, 1860-12-05
Coercion Of the Border Slave States.
IFrpm the No. Democrat.

lFrom the No. Democrat
As the aspirations and purposes Of South
Carolina are unmarked. ono after another, her
scltlshucss aud arrogance become painfully
apparant. The Charleston Mercury declares
that Virginia cannot be permitted to enter the
proposed Southern Confedcracy at any price.
Governor Gist recommends the South Caro-
lima Legislature to abolish the Slave trade be-
tween that State aud the border Slavc States.
The latter are thus to serve as breastwork
for the cotton States- 1fwar comes, Virginia,
MARYLAND, Kentucky and Missouri arc to be
regarded as tue wild and wasted frontier Of
South Carolina, Georgia and the Gulf States.
The current Of African emigration to the cot
ton region is to be dnmmed up by the rroli-
l1itiop Of the Interstate slave Trade. and tue
reservoir is to be supplied to Overlooking from
the African coast Such is part Of The seccs-
sion programme. When the Constitution Of
the new Conicdcracy is formed, and universal
free trade is proclaimed, free trade in native
Africans especially, the border Slave States
will he permitted to come in. Were they in
yitcd earlier they might refuse their assent to
the revival Of the foreign slave trade. and i'll
eikt on taritI, in the hope oiibeeomlng NAM; as
against 6y making the fundamental law in the
image Of South Carolina Any State that
chooses to lie in that Procrustcan bed, will
then be at liberty to do so, but good care will
be taken that none but the original maker
| shall hare tho right to remakc It. IL
| tile meantime, the value Of negro prop
| erty in the border Slave States will III
merely nominal. The price Of slave o.
| ttlc African coast will determine the price OF {
| slave on Missouri plantation. An ablc-boaiet
man will sell for hundred dollars, or posi-
bly hundred and fifty. The value oi tha
! species Of property will full thousand pc
| cent, and when thnt stage is reached, the pro
phetic words of Jefferson will be soon realized
/ II the slave docs not run away from the mas
ter, the master will run away from the slave
Arguing from the secession hypot1cscs, It
undeuiablc tilst the border Slave States Eoul
lie speedily converted into free negro States
But South Caroline, It would appear. docs DO
iorusce this consunlznatfon- In her hot hast
to dissolve the Union, she cares not wh2t ma
become Of the border Slave States, provide
only they may bc temporarily used rs 4 la
| rier behind which to ca,Ty on her treasonab!
projects In safety.
Tlcfiftcen Slave States arc commonly Eroul
cd under one term. They arc called the Sousl
South Carolina acknowledges no such unity {
feeling and interest with her sister Slave STATE
as this would imply The border Slave STATE
she speaks Of much in the eainc fashion
which VIC arc all accustomed to speak Of II
Spanish American States. She affects to tire:
even the 'tmother of States and Statesmen
!, with contempt. Virginia shall not be ADM
! ted into tho new Confederacy Mt my p,ic
SAYS South Carolina It seems uncourteou
unchivalrous, to refuse the precious priyi1c:
before it is asked. As for Missouri, shc has !
| more chance Of being admitted t4lan an accul
cd GIaour Of being admitted into Mahomct
paradise. She Is q fallen star-thc lost F1cla
| uul1 must ever wander dar61ing through Il
, outside realms Of space