Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-10-31

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and thread bare subject of slavery; not that
flatter myself | have any thing new to say
about it, but think a change once in a while
always best, even if have to go back wards.
Your fraternity have discussed hank suspen-
sions, and failures, and the causes thereof,
to the exclusion Of our familiar cid subjects
of slavery, Wise and Hunter, and even the
market law. In drawing you back to one
of them, think | do your readers good SER
vicc-at any rate can do them no harm. !
Go not know whether what | am about to say
is democratic; if not, it ought to be, and the
sooner it is made so, the better. Congress
will soon moot-the financial condition Of
the country will occupy most Of It's time
The North will feel its weakness and dcpen-
denoc on lie South Cor its supplies Of sugar,
cotton, tobacco and bread it viii, there
fore, be in a moro complying mood and will
be compelled to be just. Now, then, is the
time to make the two sections equal. 90 10
this, every man North and South ought to
be allowed to hold or net to hold slaves, az
he thinks proper That tight have to
prevent my noighbor from holding 4 mule
because the sight of She animal Is disagree
able to me? But, We are willing to give
up part of our just right, End compromise
with these sensitive Yankees, By having a
line drawn something after the plan of Ma
son and Dixon's, bat differing in these i'm
portant particulars 1t should extend from
tho Atlantic to the Pacific coastal North
of that'line should be free soil, all South Of
it slave territory. Thus Congress would be
following in the wake of Nature. The Al
mighty has deereod that slavery cannot ex-
list on the icy soil Of the North in other
words, He has made the climate, the Afri-
can, and the Yankee, and SO constituted the
latter that solf-interest is the great law Of
his nature. This interest prevents him from
bringing the hot-bloeded son of Africa intc
conflict with the freezing climate of the
North, and having hiseroedioal bills and flu
neral expenses to pay. They never SGT up
this howl against slavery Until they found,
after a thorough trial, it Wouldn't pay, and,
dog Il the mansor like, they determined no.
body else should profit by it. They know
they might as well try to make one of the
camels, just imported, useful in the North
as an African. By-the-by, | expect to hear
a Shrek from our sensitive brother, as soon
as the money crisis passes over, about the
cruelty Of tearing the poor camel from his
native shores. confirming him on a close yes-
sci with hardly room to turn around, and on
landing, setting him to work. On the rolling
prairics of Texas, far away from his native
sun, burning sands, and the other camela /;
for the camel can't possibly be used above
Mason's and Dixon's line with any profit
Butt wander from my SUBJECTS said
above, it has been proved by long expert
onco. that the negro, originally from a hot
country, could not bo made valuable in TIE
North-ho was born for the South aid sla-
very My suggestion differs fson tho Mis-
souri, line in this, extension from the Allan
tic to the Pacific and making the Southern
side of that line slave territory. Without
this the South would be worse off than she
now is,-if that could be possible,-with it,
she would almost be equal to the North
Nor can l see that this suggestion conflicts
with the great doctrine of States rights
Mono would be compelled to hold slaves,
they would only have the liberty tc 60 SC,
only it could not prevent me from going
there with my slaves and holding them just
as VIC can now do in the territories. Besides,
what sort of States rights would this be p
4 State asks admission into the Union with
a constitution recognizing slayory-tharo IS
D large majority Of freesoilers il the House
of Representatives., and a small enc in the
Senate, the State has exercised her right
Of election between slavery and frecsoilism
and chosen slavery. she Is refused admit
lance and politely ordered to change her con-
stitution, or she will remain a territory to
the end of time. Beautiful States rights
where this power exists. But We hope it
will never be exercised What right have
we 10 hope any such thing, whoa VIC have
been told by the dominant section, over ana
over again, that wo should never bring an
other slave State into the Union-when we
have seen Know nottingham and Black Re-
publioanism sweeps over the whole North
Ike the plague-when every congregation
almost, throughout tho North is edited week
" with z PHILIPPE against our section In
the teeth of all this you hope they will be
Just when the time comes. What fools VIC
are But, aside from all this, We would be
doing a great benefit to humanity, by pre-
venting tho civil war and bloodshed which
will invariably precede' the-admission of any
State into the Union, where there is a pos
sibility of making it slave. Lock at Kan
Gas. Would not the prevention of such hors
rors as were transacted there be sufficient
;ndccement to any line of conduct likely to
mt n ston IN than 2 We bava tr;ad IN sny,.