Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-01-22
No MORE SLAVE STATES.

almost universally either emigrates TO the sou'n or
.oss into to soms business in which the raw material
is made by slave labor and the manufactured article
sold TO slave owners. Every neighborhood and every
store, south of Mason's and Dixon's Line, contains
sersuns.hnttnS Noeshsrners, is full OF Yankee no
tons. Teachers, Professors, Merchants Lawyers
psd,,rs show-men and Mountebanks come South
in ,bosls every season. to share In the profits OF slave
rv The much. abused saveholding South, Id the Ia
yorte rssor, of hard pushed Yankee, thrown OIL his
wits for living. On his wits we say-'or ne ID d.
10 hard labor as any other. Southerners often
work in the field, and engage in all kinds OF indepen
dent manual labor, hut the Yankee, much as nc iauu'
labor is the last i'll the world TO uhaer'ake IT.
he can possibly avoid it. At home, he manages LOT
,r;ae to command the labor of newly arrived nh'n-
grants. They build his roads, sweep his Streets ''
hi. fields and wait upon his table At the Sonth' oy
dnt of bis wits he shirks work, and manages 10 go
halves with the masters i'll the results oi negro ID
bor The North's hatred to foreigners, slaVe-loio
ers and slave States is very unreasonable since 'hey
are the subjects out of which Northerners extract
living, without resorting to hard work.
Few Southerners migrate to an old free State
Free society," fully established is the practical e1elu
Thus, them we see that the exclusion OF slavery s'
in the end the exclusion OF all persons living IL slave
society. The loose economy, improvdehce' anu u'''
SUSPICIOUS natures. of men bred ut the Sou'h' u'u'
them for the close6sted selfshness and keen encoun'
,sr Of wits practised in free States. Yet the N"rh
would appropriate to itself all the immense uhse'eu
| d,,,s;, of th. Republic Who will feed and clothe
,bs.o muti,udiuous free States! The Yankee wont
work in the ield will neither raise grain or co'!on'
The Southern negroes and the emigrants 10 'ne
North West, now feed and clothe him. bu'' unie''
he permits slavery greatly TO expand and imm'gra-
ton to increase he must change his habits or s'a u
That he will stsrve sooner than work. Is cer'a lot
fro. society is now every where, starving and has
beeu doing so more or less, from its origin Work
;ps in the field is the hardest and worst paid vi al
work, and free people who choose their VOCATION
sbou, il: SO that but for Russia and our Southern
States, Western Europe and our h-East, mus
speedily perish. The rich prsirics Of the North
West, scratched over once year, chiefly BY imin
grauts do enable the North to make little show o
farming but slovenly cultivation is fast exhaustin5
them, aud in few generations the immigrant learns
from the Yankee to shun work. and to try TO live by
bis wits. Without rupid extension of slavery, and
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census ur fifty years Of America and Europe shows
that tha North must starve and go naked. Slave Ia
bor throughout all ages has been the ouly available
farming labor. and human nature ID now just what ii
has over been. The North is vi,aly ntereated in the
extension Of slavery and cannot for her fe suggest
| u plausible argument against such extension.
As matter of policy and humanity as well as Of
Christian duty, ali patriots, good men anu Chr''ais'
| North and South, should protest against extending
an inch, form Of society that Is only promo 0i
! crime. hunger nskedness lnhdelity, revolution ana
civil war. II thss become so much a habit OF iniho'
everywhere 10 look on universal liberty as gooo'
and slavery a, an evil that Southerners, swak-
encd o.duy to the folly and fn-ity of such opinions
unconsciously relapse into them tomorrow. oVer'
and over agsn, have we drawn this picture OF tree
society. Again aud again, have we appealed 10 MS
tory to statistics and the admissions, even oil the
abolitiousts, sustain our assertions. oiteh nave
! ~s de6ed contradiction. Repeatedly have we asked
the North "has not the experiment of universal Der
~ fued7 "Are not the evils OF free society lnto!eia
ole1" and "do not most thinking men among you
propose 10 subvert and reconstruct it !-stl no an
.wsr This gloomy silence is another conclusive
nroof added to the many other conclusive evidence
we had furnished that free society in the long run'
i. an mpracticabe form Of society. 1t is everywhere
starving, demors!ised in6del, insurrectonary, mor-
buud. Living in i,s midst Mr.. Carlyle utters the
thought Of ALL 1--WE must have no" "oria' we
are to have any world at all ~
Even we of the South were taught to revere thls
form of society," which stands nowla confessed failure
It is hard very hard, to divest ourselves OF early
opinions Hence the necessity, on our part, as lain
full sentinels of the South to thunder these truhs
again and again, into the cara OF our people. Inc
habits of their minds the in which their thoughts
have been wont to run, render it very dlfhcuit 70
give constant and practical acceptance to tne ae
founding facts which history statistics and soclolo
~ are daily evolving. We repeat then, that policy
humanity and christianity alike forbid the extension
Of the evils of free society, to new people and COM
ing generations.
But what pretext or color ofrght has the North to
grasp and appropriate to herself the mighty unoccu
pied territory Of the Unionl Did it belong to her be-
fore the Revolution. and did she bestow 1t on the
Union! Did her orators, her statesmen, her diplo
matsts her generals her soldiers and her Presidents
win it for the Union No: Virginia, and other South
ern States generously gave up an empire, the better
part of which she has already cutched, settled, and
excluded shareholders from participating in. The bal
snce WINS acquired chiefly by the South, with little
aid and much opposition from the North. Jefteraon
annexed louisiana the North protesting against the
ACQUISITION; Monroe added Florida Polk, with
Northern opposition, extended and secured Oregon !;
TYLER, and Wise, and Upshur, and Gmer, and Polk,
aided by Scott and Taylor, (all Southern men,
gave to us New Mexico, California and Tex
| A. while
against the acquisition. And now, forsooth, the
South, that gave or won all, is to be excluded,
and the laggard, whining, hypocritical North ia to
take what more rightfully belongs to @. Shall
we submit to it We won it from others, can we not
ms'nain an equal right to it against the North 7
worse than all, shall submit to the base charge,
49,, ne stigma the abominable falsehood, on which
..'''n oases her claim She asserts that slavery
unnatural, immoral, unchristian; that we are
'H'" "'eSsd' npioua men, and not fit associates for
her.
IL We yie!o 10 her oaim we admit her charges;
"."' ''o. '""'u'"g slaves are offending the con.
a'aeheee Va n'e' a"" violating the ordinances of God.
LIST cu"fsea oe rue' why let her take all tle terri.
tory ana take our slaves too. If slavery he unnatu
rai immoral irreligious, it cannot last Natpre 10
truth, and is sure, at last, to prevail Ns,uro 20 tho
active expression Of Gods will, and men ara No, ,o,z
permitted to violate that will If slavery be not the
right the healthfl form Of society It will not endure
long. But hos endured already for countless ayes,
and now covers niue-tsnths of the world. Public
opinion has become welrsniSh omnipotept Two op.
puste and conflicting forms of society cannot, among
civilized men, coexist and endure. The one muss
give way aud cease to exist the other become uni
vsrsal. If free society be unnatural, immoral, IN.