Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-08

the inc1eased population, so that His creatures
have been provided for; and | entertain no aP- /
preheEsion but that it will be 50 in future. Ii
man does his own duty, if he develops the re- /.
sources of the couDtry-its minerals, its water
power, its timber-if everything that Is profit
able and available be turned to account, and
made a source Of subsistence for the human
family, there is little danger of the people OF
this continent, thousand years hence, starv-
ing for want of bread. In slavholding com
munity, it is a very different thing. You cul-
tiyate the soil till its productive quality IS de-
stroyed. You multiply yonr slave population,
ill il becomes dangerous eiment in society
You increase slave labor till its value Is dlmln-
shed; and, in every mode. you are constantly
depreciaiing the productive capacity Of the
country where slavery exists. fou are there
fore under the necessity of still cursing new
fields with the institution which, in my judg-
ment, has cursed those where it already ex-
lists.
Mr.. HraHEs. I wish TO reply to one obser-
vatiou of the gentleman from Ohio, in regard
10 the exhaustion Of the soil. | venture to
assert, in the presence of the Representatives of
! the people of the United States, that there has
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within the last ten years in the slave States,
than in any other portion of the United Statee;
and there are in the South more improved
modes of agriculture. and improvements of soil,
than in any section of the Unitesl States The
gentleman will scarcely deny that there has
been more Improvement in agriculture IN Ma
rvland, Delaware, and Virginia, than in any
other section of the Union.
Mr.. NIBIAcK. Before the gentleman from
Ohio takes his seat, desire to PROFOUND to
| him one question, if / can get his attention.
| In the course Of the gentleman's remarks, he
made use of an expression which was rather
remarkable one for him, or any other gentle
man on that side of the House; that is, that
| free labor is not lingering, helpless thing.
/ but is able to take care of itself. That con
cede; but If that be the case, what necessity is
there for seizing upon all the powers of the
Government for the purpose Of protecting that
kind of labor to the exclusion of other labor?
| Why not leave the Territories free and open
to competition between free and slave labor,
aud let that which is most advantageous, most
powerful, and strongest. prevail?
I Mr. STANTON One word Mr. Chairman, in
reply to the gentleman from Indiana. If
understand the doctrine of the Democratic
party, it protects slavery in the Territory until
State Government is organized. That is
not ALL When this incipient State Governnl-
ent is organized as free State and there are u
thousand slaves there, you cannot emancipatc
them; you are compelled to buy them out, and
| they cost 81 100000. Now, sir. a free State
with free labor, does not want to be borne down
and crippled, and compelled, on the organiza
ton of It's State Government, to buy out the
laboring population that belongs to the slave
holders there and they ought not to be.
Further than that : free labor is able to takf
care of itself; but if the Territory is under the
government of slavery rule, then the Ia
| boring population must, of necessity. be cxclud
cd from all the advantages that result from
fre1-labor civilization, such rs the institution
of schools, the establishment of a free press
free speech. and all the privileges that are en-
joyed in free State but which cannot be en-
joyed in slavcllolding State, because they arr
inconsistent with the institution of slavery
That is why. | may not express my opinion
on the subject of slavery i'll slaveholdin9
State, because the safety of the institution
would be thereby endangered. may not pub
lish my opinion on the subject of slavery in 6
newspaper. and disseminate it in slavcho!d
| ing State Why not /? Because it would have
a tendency to stir up insurrcctien and IS irfcon
| sistent with the nature of the institution
| Hence, say free labor docs not wish to be ties
down and clogged and crippled by these things
which Of necessity exists in every slavcholding
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