Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-01-11
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THE AIMS AND Necessities OF
IEIE SDIrTEI
'STILL HARPING ON NY DAUGHTER

possession of every foot of the
national domain Gdqpe2 to The greet staples on
which slave labor is profitable. VIII the Worlt
be so good to inform US whether Virginia is
adapted to these same great staples, or Maryland
or Kentucky, or Tennessee? Thisis the same talk
with which the Nebraska bill was introduced and
carried through. One would suppose that it might
have become obsolete by this tine Tor those ac-
quainted with the history Of Kansas. I trust no
one will be taken in by it--at least no enc who
has just now the responsibility Of a vote in Con
gress. Has the World never heard that there are
tro sources Of profit from slavery one from tie
production Of slaves, the other from their consup-
ton Of these the first, if not quite equal to the
other is attended with much less trouble and risk.
and is still superior to the profit from raising
sheep or horses-in short vera easy safe, leis-
urely, gentenanlikc, and living business is the
! breeding Of Negroes for market Now is there
any territory of the United States not adapted to
tlas greet staple aay, where slave labor would not
be as profitable as in Virginia, that Is, be made
to pay all expenses Of raising the Negro, so that
his price would be clear profit The answer to
these questions is 50 obviously in the negative
that it is difficult to see how such language as
that Of the IIo-Id is not intended to play into the
| hands of the South by leading tho North TO be-
lieye that the matter in dispute is not worth con
| tending about. VIII New Mexico be given up to
balance Kansas such sophistry, and so establish
the precedent that where free State is admitted
a slave State must be admitted also? Give an
inch and an ell wiz be demanded. The South has
its ultimate purpose whi ch it still hopes to effect
irfha The Un0u, By gong OIL Of a.. This is no 9th
than to Afr,cans4s step by step tho Constitution
and the whole Government, giving to slAvery the
entire and permanent control Of i, ; and Il thew
can partly dupc, and partly trighten so many as
added to their present allies in the North wiz
give them a majority, they may get accomplish it.
| One and principal plan for making dupes is to
make men believe that the South has no purpose
but 70 insist on tho mere distract igt,s Of slave
holders C,rlob ought to Be lfai,et rsr tis sake Of
peaoe) and to express a manly resentment at Nor
thern abuse Of freedom of speech.
A word in regard to this silly slau-cr against
both North and South that the present trouble is
all owing to certain Northern expressions Of dis
approval of slavery. We have afendsf the South
by speaking disrespoctfully Of that institution
Are the shareholders as brainless nen as those
who believe this poor lie cveTlastiarIy reiterated
from the president down through all grades of
iupoceHt and ether conservation Do they not
tell US and truly that they understand slavery
bettet than We Are they not men likely TO |
tuly and apprccl,e the necessities Of their con-
dition They are not. it is likely, wholly unac-
quainted with tho laws of population, not quito I
unobservant Of the working of those laws around .
thom, or altogether ignorant Of history. They .
know well enough, too well, that they ars living /
in a powdcr-housc, before Nj Everett had the .
kindness (for which they DO not thank him) TO
inform them of it. They probably know enough .
Of arithmctic to calculate for themselves tho con-
sequences of being slaa up with slavery The .
proportion of black TO white becoming constantly .
larger and larger by the inevitable law Of popuIa
ton, (unless the Egyptian or Spartan method be
used to prevent it)-the poor whites, in ancient
Italy, more and more driven out by the very IA.
ture and necessities of the slave systematic
more prudent Shareholders leaving their slaves
behind and quietly escaping to the free States
the disproportion of the races thus Increasing in
geometrical ratio, how long viii it be before
Niagara river goes down the falls
Now when men in these circumstances, or fore5ec-
ing that they are soon to be there, move heaven
and erth to procure room and verge enough for the
expansion Of slavery, and especially to implcato
as far as possible and so to interest the whole
:. q. .I,g - : !.
extending it West and South-when Shareholders
are acting thus for such obvious and imperative
reasons We are gravely told, and that by men
hgvins brains in their heads for some uses. that
all this passionate conduct is offended digni-
ty at certain expressions Of dislike and dsappro-
baton of slavery by Northern people. This /
foolish lie more than half the people of the North
are made to believe. 1t is the imprcgnable wall .
behind which the South, concealiug its real in
tcntions and necessities, has fought and well nigh
conquered. The South is ofsnde9, is it, at free /
dom Of Northern speech? If we will never again |
open our mouths for the exit Of the word Slavery .
the South will bo satisfied will it Oh Rev /
Prime, Everett, d alr, what an easy solution /
Let US forthwith amend the Constitution so that
Slavery, retiring peaccaby within its legal DO /
mains may be at rest, and never more fear to be /
reproaohed with its own blaoliness. Alas Rev |
and other dear good aion-savcrs that you should
fail Of the blessedncss Of the pcacemakers. For |
slavery must hare admission to the territories or
it must force its way into the free States; ii must
hare majority of slave States it must have con-
troll of the National Government. Because It must
ExpAnD West and South or it must perish by It's .
own self-destruction.
Think Of fifteen slave States hemmed in, sur
rounded on all sides by thirty forty free States
all crecuiag faithfully the Fugitive SiaDe Low |
All statesmanlike Buchanan, whose only remedy !
in difficulty is to fall to your prayers, 10 yen .
think that with such prospect before you your
only anxiety would be to mako slavery respectable,
and to have it spoken Of politely
Slavery must spread. if not within tie Union,
then in very desperation it must 60 out Of the
Union, with the hope of spreading elsewhere. Al
ternate hope and fear explain all the movements
Of Southern politicians for the last twenty years.
While they had hope of securing a majority Of
slave States by the Mexican War, acquisition Of
Cuba, or otherwise and SO Of controlling the
government, could they ask anything better than
to have at their back the whole mighty power Of
the nation to defend them in the profitable work
ing of slavery and against its dangers b. giving
it indefinite extension? Hence the anger, tho
main element of which is fear, not PRIDE, at Nor
thern free speech, because it may create Nor
thern opinion subversivc of this magnificent
scheme While their poor Northern, misnamed
conservative, dupes and allies have talked them
selves hoarse against talking about slavery be-
cause, forsooth, it ofeads Southern pride and
makes the Sonth disposed to re4iiqfe by extending
slavery Just because the North abuses IT, This talk
against talk, for which they have subsidized ar
mics Of both knavcs and dupes, is the trump card
of the South by which they have all but won the
game, and hope to do SO. For more last des-
perate effort is to be made, and silence enoined
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