The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-04-12
yHooAsoious Testimony for Ere. Labor.

about ono fourth OF the people of the
United States have cnigtated, and arc
LYING in different States from those
in'shich they were born. These have
cmigrated according to their own choice
is directed exclusively by consideration
operating on their own minds as individ
uals, being checked by no obstacle to th,
perfect freedom of movement "with al
the world before theh where to choose
and Providence their guide" The grea
body of them have been governed Who'll
ly by tho consideration Of worldly ad
tautsge-where they could most readily
procure a living, oil where they could best
secure the happiness Of themselves and
their families, A very able statist in
the Ecsntay Post presents a most elab-
orate calculation, exhibiting in a strong
light the unconscious testimony here pre-.
scented as to the comparative d~esirablness
Of free and slaveholding States. 1t de.
velcpo the force and working of " non.
Intervention, when carried OH by indi-
viduals acting freely each for himself
which statesmen. whether Of Congress
or in the South, ought not to overlook.
The nine new States Of the South Of.
fer to the emigrant as great temptations,
SO far as soil climate, and productivoness,
as any other. Yet it is a fact that, out
of i,s26,959 free.born children of the
South, in 1850, residing in other States
than those OF their birth, 6l0,255, moro
than one third, had gone to the free
States; showing that, If the whole va.
cant territory Of the Union were to be
set apart exclusively for emigrants from
the South, n third of it at least should
justly be kept FREQ from slavery.
This tendency is exhibited in a more
remarkable manner, in the course Of emf
grafton among the frontier States, slave
and free, where the people, living side by
side, have the best opportunities ofcom.
pairing the two system. Intercourse is
as free as if there were no imaginary po.
litical lines to separate neighbors. And
yet it is found, by comparing the two
frontiers, that of S43,672 emigrants from
the FIVE frontier slaves States of Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri, 46S,54S went to free States
while of .04O,655 from the six free States
Of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indi.
ana, Illinois, and Iowa, $50 1856 went to
free States OF the emigration from
border slave States, only As per cent.
went to the South-55 per cent. Of the
South fleeing from the presence of slave.
ry to get where it could not come, and
IS per cent. Of the North diligently
keeping away from it. Ought not states
men, consulting for the future welfare of
commonwealth yet to be, and of count
less millions of FREQ people now upborn,
to think of this7
Once more. This writer shows that.
out Of 1917 ,66s of tho people Of New.
England and New York who havo emf.
only 1890 went to slave States
barely 4 per cent. to the South And
then, Of 2,2IO.S39 inhabitants who were
in the other countries, no less than
| IO65,5iS have settled in the free States,
s1ual 10 SO per cent. Only 55,G24 PEG.
pie from tho FREQ States have gone to
Missouri, though the slaves there are
only one eight Of the whole population,
while 1858 have gone up into Wiscon,
id, (of whom $685. were from New
York %alono.) and sS,7OJ to Iowa. The
State Of New York has n free popula.
ion equal to about half the free popula.
ION Of the entire South and Ohio
las double that of Virginia, "thc moth.
II Of the Presidents" none or all Of
'hom havo craftsmanship enough to
make their native commonwealth
hrive. The 6 new free States of the West
utnumbor the free population of the
7holc South. These States contain 423.-
100 freemen from the South, 100000
other nations, 100000 from Penn
New-York, and New England;
a oil, says our writer
1.-Two millions. all ernigrants, each
citing without concert with the rest
ach in pursuit of happiness for himself
lone-each a liberty to 60 where slave
y exists, but all deciding That where
exists is no place for them -
'hese hosts are armies -armies such as
ierxos never led, bridging streams such
S Xerxes never saw, and winning, every
Month, fields more glorious than he ever
oct! Pushing onward, and still onward,
encampment q State, each head
a capital, occupying Ohio, Mich.
gan, indiana, Illinois, avoiding Ken.
lucky, turning away from Missouri, as
rom a wall ,overruning Wisconsin north
yard, then crossing tile Mississippi and
While the head Of the noble column is
bravely in the wiIds Of Iowa, not
only fresh hosts are pouring in from
States on the South, and British
possessions on the North, and New-En
and on the East, but the mastering
drum is heard beyond the ocean, in
France, Germany, amid the
passes of the Alps, on the frozen hills of
Norway, in Hungary. and far away to-
ward the foot Of the Ural mountains"
1t is evident that the free States are
fast filling up. When they are full,
whither shall this irresistible stream Of
free emigration tend2 1t will not stop;
it will either find or make an outlet
EScEFonrH THE OF FREgDoM
is TO BE THE NARcm OF ABOLITION" Says
the writer:
1.-THE present free States must over
flow, and the tide will pour into slave
territory. And all the principles and
instincts under tho influence Of which
the whole North regards, and has re.
garded, slavery as outrage and a crime
if inflicted by themselves, and as IN in
stitution to be abolished wherever they
live, will at n prompt an unceasing
hostility. Slavery will thenceforth be
no longer the affairs Of others. They
can not live in its midst without respon-
sibility for its evils, or stain from its