Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-01-10


tension of an institution of this character,
so fraught with calamites to both the
white and black races, into free territories,
multiplying the elements and means of
oppression and wrong, ought NOT to be
encouraged or countenanced either by the
citizens of the Southern or Norther u
States.
Free labor languishes aud becomes de-
grading when put in competition with
slave labor, and idleness, poverty and vice
among large classes of non-slaveholders,
take the place OF industry, and thrift, and
virtue. 1t prevents a general system of
popular education, and ignorance abounds
in the places where knowledge should be
the brightest ornament of intellect.
The increase of the blacks in warm eli
mates is far more rapid than that of the
whites. Already in some of the slave
states the slaves outnumber the free whites.
Twenty-Five year. from the present time
the ordinary ratio of increase will give
slave population in the slaveholding states
Of nearly ten millions, at least equaling if
not superior in numbers to the free white
citizens. Looking to future in the his
tory of states beyond that, we may well
enquire what will be the condition of the
Southern States and of the whole country
at the end of fifty years. What can be
done with twenty millions of slaves, with
out education, without fixed moral princi
Piles, the subjects of within, caprice, pas
sion; knowing no law but the law of force,
submitting to no power but the power of
force; smarting under real or imaginary
injuries; deeming themselves oppressed,
and looking every day upon their supposed
oppressors; more restrained of their iber-
ty through the fears of the masters, and
subject to more rigid police surveillance,
and more extreme exactiOns, because of
multiplied dangers What could control
the wild passions of that overwhelming
physical power, once aroused So terri
BILE a wrath, with so resistIess force,
would almost inevitably lead to n war of
races, more cruel, destructive, bloodthirsty,
than the world ever saw before, beginning
with conflict and ending with butchery. In
such a war one or the other of the two races
must be destroyed. In such a conte st,
where would the victory be? To precise
ly such result are we tending to-day.
Deny it as we may, the physical laws of
the races and the climatic influences are
driving us right onward toward such fu-
ture. The sagacious statesman, gathering
wisdom from the history Of living as well
as of the dead nations, looking forward to
probable future as he looks back at an
actual past, and seeing danger to his coun-
try and institutions afar off, should devise
some means of protection commensurate
with the apprehended danger, by which
such calamitieS may be avoided.
1t has been well said that sit is the true
mission of superior and enlightened race
to protect and establish with well founded
institutions the feebler races within its in
tfuence." "The general welfare requires
this, and renders it the exalted duty of
powerful nations. England, France and
Russia, though subject to selfish monarch
les, yet feel the impulse OF this enlightened
age; and we see the Gar giving freedom
and rights to his sixty millions of serfs,
and spreading civilization over all the
North Of Europe and Asia. England and
France hold up besotted Turkey, and en-
deavor 90 instil life again by imparting
freedom and liberation to the Masses
England extends her principles of repre-
sentative government, in greater or less
degree, to her dependencies and France,
propagating her power in Africa and Asia,
carries with it the refinement, intelligence
and skill which may at some time elevate
the people she civilizes in the scale of ma
tons."
A9IaL TIC IlIiRAly Vi LUIS
phere-the pioneers of he liberal princi-
pie of the greatest good to the greatest
Iumber-be known to the led and black
races, struggling into existence, under lib
eral forms of government in neighboring
chimes, suited to their caste, only as a
dcpredator and enslaver2 They seem to
have been committed to our guardianship
by the gracious Providence that has con-
terred so many blessings upon US in the
achievement of our own liberties. Shall we
abuse the power thus conferred by es:ab-
fishing bondage as the law for all whom we
can masterg
A remedy for these anticipated evils,
and a solution of this whole slavery prob
lem may be found in the suggestions of
our early statesmen while they were cast
ing about for this purpose, impressed as
they were that the relation of master and
slave was to be tolerated for the time and
ultimately to die out.
1t can be found by simply providing for
the peaceful emigration from all the States
of this Union, of all the free colored per-
sons of African descent, who may desire
TO emigrate, to some place in Central or
South America, In some of the States of
the tropical regions, in which rights may
be acquired by treaty by the United States,
for that purpose, and for their benefit
1t is simply that these people may go
and mlngle with the population already
existing III those States (and large por-
ton OF the people there is of the color
ed race,) where color is no degradation,
and where they may mingle freely to-
gether, with all the rights of settlement
and citizenship, and form themselves
into colonies.
In speaking upon this proposed meas
c!e, Mr.. Jefferson said "I 1t was, how
ever, found that the public mind would
not yet bear the proposition yet he
day is not far distant when it must bear
1t, and adopt II, or worse will follow
Nothing is more certainly written in the
" book of fate, than that these people
tthe negroes) are to be free nor is it
q less certain that the two races, equally
free, cannot live in the same govern
ment. Nature, habit, opinion, have
" drawn indelible lines of distinction be-
tween them. 1t is still in our power 10
+" direct the process of emancipation and
deportation, and in such slow degree
=" that the evil will wear off insensibly,
:" and their place be pari passu filled up
by tree white laborers. If, on the con-
trary, 1t is left 10 force itself on, human
=" nature must shudder al the prospect
" held up. We should in vain look for
a." an example IN the Spanish deportation
" or deletion of the Moors."
IN a letter TO MIR Coles Mr. Jefferson