Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-01
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

aggregate white popuIaon, in round numbers,
of 2,700,000, or 80 the square mile; the
old Free States, q popnlion Of about 8 500 600,
or SO to the square me, and yet this table
shows that the emigrabn from the former is
nearly as large absoluty as from the latter
in other words, that th emigration from the
old Slave States was nelly three times greater,
in proportion to its poFlation, than from the
old Free States; for viii the latter were repre-
sented in the new Stats by 975s5l2 OF their
natives, tho latter witlR population not one
third as large, was represented by sOs,6l2 OF
their natives
Now, why is it that reese Slave States con-
tanning an aggregate ara, 10000 square miles
larger than the aggrepte area Of the Free
States surprising thel in climate, and at
least equalling them irsoil, water-power, min
eral resources, and natural capabilities
| with white populatio not one third AZ large
and not one fourth scdense, should send out
nearly as many cmigints to new States and
Territories? What cher reasons can be as
signed but the exhnsting nature OF slave
labor, its inherent ,inompatibility with other
and productive modesof Industry, and its OPP
pressive bearing upa the masses Of the Peo-
pie?
Shareholders seek the rich bottoms Of the
new Slave States tleir poor white neighbors
crowd into the new Free States In 1882 for
example, Indiana furnished homes to thirty
| three thousand peisoAs, who had been born in
North Carolina, AMI bixty-eight thousand, born
in Kentucky-the great mass Of whom had
sought shelter in that Free State from the op-
preston Of system which, by excluding free
labor to o great extent.must drive out free
laboring population.
Look again at the table, and see how Free
Soil attracts the tide wen Of home em'gra-
ton. l,2ls,OOO natives Of the old States in
the Free West, and oily $4,000 in the Slave
West - the old free States sending nearly
a million Of their sons to the Free West and
only $4,000 to the Slaveholding West--while
100000 natives Of thu old Slave States seek
their homes on Free SOL. And yet the Slave
holding West has an area 100000 square miles
larger than that Of the Free West, (even en-
bracing within the latter the whole of Calfor-
MAJ and is equal to it in all natural attributes
Facts like these speak trumpet-tongned for
Free Soil and Free Labor. They show that
the instincts of the American People are in
favor of them--that their necessities require
them--that Slave Labor exhausts tho soil, dis
courages Industry, Expresses and drives into
exile the poor freeman checks population, i'm
pairs the power Of the State, and is detested
and Stunned by four-fffhs of the American
People.
In full view of all this, the present Con-
gress is called upon by the shareholders and
urged by the President, to repeal the Missouri
Compromiss, which since 500 has consecrated
10 Freedom and Free Labor the soil Of our
vast Wes<srn Territory 10 which the poorer
GLASSES Of the South, the working mon Of the
North, and ths hardy sons Of toll, driven ont
Of oppressed Europe, are looking for free and
Independents homes! No wonder that the Peo-
pie, wherever they are free to speak, are thun-
dering their protests against this medtated
outrage. The excitement is more manifest
among our Northern citizens and the natu-
ralised population, but there are hundreds Of
thousands in the South who sympathize with
them. The following memorial, signed by
forty-one citizens Of one or two counties in
North Carolina, presented the other day in the
Senate by Mr.. Badger, utters the sentiments
Of large class Of Southern men, specially in
tcrested in the preservation Of FREQ Soil.
sTo the Senate and House Of Representative,
Of The United States IN Congress assembled. We
the undersigned, citizens Of Perquimans and
Chowan counties, North Carolina, respectfully,
but earnestly cntreat Congress to pass no bill
interfering in any way with the application Of
the Missouri Compromise to the Territory
of Nebraska We do no from the conviction
that the passage Of any bill rendering said
Compromise imperative will be an act Of in
Justice and a breach Of national faith"
The friend who sent the petition informs us
that several shareholders signed itunhesitating-
", and that more signatures might have been
rot. had there been time. And let il be OBJ
served, that although the politicians through
the Press Of the South, always in the interest
Of the Ruling Class, arc vociferously demanding
the repeal Of the Compromise, not public
meeting Of Southern citizens anywhere has yet
been held 10 sustain the demand
Look at the tables, members Of Congress,
and say whether, in the face Of the facts they
reveal, you will persist in attempting to con
summate this outrage upon Free Labor Inst
tutions and Interests.
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