New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-28

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witch spoke. except TIE Csarstca Mercury, ID IL
R'obm0rd Ero-'ter, deprecated ITS temer'y we
failed To have the proposition placed before tne So1h
crn Commercial Convention; found inii-pos
ton in The public mind 70 be disturbed upon d'aZre-
bbe subject and indebted t. journals q; the
North lor thC opportunity Of more fun discussion oil
tie subject.
Since that time however there have been many cir
cunsances 10 eject opinion at the South. TIE senti-
neLt Of OPT O-on to our institutions hsS led % TURNER
of political aggression. The eutTenchment Of our
position bas been pcd nent 10 legislative and ter
rtOri1 n circumspection Yielding ground before our
sdverssrie- we have come, at last to points beyond
which yield further, and the alternatives OF
surrender or reaction have been forced upon U.s. TO
re6ction therefore. We have been impeei: bat at
every step have been met BY difficulties, which
seemed only to be oby,ted by the measure sepropoc.
One Necessary step Yves TO preOccupy the territory to
the West and thus preserve as near posi- DE, Al
eoualtv in the Federal branch OF the National II ss
tuie; but there we were met by an last thcency Of
population.
While men. from superabundance were cror led out
from the North, and we've directed By emigration aid
socetic- uron Kansas We had not enough for the or
dinarv Cfices Of labor and il required force - send
them out Even then there was the further difficulty
Ii to send labOrDg whites. there the APP
prchension that they Themselves would acquire an in.
erest in the Territory in opposition to the institution of
domestic Slavery, and thus might fail to the
State five were to send slaves, we lose their con-
servative Office III the social economy at home.
So many whites have come in since slaves have been
restricted that t5ls class OF population greatly in
e1ccss Manv have taken to the walks of manual a
Dor They struggle for subsistence in competition with
the slave and already even in this State where there
is still an excess OF slaves the proposition has beel
made and pr ssed TO relieve the whites from the
tiles Of such contest. To fortify the frontier tlere
fore there the danger Of violating the integrity OF
slave society in the center OF our sOundes State The
political power 70 be gained on the hand not
compensation for the moral strength to BE- lost the
other
One effort might be successful but Others must oc-
cur ptTetuoiy, and constrained TO cleo, between
power in Congress power in the States between go
cial strength political extension speculstOns
turned abroad, and the minds Of men wee forced to
yibrate between the alternatives Of crcunscrp ion
or the slave trade"
Another not less necessary step wn 10 increase the
general population Of the South, and preserve sp-
prOxmation tn equality in the popular branch Of the
National Legislature. If il had been possible to pre-
footing in the Senate by territorial extension, It
soon appeared that the House would Toxic the control
Of Government. Tba, body had elected an Abolition
Speaker and ia constituents propose to elect Pres
dent. Without Delegation from TIE ) )u.h approach
ing in strength the Delegation from the North there
was 10 lope of participation IN the Government. The
necessity for greater population became apparent
We could expect great Increase of fore IN labor in
competition with slaves bat 'hould increase &C.
cur ii would tend still re to change the nature OF our
society," The white element would only the more surely
claim the aid OF legislation 10 exclude the slave aud
there was no reasonable hope therefore, of btirg sple
to supply wants with the pauPer population Of Eu
role To submit to the goycl orient OF az irrcspons
bic majority in Congress not 10 be thought Of and
the minds ofmen forced gan 10 yDrate between
the alternative OF dissolution or the slave trade.
There was another important step 10 be taken. A
contrast had been drawn between the North aud South
in respect of their ipprovementsthe Deficiencies of
the South had been established, aud the fact was
charged TO the Institution of domestic Slavery. We
know that this evidence of neflciency-we
knew that while labor had been cut of from the South
it had continued to pour in upon the North; that in
consequence of this, they have twice much labor
and less land, and was natural and necessary, there
fore, that their relative improvements should be
greater
We s1so knew that in proportion TO population at
the South the products are greater tia. among any
other people in the world and to Us there was nothing
in this contrast to Dissatisfaction but the fact
BY all the world taken a. conclusive proof Of in
efficiency. We knew that equality could ultimately
be restored by equality Of labor, but the fact that
interests are already established at the North gives
them pre-ent advantage III the race. II NOlc.tous
for free white labor, II would naturally hesitate to
come in competition with Jour slaves, but il would the
Leo incline to come. that there were no enterprises in
existence attract it These at the NORTH aud
to the North drawn still other labor to their fur
ther progress.
To stem tie suren. of opinion, therefore, as well
to turn the tide OF improvement ard give 10 ourselves
the comforts Of progress and the confidence Of the
world there the necessity for labor, and as this
labor could never come from Europe, We were turned
again to Africa, and the minds of men were further
dependence or the slave trade.
And there was still another step. Men have been
forced to realize that whites and slaves have been
brought together here in unequal and unnatural pro-
portions. slave society, properly constituted. will
have neither in excess, and if left free 20 form,
there ia but little doubt but that the would come
together in natural proportions. There would be slaves
enough for labor and whites enough for direction and
the case would be exceptional In which the white man
would labor in competition with the slave, or the slave
direct except in subordnaton TO the white man. But
as already maintained they have not been free TO tOrn
While slave. from abroad have been kept cut whites
from abroad have been forced in and filling the rounds
of employ ment, open from the humbcst labor to the
highest Offices of direction, they have been in the way
OF pushing Slavery out That slaves. free 10 come,
would have been competent TO every emergency OF Ia
bor there can he little doubt; but Lot being tree to
C, me, they have been too much extended; they have
left int, rsticos into which Free Labor by the necess
ties of the Gaze has been forced and the Institution
has lost much OF its integrity.
While the South becomes strengthened there il no
increase Of strength TO this peculiar feature of
civty; Ere. Labor, 10 competition with Slave Labor
is necessarily consery s,e OF it. own PECULIAR interests
and has seemed possible therefore that the fortunes
Of our Constitution may be determined by class who
have uo direct and legitimate connection with it. Al
ready in some eectiOIs Of the country II has become
more popular to talk Of whipping the North than ad
NabciLg Slavery; al have common cau1e in the one.
but al not 10 have perception OF common cause
in the other and while the interests of the country
tain the South and port to magnificent Of ma
tionGl prosperity out OF the mon not in IT, they do
not point To the integrity and ady ancement Of our own
peculiar form OF society.
To obyiAe the evils of this unnatural condition has
become the object Of every serious interest but it only
can be accom- pl,hed BY an increase If slal 6. With
this eS cry interest would De harmonized there is no
white man who would Lot engralt his work upon the
labor Of the slave if the slave could be had So cheap
A. to allow him 10 do 20 adv anage but without this
the evil must increase and those who believe in
SayCy-who haN confidence in it, efficiency and order
and VINO would preserve and pepetuse it 10 the great
objects Of liz aChie aare constrained ~ look for
the renedy which the condition Indicate and these
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