, 1860-08-23

| Hom Africa But dismlssiog that c0ntingeuc
rs one almost morally impossible to happen
the natural increase of The present slave pop
lat,on as deducible from known laws, is {
subject that: cannot fail to awaken tho mos
serious infection and give rise to the most
painful apprehension, whenever fairly present.
ed 1T IS startling to think that the present
total population Of the United States, ipclud'
ing free and slave, is equal in point Of mum.
ber to only about one-haH Of the serviIe pop.
ulation that our children will live to sec
When the presence Of four million Of slaves ie
the source Of 80 much anxiety and trouble, q
90 much strife and discord in our national pol
;it;cs,; ;as VIC hare found it to be, what must be
| thought Of transmitting to those whose infan-
cy We are now 30 carefully protecting, the re-.
tponsibili ties and dangers to be apprehended
f:nm the presence Of sixty millions Of slaycs1
Consider, too, that these SIXTY millions Of
human chattels will be the property of com
rarative}y afew men. The present slaye pop
ulation is held in bondage by less than three
hundred and fifty thousand masters. If The
tho proporG7n between owners and slayes
should continue the same as now, when the
latter shall hare multiplied to sixty milliong,
the former would have increased to only about
five millions. But the disparity in point Of
Numbers will be much greater than now. The
tendency Of the times is toward the concen-
t:ation Of wealth in the hands Of the few;
and property IN slayes forms no exception to
the rule Its more likely that the number of
s]sveholders will not exceed three millions,
than that it will be rs great as five millions.
How will it be possible for 50 small number,
brave and seh:conddcpt as they may be- to
hod in entire subsection sixty millions Of hu.
man btings-mcn who are daily and hourly
goaded to desperation with sense Of individ-
usl injustice and Of the cruel wrongs Inflicted
upon their race? We limit The controlling
power to the masters alone; for by the time
the slave population Of the South shall hare
increased to sixty millions, she will lave no
non .slaveho!ding whites within her borders.
Long before that period they will have disap-
pcaEed-win hare either been forced into the
free States BY tbs instinct of selcprseryauou,
or ground 10 powder between the two clashes,
The generation run entirely out by those ine1-
orable laws which have worked like results
elsewhere. Clearly this is one Of the ineyita-
ble consequences. AT the period, therefore,
to which tho P'ieayune refera, and which our
children will live to see, the elayeholding
States will contain population Of sixty n j.
lions Of slayes and the families Of three mil.
lions Of mastezs-say daccn millions Of whites,
including women and children. How long
will the fifteca millions hold the sixty millions
in subjectiou? VIII not tho crisi4 have been
re;'chcd before the disparity has become SO
great? Consider that t1ese people have been in
contact with a civilized race for more than q
centu1y-that they are apt to learn. and quick
to initiate their supcriors-that they have
heard liberty laudcd and despotiem denounced
that In many Of them the proud -4uglo-Sa1-
On blood Is predominant-that each succeed
lug generation must necessarily become more
intelligent tlan its immediate predecessor
that numbers breed confidence, md that densi-
ty Of population gives opportunity for unity Of |
purpose aud united action; and while the in.
Terror raco is thus progressing in the elements
aid qualities TINT make it dangerous md Diff
cult to control, the superior race, through idle
ness through prodigal Irving and eHeminate
habits, is growing constantly less able to mnin-
tain thai moral ssccndancy in which its sscl.
rity must mainly lie. Thus the difficulty Of
retaining tho Slaves in futjqction must neces.
sariiy Increase from these constantly growing
causes-ftom augmentation ofnumbcrs ard in.
crease Of ideas on tie part Of tho a1sves;
diminution in numbers and increase Of idle
ness and edeninacy on the pat Of the uasters.
Under ,eues:: conditions ia it too much to eay,
hat long before tho :elavo population shall
lave reached tho numbers named j.; tho Pia.
yHae, the masters will have had tho sasacity
% perceive that thsir only ground Of safety
vas IN 'lc ability to run away from their
slavesa
AA1ese '4e S1usl4clAt'oG8 tuat EaonIu aQ- |
ifess themselves more particularly to the
'eope Of tho slare-ho1dins States There is
mother s7ew. Of the subject, however, which
ddFesses itself specially to the people of the
rec statcs- by the federal Constitution three
Elths o the slaves nre Included in the federal
representation, and in the election Of the Chief
Magistrate Of tho Nation. When tho slaves
t ths South shall hayo reached s;x,y mil.
our children will lire to see the
|ay-the s:ates in which tthey aro held will
Ne entitled to d number Of Representatives., |
yer what their white population ca1ls !or.
qual to the. number which will rcpresen.
isty'six millions Of the free white citizens Of |
nc free States! In other words Tho rcpre.
entation Of the South in Congress, through her T.,
aues olone, will be equal to the I. representation
'h1ch double Tie nutn1er Of he present .'okula-
on cf Tic free States teia Be entitled to; and
Ae SIXTY millions Of Slaves, through their
"nera, till eounte7balance Tie uote Of thirty
IL millions Of free schik citizens Of he Jree .
''att'! We trust the astoundining character
tafs 'act will not prevent the people Of Tho :
GO States from getting clear conception and :
Ill understanding Of it. Let them clearly com.
tenena also TINT all this powes in Congress Z
I'D IN the election Of President, will be c,u. =
easrated In the hands Of the three million 4
aveholders, and will be welded BY them in d
1aping and controlling the Federal Govern.
ent IN way - foster their own interests
I'd ut the same time to crush the power Of :
10 ffee States and to oppress free labor. =
And this is the legacy, Men Of the n
orth! q which Democracy demands TINT you
lould bequeath to your children! viii you q
it? Arc you willing that the three millions O.
shareholders which the South VIII coutain b
hen Jour children come to occupy your pcsi. It
~ ehal1 be equal in Congress and in tho g.
Ectlon Of President to thi.ty.s;x millions of B
ur soas? The policy Of the fathers WIS to T
ace Slavery where the popular mind would to u,
st satit0sd in tLe belief that it was in tho OF
urse Of ultimate extinction. This is what VI
. Republican party propoaes to do Men Of q
, North # you would save your brethren =:
the South from the terrible fats which, %
,nor or Later, by virtue Of the ine1orablo =
sa q population, must oYesttaks them, come | e