The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-09-08
The Probable Destiny OF the
blacks Of Anprlu1

Blacks OF America.
We made some remarks few weeks
since on this topic and propose now TO
extend them.
It IS we'll understood that compulsory
immigration was the means Of which this
element of population was introduced into
the country, and we regard it as morally
certain, that forced emigration will
cause their extradtion.
The student of history will at once be
ready TO admit that almost all great chan
ges Of national character in respect to
population, government, religion, &c., are
due ps a primary cause to emigration.
This has been the case from the time the
Egyptians colonized Greece to the present
day, and will so long as the lsw--tbat
the strong must overcome the weak
shall continue in force. So then, to form
reasonable conjecture as to what will
be the future of people, there is no bet
ter way than to carefully note the tenden-
ces Of emigration. This tendency, with
the European race, has ever been to the
Westward aud Southwark, in these States
it has been mainly to the West. In this
direction it has been drawn by the invi-
ting wales Of the upper Mississippi, and
the equally inviting region of the lakes,
while its inclination Southwark has been
checked by the torbiding wall of Slave
ry. Now it is obvious at a glance that
the causes which have drawn emigration
Westward are constantly becoming less
potent, while its demands for territory are
every day increasing. The first tide has
already spread itself over the prairies,
and is now laboring up the Missouri, and
its tributaries. The most desirable tracts
are occupied by settlers or possessed by
private spectators and corporations, by
which prices are greatly enhanced and op-
portunities for obtaining good locations
are daily becoming less. Taking in view
then the fact that this avenue of emigra-
ton is becoming straitened, while the
want is fast increasing, and that the nat.
ural inclination of emigration is south
wardly, we must conclude that it will take
that direction with a strong tide at no
distant time. But we are not left to con-
lecture, OR differences only; it has
already been demonstrated, that this
must be the case, and the triumph
ant victory of free labor emigration
in Kansas and its progress in Missouri
and elsewhere in those ATTITUDES are sufh-
Client proof that its sggressions upon
slave territory will increase with the in
creasing population of the Free States,
1t is left then for us to enquire what
will be the effect upon the institution of
Slavery and those who are subject to it,
That Missouri will, in q few years,
preponderate in favor of Free Labor re.
quires no argument, nor can it be doubted
that when this preponderance is attained
measures of some kind will be instituted
for the ultimate extinction of the system
in that State, which, when ii is accom-.
plshed, will, we think, furnish key &c
the solution of the question we are con
sidering, Now it is certain that the
emancipation movement of Missouri is
not the result Of general conviction o.
the moral wrong of the system but what
ever OF potency it has is from conviction
that the existence of the system is at wa
with the material interests of the State
and this is q motive, which with Ameri
cans, is tolerably certain to overbear ev
cry other. This work of emancipation i
not only instituted in motives of economy
but it will be carried on to its final con
sumation in the same way The first &C
of legislation in this direction will be t
take effect at a future time, and that
time emote enough to allow of the dis
position of all the slave property afiecte
f by it, by sale out of the State, and thi
will take place Ms fast as, and no taste
than, a free laboring population can be in
troduced to fill the vacancy thus made