, 1861-01-30

hand that his nRhta Of property wonld have to
deptnd. Slavery cannot expand rapidly t1ta-
af within thu Union Or without TIA Butont ~
long a slavss ranained at thar 'pFeant htXa
priess. The only mods BY which aasEery could
eyer expand wss to reduca tbs priee, and hare
q nsw source Of supply.
One Of the fiat measures OF thia souths1n
Confederacy would ha to reopen ths African
slave trade 70 ~ to reduce the prizes OF ne
groes- They would not then purchAae the Nc
groes as they did now, but, instead of paying
them at fow price from Africa, and then!
mould them into shape by the hlsssines OF
Christian civilization. That Was, In fact, the
real design Of the coast States. Mr. Clemens,
n proof Of this, referred to al the Southern
Conventions Of late years, and cited the admis-
sions Of Messrs: Miles, Bonhan, Keitt, Single
show that the object WAS the rebpeulngof tha
slave trade And he quoted from 1verson,
Toombs, slden, Brown, Davis, Wigfall, Yulee,
and other Senators, proving that Idea to-he.at
the bottom Of this secession scheme The
South complained that they did rot gst equal
a Southern Confederacy the question was
would they get equal rights them? That WIS
problem which must be8cypherea ont here
after. How much territory would they acquire
1T once out Of this Union. Not a. naeh a.
'ooxa ~ tss ho'1osa ef his hand! The people
war before they would allow the aeceders to
get one acre of the public domain These
tre-eaters did not understand the temper Of
the Northern people. Where was slavery to
e1pandf Not to Central AmeEica, for Eng
land exercised sovereignty over one-half her
caused the abolition Of slavery there also.
Their retiring confederates onght not TO for
get The events Of 1884, when George Thomp-
son, the English Abolttionist, was sent to en-
tighten the dead conscience Of the American
people. In this connection he cited letter
which was this sentence: 1.-THE dissolution
nf the Union is the object to be kept steadily
in view"
Once out Of the Union, what became Of the
rendition clause Of the Constitution Nor
would there ever be extorted from the North q
treaty giving the same guarantees to slavery
that it now has. In the event Of Southern
ConfedcracE there will be, besides the African
slave trade, other elements of discosd and agi-
tation- Slavery was the great ruling interest
Of the extreme states, while other States had
other great Interests which could not be light.
i ly aban9ehea- It would be for the interest Of
the coast States to have free trade In maaufac-
turcd goods but how would that operate on
the mechanical and manufacturing industry Of
Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware There would be, therefore, in the
proposed Union, an antagonism quite IS great
as great as there has been in this. But If nlan-
ufactories were to be protected and encour-
aged in the border elave States, their white
population would increase so fast That they
would be but nominally slave States and would
finally become free States. Free labor was
now the leading interest in the border States.
He would remind those who were preaching a
crusade againat the Union, that the institution
OF slavery In Virginia and six other States ex
| listed By the to1eratton and consent Of tho men
! with horney bands, who toll for their oWu
! support, and eat the bread earned by the sWea1
Of their broWs. These men may not ba &C
ready to desert the flag Of their country as tht
owners and breeders Of slnves. But, in suct
contederacy, he maintained that the Cotto1
States would get the upper hand, and seize ant
exercise the legislative power over the borde:
States, which would be bound hand and foo
to policy far more oppressive than they expe
rienced under tho preaent Constitution, eve,
could It be intensified fifty times.
There u nothing mols certain than ffe
trade and direct taxation will become the es
tablished policy Of q Southern Confederacy, q
it will be rpled by the South Carolina and col
ton States school of political economists. Th
federal expenses Of = Southern Confederac
would not be less than thirty millions 4 yeai
(which Virginia would have to pay over fou
millions, Kentucky and Missouri each thre
millions, Maryland two millions, and littl
Delaware one quarter Of d million Of dollars
Those border States could only escape froE
this Jugge1naut machine by seeding from tn
cotton Confederacy and renniting with tn
"Stats and Stripes or setting up for then
selves. lRany event, what would become {
the slaves: No proposition was truer tha
this one that tho establishment Of Soutt
ern Confederacy would c1tinguish slavery /
fve border States, beget an "irrepressible col
ltct" between them and the cotton States o
the subject Of free trade and direct taxation M
the opening Of the African slave trade; th
creation aud support Of o standing army; u n
striction md repression of popular rights, IN
in q very few years tho Southern Confederac
will split In twain and the Northern half Of
seek admission into the old Union under th
old Constitution and old flag, wiser, thong
s1dder men
One thing he desired to impress on the mind
| Of shareholders III the border States who col
template secession, and that YVES If the Unio
WIS once dissolved they might look in vain fc
reconstruction on such basis NJ 1t now stand
upon. RECONSTRUCTED, the North will fix th
! terms Of the reconstruction and will inlit
that those who now seeede shall come into
new Union, II they come at Ill, leavine the
sEyes behind them. Let u feel, he said, th,
We have q country to save instead Of &c.
graphical section to represent Let NJ act
men, and not as partisans, aud the old Coust
tuition, now in the trough of the Sea, with ba
| tered mA&4S and sails, viii weather the storm