Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-03-02
The "Irrepressible Conflict

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power should lie between freedom and slA-
very.
They are not ALWAYS necessarily an;agonis-
tic. on the contrary they are often adJuncis
the subordination Of the black in this clun-
try Is indispensable to the freedom Of the
whites without it our form Of government
would be impracticlble. The 'irrepressihla
conflict" Of Seward is catch phrase t. de-
lade the unthinking. Demagogues, North
and South, pAndsring to the popular prela-
dice Of their locality, and TO advance theii
own interests, regardless Of the common wei
fare, have RAISED at issue from which your
mind justly reyysts.
The limits Of country which admit the en-
ployment OF the negro, IN suboriination 10 the
white race. are designated by climate and the
productions OF the soil . where the white
man can work, enforced labor. which l. both
poorer and dearer, cannot enter into coupe
tition with free labor, which is cheaper and
more efficient. use the term enforced labor
not 10 avoid the use OF the word slave, but
as better descriptive Of my meaning. The
negro will work only on com pulsIon. Ii IS
from the knowledge OF this well known char
acteristIc Of the race that many ct the west
ern States have prohibited the immigration
Of the negro as a drone, consuming without
producing, and therefore preying On the b.
dy poliiic, without making any return for
bis support.
At an expense of thirty millions of dol
lars. Enslani abolished slavery in her West
Indian possessions. and wha. was the result
her finest island has relaTsed into a desert
The negro will not work for wages. when he
can support miserable existence from hand
to mouth upon the spontaneous pr9dncts oi
the earth. and bask in the noon day SUM-
And now England has been compelled to the
introduction of the Coolies from China Il
take the place OF the emancIpated negro,
who, from slave, has degenerated into a
brute. The humanity Of England in this
Philan;hropic experiment, IS on par with
that Of the sIpient member OF her Imperial
/ Parliament, who. herrited at the harbArous
practice then in vogue Of sweeping chimnles
I by means Of gpuse, gavely proposed the
substitution OF pair OF ducFs
( The freedom or slavery OF the negro is not
a political question under the constitution Of
the United States bot is one Of the graves;
magnitude in those States where the race i
numerous and their continued prosperity
and the very structure Of their government
/ utl-nLS b1 H. CJIIctA SJAQSIPII
In the six New England States the whites
from 1890 to lisa, period Of sixty years.
/ increased nearly 81 for one; the c1lored
race increased only one-third in the same pc
Rod. The increase Of the whites has been
nlae times greater than that Of the blacks
and this, notwithstanding the influx Of the
fugitive and manumitted slaves. and the en-
yratiou Of the whites to other portions OF
the nited States, which have probably more
, than counterbalanced the immigration Of for
/ ei-ners. In the six Southern States from
/ Delaware 10 Georgia, inclusive, for the SAM
period the whites have increased nearly ,
/ II for one, and the slaves a fraction more,
and this notwithstanding the manumissiun OF
{ the slaves and the deportation Of others u
the more southern States, where their labor
vas more productive.
These are facts, and the inference is ire
slstibIc, that the negro race in the six south
ern States under the fostering care Of their
inaster-, stimulated by their own interest,
has increased near eight times as fast as the
same race in the six New England States,
when left dependent on its own resources.
struggling for lie amid superior race, al
though aided by charity and under the fos-
tering care OF the philanthropists Of the day.
You diselaim being an AbJlitionist, YOU
are willing that slavery should remain where
il now exists, undisturbed by foreign inter
4 ference under the ags Of the Constitution,
, but you really deprecate It's extension 70 the
I Territories. Bear in mind that BY the e1-
tension OF slavery 10 the Territories not
single slave is made Of one born free, its
extension does not involve its increase in
Der, excepting just so far as the state Of
the slave may be improved and alleyiatei by
his change of place.
The confederated States are coordinate
the people of each and every State have an
equal right to the occupation Of the Gerrito-
ries-the common property Of the MON
The South is now contending for an abstract
right; the slavery oil the negro cannot be sus-
tanned North of SO deg, 80 min, Tor the
reason before assigned, that the enforced Ia.
Dor Of the negro cannot compete with the
cheaper labor Of the superior white. Do YOU
ask then why the South should be 50 earnest
/ in the assertion Of barren abstract right
simply because it is right; for the same
reason that Harry Percy would cayil for the
/ right to the ninth part Of hair for the
same reason that our glorious fathers con-
tended against the triling duty on tea i'm
| posed by the English Parliament, when in
/ TACT the price Of that tea was reduced By a
drawback granted the East India Company
Z on its expectation to this country. We are
all. and rightiully so, tenacious Of a right
however abstract; for forced surrender OF
a right is dishonorable to the one who sur
renders GA compulsion, and invites further
agrees ion. Toe question between the South
and the North on the occupation oil the Ter
ritories is this the one Is contending for an
abstract right; the other for gratuteus
wrong, attendant with no possible advantage
which would not equally accrue by lettin :
things take their own course for the North
has numbers on its side, aud will settle all
the unoccupied territory Of the United
States where the white man can work and
the rice, cotton and sugar grounds will be
left to the South 10 he brought into cultiva-
ton by the enforced labor of the negro, for
the benefit Of that race and the rest Of man
kind.
You advert 10 the treatment Of Mr.. Hoar
at the South as al invasion Of the right O.
free speech II a man insists on exploding
an India cracker in powder magazine he
would be likely to have his head broken CT
his arm shattered. Mr.. HOar was courteous.
" advised that it would not be safe for bin,
in Charleston to agita;e the question Of hi.
mission, and bis good sense and prudence in.
duced him to profit by the warning. Mr.
Hoar was sent TO South Carolina to tes,
whether under the provisions Of the Federal
Constitution, the State Of South Carolina nj
the municipality of Charleston could pass a
law incarcerating colored man, one Of tht
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