The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-15

utactures are not stable foundations of natioua
weEfare-agriculture alone supplies firm ba
sis. Hence the vast superiority of the South
We might stop here in our analysis of tn
argument, to show, that purely agriculture
country must be comparatively poor, and al
ways dependent; that commerce and manufac
lures, in the improved conditions of humanity
must always render more stable national pros
periiy; that the contrast run by the Enquire
between the free States and slave States, as i
the former had no agricultural wealth, is ride
ulously groundless, for there is a far heavier
and richer agricultural interest in the free
States than in the slave States, and their trade
and manufactures are Just so much extra-bu
we must not divert attention from the political
tenor of the article.
The South, it assumes, having so much moro
permanent basis of power and wealth thar
the North, is in danger but from single cir
oumstance and that is that the rapid, fac
titious growth of the North may, by the In
crease of political power in the hands OF that
section, place the South at such disadvan'
tage, that it cannot maintain its Influence in
the Federal Government. This must be pre-
vented-and here come in the ultimatum-
must be prevented by the Legitimate expansion
of the power and institutions Of the South by
the extension of Slavery, so as to multiply new
slave States and, to this end, the South must
demand equality Of representation IN tie Sen
ate.
That is the argument; that is the conclusion.
Let US axnand tho lotta- H. = :. -
ifY in the Senate must be corrected by the IN
PRODUCTION of Kansas as slave State. We
should then have sixteen free, sixteen slave
States-thirty-two Senators from the former,
thirty-two from the latter-a tie, which, with
the President, would be "the selfprotecting
power" required by Slavery. But, Minnesota,
Oregon, and Washington, are knocking for
admission, their population being more than
ample for States. Their admission would break
up the equality of representation in the Senate,
giving the free States six majority. They
must not therefore be admitted, until three slave
States, no matter how manufactured, can be
brought in, too. The requirement is, six slave
State Senators, to counterbaance the six free
State Senators. Where are the new slave States
to come from2 Possibly, one from Texas, one
from Central America, one from Cuba! A
long time for the Northwest to wait. VIII II
wait? The uHinatnm IS, equality Of repre-
sentation an the Senate. Perhaps a constitu
tional amendment may become necessary. Cut
the Gordian knot, and provide, that no matter
how many free or how few slave States be ad
mitted, at no time hereafter shall the free
States have greater number of Senators thar
the slave States To this it must come, if this
| ultimatum be adhered to; and this the En-
qttirer must mean, when it says that the slave
| States must demand an extension Of their pc
litical power pari passu with that of the free
| States.
| Now, if common sense, common decency, thu
laws of climate, the laws Of human nature ant
modern civilization, are thus to be trample(
upon, to enable a greedy Ohgarchy of three
hundred and seventy-6ve thousand STAKEHOLDER
to continue their domination over the Nortl
| and the South, and over the Federal Govern
ment, it is time the country should know it; bu
| let it be borne in mind, that this abominabl'
policy oan succeed only through the treacher,
of the Northern Buchanan Democracy to tn,
| Constitution and to the cause of Republican
institutions. Let US see whether this Democ
racy will dare attempt to deliver over, bound
hand and foot, the millions Of non-slaveholder
to the tender mercies of an Oligarchy tina
fears not God, and regards not man.
heooIe-i " EaF--V0s1, AAe& eF-C5o44, Or
till the shareholders have time to manufacture
three new slave States to match.