New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-06
WILL THE BORDER STATES
ARGKDEY


In view Of the apparent determination Of
the Planting States to withdraw and set Up
for themselves, it becomes an interesting qnes
ton whether Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
Kentucky and Missouri will 90 with them. Many
shrewd observers think they will not, and for
the best possible reason, viz: that the Planting
States do not desire their company. Hence, the
indecent haste which South Carolina has mani.
tested.
The SecessiOnists are, for the present, sailing
under false colOrs. What are their alleged gricy-
ances The Personal Liberty bills and the pro-
position to exclude Slavery from the Territories.
But South Carolina has not lost ten fugitive
slaves in as many years through Personal Liber-
ty bills; nor would the repeal of these satisfy
her. Her cons have no desire to cOlOnize the
praries of Kansas and New-Mexico. They emf
crate 10 the more cOngenial regions of Arkansas
and Texas, where Slavery il already establish
led. Therefore the restoration, or the repeal,
Of the Missouri Compromise is Of small practical
moment in her eyes. What she really wants
| what all the Planting States want and are de.
termined 10 haye-is, Free trade in Negroes.
Nothing else viii satisfy them. The frat object
of the Seceders is the restoration of the African
Slaye-Trade; their second the conquest aud
annexation of Mexico and Central America.
Their desire is perfectly natural. In the Plant.
ing States, the only standard of social position is
the possession Of negroes and Of land. Labor ia
dshODOrable. Every poor white man aspircs to
own a slave Every small STAKEHOLDER struggles
to become larger one. Nor is their desire q
| novelty History records with what extreme re-
luctanee South Carolina aud Georgia originally
assented to tho constitutional provision whereby
Congress was empowered to prohibit the foreign
slave-trade In order TO obtain their acquiescence,
ii was found necessary to postpone the prohibit
ton for twenty years, in spite Of the wishes and
convictions of the other thirteen States. Ever
since the save-trade has been pronounced piracy,
these Planting States have been restiG; and they
VIII probably break loose, sooner or later, under
some convenient pretext like the present. But
it viii not do to show their hand too soon.
Their object is, if possible, peaceabe secession,
leaving the tier of border Slave States in the
Northern Union. They viii thus be protected by
ProSayery neighbOrs, who viii restore their fli.
gtives, and shield them from the incursions Of
Anti-Savery fanaticism.
But if the General Government should under.
take TO resist secession by force, they will
have to change their original plan. Retaining u
little longer the convenient mask which they have
assumed, they will harp on Northern agsressions
and Southern grievances, and appeal to the pas
siOns and prejudices Of the Border States. Prob.
ably these last will answer to the call and follow
their footsteps, or at least will interfere aud
paralyze the action of the General Govern.
ment against them. When the revolution is
achieved, they viii proclaim their real object,
and the eyes OF the Border States will be opened.
But il will be too late.
Tie Border States, on the contrary, are slave.
breeding States. They cannot raise the great
Southern staples, cotton and sugar. Their bust.
ness ia TO raise slaves aud mules for the Planting
States 10 work up and consume. To the Border
States the prohibition Of the foreign slaye-trade
is protective Tariff. They owe their proitlbe