The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1858-01-22

sectional Interest in these States.
II Is emphatically Northern interest, and,
therefore, a. q Northern man, advocate
especially that Central America should be
Americanised."
"Let US see the reasons why the North
should be more Jealous than the South 10
this movement. In the State Of .iassachu.
sets we have one hundred and twenty seven
people TO square mile, by the census Of
1850. In tho State Of Rhode Island we
have one hundred and twelve to the square
mile, by the same census. In the State OF
Connecticut we have seventy.nine. In the
State Of New York we have sixty.6ve. So,
you see, 1t was not fiction, il was not poo.
try, not stretch Of the Imagination, when
l told you that the descendants of the Pill
grims were in q tight place. (IAughter.)
But how Is It with the States which Dor
der upon the Cuff Look ut 1t and See
They have, some Of them, eighty.ninc hun
dredths ofa man to the square mile. Laugh.
ter. In another one We have one and the
forty eighth hundredth part Of man to
the square mile and, taking them altogeth.
or, we have just about three men to the square
mile in oil those States which border upon
the Gull of Mexico.
Now, SIR, it would be folly for me to ar.
que, and there is no kind Of reason for sup
posing, that the.o States expect to do any.
thing about coloni1ing Central America
They cannot afford to lose man. They
had better give away $4,000 than 10 lose a
single honest, Industrious citizen. They
cannot afford Il. have left out Of thil
calculation, to be sure, the enumeration oil
the slaves in those States, for the gentleman
from Tennessee (Mr. Maynard) informed US
that the question Of slavery did not come
into this argument property, and l agree
with him there. I think no may agree with
me, that by no possibility can slavery ever
DO established in Central America. That is
my belief. Just fix your neutrality laws,
and We will gil up Central America before
1860 sufficiently to be comfortable.
It may be said that Yankees, when they
get down into Central America, will, II the
climate Is suited for it. make use Of slave
labor. have heard that argument before
and IL has been asserted that the Yankees
who 20 into slave States oftentimcs turn
shareholders and Guido the Southern men
themselves. have no doubt that they out.
do them If they do anything in that line OF
oil. rLaughter.] The Yankee has never
become STAKEHOLDER unless he has been
forced to it by the social relations Of the
slave State where he lived and the Yankee
who has become q stakeholder, has, every
day of his life thereafter, felt in his very
bones tho bad economy Of the system. II
could not be otherwise. Talk about our
Yankees, who 20 to Central America, be-
coming shareholders Why sir, we can buy
o negro power in steam engine, for ten
dollars, flaughter,l and we can clothe and
feed that power for one year for five dollars ;
renewed laughter and are we the men to
give 81 900 for an African slave, and $3.50
year to feed and clothe him? No, sir
Setting aside the arguments about sentimen.
tality, and about philanthropy, on this ques.
ton; setting aside all poetry and fiction, he
comes right down to the practical question
lis it profitable? The Yankee replies,
"not ut ALL" Then there is no danger Of
men who 90 from Boston to Central Ameri.
en- ever owning slaves, unless they are com.
PEELED to, by their social relations there. III
man goes from Boston into Louisiana, and
nobody will speak to him unless no has a
slave nobody will invite him to social
entertainment. unless he owns negro (; and
If he cannot get wife unless no has nc
gro then, sir, very likely he may mako up
his mind to own negro. lLaughtcr.l