Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-30

hOuiu Ttnutr UH lne IefrlLOrleS u0Sultaple re
gions, not only for the entire population of tht
free States, but at least four-fifths of the popu
lation of the slave States themselves to em
CRATE to, for the accommodation of tteremain-
ing one-fifth?
1t may be supposed that the exclusion oi
Slavery from the great unoccupied territory Of
the Northwest, by the ordinance 1887, is not
sufficient to account for the large excess of emil
grafton from the slave States to the free, over
that from the free to the slave States. A can
did investigation of the subject, however, will
convince any one that the rapid population OF
the Northwest has been owing more to the
fact that Slavery was excluded from it, than
to the want of more southern territory to oc-
cupy, or than to any great advantages in nat
ural resources which the Northwest possesses
over the Southwest A glance at the map
viii show, that while the Northwest has been
rapidly filling up with population drawn
about equally from the North and from the
South, at least an equal area in the Southwest
has remained comparatively wilderness. An
examination of the details of the census tables
will show also, that other causes have been op-
Grating to produce the result above alluded to,
besides the inviting lands of the Northwest. :
For instance, it will be found that more en-
igrants from the slave States have sought the
sterile lands, the rigorous climate, and the
compressed limits of Massachusetts, than have
emigrated from all the free States to eth
er North or South Carolina. Massachusetts,
| in 1850 had residing within her limits 2,781 ma
tives of slave States while North Carolina
had only 2l67, and South Carolina only 2,347
natives of free States. Pennsylvania had 49,,
All natives of slave States, while Virginia
had only 98,999 natives of free States
In the newer States, where the natural induce
ments to immigration are about equal the con
trast is still more striking. Take, for in
sten3e, the two neighboring States of Illinois
AID Missouri. The latter has the advantage
iii extent Of territory, and the natural resour-
Ues Of the two States, agricultural, mineral,
and Commercial, are about equal. Missouri
has by far the largest number of immigrants
from free States Of any slave State in the I'm
ion Her great commercial city of st. Louis
has attracted many thousands of this class Of
immigrants, while in Illinois we can point to
no similar attraction for immigration from the
South. Yet Illinois had, in 1850, nearly three
times as many natives of slave States residing
within her limits as Missouri had natives of
free States-the figures showing, in Illinois,
144,5 natives of slave States-in Missouri,
55,624 natives of free States. Take, again,
the reighboring States Of Kentucky and Ohio.
Kentucky, next after Missouri, has received the
largest accessions to her population, by immi-
grafton from the free States, of any other
slave State. Yet she had, in 1850, but little |
more than one-ffth the number of natives of
free Statcs-the figures being-Kentucky, ma
tivcs of free States 81 $50; Ohio, natives of
slave States, 15l ,62l. Indiana alone had re-
siding within her limits about forty thousand |
more natives of slave States than Florida, Ala
bama Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, together,
had of natives of free States. The States
last named, it will be observed, comprise all
the slave States that have been admitted into
the Union since the adoption of the Constitu-
ton and they did not, in 1850, altogether
contain as many immigrants from the free
States as either Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, did
of immigrants from the slave States.
Yet, in the face of these facts, it is claimed
that it is necessary to extend Slavery over all
the Territories, in order to give Shareholders
and non-s!aveholders equality Of rights and
privileges in them. The above statistics show
how much Of a privilege the great mass of the
even of the slave States, esteem it,
TO be permitted to emigrate to new countries
where Slavery has been established, and how
deeply they consider themselves scronged, by
having Slavery excluded from the Territories
they desire to emigrate to.