Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-11-28
Bloomsbury, Nov. %, 1857.
The Union-Is there no Danger
of its DissolutionP

ernmeut, aud certainly within tho last
twenty-five years, the dissolution of the
Union hos been much discussed, and some
times openly menaoed. The country has
passed through several crisis in itshistory,
IN which the dissolution Of the Union
seemed imminent. We need only allude
10 the periods Of the restrictive system of
Jefferson, the late war with England, the
admission Of Missouri, the Notification
Gre, the compromise measures Of 1850, and
recently the Kansas imbrcglio. And now,
as the latter question may be regarded as
settled, most people may believe the Union
as in no danger, at the present time, cer-
tainly
But, is there now really no danger of
disunion--no causes in existence which
may ripen into dissolution of the Union
We fear that this question cannot be an
swered in the negative.
Communities, like individuals, are gov
eraed by their interests. Their decisions
and actions are controlled ultimately by
their transceudcnt material interests. And
what is the condition of this country, and
what its great material interests They
are apparent to the most casual observer.
1t is divided into two great sections, differ
ing in climate, soil, products, and institu-
tions. The predominant interests of the
North, which is .ene of the great divisions
to which we ailude, are agricultural and
manufacturing; and these interests prosper
better under system Of free labor. In
deed, slave labor is not adapted to such
interests, and slaves can be made useful
and profitable only as domestic servants.
The demand, therefore, for slave labor iu
the North, is not, at present, sufficient to
oyerbalanco the prejudice and fanaticism
which have been excited by demagogues
against the system of domestic slavery.
But it is different at the South. In that
section of the Union, and especially in the
great pl'nting States, negro slave labor is
absolutely essential to the development of
their resources. There the climate is hot,
and those portions which are devoted to
the production of the great staples of cot
ton, sugar and rice, are more or less affect
ed by deleterious malaria, which render it
impossible for the white man to labor upon
the soil. And hence, to great exteG.
that portion of the Union which now pro.
duces the most valuable staples of commerce,
if it were not for slave labor, would have
10 be resigned to forests and the wild beasts,
We consider that the choice of the people
Of the planting States of the Union, lies
between the surrender and iestru ction of
tho great cotton and sugar interests, and
the abolition of slavery.
1t seems to US, that slavery is necessity
to our brethren of the planting States,-
primarily to them, and consequentially,
We may add, to the whole civilized world,
as We will endeavor to show hereafter
Therefore, they do and will insist on re-
tanning the ins titution. They desire to
retain the institution without molestation
By their brethren of the Northern States.
But, they cannot. On the contrary, they
ind themselves and their institutions and
interests constantly misrepres ented, vitu.
perated, nenaced and interfered with, by
the pretended philanthropists of the North.
Here, then, We may observe one cause
which is, and will be, constantly working
for dissolution of the Union. But there
are other and even more potent causes at
work to bring about such catastrophe.
Slave labor is becoming, in proportion
to he demand, scercer and consequently
dearer. The world demands more cotton,
sugar, and other staples of the warm eli
mates than the present capital and labor
devoted to it, can supply. Hence, there is
greater demand for the opening of more
lands adapted to such products, and con-
sequently, for more slave labor, which is
the only kind of labor that can be employed
in their cultivation. That demand for the
opening Of more land for cotton and sugar,
and consequently for more slave labor, is
increasing even in the United States. We
have now mich more land capable of pro-
ducing Gotten and sugar, than we have
slave labor to cultivate it. Hence, there
is large and increasing demand, for an
addition to slave labor by means other
than the natural increase of the slaves
An increase by any other means, is, and
probably would be, successfully opposed by
the free States Of the Union. And yet,
the necessity for it will continue to increase,
and its want continue to be moro deeply
felt by the people of the South. And here
VIC may note another cause which will, in