Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-05-09

nalt-ied, nail CIoineut hhu ihnplons p'fui"-
,ion-without Sabbath schools or any other
kind OF instruction, mental or MORAL or with
ont any lust appreciation 81 character will
be injured by giving them employment winch
will bring them under the oversi 1ht Of cm-
ployers who will inspire them with sell re-
spect, bv taking an interest IN their welfare
We CLOSE our quotations by an extract from
an address delivered few weeks since by
Hon c. G. Clay, Jr., Of Alabama
81 can show you, with sorrow, IN the older
portions Of Alabama. and IN my nslve coun-
iy of Madison, the sad memorials Of the art
less and exhausting culture Of cotton. Our
small planters, after taking the cream Of
their lands. unable to restore them by rest
manures, or otherwise, are going further
west and south, in search Of other virgin
lands, which they may and will dcspoll and
inipoverish IN like manner. Our weather.
planters with greater means and no more
skill, are buying out their poorer neighbors,
extending their plantations and adding TO
their save force. The wealthy few, who are
able 10 live on smaller profits and TO give
their blasted fields some rest, are thus push
ing of the many who are merely indepcnd
ent or the $4,000 600 annually realized
from the sales Of the cotton crop OF Alaba-
ma. nearly all not expended in supporting
the producers is reinvesied in land aud ne
groes.
Thus the white population has decreased,
and the slaves increased almost pdri pdSsti
in several counties Of our State. In 1925,
Madison County cast about 5000 votes E;
now she cannot cast exceeding 1900. w
traversing that Country one will discover
numerous farm. houses, once the abode of
industrious aud intelligent lreemen now oc-
cupiod by slaves, or ten3ntless, deserted aud
dilapidated be will observe fields, once fer
tile, now unfcnced, abandoned, aud covered
with those evil harbngcrs, foxtall and broom
sedge; he will see the moss growing on The
mouldoung walls of once thrifty Villages,
and will find only one master prasps the
whole domain that once furnished h1ppy
homes for a dnzan white hmhio7. Indeed,
a country ln It's infancy, where fifty years a.
90 scarce forest tree had been ieed by the
axe Of the pioneer, Is already exhibiting The
painful signs Of senlIiiy and decay, apparent
in Virginia and the Caro,luas."
This gen,cman is distinguished as zeal.
o, for the extension of the blessings of slave
~ to The Free Territories. The above cX-
tract from his eloquent speech Is picture
dawn from the life, and exhibiting to the
eve the charms Of slavery, winch the small
ilyate their farms with their own hands, well
know how to appreciate from contrast.
We would moi have adyerted 10 The dis
reimbursement of the mass of the white pop
ulation in South Carolina and other South
err States by property qualification for Of
fec, and the defeat Of the right Of suffrage
by the rotten borough system, had we 10,
seen with what contempt Of every principle
Of free government the attempt Is now made
To carry Kansas for Slavery. An usurpallon,
put mp with force and arms BY Gen Atchi-
son has already established Slavery in that
Territory has guarded il with test oaths and
denounced the death penalty against all who
oppose IT, The President OF the U. $ X
pledged by his PROCLAMATION TO maintain the
usurpatinn, and fine Is reelected, or any other
nominated by the South to succeed him, the
Army of the United States will be employed
to rlve Slavery on Kansas under the laws
passed by Gen Atchlsons followers from
Missouri. The North must unite to defeat
this attempt by the election of a President
who will maintain the rights Of the people
of the North in the Territory, or a Gordon of
black Republics will stretch from Missouri
west to the Pacific. The consequence Will
be that no free white Republic will be per-
mit,ed 10 arise south of the tier of Slave
States. The free settlers OF the North on
their way to Kansas are now obliged to turn
away from Missouri, 10 reach their destna-
ton with their property and means of defen-
ding it,.
What will result from the creation of
Gordon of Slave States across the continent?
1t surrcnders all South of it TO slavery and
what will be the condition of the smveless
white population which must spring mp in
this vas, region We see IN the tate Of the
ponT free population of Mexico, to "what
complexion It must come at last" whenever
slave monopoly has once given its owners
the mastery over the soil. Slavery nominal
ly is abolished throughout the Republic If
Mexico, but exs,s, IN fact, under the nate
of peonage. The owners Of the soil feed
and clothe those who work for them they
charge their aborers more for their supplies
than they agree TO pay them lor wages, and
the result Is, that the laborer Is constantly
falling more and more in debt, and the law
subjects him to bis creditors until he works
out bis Indebtedness. The effect cf the sys.
TEN Is to compel a man to sell himself end
his family.
And this, taken in connection with the
condition Of the poor white population Of the
Suuth--as shown m the passages we have
taken from the address of Governor Ham
mond of South Ca-olina, the Hon. G. G. Clay
Of Alabama, and other leading Southern
statesmen explains the recent article IN the
Richmond Enquirer, the oracle OF Southern
interests, which deliberately argues the night
of snbccting whites, as well as blacks, to
slavery. Nav u goes so far as to insist that
tins right Of making white slaves is "inalen-
able" The article lIus presses tins point;
"They hose holding Mr. Jeilerson's doc
trine) begin 10 reason by assuming slavery
to be morally and relg,ously wrong aud the
south hitherto has granted their premises,
and attempted To Justify negro Slavery as an
exception 10 general rule or, # wrong as
matter Of bargain between the North and
the South. The lars Of God and nature are
immmdbio and man cannot bargain them n d
Tray. While It Is far more OBVIOUS that ne
groes should be slaves than whltes-iOr they
are only fit 10 labor, and not TO dreot--yet
the principle Of Siarery is ITSELF right and
does not depend on The difference of compiler
ION
Under this doctrine 1t follows that here a
more direct enslavement Of the WHITE race
may be insisted upon than that obtained IN
Mexico under the conlrlvance Of debtor vas.
salage. The doctrine Is positive sanction
to the bondage Of the white race, and as
serls that laws OF Tod ana nature are I'M
mulable" N its support, land man cannot
bargain them away" 1t is practically illus
trated now in the Utah Territory, where a
man holds a multitude Of women as slaves,
calling them his wives. What is there IN
Mr.. Riches principle to prevent Brigham
Young from holding ninety white men as
slaves under bills of sale, as well as ninety
white women under prelence of the bonds OF
malrimony'
Mr.. Riches explanation Of the Southern
doctrine of Slavery, together with Mr.. Doug
lass act for the Territories which "leaves
the people perfectly free TO form and regu.
late their domestic institutions IN their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the
United States" certainly authorizes the Nor
mon State TO come into the Union with the
Turkish system f1ll blown, which makes
slaves Of all colors, and wives without num-
her. a sad IN ouF uroUFpga