The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-08

r very had been introduced. If you asl
: me whether they may not abolish sla
!; sfy, say it is impossible until tha
? state of things shall have arrived ther,
3 which has already arrived in the East
: Wherever the advance of the white pop
. ulstion, in destiny, and in space, shal
, have gone on until, in the competition
Es1 khor the slave ceases to be profitable
Il ssia Slave will begin to be-removed from
the South, as they were from the East
Then, in all probability, they will be
removed by a gradual process, requiring
them to pass around the Gulf of Mexico,
through Texas as gate, landing finally
in Central America as their ultimate
home, separated forever from the white
race. That will, think, probably be
fthe course of events, the final destiny of
the African race upon this continent !;
and that process will begin and end so
gradually as to be imperceptible until
it is far on towards its final accomplish
ment.
| The slaves will recede from the South
in the same manner as they receded
from the North, when they cease to be
profitable, with this difference do not
think our Southern friends will be quite
SO ready to get rid of them by bargain
or ssnfs as our Yankee friends were.
(La1Eghter and cheering.) New Eng
land got rid of her negroes, not by grad
ual emancipation, forced on her by an
imperative necessity, as will be the case
in the south when emancipation shall
take place. There will be no market
for the Southern man to sell his negroes
but they will pass in the manner have
described, performing one of those great
phases in the march Vt the human race
around the surface of the globe, which
we can trace as having an organic be-
gioniug, an organic middle, an organic
end. Our New England brethren how
ever, as lorg as they could make any
thing out of slave Dor, kept it. When
it ceased to be prof: able, What did they
do? As they could no longer make
any money out of the labor of the negro,
they made 1t out of his blood and bones,
by taking him to the South and selling
him. Ifthat is not true, where are the
d, cendants Of their freed negroes? If
they cmancipated all the slaves they
had and did not sell them, what has be-
come of their posterityP Freedom does
not unusually emasculate men. Where
are the free defendants of the freed ne |
eroes that our Yankee friends set free |
They did not set them free, but sent |
them South, and continued to import |
them. They insisted on the Federal
Convention which framed the Constitu-
ton, that they should have until 1909 |
to import them. They had some old |
vessels ct worn out in the African
slave trade, wich would not be used UP
before-lS00. and they caused a clause to
be inse ed in the Constitution cover
ing the entire profits that could be made
out of the importation os the African |
race. Now when they have got rid of
their negroes by increasing the calami-
ties of-the South-for slavery is un-
questionably calamity wherever it cx-
ists-and rendering it more impossible |
for the South to get rid of this evil, they |
seem to have laid in wait until they got |
a majority of one State in the Confeder- |
acy, and then whispered among them
selves "now we have them, let US elect |
a President of the free States" The |
very idea is the entering wedge to a
dissolution of the Union. The very |
fact that man is running for the Presi-
dency in the free States alone, who has
no ticket in the Southern States, is an |
intimation in the work of dissolution.
Why does he run in that way? He un-
dertaKes,to ask the American people to
make linn President. Under the Con-
stitution the people of the South have
right to vote for President; hut they
are called upon to stand by quietly and
see man put in possession of their pow
er, who claims that possession with an
avowed intention of using that power to
their prejudice. Yet persons have the
madness to say Americans will stand
all this? Will they? Reverse the
case; suppose the slave States should
say-and they could say it with more
propriety, logic, and truth" gentle
men of the free States, nothing but an
air line divides us in many places: riv-
ers short and fordable in others; the
proximity of this line of free States is
prejudical to US, because they afford an
inducement to our slaves to escape"
The argument is true. Suppose the
slave States should band together urg-
ing this argument, and should insist Oh
the free States adopting slavery, and
they should run candidate pledged to
use thefederal power in such manner as
to coerce the free States to become
slave, would you not consider it the ex-
tremity of human arrogances And yet
it would. be but reversing an existing
condition of things
I have said the present population of
the South are not responsible for the
existence of slavery. The immediate
ancestors of the present race of South |