New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-20
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While we desire to cOnflDe our STRUCTURES on
Human Slavery mainly to its aggressive aspects,
and to those phases of its existence and influences
which bring it into collision with the rights and
interests of Free Labor, we are continually met
with the assumption that our opposition to Slavery
and it's Extension is founded in hostility or i'll will
toward the Southern States. "War upon the
South" "hostility to the rights of the South, "
determination to ruin the South" are among the
phrases by which our course is misrepresented;
and there are sensible and otherwise intelligent
persons who innocenhy ask why we should be so
inimical to the prosperity and welfare Of the
South.
Is it in vain that we pile fact upon fact proof on
proof, showing that Slavery is blight and curse
to the States which cherish it These facts are
multitudinous as the leaves of the forest; conclu
sive as the demonstrations Of geometry. Nobody
attempts to reflte them, but tie champions Of
Slavery Extension seem determined to persist in
ignoring them. Let it be understood then, once
for ALL that we do not hate the South, war on the
South, nor seek to ruin the South in resisting the
Extension Of Slavery. We most earnestly believe
Human Bondage cure to the South, and to all
whom it affects but We do not labor for its over.
throw otherwise than through the conviction of the
South of its injustice and mischief. Its Extension
into new Territories we determinedly resist not BY
any means from i'll will to the South, but under the
impulse of good will to all mankind. We believe
the establishment of Slavery in Kansas or any other
Western Territory would prolong its existence in
Virginia and Maryland, by widening the market and
increasing the price of Slaves and thereby ncreas-
ING the profits of savebreedng, and the consequent
Indictment thereto. Those who urge that Slavery
would not 90 into Kansas if permitted wfuly
shut their eyes to the fact that it has gone into Mis-
souri,, lying in exactly the same latitude, and is now
strongest in that northwestern angle Of said State,
which was cOvertly flched from what is now Kan
sas, within the last twenty years. Even if the
growth of Hemp, Corn aud Tobacco were not 80
profitable in Eastern Kansas as it evidently must
be, the growth of slaves for more Southern con-
sumption would inevitably prove as lucrative there
as in Virginia and Maryland, which lie in CORE
spending ATTITUDES and whose chief staple export to.
dsy consists of negro bondmen destined for the
plantations of louisiana and Mississippi, which could
be supplied more conveniently and cheaply from
Kansas than from their present breeding places this
tide of the Alleshanies.
Whenever We draw parallel between Northern
and Southern production, industry, thrift, wealth.
the few who seek to parry the facts at all complain
that the instances are unfairly selected-that the
commercial ascendancy Of the North, with the
profits and facilities thence accruing accounts for
the striking preponderance of the North. In vain
insist that Slavery is the cause Of this very COM
mercial sscendaney-that Norfolk and Richmond
and Charleston might have been to this country
what Boston, New York and Philadelphia now are,
had not Slavery spread its pail over and paralyzed
the energies OF the South. We propose, therefore,
to draw paralel-Or, rather, to cite one which we
find already drawn in a Thanksgiving sermon by the
Rev. Samuel Day Of Bellows Falls, Vermont-be-
tween VIRGINIA and VERMoNT-the Oldest and
largest of the Slave States and of the youngest
and smallest of the Eastern Free States Surely,
no one can candidly urge that the basis Of this
parison is not as favorable as can be to Slavery.
Virginia was the first English Colony on this
Continent on location carefully selected as the
most favorable on the Continent, which it probably
was. In mildress of climate, fertility Of soil,
abundance and variety Of timber, profusion aud
value Of minerals, harbors, navieable rivers aud
water. power she has no superior on the globe.
She has been two hundred and fifty years setsed;
with the Atlantic and the glorious Chesapeake Bay
wsshirg her eastern borders and the beautiful Ohio