New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-08


,imony Of all reasonable men, Is SO utterly
pernicious
But there must be men in the Southern
States Who are willing to look at facts as
tbey are, aud are not afraid to reflect upon
hem. To them We address ourselves.
Slavery cannot be Perpstuated beyond q
certain period this is taught by all history
and demonstrated by the very nature OF
things. 1t may be terminated in one of
two WAYS: either through emaucip alton
Nv the masters. or through revolt on the
mart Of the slaves. In one Of these modes
4 must in due time come to an end; If
peaceful emanci patton is not chosen, bloody
revolt is sure at last to DO It's work.
Look at the tendencies of things in this
country. In all the middle States the free
population is gradually but surely increas'
inc on the slave. 10 Delaware the process
is already so far advanced that the institu-
ton barely exists, and cannot remain much
longer. In Mar land there are now fewer
slaves than ten years ago, though the pop
ulstion has increased a quarter in Virgi-
MIA the free population has increased above
an eighth, and the slave less than a six
teenth, and the case is similar with Ken
lucky, Missouri and Tennessee. BY this
natural growth of population all the mid
die States will at no very distant day be
free, while the slaves will be crowded into
the cotton, sugar and rice growing terri
tory further South. According to the pre-
sent ratio of increase it has been estimated
that in fifty years the extreme Southern
States will contain vast population OF
slaves, far exceeding the whites who own
them.
Now does any man suppose that these
dozen millions or so of slaves can DO kept
in subsection under such circumstances
1t is folly to think it. They will then
have gained vast addition to their present
average of intelligence; the cangerous ad-
mixture of white blood will be infused
among them in a greater proportion, and
not all the troops that can be raised and
brought to the field will be sufficient to
subdue them. On this head read the les
son of St. Domingo. When the blacks there
rose upon their masters the proportion be-
tween the two was as 100000 to $4,000.
The whites were driven from the country
with horrible cruelties, the natural revenge
of servile and oppressed race. Powerful
armies were sent against these revolted
slaves, millions upon millions were spent
for their subjugation, but in vain. A Negro
State now occupies the loveliest and most
fertile of the Antilles, and by natural seu-
timent of jealousy no white is permitted to
become a citizen of the country.
A similar fate awaits the Southern ex-
tremity of the United States, unless the
whites are wise betimes. There is no al
tentative between emanci patton under some
form and a servile revolt. Sooner or later
it must come, and let those supporters of
Slavery who are most competent, judge
whether half century is too soon for its
arrival.
Free the blacks, or in time they will
terribly free themselves. Men cannot be
made cbattels forever-it is unsafe to sup
pose it. The negroes of South Carolina
and Mississippi may be docile and submis-
sive now, but they will not be so always.
That is a fatal delusion which cannot be
too soon abandoned.
The part of wisdom is to labor not for
the perpetuation of Slavery, but for its
removal. Its perpetuation is i'm pOssible
its removal can best be accomplished while
the danger is still remote. We shall per-
bsps be told that but for the AbolitiOnists
Slavery would now be much nearer its end
than it is. That may be convenient re-
ply to the facts above stated, but it does
Let affect their force an atom. We shall
be reminded of the difficulties surrounding
the question of Emancipation. Nc doubt
those difficulties are great enough, bat
they sink into insignifcance, they are
nothing compared with those connected
with maintaining this institution.
Would to God that our brethren in the
South might open their ears to consider
atoms so momentous, and that this cloud
might be dispelled from the future OF
America Nor DO we despair Of such
miracle. Unpromising as are all the signs
of public feeling in the Slave States, we
cannot suppose that this nation, the an
ointed missionary of democratic liberty
can so signally, so disgracefully perish, as