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search Of other virgin lands, which they may
and will desPoi and ImpOVerish in like man.
rer. Our WealIhisr planters with greater
means and no more skill, are buy.
ing out their poorer heighbors, extending
their plantations, and adding TO their slave
force. The wealthy few, who are aOle to live
on smaller profits, and TO give their blasted 6elis
some rest, are nus pushing Od the many Who
are merely independent. OF the $50. 100, 900
annually realized from the sales Of the cotton
crop Of Alabama. nearly all not expended in
supporting the products is re.invested in land
and negroes.
Thus the whole population has decreased
anI the slave increased almost p0ri pQssu in
several counties Of our state. 10 1926, Madi-
son county cast about ), 900 votes now she can
moi cast exceeding $500. In traversing that
county. one will discover numerous farm houses
once the abode Of industrious and intelligent
freemen. now occupied BY slaves or tenanllesI,
deserted, and dilspidated he will observe
fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned
and covered with those evil harbngers, fox
tail, and broOmSedge; be will see the moss gro w.
ing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty
villages, and will fOd 'One only master grasp
the whole domain. that once furnished harpy
homes for dozen white families. Indeed, a
country in its infancy, where fifty years ago
scarce forest tree had been feIled by the axe
Of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the pain.
ful signs Of stsrliiy and decay, apparent in Viz
ginia and the Carolnas.'
Thisgentlensn is disting guishsd as a zeslot for
the extension Of the blessings Of slavery to the
hee territories. The above extract from his
eloquent speech is picture drawn from the
; life, and exhibiting to the eye the charms Of
slavery, which the small freeholders from the
North and West, who cultivate their farms with
their own hands, well know how to appreciate
from contrast.
We would not have adverted to the disfran.
chisement Of the mass Of the white population
in South Caralina and other southern States,
by property qualification for Office and the de-
feat Of the right Of suffrage BY the rotton Dor.
ough system, had we not seen with what con-
tempt of every principle of free government
the attempt is now made to carry Kansas for
slavery. An usurpaton, put up with force
and arms by Gen. Atchinson, las already es-
tablished slavery in that territory. has guarded
it with test Oaths and denounced the death pen
atty against all who oppose it. The President
of the United States is pledged by procIama-
ton to maintain the usurpatiOn, and if he is re-
elected, or any other nominated by the
South to succeed him, the army Of the United
States will be employed to rivet slavery on
Kansas under the laws passed by General Atch-
ison's followers from Missouri The North
must unite to defeat this attempt by the elec.
ton of President who will maintain the right,
of the people of the North 10 the territory, Of
= Gordon Of black republics will stretch from
Missouri, west to the Pacific The consequence
will be that no free white republic will be per.
mitted to arise south of the tier of slave states.
The free settlers from the North on their way
to Kansas are now obliged to turn away from
Missouri to reach their destination with their
property and means of defending.
What will result from the creation OF a cor.
don of slave states across the continent? II
surrenders all south Of it to slavery; and what
will be the condition Of the slaveless white pop.
ulation which must spring up in this vast re-
gion? We see in the fate of the poor free pop
ulation of Mexico to what complexion it must
come at last whenever slave monopoly has
once given its owners the mastery over the soil.
Slavery nominally is abolished throughout the
Republic of Mexico. but exists, in fact, under
the name of peOnage. The owners of the soil
feed and clothe those who work for them; they
charge their laborers more for their supplies
than they agree to pay them for wages, and the
result il, that the laborer is constantly faingmore
and more in debt: and the law subjects him to
bis creditor until he works out bis Indebtedness
The effect of the system is to compel man 10
sell himself and his family.
And this, taken in connection with the condi-
tion of the poor white population in the South
AS shown in the passages we have taken from
che addresses Of Governor Hammond, of South
Carolina, the Hon. G. G. Clay, of Alabama,
and other leading southern statesmen explain
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the recent articles in the Richmond Enquirer,
the oracle of southern interests, which elaborate
ly argues the right Of subiectn whites, as well
as blacks to slavery. Nay it goes so far as to
insist that the right of making slaves is inalien
able.' The article thus presses this point.
They (thOse holding Mr.. JefersOn's doc
trine) begin to reason. by assuming slavery to
be morally and rslgiOusly wrong; and
/ Al co,,.L L:,La..o Lo0 cronted their nremises