The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-13
VOL. XII.

multitudes of the black race is found 70 ba fail
TO the interests of our race; their antaoo;
is as strong as that of oil and water ar5 ~
long as no convenient outlet, throuob vL;eI
the mauumitted slave can reach a eonoar;|i
climate and country, willing to receive bir. 2?
afforded, the institution of Slavery stsnds -, q
compulsion. But let me supposa c. VI
Amerlca-tempting in gold and every n,o
ductlon OF the tropical soil, to stimulate ~
ertion, with climate innoxious oplv n ~.
black man-were opened up TO him, under ~,
cumstanees to advance him in the scale of h.
mainly, now long before masters in all the tenn
perate slave States would make composition.
70 hoerate them on terms that would indemn;f.
them Tor transplantation Hundreds of mo-
benevolent owners would, from sense of nj
lie good and for conscience sake. bv villa =.
by deeds of emancipation, make this deE1o1
ance, if the General Government would ,aL.
the charge Of the deportation to the region :,
might acquire tor them-a gradual and youn.
tary emancipation by individuals, if not bv
plates, would thus in time be accomplished /
hold that 1t ia the duty of the nation 10 AZ,
this boon to Shareholders and to the slave Stat.
70 enable them to have complete control of tbs
subject, which is the source of 80 much anriet,
and mischief to them.
What change would soon be wrouobt -
the condition of Maryland and Virginia. Ten
nessee and Kentucky, and in my own Sta,a
Missouri, if smooth way were opened into tIs
heart OF the tropics-prodigal of wealth in the
Poil, IN the mines, and in the forests wbe,a
the labor OF the robust and skilful freed man
assisted by the capital and instruction, and in.
spired by the energy of enterprisiug America
merchants, miners, or planters, would start
everything INTO life. The mixed condition OF
the TOUR different classes which, in cur grain
growing States, obstruct each other. the pos
ter dependent on the slaves the slaves ON the,
masters; the free negroes hanging on the
skirts of both while the great mass. the FREE.
white laborers, are cast out, in great measure
from employment and all ownership in the soil
would be succeeded by the most useful of All
the hllers OF the earth, small freehoders and
an independent tensntry. The influx of imni.
grants from Europe and the North, with mod
crate capital, already running into MARYLAND
and Virginia, would, as these States slopybed
the black skin, fill up the rich region around
the Chesapeake bay, the noblest bay in the
world, fed by the most beautiful rivers. and
brooded over by the most genial climate. and
make it fulfill the prediction of Washington
who said, Slavery abolished, it would become
the garden of America" The wilderness
shores of the great inland sea, now almost as
silent as in the days of Powhatan, would be-
alive with population; and the waters, now
covered with swans, wild geese, and wild ducks
would be covered with sails, and kept in com.
motion by the rush of steamers over them.
The great rivers that run to waste over MANY
latitudes of the healthful temperate zone would
thunder with machinery, and the little Merr.
mac in Massachusetts, which, though frozen
half the year, produces ninety millions of man.
ufactures, would find more than a hundred
rivals in giant streams which are precipitatei
In the Chesapeake. The mountains would
give to the hand of free labor boundless
wealth, in coal, SALT and ores, and their surface
IN pasturing innumerable herds and aocks
The plains and valleys would TEEN with grain,
the lowlands with meadow, and the Old Do.
minion, instead of being "the lone mother Of
dead empires" would resume her hereditary
crown and nascent strength, imparting new
growth to all her offspring States.
The noble ambition which once led the way
to pre-eminenee in this great Confederacy
must again be attained by love of liberty, b7
love OF justice, by a magnsnimous patriotism,
prompt to make any sacrifice of Temporary
convenience for the great moral and political
the foundation of free institutions
The attempt to enforce Slavery in Kansas and
Central America by the sword, and thus make
VIC "nolo lhtermeolhle space on the continent
fall under it's acendency, will fail There is no
Mohammed to establish such dominion; nor
Is this age, the age Of Christian strength and
popular power, one to succumb to Slavery
propaganda prophets. Indeed, the Moslems
all over the world have fallen so low, under the
influence of this part Of their creed, that they
are obliged to surrender, and take the Law
from the accursed nations they stigmatize as
Franks. the civilized world is at war with the
propagation of Slavery, whether by fraud or by
the sword aud those who look to gain political
ascendency on this continent by bringing the
weight Of this system, like an enormous yoke,
not to subject the slaves only, but also Their
and kindred of the same blood.
have made false auguries of the signs of the
lines.