Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-31
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Tue Souri, GIVING UP kAESAS.-Nr. Stevens
of Georgia, in the debate in the House, said
he had never advocated the Kansas Nebraska
bill as a Southern, but as a national and conSti-
tutiOnaI measure. Although he should like to
see Kansas admitted into the Union as n slave
State, ne thought there was nosuch probability.
Not only the of climate and production, but
those of population would prevent it. and so Of
the other territories.
This is an opinion which will CRATE harshly
upon the feelings of the Southern States; but
we fear it is correct We stand III view of stern
facts aud we think it best to contemplate them.
Its fact that the North has the larger popu-
lation-that it has 16,O00,O0O, while the South
has only 10, 100000. 1t is fact the free States
include only $4,000 square miles, while the
slave States contain $4,000. 1t isa fact, there
fore, that with an equal application of its force
to agricultural purposes, the North has an ex-
cess of about 100000 people TO apply to arts
and emigration. 1t is n fact that to every man,
woman, and child white or black, in the South
crn States, there are 5l7 acres of land to be cul-
tivated. Its fact that every individual in the
Southern States is not competent to the cultiva-
ton of such an amount of land; that there is
land, therefore, beyond the wants of our South
ern people; that they have no motive of inter-
est to cmigrate to other lands beyond that they
cannot stay and cultivate their own lands and
20 abroad and cultivate others; and in view of
these facts tnust be admitted that the territory
OF the South, and not being the want of the
South it is not fairly to be supposed that VIC can
take it
We regret the inability to indulge in the illu-
sions which we believe are agreeable to the great
majority of our people We favored the pas
sage of tho Kansas Nebraska bill, for the very
reason maintained by Mr.. Stevens; we felt the
restrictions of the Missouri Compromise to be
a touch, tyranny upon the South, and as
such were prompted to repudiateit; butw have
never had the hope that in any natural way can
we keep pace with the North in States aud pop
ulation, and without the hope of this, we have
frankly said as we say now, that if this shall be
necessary, some other line of policy must be
adopted. We know it has been objected against
ms that we urge this question. There are many
who believe we can take Kansas, and are unwii-
ling that discouragemcnts should be thrown in
the way of efforts to that end; but we believe
it is not policy to eXpend our energies upon
cause that can mover be successful Ii we take
that Territory, the triumph will be Elusive; we
Iaust take it at tho expense of population from
the older States When NO get it, the North
will be ready with Nebraska Tho States will
then stand seventeen to sixteen The North
will soon be ready with another and another,
when VIC cannot keep in even this proximity 10
them. At last we must ultimately fall from tie
greater impediments under which we labor, and
we think it best that the public mind should be
relieved from such Elusive hopes and be fixed,
as soon as possible, upon the stern realities be-
fore us. We must demand a modification of
the Constitution, or we must demand slaves, and
the sooner We come TO an election between these
alternatives the greater viii be our chances Of
snccrss.