The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-30

North--did the abolitionists henseIvss-expect any
Missouri contained, IS We have seen, one hundred
thousand slaves, and their value amounted to fifty mil.
Hons Of dollars Had these fanatics who pronounced
pointed out any dsceny plausible scheme by which 1t
could be removeds The entire OF State FOR
thousand dollars and the abolition Of slavery here would
involve the destruction Of productive capital estimated at
tty millions Of dollars, taxation upon the people Of
Eve millions Of dollars annually which is the egalixed
interest upon this amount Of capita. besides the add
tonal tax which would be necessary 10 raise sinking
fund to pay of the debt created The constitution OF
Missouri prohibits the Legislature frop passing Laws
emsncipating slaves without full compensation to
their owners and il i Therefore apparent that tenod
to pay the interest upon equivalent to the actual
money value Of the slaves without providing any means
to extinguish the principal which such debt would
create. We omit altogether in this calculation the i'm
practcabty and impocy and cruelty TO both races of
oera'ing the slaves here with no provision for their re-
movai would create equal, in ali probability
to that occasioned By their mere emancipation
It would SEEM then that the merest glap,e at the sta
tiscal tables OF State showing the population and
revenue must have aisfed the most sAngaine abol-
ZIONIST Of the futilty Of his schemes the nvesga
ton pursued further AMI estimate made
embrace the three millions and half OF slaves now in
the Southern and Southwestern States and the billions
to which our computation must ascend in order TO
tain their value In money this anti-slagsry crusade
which presents itself in form of open aggression against
the white without the sebspce preiext Of good
to that for which the aboonist PROCESSES much
regard and which stands rnt higher in his affections
than his own l. seen to be q mere folly and wicked
ness what is perhaps WORSE selfish And sectional
struggle for political power.
1t isa singular fact and worthy Of notice in this
connection that in the Of African slavery up
this time, government has yet been known TO
abolish II which fairly represented the interests and
opinions of the governed Great Britain, it is true
abolished slavery In Jamaica the planters Of jamaica
had no potential voice in the British Parliament The
abolition Of slavery in New England an in the Middle
States can hardly be ced exception rince that ab
rogation not much the result Of positive legila
lation as It was Of natural cause.-the undtness Of
climate and productions slave ls1r II II well known
to those familiar with the Jurisprudence If this country
and Of England, that slavery has been in instance
thus abolished in any country when the popular win
paramount in legislative action Its existence and non
existence appears to depend entirely upon beyond
the reach OF governmental action ami this met should
teach some dependence upon the will Of overruiing
Providence, which works out is ends in mode and at
time not always apparent TO finite mortuls.
The history Of of slayeholdng States in rela
ton to efforts Of this character il would ought to
be conclusive Mt least against those who have no actual
interest involved, and whom proper OF selfres
pect, If not Of constitutional obligation. should restrain
from impairment interference Virginia in 1881, and
circumference by bold and unrestricted discussion of
the subject of emancipation. Upon the hustings and in
Legislative Assemblies, the subject thoroughly
amned, and every project which genius philanthropy
could suggest was gated brought forward in the
Old Dominion under the sanction Of names venerated
and respected throughout the limits a the common
weahwell known 10 have been cherished project OF
her most distinguished aforementioned BY the hap
pening Of then recent servle disturbance and patron
lied by some oil the most patriotic and enlightened ct
zens the scheme nevertheless failed without show of
strength step advance toward the object contem
plated The magnitude Of the difficulties TO be
great and obvious to strike alike the
cpationss and their adveesaes The result has been
both in Virginia anc Kentucky that slavery, to use the
language Of one OF Kentucky eloquent and distinguish
ed SONS and one, too of the foremost in the work of
emancipation 'has been accepted permanent part
Of their social SYSTEM Can il be that there is desti
tuition of honesty-of nelligence-oT patriotism and
sene tn Se onna IL anal I orern
States II not the conclusion be, that the difficult
ties In the way of such enterprise exceed All the cal
cuiations Of statcsmanshp and philosophy and their
moval must await the will Of that Being whose preroga
tive il is TO make crooked paths straight and Justify the
We have no thought Of The subject OF slavery
Viewed in its social moral economical aspects it is
regarded the resolutions Of Tie convention declare as
solely and exclusively matter of state jurisdiction and
therefore which does not the federal govern
ment, the States where Il does not exist. We have
merely adyerted to the fact in connection With the re-
cent abolition movements upon kansas that amidst all
their fierce enuncations 81 slavery for twenty years
past, these fanatics have yet been able to suggest
plan for its removal consistent with the safely oil the
federal and State.
The colonization scheme of Massachusetts, have
said excited alarm in Missouri It's obvious design
to operate further than the ers prevention OF the natu
raj expansion of slavery. II intended to its
existing limits, to destroy all equilibrium Of power be-
the North and South and lea the stakeholder at
the will Of majority ready 20 disregard constitutional
obligations and carry out "a their bitter end the man
dates Of ignorance prejudice and bgotry Tia
maniiesy involved radical change in our federal g.
thus abotionized every additional part Of the present
public domain hereafter opere settlement AMI every
future accession of territory would he the subject Of
similar experiments, and exploded Wilmot proviso
thus virtually enforced throughout extended domain
still claimed as national and s bearing on is military
enHigns the stars and stlipel pf ihe Union. II tho
plan was constitutional and Legal, il must be
cedcd that 1t skilfully contrved, and admirably
adapted to its ends. II was also eminently prac-
ticablc, resistance encountered, since the
States adopting 1t contanela surplus population which
could be brought up and hppcd, whilst the South which
ad an infp in rpsis ling 10
her white population. The Kansas Nebraska law, too,
which extremely hateful 70 the fanatics. and has
constituted the principal theme OF their recent dennneia
tions, would be dead letter both II regards the Ter
ritories for whchit wa, particularly framed aud a.
to settlement The old Missouri restriction could have
done no more and the whole purpose Of the anti ny cry
agitators both in and out of Congress, quietly
complishcd But the scheme G.ed-,s it deserved TO
fall and the peace prosperity and union of coun
try required It should ini 1t was scheme totally at
variance with the genius OF our government both state
and federal and with the social institutions which these
governments were designed 10 protect and its success
would have been fatal TO thosc who contrived it,
il could have been 10 hose intended to be its victims
The circumstance OF novelty Is entitled 10 its weight in
politics well law The abolition Eruption upon
Kansas is without precedent history seventy
nine years OF our national life have rolled by Territory
after Territory has been annexed settled and added
to the galaxy OF states until from thirteen have in
creased to thirtywo yet It bcore entered Into
the head Of any statcsmnn North south to devise
plan OF acquiring exclusive occupation OF Territory by
State colonization. To Massachusetts, belongs the honor
OF its invention, and trust he wi survive It's defeat
But she is not the Massachusetts,, must d. justice 10
her past history TO say tina, ehe ia the times of her
Adams, her Uancocks, and her Warrns yet Is she
where she stood in recent lines when her
Websters, and Choaies, AMI Winthrops led the
Of her statesmen Her legislative halls oiled
With ruthless fanatics, deal to the past ani reckless TO
the future her statute books are oll ted with enact
ments purportng 20 ann The laws Of con,re-s passed
in pursuance and by OF the special requirements
OF the constitution; and her senatorial chats az Wash
ington filed by rhetorioan and bgo OF whom
studies to disguise In the drapery o classic elo;uon
the most hideous and reasonable forms Of tnaticim,
whilst his colleague pleased TO harangue city rabee
with open and adnerate disunioDisn associated with
the oraclcs ofabolitionism and infdeiya melancholy
spectacle 10 the descendants u he comlars of Benja
min Frankun
No Southern slaveholdng STATE has attempted
TO colonize Territory. public lands have been left
to the occupancy Of such settlers soil aud climate in
vited. The South has armies 20 force slave labor
upon those who preferred free labor kentucky sprung
Virginia. did Tennessee from North Carolina and
Kansas will from Mssoui-from coniguty OF territory
and similarity Of climate Emigration has followed the
parallels Of latitude and viii continue 10 do unless
diverted by such organizations Emgraat Aid Societies
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