The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
From the Neacburyport Herald.
The Onward March.

The Petersburg (ya.) Intezzigencer de-
plofss the unexampled emigration of Virgin
ians westward. The country papers of Ma
ryland also speak of constant emigration
from that State in the same direction. The
Baltimore Republican, and the Petersburg
hateNtgencer, express a great deal of regret
at finding their respective States thus losing
their citizens. 1t seems odd to nOrtherner
toread these expressions, for among the free
States the emigration TO the westward goes
on so increasingly that no one pays much at
tention to it. We know, when ten or hun
dred families leave, that it is to better their
condition; and that the employment remain
ing will quickly draw others like them to
their places. 1t is not so In the southern
States. They depend for. population ON the
natural increase, and not much upon immi
grafton. If thousand people should leave
North Carolina, the lands. they cultivate
would lay waste till a thousand more were
born and came to maturity. From no spot
of earth does person turn his eyes to North
Carolina as desirable place to locate his fam
lily; and therefore weakness follows all reno
walls to the West, or what is more common,
to the southwest. In Maryland and Virginia
the case is still worse, because to some ex-
tent the tide flows in as well as out. When
a thousand persons 60 West, there is not
only loss of so many Marylanders and
Virginians, who have been educated to the
social condition of that latitude, who are In
love with Its Institutions; but bordering on
the free States, and near to Philadelphia and
New York, the great entrepots for the Euro
pean exiles, Others are slipping into their
places, who are averse to their institutions
and social state, and thus the aristocracy and
pride of those localities are humbled, and the
existence of slavery is endangered
God is doing for this land what politicians
could notdo. He is making it for the inter
est of the slave owners to move South, and
the interest of the freemen to take their pla-
ees. Self-interest is the governing passion;
and self-interest is decreeing for the pros
perity of the nation and the security of the
freedom of the land. Under this law sla-
very is tumbling to the earth: and it is in
no national or State administration-in no
base politicians North or South, and in no
seryile religionists, live where they may, to
prevent the grand consummation to which
all things now tend. Men are lamenting
that cotton is high, and sugar is high, and
neither of them can be produced to satisfy
the demands of the world. 1t Is Gods voice
bidding up those crops for the good of man.
Down lower and lower, crowding upon it
self, goes the slave institution 10 the ATTITUDES
where it will pay best: and pressing upon
Its track is the crowd of free population
Already the cities where trade is, can no lon
ger be relied upon by their old masters
Look at theHn-Baltimore, Richmond, Lou
isville, st. Louis-they stand to-day up to
the line where Boston was dozen years ago;
and because we have not population sufficient
60 press hard enough 10 crush the life out of
slavery, God is sending over annually aauar-
ter of million Germans to help on the
work, who are spreading out into the rural
districts, taking up the lands that negroism
has cursed ali It is sterile, and giving a new
voice and another pulse along Mason and
Dixen's line. 1t Is In vain to talk of what
Republican parties or Emigrant Aid Societies
viii do; there Is power above them; and
we no more doubt that It is the absolute de-
cree of Heaven that thus, and speedily, lib
erty shall be strengthened in the land, than
that he ordered the exodus of the Israelitish
tribes from Egypt, or gave them the land of
promise.
Mr. Gushing, In his great speech here last
week. spoke of the destiny of the two col
umns pushed out from Plymouth and James
town. and their mission of progress for the
redemption of the continent No one can
have failed, however, to observe the unequal
step with which they march. march. march. ,
Plymouth stands seventeen millions to-day
to Jamestown eight millions; and what viii
be the result when, at no distant day-speak-
ing of the life of nation-it shall stand
seventyfve millions to tHenty-ivel The
jamestown column. as il has passed along,
has deyoured what was before, and killed
what was behind As with the hoof of the
ancient eonqueror's horse. the grass has not
grown where il passed. Virginia is but the
shadow of what il was. and fading out al
that The Plymouth column has elevated.