The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-06-19
Recession OF slavery south.

A mode to prevent the extinction of sla-
very in Virginia, Maryland and Kentencky
Is being agitated by the Fire Eaters at the
South. The influence of the cotton fields to
draw slaves to them, and finally convert the
Northern slave States into free territory
which we have frequently attempted to ex-
moit to our readers-is now seen at the South
TO be a certain and inevitable result; one that
will not be long delayed in its accomplish
ment. The ultra pro-slavery advocates Of
the South, are now devising measures to ar
rest it. The New Orleans Delta, the organ
OF JEFF. Davis-recommends that all the ex
treme Southern States shall combine and
prohibit hereafter the importation of any
slaves from either of the border slave States
into the moro Southern States; and by fore
ing them to retain their slaves at home, Gre
ate such a stake in the institution, that they
will, from pecuniary interest---remain the
allies and defenders Of the South against the
entertainments of the North 1t says: ''We
insist that If there is imminent danger that
Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland viii fol-
low the infamous lead of the Free-soilers Of
st. Louis-if the lower Southern and South
that the Border Slaveholding Satates will be
abolitionized if not prevented, we repeat,
that We insist it is duty which we owe to
ourselves, to compel our frail sisters to keep
their obligations to us, if possible. Seif-pro-
lection justifes the passage of any police law
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Unfortunately for these schemers, muniti
pal and police laws can never counteract the
laws of nature and the inevitable course OF
events. Slavery will go South as long as
Southern soil continues to grow cotton. A
wall longer and higher than the Chinese
barrier-even with line of fire burning on
its top-could not keep it back.
The following most extraordinary posi-
tons are assumed as truth. "Indubitably
Slave Labor is cheaper than hiring Free La
Dor; and if means could be devised to Iesis
the dangers which menace Slavery on th'
north, and the depletion stopped at the south
is it not apparent that the rapid increase o
nearly an half million of Slaves would sool
sweep hiring Free Labor from Virginia, anC
insure its diffusion! Thus established by ne
cessity, where hiring Free Labor has, for tn
cause we assigned, supplanted it, every MAJ
along tho line would be sentinel, and s.
closely would the Border be watched tina
tre machinery Of the underground railway
would be wonderfully impeded, if not effect
ually stopped"
''But as long as Virginia pursues her system
of raising slaves FOR the southern market
and Impoverishingly herself by selling then
at exorbitant sums outside Of her limits, thi
state of things viii neEer occur. Her tru
source of wealth is not IN the money realized
from the sale of Slaves; it is in multiplyin:
the numbers, keeping them at home, an'
thus cheapening labor, and augmenting CAPT
tn
lave labor IS no whore cheaper than FIRE
Dor. except in the Cotton field, and Their
ilv because It requires great skill, an
nst be cultivated upon large scale, to b
table at all, and uncapitalized labor can
enter into competition in its production
n all other departments Of labor, the FIRE
nan will superccle the slave, and to prohih
IL the expectation Of the blacks to the Sout
would only force their owners in the Nor
thern States into emancipation in bod,
and the result, which the pro-slavery me
would arrest, would be hastened. The Pre-
fits Of slave breeding for sale, is the onl
thing that has retained slavery in Virgini
for the last thirty years. Let the South sto
the internal slave trade, and the measul
win be hailed by the advocates of free labc
and emancipation throughout the North
the surest means of accomplishing the
wishes. I'd