New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-29
HOW THE CASE STANDS.

We haze row IN the States of the North more than
seveD'een millions of people, aud If we should add
thereto tie population OF me British Provinces the SUN
woulc be nearly twenty millions Annex ion of those
provinces can never rake place while We continue
ST. busly occupied in extending the area OF Slavery,
10 which the people of Canada are so muca opposed.
They tsll US frankly, IN the arguage of The Toronto
ColOnist, that they will make 10 connection " th US
"ihst will empower the slave driver to make Canada a
hunting ground Human flesh aud blood snail never be
bartetd in Cana6a Ike the beasts of the field The bay.
ing OF The bloOdbounds shall echo in our woods. IL
Michel wants plantation OF fet negroes fog, he will
have to seek il in other place tn Canada II Can
ada ever becomes State the Union, II not be until
its coil is soaked in bl, C1
Lethe South realize its menace and depart in peace
spd this difficulty will have no existence, while the
advantages of union would be so great 70 the Provinces
'haf. were the hihdrance OF Slavery removed auue1a
tion would follow as necessar, consequence.
What then, would be the real loss resultiug from
secession BY the South with View TO carry out it's
now iavorite project of great slave republic embrac
ing zone of the slave States Cuba Brazil aud perhaps
Ha!t, if her people could be reenslaved We should
lo'e the companonship of fve millions Of white men
who give seven millions of votes and thereby deprive
the whole free people of the North OF all control over
iops for the purchase and protection of territory s
hcent 10 enable themselves to hold the reins OF gov
ernment. We should, on the other hand, gain con
pecicn with two and haf millions of free people who
sell their own labor and therefore desire that the
"hirtlirg should be largely paid We should lose
connection with FIVE millions who differ from ma in all
cur modes of thought in regard to the rights of m,o
and gain connection with half that number who
sgIee With us in reference 10 that important subject
We should loee connection with men who look onv
to eAbaustiug their land and then abandoning t. and
gain one in which every man il cutiysting his own
home aud therefore desrOus OF improving i, for
the benefit OF himself his wife aud his children and
ready to unite with n every tening to that
retult. We should lose connection with dead body
and gain one with living man
Further than this after the South had lef, the North
By pursuing policy tending to elevate the aborer BY
dversfyiDg employ ment and thus incre..ine the de-
mand for labor, would attract twice the number Of
immigrants We now receive, and would thus add 40
enormously TO our numbers and our wealth that we
hesitate not TO express full belief that, in twenty
years from this date il would be richer and more
pOpulous than will be our present Union if il be 90
long continued Stronger it would certainly be- for
Slavery is an element of weakness More respectable
it would certainly be for we mot command the re-
sPect Of the world While appearing everywhere as the
advocates Of Slavery, and the executors of the Fug
tive Slave law More moral would il be- for We should
not cove the lands of eghbor ang more than we
desire to convert himself into chattel Examine the
matter, therefore, aswe may the balance of profit and
loss seems to u' to be in favor of permitting our
Southern friends to exercise their Judgment q. to
the time, manner, ind extent. of secession tn.
Charleston Erenirg Neus thus states the question:
is vain TO disguise H. the great issue of our d.v in
'h country s Slavery or Slavery. The present phase
OF tbet issue H. the extension extension of the n..
tion foundations of which are broad and solid in our
most whatever the general measure-whatsver the
poHueeI eonbDaiions- whatever the party movement
whatever the action Of sections Washington the one
nDgie dominant and pervadins itea solving al eaiing
questions nsinuaIng iselfnio every pciy drawing The
horoscopes OF ali sfprants. serving as lever or furum
is every interest class or ndviduality-a s Of direct
ing fatality Is that master issue. As in despite OF right