year of the current half century have
Yankees not been found who were and continue
the owners of slaves! What irresistible COM
pulson brought the thousands upon thousai DIS
OF Yankees who have come among us in the last
fifty years-or what brings the myriads who nre
pourlng-in upon us now! And why do they
purchase and hold in bondage so many of our
slaves, If their pretended repugnance 10 the pres
ence OF slavery was anything more than traudu-
lent attectaton and most contemplate impos-
ture!
In all the bitter remonstrances from New
England from 1903 to 1920, touching the ac-
QUESTION Of Louisiana, the whole stress of the
opposition was levclied against the prospective
lscendency of the sLare po,cer through the re-
presentation Of three fifths Of the slaves in the
lower House OF Congrees.-Not the first word
Is to be found III them against the institution of
slavery ltseif.-No one ever pretended to doubt,
IN those earlier and better days of the Republic,
but that the diffusion Of slavery and the ameli6
ration of slavery, were but sequences of cacl,
other; and hence, humanity must have prompted
It's widest dii1uson! They restricted their OBJ
Jecti"ns therefore, to the pnluicai consequences
And would not the removal Of the slaves from
the States TO the territories, have added to HE
SoutA's rel resentative weight in the lower
House OF Congress Mot in the least: Not It
dot! IL is T. e r--nnst reasoning, that il void .
not. II 10000 Virgnaus had removed rom
that State IL California, with IN hundred thou
sItd slaves, the relative weight of the TIVE sec
lions in Congress would have remained inst the
same. That process OF migration would indred
have given a member to California when she
became State, bat the same process would haze
taken one from Virginia.
The greatest mistakes are committed unon
this subject. To hear Frce-soer rave and
fame upon t. one would suppose, that near half
the Southern members Of Congress were the
Of slave Numbers; whereas.
OF the htteen slave States five Of them have no
member at alI--alld five of them but one mem-
Der piece upon the basis or strength of .Lare
numbers. IL must be. borne in mind too,--that
The ere presence OF slaves in State even in
considerable numbers--docs not determine its
political bearings Is q free or n stare State mon
the great serti"a1l Questions which divide the
GFths of the slaves. Increase the
South's Representative power IN CungresS.--but
hey DO not add II mite To is eieci ,r0I power at
the pollS,--nOr To tho electoral power of thusp