New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-17
slavery IN THE UNITED STATES
Al. Address delivered by Geo. M. Weston BY
request, ai q Special Meeting Of the Repuo-
Iiean Association, Washington City, Sept
IL 1871,

Nj. WEsros said: No suggestion is more commonly
made and certainly is more effective, To drsnade
ma from any effort whatever looking the immediate
mr. even remote extinction Of egro Slavery in thu
country than the reprt senstop that the evil is already
30 vast and still inevitably nugmenting by the natu
raj icrease of the eolO ed race e. be beyond tue
reach Of human bep The case Is said To be hopees
80 FAR as visible Of relief are concerned and we
are pously told TO wait until the mischief Is terminated
in some Of the mysterious ways of Divine Providence
We are assured thar as nothing Of practical advantage
can be pointed out there is no duty resting upon us IN
the premises Our ANCESTOR IL il said when our PRES
ent fame Of government was constituted, and when
the mischief was Of comparatively small dlmens"Is'
might have found some medicament for 1t; while for
Us nothing remains but reverent subms ion TO IT, hs
to decree of fate. Sugg-sions like there we hear
constantly and We know that they have 20 suifced Ss
an opae to the conscience of the nation that 30 far
from It's having been regarded as duty 10 attempt
anything toward the extinction Of Slavery il has be- n
in fact rather the fashion of the present generation
srigmatize those who have made such attempts not
merely an pesent srurbers Of the public peac-, but
as impous r-cusans against order Of things estab-
lshed by God.
N,gro Slavery as il exists in this country, is I'M
doubtediy an evil OF magnitude, but DO not ad-
nit either that has been is ncreasg one, rea-
lively 10 the means OF relief from il that we can
be fairly exonested from the duty Of using such means
OF RELIEF by any real iposdbiy Of curing, or vt any
rate diminishing, restricting, and paliatiag the mis-
chief
IL is not the absolute number Of the sives or OF
colored rare, free and sAve, vhicb determines tie
prscriatility Of freeing the slaves or Of drpor'iHg
the coored race but tie proportion which sucn mum
bar bears the total population aud the total wealth
Of the country. If there is danger or national lo.s
(which do Lot admit ia freeing The entlayed Is III
proportion 10 q number compared With the lee;
and 30 far may lie snppored 10 be advisable to nc
COMPANY measures OF emf ;hiremeDt with removal,
more or lees ex.D,iye, of the pred race to the eo-
uies abroad our power TO do that depends upon the
ia 10 Of Our wealth TO the removals proposed TO be
made.
Tie increase of the white population in this country
has been larger during every decade .ince HO, than
that Of either The shaver Of the coloed race, but
The excess Las Teen large, az announced IL each
successive ,eusus ms to trait marked attention. But
Ia long PERIOD by the operation OF compounding ih-
niIiar IL computations II the inere,t npon money, tie
effect of differences H. the Of increase OF puLi-
ton ecomes very yi-ihle -
Thu, taking the whole period between 1870 and 1900
the dates Of ir-t and OF our Last one, the
total per centage OF icreae Ia our different classes Of
population has been follows: