New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-24

-. oor;,g another presi dental term to Mr. Pierce,
"a The succassorship to Mr. Douglis-and all this
without apy sacrifice except one OF feeling merely
Rut. then are these opponents OF avery 50 per
feetly satisfied that 10 other sacrifice Will be required
l. il so certain THAT If We open Nebraaka TO the slave
holders, giving them chance as Mr. Calhoun e1-
presed II in the case OF New Mexico, to get IN with
their slaves is & perfectly certain that we may no.
find ourseyes in the predicanf ut OF the unwary rabbit
who admitted viper into his hole In the ease
of New.Mexico snd Utah. the argument WIS very
plausible that the physical character Of those terri
toYies Wa such as enectGally 20 prohibit the i'm
MIGRATION of shareholders And besides, there was the
Mexican law aboishing slavery to serve as az add
tonalbarrier But the ply steal character oNebrassl
at least of that part of it which first will be settled
and which il likely 70 decide the social and political
character of the whole region, is very different The
best at all events the most accessible pOrtoa of that
Territory les in the zane latitude with Missouri and
adioips IT, The law Of God did not and does not keep
dave holders out Of Missouri. Tbosgh comparatively
but handful Of the population they cOurive to rule
that State pretty efectualy and even to hold such
man az Nj Benton under their thumb; and wb! should
they not do the same thing in Neb aska
Mr Webster in his famous 18th Of March speech
ascribed the change OF sentiment on the subject OF
Slavery which has taken place in the southern States
within the last forty years sOey to the extension o. the
cultivation OF cotton. In certain point oi VIC" '"
correct enough account of the matter and yet i' lies
pon 20 oritieisn for in the first place, Mr. Webster as
crbes 10 the rh0ie South including South Carolina and
Georgia hostility to Slavery in the early days Of the
Republic which never existed except in Maryland and
Virginia and partially in North CarOlin, and- in the
second place, be entirely omits to explain how the
change Of opinion growing out Of the extension OF the
cultivation OF cotton happens to have principally e1
hibited itsel in those States in which cotton is cul
tgated The remote cause of that change of opinion,
which he made so prominent topic, was no doubt the
extension OF the cultivation of cotton but as it most
strkingly exhibited in tie northern Of the slave
States, its immediate cause was the Introduction
into those State. Of the business of rearing slaves Tor
sale business resulting from the joint operation OF
the extension Of the cultivation of cotton, and-accord'
ing to the operation OF all hal-measures-Of the
abolition OF the African slave trade Mr.. Webster was
cautious of offending the polite ears Of his southern
auditors by the slightest 0lusiOn to so delicate topic
Nevertheless the fact IT, that beside the great slave
holding staples Of cotton sugar nee and tobacco there
is another the chief one in all the border slave holding
States in which of LATE years they have suppanted tho
coast of Guinea We mean the breeding of slave chill
dren for sale to the cotton planters Everybody kno Ts
that it is the profits of this business, which alone in
financial point of view make Slavery worth sustaining
in Maryland Virginia and North Carolina. Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri are beginning to into the
same business and why is not the Territory of Nebras
ka just a. well adapted for it
Az there is no conceivable business more calculated
to extiDguish every sentiment of humanity and every
feeling Of sefrespect than that OF breeding slave ch
dren for sale. the cotongrOHing devotees oil Slave
~ and wouldbe lords and masters OF this Union very
well know that ths greater extension they can give TO
this dscreditabe business the hrmer hold they shall
obtain upon those States and Territories in which 1t
prevails, and the greater predoEinancy over them.
Nebraska is not fit for growing cotton and sugar 30
mach the better; then is never can become competi
tor and rival Of those STstes that ere But, change
II into slave breeding district aud Il ts efectuay
,oked forever 10 the cal Of slave holding dominion,
standing much in the same relation to She slavepuT-
chasing States that the poor White nOnsaTeholders OF
the South do 20 the rich slSe-hOlders. Hence II IS
very easy 10 understand the great zeal OF the cotton
members Of Congress for this Nebraska ,raud Re
peal the Missouri Proyso anl not only il Nebraska
prevented from being settled ~ free white Popu-
lation laborng with their hEsds--a class OF per
IONS SO generally despsed throughout the slave states
and allowed merely nominal share OF political inu
ence-but while firmly bound to TIE saye-hoiding 10
terest this is accomplished in such way Q; to re-
move all danger that this vast region will ever become
ANYTHING else thar mere humble su serYien yassa OF
fhe cottongrOwng South.
1t is not to be supposed that Messrs. Pierce and
Douglas have ever reelected much upon any resds OF
their proposed fundamental law for Nebraska, except
such as are personal tothemselye If they have looked
any further than the Hext Presidential election II was
only to one Presidential election beyond. II might
Therefore be unfair to charge them with deliberately
plotting any consequences of their proposed measure
not bearing upon personal Presidential politics Even
grsst men sometimes find it difficult 10 anything be-
yond tie circumference Of their own shadow aud Il
seems TO be an inevitable consequence OF becoming
candidate for the Presidency that ones shadow becomes
exceedingly long and very black quite to bOggle
the intellectual eyes of individuals more aeseeiEg than
the two sponsors Of this Nebraska bill. But
whether Messrs Pierce and Douglass it, and de-
beraely contemplate il not, their bill IS bill IN
the 6rs place for opening field for saye-breea-
pg and in the second place for reducing Nebraska to
mere dependency Of the cottongrowing interest
IfNebraska were a country like Louisiana or Texas,
Git for the growth of sugar and cotton, where the EN-
poyment of slave Labor promised Temporarily at least
yery great returns tie world goes there might be,
there were no compacts compromises in the way
something to be said in favor Of letting Shareholders
into It. But where Is the man brazen enough to
that We need any more ssve-breeding districts Surely
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