Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23

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The Gold Solution OF the Negro
Question. -" 4Hf7G q
IL was the discovery of gold chat effected
u solution of the negro question IN our Ter.
rjtories OF. the Pacific. n No sophistry of
the politicians could resist the living forces
that were shaping those new common
lwealths; no,artful postponitg Of industrial
linteiestsoto pride of caste. and the patr,-
Isaso hal sidaesaeyll be. hRusiu Ibe presBiipa OF
such masses of ]aborers and fraternity OF
work. True, the effort was made, first to
claim California for the slave system, sec
ond to divide ii; third to effect lodgment
in Oregon, but the world knows how
gnominiously each and~aH failed. The
relation between foil'and return was So d-
rect, the conflict of uracelso, evident, chat
no one could be- blind to the consequence,
and Slavery consequently never set foot in
our possessions on the Pacific. '''''''
1t seems not at all improbable that a
like solution of the same vexed question
is soon TO be found I'm the valley. Of the
Great West, and that the slopes of the
Rocky mountains, equally with those OF
Sierra Nevada, are to witness that practi-
cal determination of II Ter9itorial policy.
The accounts which we have from Pixies
Peak, and Cherry Greek, and the sources
of the Arkansas, may be exaggerated, al
though we do not think they are, yet still
they indicate the outlines Of that vast au-
riferous region known TO extend south
ward, embracing the spurs of the Cordil-
lara, the San Juan Mountains, and the
broken ranges of. the Sierra Madre Re-
mains Of former civilization indicate this
TO have been worked under the Aztees, as
one vast gold field. Mexican researches.
and Indian tradition likewise, bespeak for
it the same fame which recent geological
reconnaissance attests tito possess. Indeed
it is related on good authority, that RS late
So 1864 party of French trappers, camp
ing at the base of Pixies Peak, discovered
the shining particles in the bed of the
stream, collected and transported to Lara
mie a wagon load of the deposit, which
was pronounced bythe savans there to be
FOOLS gold. and was accordingly thrown
aside. AL our, aggregate information
therefore-and some of il is of very re-
liable and scientific character-points 10
this central portion OF the continent AS
soon to claim in an exclusive manner, the
attention, labor. enterprise, and comper-
zion of the white races that are thronged
westward in search of deposits of precious
metal.
We have do doubt that this fact will
start out of the future as brilliantly as ever
did the colonization of California out Of
the past, and that millions of miners will
be picking and pulverizing quartz along
the Fountaine qui Bouil in the future, Just
as they are about the sources of Feather
and Frazier rivers at present. This will
impress upon the social growth of the
mountainous regions of tie continent and
upon the adjacent pastoral lands, cult
walton very far different from that which
the late Administration and the Southern
politicians have both so confidently hoped
FOR, and so presistently worked for through
every device of strategy or legislation. In
the presence of the gold mountains in the
interior, the Dred Scott Decision with its
negro propaganda clauses will sink into
absolute ridicule. No Brazilian curse will
ever Africanize that FL Dorado That
which through long struggle has beehin-
tiated as the policy of Freedom upon the
plains of the adjacent table lands, will also
OBTAIN under these fortunate auspices in all
the intermediate provinces, from Arizona
TO Utah. OF course we shall expect the
conflict: we shall see the attempt made !;
we shall witness the blessed Constitution
perambulatiug the ranches and visiting
the "diggings," with the negro on lis
back; but we shall never see the ''institu
ton" occupy another foot of the interior
basin of the United States, or defile the
cierras that dominate that basin with. their
ulated treasures. In com plicated
avocations, in spaiingly remunerative en-
ployments, there is room for sophistries OF
those who uphold the slave system: and
hence we find that. in the -tillage of the
earth, and in the service Of the person, Its
advocates have not been slow to make an
impression upon the prejudices of many
communities. But where the labor question
is naked in it's presentation, direct in re-
lations. and exciting in it's ambition, there
is no prospect tofestaplishing conventional
system of impoVerishmenL snch as negro
slavery. For this reason, we claim the
late gold discoveries as pioneer disclosures,
planting the banner of Free Soil and Free
Labor in the heart Of the nation, and we
claim the Mountain States of the center as
the home of the white race in all future
time. In those remote regions, where
accidental systems and associations were
so liable to obtain, IL needed perhaps some
great nanifes tation of Nature, such as the
aforenamed, to compress population and
opinions into true channels at the onset.
With the vicious taint of Mormoaism in
Utah, Peonage in New Mexico, and Blu
chsnism at Washington, it might have
been difficult to mould the encompsssed
Territory into due proportions of freedom;
but now we, may as we'll assured that a
cluster of new commonwealth will spring
up there, founded in all the essential prin-
ciples of industrial and social progress.
The States of the Pacific will give hand
to the States of the Atlantic across a tier
of free communities, and building up by
| their cnniunc1inn the ore at highway of the