The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-01

10 fear as long as you observe plghed faith towards IL
because solemn compacts have been disregarded that
we have had 70 resort TO compromises and temporary exp
dents Let back 10 the original charter OF rights
and make that the bond We Of the South will abide it
be the result what will wish to hold the advocates OF
restrictions slavery these anNebraska agitators 10
their professions They may have all the benefit TO be
derived from tn Missouri Compromise by which slavery
was prohibited from going beyond So deg. 80 min Make
the most oft il Is repealable statute The national
faith is pghted TO the protection Of slavery in the very
Territories from which they would exclude it. Plighted
not by act of Congress subject to repeal by asubequent
act but by solemn treaty stpuaons The third article
of the treaty OF 1903 cedng Louisiana 10 the United
States, contains this provision
The inhabons of the ceded territory shall be ineorpora
ted in the Union Of the United States, and admitted
possible according to the principles of the federal consu
ton o The @ Of the rights advantages and mmuni
shall be protected in the free enjoyment Of their liberty prop
erty, and the religion which they profess"
Here is a compact solemn compact made by parties
able to contract willing to contract and that actually do
contract guaranying protection TO all property, slave
property included within the very territories for which we
| now providing governments call upon those who
profess to be scrupuous in the observance Of good faith
| ~ stand by this compact Maintain national ndth.o
Sir cannot disguise the fact that the root Of this
whole controversy is to be found in what is termed the
evils of slavery IL does not spring from the deliberate
conviction of honest minds that the principles sought
be carried out in organizing these territorial governments
incorrect but from settled determination to override
every obstacle lying in the OF the determination of this
so-called evil If slavery is evil which do not ac
knowledge it is which has been entailed upon We
did not bring il upon ourselves We found Il here when
assumed the rank of independent States II was init
matey interviewer with institutions was recognised
existing institution when the constitution adopt
ed Nearly all tue northern States were then slavehodng
They continued to hold slaves long their labor was
thought to be profitable and remuneratng They decided
tile question for themselves They determined within their
State Jurisdictions when was to their interest 10 dis
pense with them They would be guilty of the ur-
warranabe assumption Of deciding the question for others
Slaves confined to the southern States. What
do the aboonsts propose to do with them? Win they
take them from us without compensation Even the Brit
sh government did not emancpate the slaves of its West
India subjects without remunerang them for the loss We
would not be treated with rgor surely Who will
supply the means2 Win abolition societies benevolent
associations? viii the three thousand clergymen hand
around their hats TO receive contributions of their waiting
congregations noted instance of their disinterested
philanthropy may be found in the history of the Methodist
Church controversy In the division the northern branch
took all the money and turned the negroes and In
dans to the southern branch With this example before
us it is idle to expect that these northern ministers viii
lead lives OF selfdenal or errands of mercy to
with which the liberty of southern slaves may
be purchased have never or heard of missionary
who has been sent to the South to stand in the market
places and buy with the purpose set them free We are
not TO be paid in this way viii the government supply
the meansY That would be paying us out of our own
pockets But with the resources Of the government is
| such thing practicable
There in the southern States three millions of slaves
worth average from 1850 to $780, and in the aggre
gate about 81 Their annual increase in value
is about S40000000 An annual appropriation of that
sum would not diminish their number; and appropria
ton of S6O0O00Oo one hundred successive years would
not purchase their freedom shall not add to this esti-
mate the expenses Of their transportation and colonization
have said enough 10 show that their emancipation is i'm
possible II event beyond the reAch of human wis
dom or human power.
will attempt depict the horror the distress that
would brood the country il such thing
pished The calamity would not be confined to the south
ern States Who can tell what shock would be felt
throughout the nations OF the earth the loss of three mil
lions of bales of cotton from their markets and nanua
tories On this subject have the testimony of distin-
guished English writer who more than occasion
has made furious assaults on the slavery of the SOUTH
refer to Darlington Macaulay He says speaking Of his
own country;
al in this country great manufacturing population
drawing the materials OF manufacture from limited market
see great cotton trade carried which furnishes nearly
two millions Of people with food clothes, and firing and
say that if you shut slave grown cotton you would pro-
has committed your charge fghul contemplate you
would introduce desoaon into your richly hourishng
uacturing districts you would reduce hundreds on hun
dred beggary and destution you would risk the stab
iy your Institutions and when you had done all this you
would have great doubt whether you had conferred
great benefits the particular class for whom you made
| such a sacrifice"
The consequences would be less fatal the interests
and prosperity Of country. II then, emancipation
is impossibeand such would be its results II il were &c
compshed-why this eternal turmoil and agitation on the
subject which but 10 excite mpacabe animosies in
one section Of the country towards another
IL exacts no little Of the patience Of southern 10
hear melancholy pictures drawn Of the moral political and
social evils Of the institutions with which he is associated
He pointed TO the advancing power and greatness Of the
North the hand and the evidences Of decline and
ruin at the South the other shall nothing the
goOl taste Whlch dictates such sentiments t
Lord Bolngbroe who observes that there scarcely any
folly vice epdemica among the Of men than
that ridiculous and hural vanity by which the people OF
each country apt to prefer Themselves every other
and TO mike their customs and manners and opin
ions the standard Of right and wrong Of true and false
] shall institute unchariabe comparisons between
the two classes Of society deduce conclusions injurious
70 that of the North rejoice In whatever Of prosperity
she enjoys ! look with delight and admiration on her
magnificent cities hronging with life activity, and enter
prise her spacious harbor filled with vessels frghted
with the products of cline her fields cultivated
10 high degree Of fertility on her discoveries and i'm
provem n in physical science her roads bridges
mails manufactures and her preeminence IN all depart
ments which depend the skill and ingenuity Of
willingly award her all that she claims but while do
this cannot consent TO the melancholy picture Of the
South presented In contrast
review Of the history OF cotton culture would show
that the South has not been lacking In skill and enter
prise Fifty years ago the cultivation cotton had Just
begun In 79 there only four thousand bales raised
in the United States la 1904 the cotton crop reached one
hundred thousand bales In 1920 IL had increased TO three
hundred thousand In ten years succeeding Il increased
nearly four-fold Thus have gone on Increasing the
production Of this staple geometrca ratio until Il now
reaches three millions Of bales Ia the mean time the other
great staples tobacco sugar and rice have been steadily
increasing, while the dropping from our overloaded ara-
naries would feed the pauper population Of the world
How, then, can apathy ideness want Of energy and skill
be imputed to MS Our pursuits are agricultural Our
labors piled far off in the sotudes of the wilderness
away from the pomp Of trade Our triumphs spring up
like Solomons templethe world without hearoth neither
hammer nor axe, nor any tool Of ron.h We make no
boast We not in the midst Of the congregation
We utter voice in the streets we cry not in the
works do praise Weare not known in the magnificent
achievements of trade rnanufaetnroa