The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-17
VOL. XII.

Here, then, Providence has provided land rom
for both institutions; no pentup Utica con.
trolls the destinies of either; the boundIess con.
tinent and the islands thereof belong to both
There can be no conflict where Heavens DEGREES
forbid the encroachments of Slavery upon the
allotted territory of Freedom and the sun Of
heaven stands ready with his scorching RAYS 10
forbid the violation of negro territory by the
immigration of white labor
"The Londoa Times of May 6, speaking the
sentiments of the English people and Govern.
ment, after a graphic description of the presen,
distracted condition of Mexico. says Under
these circumstances, the United States hare oDJ,
10 a0au a little, and they may haze tie cou,.try
on their Oon terms
"Here, then, John Bull surrenders Mexico
to the tender mercies of Brothef Jonathan
Continuing, the British Thunderer next annexes
and says: Here, as in the case of
Mexico, there is total absence of any reason
for the United States to make the slightest
exertion,' and that Gonzales, the ATTORNEY
General at Bogota, has absolutely recommends
in an { fhcial docu ment to the New GranadisD
Congress, that they should apply for immediate
admission into the American Union
"Lastly, the Republic of Venezuela will fol.
low, as q matter of course, the annexation Of
Granada; and that Nicaragua, Costa Rica.
and Guatemala, will be ready to 90
with the stream and that the only obstacle to
this consum nation, so devoutly wished for, is
the Clayton Bulwer treaty, which is fast being
knocked into cooked hat at Washington"
One might suppose, from the restless DISPOSE.
ton and the lust of territorial acquisition prevs
lent in the slave States, that they have too little
room fer their population but the census
shows that with only two ffths of the populs
ton, they have three ffths of the land com.
prised within the States of the Union; that
while the free States have increased their num-
bers since 1870, 707 per cent, the slave States
have increased theirs only $50 per cent. that
the average number of inhabitants to a eouare
mile is, in them, only %, in the free States,
l.93. These States, too, receive the great
mass of the foreign immigrants, so that they
always have a reasonable amount of Labor.
And yet their people are quiet, and show no
disposition to break over into the territories
Of their neigbbors, and seize them for their
ise. A larger population, on a smaller area,
with more executive energy, they confne them.
selves within their own metes and bounds, sub
ugating the wilds of the West, and building
up well.ordered States. Ia the slave States
much smaller population, on larger area with
an insufficient supply of labor, is dissatisfied
with its title to vast domain yet unoccuped.
is forever trespassing upon the rights Of ts
neighbors, and laboring to appropriate regions
10 which it has no title, and which it cannot
even occupy
There are reasons for this radical difference
On the North we are bounded by the posses.
sions of Powers able to maintain their rights,
and avenge the violation of them. Free Labor
institutions, too, by leading to an infinite diver
si6cation of the forms of industry, enable
svery man to become a producer. There is no
class of drones. Working men expend their
activities in profitable employment. Steady
progress and equal, orderly development are
he Results.
On our Southern border are weak, anarch
,al Governments, mongrel communities, unable
% avenge insult and inspire respect for their
rights. Their condition invites aggression;
The irresponsible violence of their people at
lines furnishes the pretext.
But even this state of things would not give
Use to fiibustering, we're it not for the working
If "the peculiar institution" 1t limits the field
If legitimate enterprise and industry in the
lave States. 1t prevents the growth of manu-.
actures, commerce, and mechanical pursuits
By exempting the sons of planters from tie
necessity of employment, and by leaving the
'oorer white people without remunerative Ia.
'or, it gives birth to class of Adventures, full
# activities, but with no suitable field for their
display. These, with the idlers and adventur.
re- of the large cities of the N orth, constitute
he mdteriel CT our flibustering expeditions
hey direct their efforts southwardly, because
he obstacles are fewer in that quarter, and,
specially, because they are controlled by slave.
gliding ideas-such views, for example, as are
by the Richmond Enquirer.
Subjugate Central America to the dominion
Slavery, and the market for slaves would be
value of that kind of "proper,
:" would increase in Virginia and the slave
reeding States. The movement, as a mere
usiness enterprise, commends itself 10 them.
he Slaveimporting or planting States cannot
, supposed to regard the subject under that
'pect. They have no labor to spare as we
we said, their need is, more labor, not more
nd. Why, then, are they, or rather the
anters in those States, so deeply implicated
all the flibustering movements2 For the
me reason that John C. Calhoun sought the
of Texas, and his disciples, in later
AVS, have sought the enslavement CT Kansas.
hey will have no free States hemming them
they demand free course and unbounded
,ope for Slavery.
Central America and the States of the Gulf
nder welLorganized non .slaveholding Gov
and producing largely all tropical
aples, would be most announcement neighbors.
Another, and most forcible consideration
oerstes upon the Slave Interest, in all the
tates.
Flourishing Free States all along our South.
n border, would prevent the growth Of that
interest in political po,cer, place q perpetual
NIT to the increase of Slave States, and dis
Il the fond illusion cherished by the Slave
over of the extension of the empire of Slave
over the whole of North America lying
outh of the Union.
We are not alarmed at the idea Of Terrific
al expansion but expansion by such methods
I'd for such purpose as Slavery proposes, snoI
be tolerated by Christian nation. Had
IT country uniformly maintained a just and
sgnanimous position towards the Republics
I'd States south of us, had not filibustering
i'd Slavery propagandism, hand in hand,
ught from time to time to despoil them OF
cir lands and uproot their institutions, ere
;a Stafa after State in that nnarter would