Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-03-13

iedcracy con N.iHH .hr seven
States, already aggregated, -,odd, li'
free whites, and 2,3jO,GO7, slaves
The money value of the slaves at
the present valuation il not less
than two thousand million dollars,
and when we take into considora-
tisn the value they give To lands
which would otherwise be waste,
and to industries within the cotton
States which could not otherwise
exist, the money value must be es-
timated by hundreds of millions
more; to say nothing Of the support
they give to the labor of the world,
not only ~ II source Of productive
ness to capital, adding TO the com
forts of the race everywhere, hut in
the employment and daily bread
they contribute to immense multi
tudes every where.
In this point of Wow, their value
is beyond estimate, in any conccivv'
able array of figures, and the Jcal-
ousy with which the right to the
custody and quiet use Of this great
interest his been watched by these
States, is vindicated, not only on
grounds of personal interests in
their own property, and the vindi-
cation of political rights, but as trus-
tees, for the uses OF humanity.
The accession Of Arkansas, with
her LILO free and l09, lGS slaves,
would give for what are termed the
eight cotton States, white popula-
ton of 2,9Gi,T57; of slaves, 2,i59,-
G72; total, 5,l24,5i9. The aggre-
gate population Of the whole United
States under th- census Of 1890,
Just after the formation Of the con
stitution, WAS only 3,929,S27, and
of these 3,172, AGA, were free. The
population Of the cotton State now
is therefore actually larger, by more
than millin, than that Of the Uni
ted States was, at the time when the
Government was formed, and the
white population is about the same.
The difference does not exceed the
amount Of population which would
be required under the new census
for u single representative in Con-
grcss.
These numbers exceed the whole
population Ct the original thirteen
when they rcbclled against the au-
thority oi. i.Great Britain and main
tained their independence by the
power of their arms and the torce
Of their courage against tormlda-
bic Empire containing nearly sew
en- or ight times their number.
Yet in Great Britain the folly OF
employing force against three mil,
lions to keep them in constrained
connection with government
against which they revolt, was bold
ly put forth by the soundest states
men, WHOSE patriotism and courage
were never questioned therefor
In this day, a population of eight
and half millions demanded of
nineteen millions securities for their
rights or II separation OF interests,
proportion Of 3 to Z in population
requiring pledges for safety to in,
terests which are exclusively and
vitalIy their own, and the reply
they get is, submitted or prepare
for compulsion.
Itwould seem that the men of
this generation, who deal with the
requirements ola people in this way
have not proftted so we'll by the
lessons Of their own history as their
old enemies have done, and are I'M
bued with the very spirit of tyran.
ny which their fathers resisted resisted
against Britain, and which Britain
herself has more than once tomally
and wisely repudiated. They for
get what is good in their own MS
tory to be remembered, and they
remember to initiate what was most
detestcd in the examples Of their
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