Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-21

about one-sixth of the free population The
proportionate immigrant strength resorting to
the new Territory from the two sections would
be as three freemen TO one STAKEHOLDER, and
hree-twentieths. To this must DO added the de-
cided preponderance Of foreign immigration
into Northern Territory, as is shown by the fact
that in 1852 there were 1,866,397 persons of
the slave States. The annual immigration of
foreigners, therefore, which accompanies the
column Of migration from the free States may
be estimated at ons-sixth of the present free
white population Of the slave States. And all
the immigration Of the free States is destined
to free or neutral territory, whilst the immi-
grafton from the slave States Is divided be-
tween the attraction of the new investments
and unoccupied territory of their own States.
II, then, the sentiments of pro and anti-sayery
shall flow into the neutral territory of the
North, according to this, or even according to
ratio less favorable to the free States,
the result cannot be ultimately doubtful
Indeed, if we should depart from the impair
tial position which the platform prescribes to
us, and appeared as the adviser of the South,
we should advise it to seek any portion Of its
own or such coterminous territory as in the
future may be acquired by honest purchase,
instead Of sending its property into huge
slave trap, set in the free Territories, by which
their property may be converted, by an act of
| legislation, into citizens of the United States
We are no filibuster, but there must be more
territory added to this Union, in process of time
1t cannot come from the North, for there is
none to be acquired in that direction. 1t must
come from the South, for it alone can be ac-
qurcd in that quarter. Will it not then be
better for the South to keep its surplus slaves
for such new territory as may be acquired9
especially when she has no immediate necessi-
ty for area. Will it not be better for her and
for the Union, that she should interpose the
whole body of the slaye-holding States, and
those which are in commercial sympathy with
them, between the institution and those who
are hostile to its progressS
This was, in our opinion, one great misfor-
tune Of the Missouri line it kept up a con-
test between rivals in sight Of each other, when
it should rather have been the policy of patriots
to separate them by insuperable barriers
With such an immense and glorious expanse of
territory before us, why should the North and
South quarrel? If, like the strife of Lot and
Abram, 1.-THE land is not able to bear them, that
they might dwell together" for that " their sub
stance is SO great so that they could not dwell
together" If there be strife between their
hcrdsmen, let the North say to the South, in
the words Of the patriarch, "Let there be no
strife, pray thee, between me and thee, and
between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for
we be brethren. Is not the aotole land before
thees Separate hyself ! pray thee, from
me if thou DiH take the left hand, then
wiU 90 to the right; or If thou depart to
the right hand, then / nil 90 to the LETT"
Let the compromise, then, be this:
Leave the institution to develop itself in the
region to which its nature and its interests at
tach it; leave to freedom the occupancy Of
that territory which, upon fair experiment by
the people, may be found to suit it and, by pro-
noting development in distant and separate
sections, any collision may be forever pre-
vented