The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-02-14

slavery III lne leTTlUOTlcS OF the United
States, just as before.
TwESTY- -FOUR EMBRYO STATES IN THR TERRI.
TORIES.
What is extent of the Territories which
remain after the admission Of Minnesota,
Oregon California. and Kansas? One
million rixty-tbree thousand five Hundred
square miles--an area twenty -four times
that Of the State Of New York, lhelargest
of the old and fully.deveioped StaIes
Twenty -four such States as that Of New
York are yet to be organized within the
remaining Terri4sss ss ofthe United States.
Now, under wha H;accepled by the Ad.
ministratioh as a licial decree, upheld
by it. and put in I eclical operation by it
ritory. ~
TERRITORIES ALRgsgg YIELDED To SLAVERY
speak OF that decision, not as accept
it, but as it is accepted and enforced by
the existing Administration. Every foot
Of it is slave territory as much as South
Carolina. Over considerable portion
of it slave code has been made By a
government created by the Congress of
the United States, aud is enforced. so
that according IL the claims of those who
insist upon their right in the Territory
of the United States for slavery, the
whole Of this one million, ,sixty.three thou
sand 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 re-
linquished TO slavery, but i'll which the
Court and Legislature. and the Admiuis-
tration have maintained, protected, de.
Tended and guaranteed slavery there?
THE NUMBER OF SLAVES IN THE TERRIFIC.
RIEs.
Twen'y.iour African slaves-one slave
for every iorly-four milestone slave for
every one Of the twenty -four States,
which is-supposing them each to be of
the dimensions of New York or Penn.
sylvania. or lndiana--to cover that por-
ton ofthe area four 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 Pc
culiar condition Of things which has exist.
ed, slavery has succeeded in planting
only one slave in every forty four thou
sand square miles Of territory. This,
then has ceased TO he practical ques-
ton. lu lieu Of it comes up great and
vital and fearful question-the question
of the Uuion-lhe question Of country OF
no countryside question of hope-tl e
question OF greatness or the question Of
sinking forever under the contempt Of
mankind.
NO FEARS FOR THE CoNFEDERAcY.
Why then should | despair that great
people of thirty millions will be able e
meet the crisis? l have no fear; tLis is
a Confcderaey. 1t is not an Imperial
Government or the government Of sin.
gle State. 1t is a ConIederacy; and it is
as it ought 10 be dependent on the con.
tinued assent of all the members of the
COnfedeIacy to its existence, and subject
to dissolution y their action. But that
assent must alway Le taken by virtue Of
the original assent. and held until in the
form prescribed by the Constitution it,
self, and in the manner and with all the
conditions which the Constitution pre-.
sclibes, those who constitute the Union
shall declare that it shall be no longer
The thirty days, and sixty days, and
ninety days, given us by the Disunibnists
may not be enough for their policy and
their purposes | hope and trust thai
tmay be time enough for the policy and
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 conti
,ances will be settled, just as the lore
fathers forcsaw when they framed the
Constitution.