The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-08-24

there not about US here, vast tracts OF uncultl-
waited country While the North is moving
on with giant strides, are we not stationary p"
This demand for labor at the South, and the
rapid filing up of the best lands in the West,
have conspired to produce the tendency to
Southern emigration 10 which we have called
attention But we have only seen the begin
ming of this movement. Every year will infuse
into il new vigor, by the increase Of European
immigration and the growth of population at
the North. The demand for slave labor In the
more Southern States will be supplied from
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri !;
and the latter will substitute the labor OF free
men for that of slaves. This is the natural
course of events whose progress will be con-
stantly socelcratng until the last whitening
track of the slave has been effsced from the
soil of the Old Dominion, and the other States
which lie in the same or more northern lati-
tudes But the march of Freedom will not stop
at the line of SO deg. 80 min. North Carolins,
Tennessee, and Arkansas, will next be flooded
by the invigorating tide Of Freedom, and the
champions of Slavery will still be constrained
to move on y towards the lowlands of Florida
and Louisiana. But we will push them no
further for the present
Emigration westward and southwark has
hitherto proceeded without plan; but tho at
tempt to introduce Slavery into the territory
every possible means of resistance; and the
happy thought of encouraging emigration by
the formation Of companies with largo capitals
to aid and protect the cmigrants, has been pro-
posed and adopted. Tho resnlk we cannot
doubt, will be entirely successful, ss regards
that territory and not for that end only, but
there Is now every probability that the same
organization will be adopted for the settlement
of the wild and waste lands of the Northern
slave States. Large districts OF country may
be purchased at a low price, and, by settling
free POPULATION on them, the value OF land will
DO doubled and trebled in short space Of
time. On this plan, the great objection which
Northern men have to settling in the Southern
States may be obyiated. That objection is the
deprivation of social privileges-such as the
church, the school, and freedom of speech. By
settling in large bodies, all these blessings of
free State may be enjoyed, and, in little
time, Slavery itself will give way before the in
crossing pressure of free opinions.
The European immigration to the United
States is now, and has been for some years
past, 100000 per annum; and the Northern
which is constantly On the increase,
throws oR an ever-increasing surplus From
these two sources, the supply of settlers for the
new Territories and States cannot be less than
eight hundred thousand-I erhaps million
per annum. Is it not evident that, at this rate,
all the good lands west Of the Mississippi and
east of the Rocky Mountains must in a few
years be occupied! And, as a necessary con-
sequence will not the tide of immigration be
diverted to the South And how long will it
require to fill up Virginia, Maryland, Ken
lucky, and Missouri when the half or even the
third of these annual swarms of population
shall turn southwardss Three hundred thou
sand per snnum, divided between the above
States, would plant three millions of freemen
ia them in ten years. number greater than
their present free population They would, at
the same time, supply the place of she great
body of large shareholders, who, wish their
slaves, would remove further South. But we
leave the reader TO pursue the thought for him
SELF 1t should not be unpleasing to the most
unyielding champion of Southern rights, since
it proposes to remove Slavery, by the most To-
gitimate means, from several Southern States,
and to furnish the residue with tho kind of
labor which they so much covet. The people
of Virginia may consider slavehoding as
right, but they will scarcely regard it as
duty. G.