New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-05


us,e ia an emigration involving considerable
ou,nies and not controlled by the consideration oil
immediate proximity. II is an emigration TO States
very similar in local position and physical charac'
,er;s,ics. Such differences as do exist however
in climate and productions, would incline the
Southern emigrant to Missouri. Yet we ma
three ffths of these emigrants placing themselves
voluntarily under the operation OF the Ordinance
of 1,s7 LISA fair inference and il is true, that
the real wishes as well as real interests Oh MAJOR
itv Of the whites of the South are in opposition 10
the extension Of Slavery; but it is only the
minority Of Shareholders, which Is Represented
in Congress, or which has otherwise any pohti-
cal weight in the country.
II is unquestionable that the immigration
from the South has brought into the Free
States more ignorance, poverty and thriiuess-
ness than an equal amount OF the lmmisra-
ton from Europe Where it forms a marked
feature Of the population as in Southern Illinois,
long time must elapse before it is brought up to
the general standard Of intelligence and enterprise
in the Free States This remark is made in no
spirit of unkindness The whites Of the South
are nearly all Of the Revolutionary stock Ihey
are fine. manly race. Their yalor, attested upon
a hundred battlefeds, shone untarnlshed aud stil
resplendent in the last conflict of the Republic.
No banner foated more defantly amid the smoke
and fire of the Valley of Mexico, than that up-borne
BY the inextinguishable gallantry OF the sons oil
south Carolina. feel for that unhappy people all
the ties Of kith and kin. God forbid that any ave-
nue. should be,s,osed, by which they may escape
out of the horrible pit of their bondage Ii the
Constitution permits the South to recapture thef
fugitive blacks, happily it does not permit them 10
recapture their fugitive whites
II is said that no equal number of negroes were
ever so well off, upon the whole, as the slaves OF
the South, and that in contrast with their native
barbarism their present lot hard as it 49, is one Of
Improvement and comparative advancement. Even
if this be true; even if three millions and halt OF
people of African blood have been raised In the
scale of civilization; the price paid for 1t Is too
costly. An equal number of people of the Cau-
cassisn stock have been deprived of all that con't-
tutes civilization, and thrust down into barbarsm,
thus reversing the order of Providence, and saeri-
fcing the superior to the inferior race.
1t ia said that an extension of the area OF
Slavery would add to the personal comfort OF
the slaves, at least for considerable period
of time Even if this be so, our first and high
est duty is to our own race, and it Will be a
most fragrant and ineIcusabe folly TO permit
such q sacrifice Of it as We now witness in the
Southern States, to be enacted again upon the
vast areas of the West. Where the two races
Al L.. ,,bi ah hac hai
between them may afford fair matter for dispute;
but il il against the clear and manifest dictates OF
common sense, voluntarily willingly and with our
ewes open, to subject the white man to companion
ship which, under any relation, is an incumbrance
and a curse.
1t is for the intelligent seliinterest the Christian
philanthropy of the people of this great country,
with all the lights of the past and present blazing
with such efiugent brightness that none but the
udicialy blinded can fail to see, TO determine
whether the system of black Slavery shall nhct
upon regions now fair and virgin from the hands OF
the Creator, its train of woes, which no man can
number, which no eloquence can e1aggerate, and
of which no invectye can heighten the hldeous re-
atty 1t is for the people Of this great country "a
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of which the worst fruits are not seen in wasted
resources and in impoverished fields, but in neg
ected and outcast people, shall be left to the acct
dents of latitude, of proximity, of border violence
or of the doubtful assent of embryo communities; oil
whether, on the other hand, it shall be stayed by
an Introduction, as universal as the superiority o.
Good to Evil, as perpetual as the rghtfuauthority
of reason in the affairs of men, and resstless al
the embodied will Of the nation.
| FEB. /, 1855. GEO. NJ "ESIoS'
| To tAe Editor # TAe " u TribEns.
SIR: In The TRIBUNE of Jan. 30, you quote Tn
Warrington Star in reference to the happy condition
of free Iaborers in the slave States and their corda
and unanimous hatred Of Abotonsm and Abolition
ists In addition to your very satisfactory answer t.
the statements Of The Star, there class Of fact
bearing on that subject well known to Shareholder