Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-11
Thr Nora,r slave states.

Thr border slave states.
We have observed that u controversy has been
pending between the Richmond Examiner. and
the New Orleans Delta, growing out OF som"
suggestions made by the Delta relative 10 the
policy of Virginia in the event Of II practical en-
forcemont of the coonizaticn scheme Swallowed
forth in the project OF Eli Thayer. The Exami-
ner ridiculed the apprehensious Of the D'ta. and
repealed the insinuation that we have any thing
10 fear from Abolition Emgrant Societies, TO
which late number Of the Delta responds in
this wise:
IT is an ineon,rovertble fact that Virginia is not
ms fully awake she should be to the great question
of Southern interests. The hug contained IN the
paragraph quoted, convinced us, that At all events,
the Examiner Is behind the music aud IA a lgga-d
from choice at that And regret to say that there
are many more Examiners in the Old Dominion.
The extreme Southern States have their eyes upon
Maryland, Virginia. Kentucky and Missouri They
nre watching with the eyes Of Argus. the Border
watching il as closely the Scotch dill the Chcriot
Hills. The enemy is looking over the Border into
Dumfres and Roxburgh and organizing their forces
for an early invasion. We want the Lowlandcrs and
the Highanders Of Virginia TO buckle on the elaymore
and defle along the frontier to tho tune.
who dare NEEDLE vi me9'
1t is 10 the interest OF the whole south that mol n
single organized Thayer band shall be permitted
10 cross that frontier and when they DO rross for
the nefarous purposes forth in the Ihayer pro-
nunciameuto, 10 reward audacty with the remedy
first proposed in the Richmond South. "ehoico be-
tween hemp rope and n grape vine We shall BE-
glad. indeed if shall not have real cRuEo to hold
''au iish Wake over the collapsed vitality md de
f,Inct prosperity of the old Commonweatla thereby
eee,ually eaneelling the sorrows OF volunteer
ersN
We have introduced this subjeo, more for the
rb,,y al al, So
err II will be seen that there is an intensity sci
fish motive at the bottom of the Delta's efforts 10
arouse Virginia upon this subject, being no less
than that of self prese. walton. The Delta would
have the border States secured as II barrioade
not only 10 the introduction Of anti slavery
tment, but against the effects of that portentious
Interior event which il seems to contemplate ms
inevitable. Here then is a distinct ayowal that
our geographical position will place us Mt great
disadvantage, as compared with our neighbors
FARTHER South, in the event Of disruption Of the
confederacy; and it furnishes an mpressv. les
non which we should not be slow to legrr, of the
value of the Union to us. We may have lit
tie sympathy ms the people of Louisiana for
schemes of COLOMBIA for the osiensible pur.
pose declared IN the impairment letter oil Eli
Thayer but are justified upon the principle
tibet ao,uaies the Delta, in adhering to our more
conservative position, and in maintaining as
long as il shall be possible 10 do in eonsisten-
cy with the law of self respect, our national l..
MON. Editors and politicians residing in terri
tory three or four States deep from the border
may talk aippantly of dissolution and Southern
Honfederaoy. whilst they are holding us in reserve
ms the ''pcquet sentines" % protect them and
their property at the expense of our own proper
ty and lives.
The Delta also proposes TO do what addition
statesmen have been aiming at this long time
suppress the slave trude between the states
which it regards as the only means Of preventing
the institution from being cakened ia the hur
der States by the removal of slaves 10 tie inter-
or. With all Difference, we cannot see how thi'
would meet the case, for 50 long az slave labor
can be prohtably directed ia the cultivation o
tobacco and cereals in the four States alluded To
it will be in demand, but when it shall be other
wise emancipation would follow, if no other mean,
were provided for releasing masters from an in
cubus One thing is certain, that we shall TX
ercise our own yollton and be controlled by oui
own Judgment and interests, and slavery in Vir
ginia will not be perpetusted one day 10 promot,
the single interest of any other State. We ap
pend the concluding portion of the Deta's ur
tcle:
The remedy is plain enough. For example, Mary
land has 9036s slaves; Virginia, 47252S; Kentucky
2lo,9Sl; Missouri, 81 ,422. These States from lhe
position have long been regarded The piqae snut
nes OF Slavery. They may resist the Ant-Slaver,
pressure, but seltdeence should urge the States IT,
ing south OF them TO look to the permanently OF thu
institution afong the frontier aud render assuranc
doubly sure THIS can be done by passing stringen
enac'ments preventing the four s. les above name,
from empying their slave population, they arr
now doing, into the country south Of their bounda
RES until all fear OF emancipation shall h We beer
dlspeied With slave population OF sci 2a9 to sa,
nothing OF the natural increase in tour States con
tanning only an area OF l7f,4i2 square miles il i
highly improbable that the idea of emancipatiol
would be tolerated tor moment. To free nearl
nine hundred thousand persons held to involqntar
scrvitude would be TO burden the State with panrer
and put free negro labor in successful coripetitio
with tree white labor. Colonization would be GU
ofthe question, and the result would be resistance
the death TO Northern aggression. Common danvc
and common interest would compel Maryland, Vii
giaia, Kentucky, and even Missouri, 10 keep up
permanent alliance with the Carolinas, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Georgia and the Gull States.
In this way, the slave exodus can he stopped m
the danger ayerted. Maryland can look on yirgini
and Virginia Maryland
THE mountains look on Marathon
And Marathon upon the sea"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have received fror
our highly>valued friend Rev. +. II. Stockton