The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-12-07

The Future Limit Of slave Territory.
Across ths entire breadth of that portion
| Of the United States lying east Of the Ter:
ritorics, remarks the Journal Of Commerce.
is line marking the northern bound&ty OF
| the States of Arkansas, Tennessee and Noftk
Carolina, drawn straight as d carpenters
rule, with scarcely deviation. On no 9th
cr part Of the map can such . line kc
found, and here the eye naturally makes Q
geographical division. Besides being ne9tly
central between the North and South, II is
also climatic line, separating the variable
temperaturo of the North from the morS
uniform and tropical climate Of the South
Eventually, this must be the northern limit
Of slave territory; not through abolition CO
| ercion or political revolution, but from nat
ural causes now working out that result,
and which are chiefly the laws of interest
| and finance, (such as operated to remove
slavery from New England and the Middle
| States assisted in some degree by modi.
fed public opinion respecting the 'institu.
| ton" Already, in accordance with the
theory advanced years ago. that Missouri,
Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and Dcla-
ware must finally become free States, is =
| tide of negro emigration flowing thence into
| the more southern States, that must, if con.
| tnued, soon drain them of their slave pop
ulation. No unprejudiced mind can fail to
foresee this result The climate Of these
States is cold enough to enable free white
labor to compete successfully with slave Ia
Dor, thus gradually rendering the services
| Of the negro less valuable to his master,
and hence making tile master desirous Of
delivering himself Of his support, especially
when he can sell him for sum on which
his labor would not pay the interest. Phi.
lanthropy has nothing to do with all this,
and freedom -shrieking," from one end of
the country to the other will not hasten the
| result.
South Of this natural dividing line, slave
ry will doubtless continue to exist for a long
period. On the sugar, rice and cotton plan.
tations, white labor could hardly be substi.
tuted if desired. The constitution of the
| white man could not endure the heat of the
climate, neither would laborers voluntarily
hire themselves there when equal wages
could be obtained in more temperate eli
| mate.
1t is fortunate for the blacks, and especial
ly for the whites, in those States now un.
dergoing the process of . gradual extinction
Of slavery within their limits, that there il
an asylum to which they can be removed
and where they can be cared for, instead of
being set adrift to shift for themselves, az
they would be if emancipated after the plan
proposed by the Abolitionists. The pres.
ent aspect Of affairs seems favorable to all
the partics Interested The area Of slave
territory is contracted; the more Northern
States will get rid Of their negro population
| without the necessity Of legislation; and
the more Southern States will find their de-
ficiency of slave labor supplied without
resort to the coast Of Africa. Moreover, the
removal of slavery from these States will
have the effect to bring their lands more to
the notice of Northern purchasers and set:
tiers, and it is reasonable to believe that en-
igration, which has set so strongly towards
the far West, will BE- turned to the south
ward, in some degree, for the sake of 6
milder climate and a more central location,
| q nearer market and other advantages.