The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-11-23

admission Of such state because it had ~
pro-slavcry constitution.
REJulcE9 THAT MISSOURI ~ BECOMING 4
FREE STATE.
His creed is that every state has q
right to say how much it wants Of African
slavery, and how long It wants it, and
how to get rid of it when its people are
tired Of it. He does net regard it III II
perpetual institution, but as, in its very
nature, abnormal and cvanescent, changing
rap dly under The influence Of tmnrtc.
commerce, civilization, religion, INV. lie
knows (and is glad to know it, that lis-
souri, is rapidly becoming a free tate
and he does not deporcl he fact tha' it is
by transportation and not by emaur pa
that the state is so rapidly becoming rec;
for he knows that the emancipation o. iA,
slaves to remain in this country and mix
with the whites is abhorrent aud iutol
cradle. And to send them abroad by
sudden and total exodus, is beyond the
means of any government. What is be-
yond his own wisdom, he leaves to the in
scrutable ways and infinite wisdom Of
God. The rapid and peaceful extinction
of slavery that is going on in Missouri.
without the aid Of emancipation parties, "
and without the heat and acrimony Of do
nestle discord, is entirely in accordance
with the views and feelings Of MIR. Bates
While Mr.. Bates is glad to sec slavery
declining in Missouri, other strong oppo-
sitionists are sorry to witness the same.
SLAVERY BEYOND THE REACH OF DEMA-
GoGUES--FREE LABOR BOUND To BECOME
DOMINANT.
Nh hatc~ finds no cause of discorl bc-
tween hirsclf and that rro-sIavery neigh
Dor ON account Of this difference for he
knows that either the Joy Of the one nor
the sorrow Of the other will quicken or
delay the inevitable consumation that is
ahead. Mr.. Bates regards the fate Of
slavery as out Of the domain of dema-
gogues utterly beyond their rcach-and
lmpelled by that power that brings the
times and seasons to their appointed
course, and rolls up the Heavens as a
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drous panorama. By his own example he
has shown that he prefers to live by his
own labor. and not on the labor Of slaves.
But he claims to be, in this particular
only " a law unto himself"
THE NECESSITY OF PROCURING FOREIGN TER
RIToRY FOR CoLoNIzING FREE BLACKS.
lie would never under any circumstan
ces countenance Il national organization
having in view the interference with slave
ry in the states. The entire function Of
the federal government in regard to slave
ry, in his opinion, should be to protect it
where it is--not to extend it where it is
not--and, 20 far as policy and ability may
allow, to hel Up those states get clear of it
that may wish to do SO, by the procure
ment of foreign territory suitable to the
ready and cheap colonization of free blacks
already become Il grievons nuisance to
every state of the Union, both free and
slave. his is a national nuisance. and
should begin to find 4 national remedy.
The policy already preached in some
states OF selling again into slavery the free
blacks whom humane or grateful masters
have emancipated, unless those freed per-
sons leave the state when, indeed, all the
slave states, and many of the free, pro-
hibit their entrance within their limits
under heavy penaties--is in the highest
degree cruel. 1t is barbarous And it
will disgrace the American government in
the face of Christendom to permit such u
policy to prevail, from the lack of its own
intervention to procure suitable home
for these sorely.hunted and distressed
lreemen of well worked and faithful
servile race.
If there be anything in these views OF
slavery that northern or southern pat i.
OF can condemn, we would like to have il
pointed out