The Washington union., 1857-08-22

questions will come up before the next Congress deem
il due to you TO say that feel disposition TO shrink
from the responsibility of meeting them. Whsteyer may
have been my wishes for repose however eongenia 70
my feelings and health quiet and rest might be, have
no inclination ooimary to quit the field OF action 10
long as the fight lasts this shall, II the
people will it, stand by it to the end let that be what
il may As TO my course If elected have pledge
promise TO make. The form in which this question
viii present itself probably in the next Congress
win not be repeal Of the measure that idea Is aban-
doned 1t will be upon the point whether its principles
shall be truly and faithfully carried into effect II will
be my object to the utmost extent Of power TO see to
il that this is done not only in Kansas, but in every
other Territory of the United States These principles
forth in the Cincinnati platform of last year in
the following words
Resolved That recognise the right of the people of
all the Territories including Kansas and Nebraska acting
through the legally and fairly expressed will OF major
y of actual residents and whenever the number of their
inhabitants usties it, to form a constitution, with
without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality with other States
This resolution not only imbodied the principles upon
which the Kansas bill founded, Thereby fully
dorsng them) but it procaims them the permanent
and settled future policy of the general government to-
wards all the Territories far the action of that party
utering them make it, II rests upon the basis of
moving the question of slavery in the Territories from the
control of the general government and leaving to be
settled in the proper way and at the proper time by the
people most deeply interested in it, 1t the right
of perfect equality between the citizens of all the States
in the Union in the enjoyment of the public domain as
long ms the territorial status continues Since 1920 an
effort has been made by the antslayery of
the North to the powers of the general government
against southern institutions,
The first point of attack the Territories Their
policy to hedge in, hem up bind round, and by re-
strctons to prevent the South from further growth
and expansion. That this might ultimately weaken,
cripple and perhaps destroy the institution in the States
the main object On the part Of the South, 1t was
Justly insisted that her right of expansion equal to
that of the North This right after struggle years.
first secured in 1850, after the defeat OF the Wmot
proviso the congressional restrictive policy The Kan
bill did but follow up and carry out the policy of
1850 while the resolution just quoted adopts and looks
to the establishment of this the future policy of the
government In my judgment, the principles upon which
this policy rests worth the Union itself Its objects
and are not to make Kansas any other Territory,
either slave or free State by the action of federal
authority but to let the people in EACH when they
to form their State constitution make it for themselves
in their way, subject to no limitation rcstric
ton except the constitution of the United States 1t
was to prevent the general government from having any
thing to do with exercising any influence the for
nation of the constitution of the States either for
against slavery If carried out in good faith it Sc
to the South unlimited right Of expansion to the ut
most extent of her capacity More than this she has
ask and with this she has nothing fear
hereafter, either from sBritish phanthropists
| American abotonists, or the 'moral sentiment OF
Christendom." Secure in her State institutions,
without the power of molcsaton the part of the fed
eal authorities with the full enjoyment of the right to
the country grows to enlarge as that enarges
and productions invite them in immense public do
main, she has nothing to fear from any quarter
not of those who indulge in forebodngs of evils to
the South in any contingency either in the Union out
of it, She holds in her hands not only her destiny and
that Of the Union, but the destiny OF much greater in
eress than all these combined One Of her great staples
alone forms the basis Of the commerce. enterprise
and wealth of the world Not only the northern States
but most of the nations of Europe fast becoming de-
pendent upon her The idea that the question of African
slavery of vital interest only to those who own the
slaves and to the extent of the money invested in them
is OF those chimerns which might be expected to en-
anate from the brains Of those who think it divine mis-
| sion to against divine DEGREES.
The amount Of capital invested in slaves is but drop
in the bucket compared with the much vaster amount
put in motion and sustained by the products of their
labor There is not fourishing village hamlet at
the North-to say nothing of their towns and cities
that does not its prosperity to southern cotton
England, with her millions of people and billions upon
billions of pounds terng could not survive six months
without it. This they begin to feel and lament. We
emphatcay hold the lever that weds the destiny Of
modern civilization in its widest scope and compreben
sion and all have to do to realize the consciousness
| of our power, and be resolved to maintain it.
In this connexion it may not be out of place
to notice article in of journals of recent
date The Columbus Enquirer, in its issue of the 18th
| May last, says
From the commencement Of the government until the
present period the South, comparatively, has been grow
ing small by degrees and beautifully less in wealth,
population in literature and in all the elements which
add power and greatness to State If any should be
increduous Of the fact let him examine the different
reports which have been made and the truth will
veal itself in all its fearful proportions
This ought to be most mortfyng reflection to every
southern man. it, upon reference to the authorities cited
the facts found to sustain the statement But the
censuses furnish material for such depreciation of
our section true the North has larger population
than the South and this she had at the beginning At
the first census in $780, the population of the present
non-saveholdng States Q,900 976) nearly two mil
lions while the white population of the South only
I'll 4SS-nOt much IL il also when
look only to this great disproportion between the
numbers of the white population Of the North and the
South, but also to the still comparatively small
number Of slaves at the South the prospect for future set
temen of States to be admitted into the Union out
of the public territory would to be greatly in fa-
vor of the North These very census reports however,
render this prospect much less discouragng to us for
with white population of only little twelve hun
drcd thousand In the South against like population of
two millions in the North and with slave popua
ton Of only about eight hundred thousand when the
government was formed, the South has certainly
lost nothing in comparison with the North in her
spirit energy and enterprise in rolling the tide of civil
ization onward by the settlement and colonization OF
new States Since, under her auspices and under her
institutions there have been settled colonzed and ad
mtted into the Union the following States Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Florida Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
souri, Mississippi and mine in alb all slave States; while
the free States which have been admitted and which,
properly speaking have been settled and colonzed In the
same time are only seven a nAmRsE oIAeya Sfe aARdq
MIA Vermont and Maine hardly properly be taken into
this account for the former part of the New Hampshire
plantations and settled that State indeed the
revolution she claimed separate existence; while Maine
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