New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-10

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-. ,v., 20 the farmer and gardener. This pro.
COS. /, already Observable, and must g, en- at an
accelerated ratio. Hitherto the Social influences
~ The national capital have been overwhelmingly
on the side of Slavery. 1t seems likely now TO
happen after the lapse Of two generations tina. the
Free States may receive some compensatiog bene-
fits from the position of the national capital, and
that having become the nucleu. and center of a
FreeLabor interest, it may not only exert an oha-
ence upon the immediately surrounding districts,
but may afford an advantageous position for opera
ting sgainst the system generally For long
time the expression in the City Of Washington of
Anti Slavery sentiment, outside, at least, of the
halls Of Congress, was completely gagged; but al
ready the gag is taken off.
While in the two States of Missouri ard Mary
land owing to the contact into which slave labor
there comes or is coming with free labor introduced
from without, there is present hope of rescue,
MIR. Weston sees, as yet, nothing encouraging
in any other Slaves State. The ideas prevalent
at the time Of the Revolution and entertained BY
so many of the beat men Of that period, that
Slavery would die out, have proved wholly IN.
founded. On the contrary. it has steadily strength
eIed itself. It has seized all the most fertile
lands, gradually wedding out all the free aboren
Of the vicipage and driving them to lands sterile
or remote from market, or unfit for the production
of mercantile staples. The poor whites born and
bred on the ,oil, in immediate contact with
Slavery, grow constantly poorer, more spiritless
and meIe helpless. The planting sy,tem has no
need Of them, and it is the policy Of the rich plant
els to bay out and TO get rid of their poor white
neghbors Hence in all those parts of the country
where slave labor il predominant the white pOpu
lstion tends constantly to decrease. The planters
will do nothing for Freedon-the poor whites can
not.
But not content with this process Of Africaniza-
ton continually extended more and more to the
districts which they at present occupy, the slave
holders are desperately bent upon continually oc'u'
plying new regions. A check having been put to
the Authorization of America by means Of the
foreign slave trade, the domestic slave trade has
stepped in to supply it's place. Under this stmulus
ard the opening constantly made for the employ
Dent upon new lands of new slave labor, the slave
population goes on increasing among us 10 nearly
the same ratio the free 20 that the evil constantly
acquires new magnitude. It's Indeed, said by the
advocates or Apologies for Slavery Extension that
this spreading the slaves over additional territory
does not increase their numbers but this proposition
Mr.. Weston emphatcally denies, Though popula
ton has power of increasing with great rspidity
within certain limit-whch in our Slave States is
about forty to the square nile-when that limit Is
reached, the increase can only 60 on by providing
an outlet for the additional numbers. The new ap
plcatons Of industry to which free labor under the
pressure of necessity applies itself, are impossible
with @ slave population, and unless there were an
external demand or opening for the surplus slaves,
the ratio of increase would rapidly diminish.
flock Of sheep in given range cannot increase BE-
yond certain number; neither>can the population
Of given district except by the introduction OF
new branches of industry. To restrict the limits
Of Slavery, tends directly to diminish the number
of slaves-while to extend its limits s 10 give
new impulse to the process Of Attenuation
So long a. the area of Slavery is suffered to be
enlarged, it is impossible to conjecture to what
maximum the slave population may attain; but
within the limits of the present Slave States, and
confined to agricultural emplOyments, its increase
mutt very soon be checked. This frit and most
essential step, therefore, to put stop to the Afrl
canizaton of the United States, would seem to be
to prevent Slavery from extending into new terri
tory.
On the other hand, Mr.. Weston docs net see in
the emancipation Of slaves, the danger so much
dwelt upon by some, Of having the country overrun
by free negro population.
On the contrary, judging from what we see and
know Of the emancipated negroes, emancipation
would tend most decidedly 70 put stop to their ill.,
crease, if not to diminish their numbers. Strange
to say it is upon this very ground that some Of the
adv coates Of Slavery undertake to defend it. The
resro race they say if deprived of the oversight and
corppulsive direction of the white man, unable to
take care of itself, would speedily become extinct.
Virpiuians and South Caroliuians seem to doubt
even the human character of the negro, yet
grawly argue that Slavery ought to be main
tanned to give the negroes chance to increase and
multiply, fwhile they represent Their dimunition
and possible extinction by being RENTED to the
condition of freedom as a calamity to be averted
no matter at what sacrifice TO the white race, by
the contiI uancs of Slavery. Mr.. Weston is also
thilauthropist; but he is not able TO 60 quite such
lengths. Between the AfficaRizatiOn Of America
on the one hand and its occupation BY white men
on the other; between the barbarism which Slavery
of necessity perpetuates, and the civilization which
Freedom carries in its train he is inclined to prefer
the latter even if the contact and the competition
of an Inferior with a superior race should result in
the gradual disappearance of the former.