The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-05-10

southern labor and capital may buy and it
may be predicted that in few years Texas
will give up her vast domain to iree-soil and
Texas proper will then be a small State on
the gulf shore; and the northern part Of
tho State of Louisiana will then be the
boundary Of free-soil in the southwest.
This great national devclopement is man.
ifest to every unprcjudiced mind, which is
capable Of colnprehending the simplest COM
Lination of facts. If this be true, then it
follows rs Il corollary, plainly deducible from
the preceding propositions, that the slave
States to which | have referred, including
Texas, are now undergoing the process of
absorption into the empire of the north.-
The free-suil leaders in the South, Clay,
Houston, Benton, DC, BY their acts in the
Senate, have demonstrated that they concur
in this policy of driving slavery back upon
the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and the
votes Of the Representatives of Western
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Missouri and Texas, upon the admission of
California, and upon Pcarce's bill, prove the
proposition that the States they represent
now sympathize with the anti-slavery move
ments, and that these States are undergoing
the process of absorption, into the empire Of
the North, and in the end, and that at no
distant day, the African, driven III from all
points to his original ground, aoil be found
alone IN the States aohich have boundary
on the sea shore, and the backward wave
| will be arrested by th waves of the sea, and
will stop there only because the free-soil le-
glons can drive it no further. Where, it may
we'll be asked, is this national developement
to end2 With the history of abolition be-
fore us, who shall set bounds to it's des;ruc-
tive march 2 1t is now nearly eighty years
since the first note Of preparation was heard.
At the time the question of abolition first
arose in England, in 1872, African slavery
prevailed in most of the countries of Eu-
rope-in the Islands of Europe, and in the
Islands of Asia which were subjected to Eu-
ropean Kings. 1t prevailed over all north
and south America, and the Islands of Amer
lca lt-has since been abolished in all these
countries, except in the fourteen slave States
of this Union. Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil
but little remains to be done :o oon;plete
the social revolution of christendon. How
is this revolution to be arrested2 Will it 90
back OF its owa sccord9 On the contrary,
are not the elements tending to the final ov-
erthrow of slavery, gathering strength and
becoming more arrogant, daring and pre-
sumptuous dailya What motive can en-
ter into the heart of southern man that
can induce him to advise this country to
submit to the fatal action of the federal GOV.
ernment, ~ssIess he IS ready fer c;pu-
ton, and TO surrender the .fairest portion O,
the South, and Of the earth ITSELF to the AE
r7can race !; for the plain and unmistakable
issue presented to the South is resistance or
ooot,t'on, and then, as consequence o
abolition, the southern country bordering up
on the sea-shore must be surrendered to the
increasing millions of the African race, OF
they must be destroyed by the sword.
The deadly coils Of the boa constructor is
thus around US; the hold we have on life
on our national existence, grows weaker and
weaker with every pulsation of the heart. LIE,
the border States progress as they are nov
progressing. for a brief season, and their mum
Der of slaves will continually become less
until abolition with them will create no con
vulsion or alarm. AS the number of slaves
decrease the number of abolitionists in the
slave States increase. The precedent has al.
ready been made in the recent dismember
ment of Texas, that the public treasury NAV
be subsidized to purchase slave territory, to
convert it into free-soil. 1t is but one ste,
further to offer federal gold 10 State. upon
condition that such State shall emancipate
her slaves. Pearce's bill could not become
a law without the consent of Texas. The
Federat Government a0iU assume the zo,oe,
to oemancipate, if State ,0iH consent to the
articles Of agreement. England bought the
slaves she emancipated in her West India
Colonies for an hundred millions of dollars.
"A Northern Senator during the last Con-
gress offered an amendment to the bill aboI-
ishlng the slave trade in the District of Co
lImola' which proposed to appropriate out
OF the public treasury, two hundred thou
sand dollars TO pay for the slaves in the Dis
| tr'ct OF Columbia, and then to emancipate
them. This idea was neither original or
new. The British Parliament, in the case
referred to, has recorded precednt, and as
every step of the abolitionists of England
has, from the beginning, been followed by
corresponding acts by the abolitionists Of
America, the amendment proposed was sane
toned by the authoritative precedent. The
history OF abolition from the beginning un.
til now, shows the fact that the negro is
TO be set free, at the expense of the toll and
the sweat Of the white man, and the time
may not be remote when Giddincs or a
Seward may tender, through the action Of
an abolition Congress and an abolition Pres.
,dent, to MARYLAND, Kentucky or Missouri,
ten, twenty, fifty millions of dollars, upon
condition that sucl, State or States shaU
en'a'e.pate the remnant Of their Slaves, after
the greater number Of them haze been sold to
me south atlantic and gulf States. An
event like this is among the signs of tho