Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-02-14

under what is accepted by the Administration as
judicial decree, upheld by it, and put in practi-
cal operation BY it, every inch of that Territory
is slave Territory.
TERRITORIES ALREADY WELDED TO SLAVERY
speak Of that decision, not as accept it, but
as it is accepted and enforced by the existing Ad-
ministration. Every foot of it is slave territory
as much as South Carolina. Over a considerable
portion of it slave code has been made by
government created by the Congress of the
United States, and is enforced, that according
to the claims of those who insist upon their
right in the Territory of the United States for
slavery, the whole of this million, sixtythree
thousand miles is slave territory. How many
slaves are there in it How many have been
brought into it during those twelve years in
which it has not only been r.linquished to
slavery, but in which the Court and Legislature
and the Administration have maintained, pro-
tected, defended and guaranteed slavery there2
THE NUMBER OF SLAVES IN THE TERRITORIES.
Twenty -four African slaves-one slave for ev-
cry forty four thousand square milestone slave
for every one of the twcnty-four States, which is
l-supposing them each to be of the dimensions
ofNew York, or Pennsylvania, or Indiana-to
cover that portion of the area of Republic
See, have followed this thing in good faith
with zeal and energy, but confess that have
no fears of slavery now, when in the peculiar
condition of things which has existed, slavery
has succeeded in planting only one slave in every
forty four thousand square miles of territory.
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In lieu of it comes up great and vital and fear
full questionable question of the Union-the
question of country or no country-the question
of hope-the question of greatness, or the ques-
ton of sinking forever under the contempt of
mankind.
NO FEARS FOR THE CoNFEDERAcr.
| Why then should despair that great peo-
pie of thirty millions will be able to NEE: the
crisisl have no fears; this is a confederacy.
1t is not an Imperial Government or the govern
ment of a single State. 1t is a aConfederacy, and
it is as it ought to be, dependent on the continu
ed assent of all the members of the Confederacy
to its existence, and subject to dissolution by
their action. But that assent must always be ia
ken by virtue of the orieinal assent, and held ur-
| I'll, Ill tue iOrln tut OoHSttueiOH
ITSELF and in the manner and with all the condi-
tions which the Constitution prescribes, those
who constitute the Union shall declare that it
shall be no longer. TIE thirty days, and sixty
days, and ninety days, gi, en- US by the Disunion-
lists, may not be enough for the policy and the
purposes of the lovers of the Union. God grant
that it may be so. But if they shall turn out not
to be enough, then | see how and when all these
great contrvances will be settled just as the
forefathers foresaw when they framed thesCon-
stituton.
SUDDEN RELIEF AT HAND.
They promised seventy years ago that this
present controversy-this whole controversy
should be submitted to the people of the United
States in Convention, called according - the
forms of the Constitution, and acting in the man
ner prescribed by it. Then, sir, this country
will find sudden relief in the prompt and unanl-
nous adoption of the measures necessary for its
salvation; and the world will see how well and
how wisely great, enlightened and educated
Christian people, consisting of thirty four SOW
treign States, can adjust the difficulties which
seemed even to themselves, as well as to man
kind to be insurmountable