New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-10
THE FACTS OF TIE CASE.

The philadelphia Times gives The following i'm
pregnable array of facts, in opposition to the
skulker's pretense that Slavery is excluded from
Kansas and Nebraska byclimate or any other physi-
cal consideration. Read and consider
In The Pvbhc Ledger of October is an extract
from tho speech of Mr.. ALrES of Ohio delivered in
National Hall, ON Tuesday evening last in which he
asserts Endorsed by the editor Of that print that il l.
entirely supererogatory 10 hni IN Slarcrv by com
pOnse lines rs the law of climate settles that matter
Let facts and statistics In the States of Della
wave, Marya Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. all
north of 80 deg. 80 mln, the Compromise Line and
oil either on the same parallel OF latitude as Kansas
north Of it, there S6i 5SS slaves. nearly Oncthd
of tie whole number of that unfortunate class in the
United States; and yet these States almost dcnt-
cal in climate and productions with PeInsyyana and
the States directly wes of and north GeOgraphers assign
eight degrees Of latitude 10 what is called climate,
while the extreme southern boundary OF these States ~
only half degree south OF the southern limit of ILL
DOis and from TO three degrees south of the other
portions More than half Of the great States of OHIO,
Indiana and Illinois las will be readily seen bya glance
at the map,) are parallel with central and northern
Missouri where Slavery has increased from 1927 in
1870 TO & ,4!2 i'll 1850 ne0rig a n,nCOid increase in
thirty years! =! The Counties of Galloway, Clay,
Cooper, Howard, jackson, Lafayette, Lincoln,
Marion, Monroe, Pike Platte Randolph, Saline and
ST. Louis in the State of Missouri having each vary
ing from 2O27 to $3.50 slaves lie north OF the parallel
of the city of st. Louis, except the county of that
name, ana most of them north of the Missouri River
willie lot n county south of the parallel had over
100 slaves in 1880, if DE Bows Census Compendium
be correct. SO that il that Slavery will not only
60 north of 36 deg. 30 min but will remain thorc and
'acrcdse Notwithstanding continual drain by export
to the States uIher southOr there SO3,5S OF the
3.0i.l3 slaves in the United States. The lamentable
fact is that Slavery will go wherever the avace and
evil passions of men are allowed to carry Il. True it
would be profitable to the mass of citizens OF
The State to have paid labor but not TO the large
av, holders and e.breedeTs who by monopolizag
large tracts Of land, drive off white labor by cheapen-
Ing and degrading it. In the same article II Is asserted
Il at il there were had been, compromise line,
en- igration of white population would have gone
much more rapidly than II has done into the Slave
States There has been restrictive line on the east
side OF the Mississippi River, yet III the three free
States of Ohio Indiana and Illinois, and the two Slave
States Of Kentucky and Tonnessee-all settled since
the Rcrolution-the white population born IN the first
three and settled in the latter in 1850, only 49,,
9l5 while, of the inhabitants OF ONO, Indiana and
Illinois l7S,97S were bonn in Kentucky and Tennessee.
hat is. the emigration of whites from two adjacent
slave States south of the OHIO River, to three Free
States North of it, nj lciod greater than that from
the same FREQ TO the same Slave States, though the
uopuation TO the square mile the Free States aver
AGED 81 .3S3 and in the Slave States only 2tu3. SO
much for statistics. But the moral effects are still
worse Admit Slavery into state, no matter In no"
small dcgIec and the whole legislation OF that state
becomes at ProSlavery, and prevents any nita-
tory steps for its ameloration and gradual extinction
What State could be more violent and Pro-Saycry IN
its action than this same northern half degree north
the United States seem 10 forget that much the larger
portion of the Slavery of the world has been ~apc;
the Slavery Of Iudea Greece, and the immense Roman
Elnpiro in ancient times, and of Russia, il4,WU,OOl
Belooch-an Aighanstan Persia, Tarary, and Aslatic
and European Turkey, in modern times, was and IL
white.
Dtinora2e the public sentiment on this subject by
Ie read of slavery which, by driving out Free Labor
always creates astocracy, and 'oh0t rs 10 Pocrcn
eregfnaHy the extension 0t u TO poor dCtcRScieSs
rt,c>l The human mind is not corrupted at once
bit # can gradually be famiarized to anything. Wit
ness the case of the French Revolution; or, nearer
home The downward couNc of the moral tone on this
subi,c. within the last twenty-five years.
''Nice is o monster OF such hdeous Iacn,
That. 10 BE- hated. needs hut 20 be- seen;
Bot eel or, familiar with her lace, 49,
We FIST endure then PITY then ei16Tdoe!
Confne slavery where as, and it msy gradually
die ont: spread a. you increase the market Tor slaves
enhance their value enlarge and orniy the number OF
thn,c interested in defending il, and gradually sap the
,J opposition 10 the institution, and thus eventually
d. troy tho love of Liberty itself