The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-01

or 10 the printing oi'ce,--Ep. UNION.
From the New York Day Book.
THE ORDINANCE" OF 49,
The notion that the clause in the ordinance of 81 which
prohibited the people of the Northwest Territory from in
PRODUCING negro slaves into it saved that Territory from
slavery is about the supidest aebood pamed OF
on an honest and unsuspecting community.
When the population scarce and labor in great de-
mand negroes were imported from Africa and empoyed
in the central well southern colonies indeed, few
carried into the extreme northern colonies far
north Canada In fact TO the period of independents,
negroes constantly forced inward and northward for
Of British capital invested in the African
trade made negroes cheap that great numbers
purchased and carried North only because laborers
needed but these negroes were obtained easily
that almost every one however poor, could buy them.
But with the revolution in politics there evou-
ton in almost everything else British capital invested in
the African trade found other investments and the price OF
negroes became high that the northern people TO whom
they worth but little would of course stop relying
on them Almost from the day of independence a new
movement set in and instead of northward and inward
negroes began to go southwark and coastward. This
movement has gone since always, of course keep
ing pace with the increase OF the white population native
and foreign and it is bound to go until the three mil
lions OF negroes in midst finally located in their
permanent homesin the tropics and tropcod regions of
the continent. The negro organism is in complete ac
cord with the tropical cline as the pine apple or banana
and he exist permanently in Canada than can
the orange on the shores of the Polar
When the Northwest Territory organized labor was
scarce aud Of extent negroes needed
but the of the day. installing the real Of
the negro and utterly ignorant of the industrial and eli
that govern the whole subject of mixed popaa
TONS enacted law, or rather, put clause in the 'odi
nance which prohibited the inhabitants from introducing
negroes With the increase Of population, especially after
the European emigration fairly set in the negro labor
no longer neededior the simple reason that the indus
trial capabilities of the negro not adapted the To-
cal circumstances neither to the climate the prodn
tons, and law potent than congressional
ments impced him, rather impeed his MASTER to sell
him or remove with him to regions in
with the negro The miserable creatures who talk
glby of "free and save' laborwho not alone igno-
rant of What the negro u.s. but him be what he is
not-f,ncy that 'slave labor" they call it, cannot
tend with "ireo labor" Why, then, in the of COM
mon sense should they camor for congressional aid to
keep out the former2
This is the whole burden Of their cry against slavery
in the Territories and it involves truth though widely
different from that miserable omooery which British 4b-
olitlonism has taught them. Slavery" ireedom has
nothing do with the matter; it is simply fact that ne
gro labor is worth less in northern temperate lauds
than that Of the white man. that is all and it The
whole ground; for, of course the will not keep his
negroes in Kansas where their annual labor is worth but
hundred when by removing TO Texas the Gulf coast
it is worth two hundred dollars
Thus if the ordinance of 1887 had said nothing about
negroes negro slavery but left things to be determined
by the hgher law"by the industrial necessities which,
despite all congressional intererences will govern it, and
govern it, and do govern 1.-THE final result would
be exactly the that actually worked in the
regions north of the Ohio.
is strange indeed and in view of our general ntel-
gence absolutely discredtabe national understand
ing, that twenty millions of white men, the ntel-
gent manly aud noble Of their race should be set by the
by the miserable dupes of the enemies of nsit
lions. But such is the dsg raceul FACT and thousands
and hundreds of thousands Of good and patriotic citizens
dashed into excitement BY handful of miserable
lures whose 6rishizea minds and debauched moral in
stincts should exclude them from American association
while the snhectmatter with which these benighted and
besoed tools of European monarchiss bewlder and be-
devil many rerpetualy regulates ITSELF and congresses
conventions human contrvances Of any kind have
control il than they have the color
negro skin or the size Of the negro brain.
Fortunately for the of progress and the safety Of
our democratic institutions, this negro question, So
called slavery, is in way be understood ana thus SET
tied forever
As sometimes happens when the wings of the same gal
liant army mistake each other in the dark and only need
the light of day stop the murderous work of slaughter
ing friends instead of enemies so the light of truth al
ready breaking in the national intellect will show the
North the position" Of the South and explode the
sureles lies and decisions which have SO long darkened
the understanding and often perverted the moral In
tincts of the northern people, When this s donewhen
the northern mind gets clear conception OF the great
truth the basis Of southern socieywhen they coupre
bend the fixed and rreversble fact that the negro
gro and is white mantlon they will the full
tent the "wdh and DEPTH of abolition decisions AID
among these the vilest and the stupid and
reasoning of them all will be tho fee-sop mpostre that
net of Congress kept Slavery out Of the Northwest
Territory