Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26
KILLING SLAVERY BY NoN-ExTENs1oN

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There are aboliIioaists who appear to be impress.
cd with the idea that slavery cannot 1--we without
continual expansion that it not only continually
cries "give, give" but that if its demands for
new territory be not complied with, it will perish,
and that right speedily. The wish is father to the
thought and The expectation that slavery will die
of non'extension, has no single incidentin history
so far as we know-to justify it, but many, on
the contrary, to provo its falacy.
Professor Lee, editor OF the Southern CuliCator,
in an article advocating tho importation of Afric
an %slaves, represents the undeveloped mineral
wealth Of the South as very great, and afirms,
that
"Fully to meet the mineral requirements Of the
South will demand the labor of a million of men
in the next twenty years".
The Professor is happy to learn that in Western
Africa there is much unemployed human muscle,
which muscle can be obtained in packages Of from
40 to 200 lbs. weight for ten or fifteen dollars
each, and says,
at seems providential, in view OF the fact that
the South now has nearly, if not quite, seren AuHr
bred thousand squire miles of wild and unimproved
land, and mines Of vast extent and .nestimble val
u6 NulCl Eu1IlIO Iuiihb ldUOl iOuC " Slu
exceedingly productive"
Now hem in slavery, if you will, tell i! that mol
another foot Of territory shall be given it, that
thus far it may come, because it would, bet
that henceforth it shall come no farther and what
is the result? If it can't extend its territory, il
must try to do the best it can with what it has al.
ready acquired. The first thing it needs, says
professor Lee, is a million more Of SlaueS to dig its
gold and silver. its copper and lead, its iron and
coal. That looks like dying of hemming in, DOM
it? The professor certainly don't think SO. for he
declares that
"In one yeor after they mmen work in the
mines, they will refund all tho money paid for
them in Africa. together with the cost Of bringing
them 10 their respective places Of employment in
the most humane and comfortable manner. They
will then he worth, at FIVE hundred dollars
a head, Eve hundred million dollars to the
South, as an enduring, everything and re-
producing industrial power Under the three iifths
representation in Congress, and allowing one hun
dred thousand inhabitants to a delegate or member
they will give the South six new representatives
And while they will more than pay interest on ff
teen hundred million dollars in mines and slaves
they will incidentally create such a demand for
farmers, gardeners, mechanics, artisans, merchants
and professional men, by the immense business Of
IL mllilon aCtlFe MIXERS, tEl[ n million OF lninl
grants from Europe will settle in the vicinity Of
these new centres of Southern enterprise and in
dustry. From this source tho South will gain ter
more representatives in Congress"
Passing by her land which has only bee,
brought under q system of partial cultivation, bu
which might employ to profit at least twice 6
many laborers as now work it, the Professor say
she has 100, 600 square miles Of wild and unimprov
ed land-a lille patch Of territory sometling large
than the 'chOle IF .NericO! How many millions O
slaves wouldbe needed on that before SLAYER,
would be prepared to die of Eenming in?
We are very sorry that it is 80, and yet the fac
cannot be denied. that many men who are reall
opposed to slavery, have for several years past re
Taxed their assaults Upon the system itself, an,
rpent their time. their money, and their energie
in futile attempts to hem in the Institution. la
they even succeeded in their plans, their effort
would have accomplished but little, if anything to
ward its destruction.
II you wish to destroy the system, strike OF it
root and don't get impatient if harvest does no
come in the same month with seed time.