The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-06-05
Gbe Ntlitiana 9emotrat.
Continued from last week
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

of the foreign slave trade upon the fortunes oil
the south. The great want of the south is OF
population This is necessary to political
power, and political power IS necessary to the
preservation of liberty The two great sec
tons of this country are distinct, and it is I'M
reasonable to expect that there can he to Ell
ther a security for social and political rights
without the political power to sustain them =
As this Republic is at present constituted po-
litcal power is dependent upon population. If
the north shall have larger population, and
a majority of states, the north may govern,
and it were scarcely sanity to hope that she
will forbear to do so The north has that ma
jorty at present. She has one state more
than the south has, and an excess gilmore than
5000, 900 people. Under these circumstances
she hns majority of two votes in the Senate,
and of more than fifty in the House of Repre-
scntatives of the United States. Nor is this
all the states Of Delaware and Maryland
have so few slaves that it is only by courtesy
they can be called slave states, and it is not
certain that they have not greater interest
in joining the victorious party. Nor is this all.
While the south can have but the natural in
crease of lo0O0,o0 people, the north has the
natural increase Of 10000, 900, and an indie
abroad IN virtue Of the position Of Mary
land and Delaware daily becoming more cqu-
vocal, the north has d political strength alrea
dy greater than that indicated by the major-
ties above mentioned In virtue of the more
rapid increase Of her population, she is daily
acquiring an additional increase to her politi-
cal power With this excess Of population
she can readily and perhaps she must necessa-
rily, preclude the south from vacant territory.
With this excess + political power, she can
control the fortunes Of the south in Congress
The purpose 70 control the government, and
through the government the south has already
been expressed. 1T was expressed in the re-
cent effort to elevate n miserable instrument
to the first Office in this Republic. 1t is cx-
pressed in the exclusion Of Kansas under &
pro-slavery constitution. 1t is expressed in
the prescription Of men who venture to regard
the obligations Of their oaths in Congress
And so, therefore, not only is the fact Of pow
er in the hands of the north unquestonabe,
but so also in its tendencies. Patriotism af-
fords no impeachment. An army Of martyrs
might perish in the track Of this aggression
without arreSting it and we have the aSsur-
ancc, therefore, that if the strange spectacle
of people attaining power, but forhcarng to
abuse it, is ever to be exhibited on this earth,
it is not to be exhibited within this Union
The slave trade will give us political power
For every five slaves that come we acquire the
right TO a representation for three persons in
the national Legislature, and it thus therefore,
will directly and necessarily increase our rca-
tive representative power. But it will do
more. The labor basis at the south is too re.
strctye to sustain wider superstructurc of
direction All the offices presented by the lu-
Dor Of 8, 100000 slaves are already filled and
more than filled by the present members Of
the ruling race, and the further members Of
the ruling race who once, therefore, must come
into competition with the slave for their sub
sistcnce But the $500 600 already here af.
ford platform, not broad enough, perhaps,
but still platform upon which now stand g.
500,0 600 white men, one thousand or one mill
ion more will give n proportionately broader
basis, and every slave that comes, therefore,
may be said TO bring his master With him and
to add more than twice his political vane to
the fortunes Of the south
And still more than this, il is necessary to
power that we shall all have not only popula-
tion, but states and experience has shown that
there is no way Of taking slave territory with
out slaves. Ten thousand southern masters
have made noble effort to rescue Kansas, and
have failed but 50 would not have failed ten
thousand slaves. 10000 of the rndest Afri,
cans that ever set their feet upon our shores,
imported, as they would have been, perhaps,
in Boston ships, by Boston capital and under
a Boston slave driver would have swept the
Freesoil party from that land There is not
an abolition emssary there who would not
have purchased a slave if offered at $50,
which would give an ample profit Oh the cost
Of Importation, and there is not an cmssary
there, who, purchased Il slave at $50, would
not become as strong propagandist Of slave
ry as ever lived So, taking that Territory we
would also have taken her whole population of
10000 to the south so, also, would we take
another state in Texas so, also, others in Ar
izonia, New Mexico and Lower California
so, also, we might take, perhaps, Nebraska,
Utah and Oregon, and it is even possible that
with slaves at Importers prices, we may sop
the hungry mouth Of free society in older
States, and ull it to repose as far back as the
sterile regions of New England
1t is assumed, of course, that the negro can
not endure the cold of higher ATTITUDES, Just as
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