New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-03
A PARTIAL ENDoRsE1fENT.

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" PARTIAL ENDORSEMENT.
ma following article, credited to the Vicksburg
sentinel-a strong and influential Democratic paper
partially sustains and endorses the proposition made
by as few weeks since, that selfpreservation re-
oures Of the more Southern States the adoption OF
laws prohibiting the emigration for sale Or otherwise,
Of heroes from the border slave States for period
Of ten years or thereabouts we quote it for this rea
son, as well as for the purpose Of appendmg some
observations Of our own:
Il il not expedent to adopt such measures as will
prevent the importation Of slaves ffom tne norasr
Ststes2 If our planters and traders VIII posltveiy
raf,se To Inv slaves imported from Maryland, Viz |
uinia. Missouri and Kentuck y-and the importation |
from those States can be easily ascertaneu-tne peo
pie Of the Southern border states WILL IN deehce "
heir nronery armed to the teeth resist more vgor
ansiv and more zealously the encroachments OF the
Freesolers and Aboitonists, be more firmly and IN
ssoluby bound to the less exposed southern states
ana in such union give the South greater strength.
Sbnnld this course be pursued, the South may walt
iii Cnba and Central America, like ripened peaches
fall into her lap but otherwise, in few years, sa-
yery will have disappeared from Maryland, virginia,
kentucky and Missouri, and crowded lnto more
Southern territory and those States become Tree
soil so may the new border States apprehend like
resut-the supremacy Of freesolism in their terri
tory
The mode suggested by our contemporary to prevent
slave emigration southwark. lacks the essential ele-
ment of practicabiity, without which theories and
sueculatons are as yaueless the idle Winds 1t is
not susceptible Of reduction to practice. Human ma
ture-money- making human nature--is the same
everywhere and consequently as long as slaves are
as eagerly sought AFTER and bear as high prices nthe
cotton-growing States as they do now, they will be
purchased in Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, and transported South, no matter If resolves
like the one spoken Of were numerous as autumnal
leaves.
There is but one way in which the end aimed at
can be accomplished. That way we have pointed out
on two or three occasions Stringent legislative enact
ments, prohibiting the traffic, are alone adequate
to the requirements of the case. Expedlents and
halfway measures will do harm instead of good, and
will inevitably result in wretehed failures.
The people of the States named would have no
right to complain If the proposition recommended by
us was unanimously adopted. The public journals OF
those States are continually complaining of lack OF
labor This fact demonstrates that they do not re-
uure market for surplus slaves as they possess no
surplus slaves Hence as they need more operatives,
the natural increase Of decade would be beneficial
instead of detrimental to them At all events we, OF
the extreme South, would suffer more damage than
could possibly be inflicted upon them and, it should
not be forgotten in the meantime, that in quarter OF
century We Of the cotton belt, will have as many
slaves as can be proftably employed without having
the number augmented by emigration from the border
States Natural causes alone will bring about this
result.
But these are incidents, not the main reason. We
would stop negro emigration to prevent the border
States from becoming free States-prevent themfrom
becoming philanthropic at our expense, as did the
Yankee States at the expense Of Virginia, Maryland
and the Carolinas Missouri is partially in possession
of the freesoers. Virginia is threatened; and Mary
land and Kentucky constantly Suffering from the
villanous machinatious of the aboitonists II the
next ten years are to be the past ten years. the
probabilities are that all four States will become free
States previous to which, however, seyen-eighths OF
their valuable slaves will be shipped South and sold
We will then be burdened with more negroes than is
desirable or SAFE and will have lost the support of
powerful friends. But pass the laws propose and
the future will be secured. Emancipation will be out
OF the question, and our Northern bulwarks will re-
main as immoyabe as the everlasting mountains.
Besides it is evident the Union can exist but few
wears longer unless abolition fanatcism dies out of
which we see not the remotest prospect, or the
slightest reason on which to base hope. In the
event Of dissolution the aid and cooperation of the
border States would be of incaculable importance
4 With them, we could organize mighty empire-with
out them the task would be envroned with difficulty
/ although it could be successfully performed.
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