Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-05-28
"EREE LABOR" AND SLAVE LABOR"

readers in exultant vatcinaous to further conflicts
between free labor and slave. labor This contest ex
lists only in the perurbed imsginations Of disempered
politicians Where is to be tbs battle ground Of such
a contesti Where Is the theatre for any such con.
hictl The climstc laws Of Providence govern and
control the desnies Of the systems Of labor and con
trolling each within its proper sphere, will prevent
any such conflict, as the prognostics of politicians
would seem to threaten.
The boundlses eIpanse Of unoccupied Western
Territory lies open to the march Of free labor and white
population. There climate exists, by the decree OF
Providence, which forbids the approach of slave
lsoor-thsrs the perseyering and indomtsble energy
that makes New Enesnd the wonder and the admi.
ration Of the world, 6as theatre for further devel.
opement. Amid the cold and ungenia climate the
negro droops and dina. There wise economy will
never seek to carry ave labor. No action of the
Federal Governnso ill ever be sought or desired,
BY any rational sdvci,e Of slavery TO forcs the in
sttution into territory where the climate forbds ts
profitable employment.
The territory thus opened TO free labor will hnd nc
moleststion from the encroachmepts Of slavery
for the same wise Providence opens to the fur
ther development Of slavery splendid expsnss Of
country in Mexico and Central America The Wes,
India Islands, at no distant day. regenerstea and dis
enthrslled, from the rude hand of negro bartaries
may join our glorious Union to swell the area Of the
civilization of slavery. There land and nsgroes are 10
our hand t0thout tie "slape trade" We there scqure
further increase Of labor that does not diminish that
We already hold And in the vista of no distant fu
ture we may yet see the Sandwich Islands as compile
ting the galaxy of slsve States In centenary Union
Here, then, Providence has provided lsnd.room fol
both institutions; "no pent up Utica" controls the
destinies of either the boundless continent and the
islands thereof belong to both. There can be no con-
fct where heavens DEGREES forbid the enoroschment,
of slavery upon the allotted territory Of freedom; and
the sun Of heaven stands ready with his soorohlnR
rays to forbid the violation Of negro territory by the
inconsderste immigration Of white labor.
The London Times Of May 6, speaking the senti.
ments Of the English people and Government, after
agrsphc description Of the present distracted condi.
ton of Mexico, says: "Under these cjreumadnces the
United States haze only to uajt little, and they
may hare the country on their own teru.s."
Here then John Boil surrenders Mexico to the
tender merces OF Brother Jonathan. Continuing,
the British Thundsrer next annexss Granada, and
says "Hsre, as in the case Of Mexico, there is total
absence of any reason for the United States make
the slightest e1srton," and "thst Gonzales, the At
torney General at Bogota, has absolutely recon
mended in an official document to the New Grans
dian Congress, that they should apply for immediate
admission into the American Union"
Lastly, the Republic Of Venesuels will "follow as
matter of course" the annexation Of Granada; and
that Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Salvador and Qua
temas will be ready to 20 with the stream" and
that the only obstacle to this contamination, so dc
voutly wished for, Is the Clayton.Buwer treaty
which is fast being "knocked into cooked. hat" at
Washington.
The gst Of the whole matter Is to be found at the
close of the Thundsrer's article, In the following
"SEould America now pursue the course that seems
imminent, the change regard, Engli,h interest, as
suming that she tciu honestly provide for erist,nR
debts of the various States in question, cannot but be
great Improvement upon their present position. VI
This simply means pay England what these State.
owe her people, and the United States may do with
them what ever they see 6t.
So far, therefore, as England, the great parent OF
Free Labor is concerned the territory for the future
development of the slave interest may be easily &C.
quired; which end once accomplished. the two sys
TENS diverge-ths one carries industry, indomitable
energy and Northern Amsricanism, into the unset
tied Northwestern Territory, to absorb In the course
of human events, the Csnadss and the British and
Russian possessions in North America, and all that
vast area of congeasd waters, where repose the re
mains of Sir John Franklin, from which Yankee en-
srgy can ship ice at all seasons of the year. The
other opens to slavery that splendid country Of Mid
die America, where, in the course OF time, an addi
tional supply Of slave labor will develop, for the en-
oyment Of the world the untold riches of tropical
climate and fertile soil.
Then the cotton mills of Old and New England
will never cease their industrial hum-Raunt famine
will never show its paid countsnance in England Of
Ireland again, for the South will clothe and feed tb'
world, and the North can Keep them in ice. Let u
hear no more of contest between free and slav'
labor That which Heaven has put asunder " lie
no man attempt to "joix together"
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