Washington sentinel., 1856-08-05
TIE SOUTH AND SLAVERY.

THE SOUTH AND SLAVERY.
The South has never been an importer Of
slares.
The North has been.
The South has never reduced freemen to
slarey.
The North has reduced millions to perpetual
slavery, they and their posterity.
The guilt Of slavery, of making slaves, stains
not the South.
1t does crimson the North al over.
The South protested against the introduction
q slavery, and passed laws prohibiting it,
which were vetoed by royalty.
The South petitioned and demonstrated with
the royal authority against the injustice and
injury of slavery.
When the North desired TO get rid Of slarery,
ii had the means Of doing so, and at the same
time Of realising the .tuu ralue .ef euery slare,
and Of getting them 1ithom trouble or expense
beyond their borders.
To enable the old States, original parties to
the compact of the Constitution, to do the
same, the North should grant (eyen if the Con-
stitution did mott to them the same outlet in
the Territories to slavery which the North
found in the Southern States Common justice
as well as brotherly feeling conspire to offer
this opening and relief to the old States.
But the claim Of the South would seem to
be impregnable upon other grounds.
The Constitution yields it. The South mag
unanimously yielded her own domain in the
Northwest, excluding voluntarily herself with
her slaves. Unless slavery had right to go
everywhere, the exemption Of the Northwest
was unnecessary. Its exemption has always
been claimed by the North as concession of
right, exempting that portion from the en-
trance Of slavery. 1t would appear from this
that no doubt existed as to the right 10 take
slaves to the Northwest but for this special
exemption, which left all others open. Indeed,
the Missouri Compromise is worded with refer
ence to this. 1t does not say that slavery shall
be allowed only to 800 30>, but that free terri
tory shall be above that latitude.
Louisiana and Florida were admitted as slave
territory and the whole of Florida allowed
without contest. Louisiana was allowed in
part, and part contested; and the Missouri
line marked the portion Of territory yielded by
the South Had Florida reached North, in.
stead Of lying as it does, it would have been
contested. If the whole territory Of Florida
was rightfully slave territory, and il was so ad.
mitted by the North, the whole of Louisiana
was equally so but it was the locality of a
portion of Louisiana which induced the North
to coyet monopoly and not the principle
Had Louisiana run South into Texas, instead
Of North, as il does, the Missouri line contest
would never have arisen, and no question hav,
been made any more than in Florida. Ye
if the principle that slavery is excluded by tb,
Constitution from the Territories be true, i
would have equally excluded all.
The North has neoer yielded an acre tc
slaUe,y. The South has yielded her indubita
bic rights to an extent Of territory sufficient To
make Fifty free States larger than Massachu.
setts, and without any equivalent
The South bad constantly the subject OF
slavery under discussion, its disad yantages, and
mode Of extinction.
The difficulties with which the South had
and has to contend, and which the North had
not to obstruct, there is
First. That The South cannot receipe pay.
saent for her slares as Tie North did
This single item involves the loss TO the
South of over two thousand millions of dollars,
which they would receive, if they had market
for them outside OF their limits.
This fact alone should cause the exercise Of
he utmost charity in the judgment Of the