New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-18


s.y either, honcred SENATOR that the value of aeOes
was comparatively t,1fing in ,bose days, and thai
.,y,cs VA, nat 40 powerful an element in proSlavery
crreds a. il is in 1856
Yet be said that the moral OF these facts wa, that
Speculative philanthropy, FIVE hundred or . thou
sard lie. of. had baiied thwsrted ard killed efh-
"ciet, philanthropy on the spot." With al respect
fer your sge character and s;tainments Col Benton,
,our begs leave TO doubt-to deny your state
ment
Col. Benton. still speaking Of the ASoI1cu'sfs Is
aided by the southern Secessonists, said thai the!
had made the STAKEHOLDER master VI negro oniy 70
bold him in bopdase-ro. to free him; that they asa
stored emancipation. Facts, Colonel Il you please
En- ancpa,on the value Of negroes considered, Is as
active to-day as it ever wss although not snancipa
tieu on tie soil-alhough, a. yoa say, accompanied
bv e1psira.ion But that evil has is compensation
II the freed regro BY expatriatiss, sewers the tie
which binds him his cd associates, be goes WHERE
to use the language of negro to re-- oo'ored man
isn't kicked and cuff.d about only account OF his
"skn."
80 SLAVE BREEDISG
The lecturer denied. in sluing to the social ties
that bird MASTER aud slave ,hs: slaves are bred for
market. 1t is unnecessary TO give this portion OF his
speech in detail; this its parport and exact ian
guage. BY your leave. Senator, two words here
First: What ties, endeariDg social ties mean, bind
plantation slaves to their CT poprietors'
None Household servants occupy different posi-
ton; but the msjorty-the vast majorty-of slaves
are excluded from the masters house. Second; II is
fact that $50 600 slaves annually sold from the
Northern to the Southern Slave States. (See Chase
Sarborn's North and Ssutk," statistical volume,
which Republicans should scatter broadcast IN the
Il H. rautI1 ID
well to study p. 2 There are 70 slaves bred FOR the
mari ct in Missouri; but Missouri is not the Union,
or the South, Col Benton, and facts are stubborn
things.
The Senator of thirty years attributed all the sales Of
slaves to debt atachm erts and TO crimes committed
BY slaves, for which negroes were often cold in the
Southern States. But facts are facts"
cALAMIrIEs OF DIsusIos.
Passing over the rest of his lecture, which referred
to the agitation of the wilmot Proviso and the repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise, by men who rushed
boldly in where angels feared to tread, and whom he
scathed by shower of fiery sentences we come to his
catalogue of the National Evils which are kept in
chains by the Federal Union, and ready t. desc
late the land in its length and breadth il the Union is
| rphsppy severed. As understood him, they were:
| To the North: Immediate loss Of that trade, bene-
fetal to both sections, By which the raw material is
bought from one portion and returned 10 the shape Of
| manufactured goods;
The ruin of the villages towns and cities which have
| grown up by this trade
The absence Of the Southern visitors who spend
| every Summer season up here;
| An influx of runaway negroes.
| To the South: All the evils that would befah the
North 1.-THE last excepted, presume, and great many
| moro in addition:
She would lose her raw materials aud manufactured
| articles both;
| She would lose the use of Northern shipping, and,
having no nurseries Of her own could not supply the
want;
Even if she had nureries-like our isheries-she
has no sailor, for slaves cannot be made enicent
seauen either for commercial or military purposes;
She would have to throw herself on some foreign
| power; -,
For all practical purposes the Canadian frontier
would be brought down TO the line Of separation be-
tween the North and South;
| Her negroes would make themseyes-as one might
say, and not to put too fine a point on i.-seor@;
Her Northern States would have to sell their negroes
South to bseYent them from taking unto themselves
| egs snd-vamosing the rancho;
The price of negroes in the far Southern States
would .all, and no Governor would be under the ne
cessy Of recommending the reopenng Of the eternal
| slave-trace.
Thus, remarked the lecturer, by the workings Of
Providence. the very object would be accomplished
which the Southern Secessionss desirous OF dis
| solving the Union to prevent.
n heard lady near me remark, as Benton uttered
tb. prediction that if that was true, he ought not to
stand in the way Of Providence by trying TO save the
Upionr
In addition 10 these evils peculiar TO the antsgonis-
tic sections there other evils IN store for u.s. 10
csse of the separation Of the Union, which would be
| common 10 them both. servile-forcign wars
South; incessant civil wars in the kSsder States So
| far Benton.
II enc had time TO review the catalogue Of evils,
which have been coming 10 for thirty years past,
in the event of the shareholders solemny resolving TO
/ commit civil suicide and South Carolina making mp
her mind without any fuss, Il would not Be dnicuh,
take it, to prove that the South, and the South alone
would be injured by dissolution OF the Union Tho
North has nothing TO fear and s less to lose, BY such
| catastrophe. The South has cause, abundant aud
manifold, to fear that event. Her Ongoppressed and
ignorant slaves would sweep of the entire white popu-
stiou of some States and then that Of every State,
with a bloody bosom Of destruction. But the South
has no int ntion of dolving the Union. She dare not
Whoever has lived in the far Southern States, and
mingled freely with their planters and Aborng popus-
ton, is as little inclined to fear dissolution OF the
Union as to hope for . Ixihful and manly Message
from President Franklin Pierce. No danger
The old Senator concluded his discourse BY urging
us TO cultivate the spirit in which the Union was con-
eeved and brought forth, and thereby to save from
destruction.
Exactly That's whs. We want No more eI-
tension of Slavery Our fathers approved that doc
trne Let US return to it, by all means, and speedily.
No more such Fugitive Slave Laws a. toe act OF 1850
Our f.,her never contaminated any enactment %