Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-02-14

day; making marriage sacred, allowing of
schools and prohibiting the domestic slave
trade, and in twent5 ears the cause of all
dIscord and contention would be removed.
The value Of lands in the South would
soon rise to that of similar lands in the
Free States, from to times its present
valuation. This, itself, would more than
compensate for all the slaves, if nothing
were given to their owners. The land
owners could sell and invest their money,
or lease and receive their rents, as Northern
land-holders do. White settlements would
be formed towns and cities would spring
up; schools, churches and manufactures
would grow up; stores and mechanics
would flow into the country as naturally
and psoftably as they now do to the
North.
Government was constituted to protect
and promote the best interests of the coun-
TRY. Theimmense difference in the growth
and prosperity of the Free States over the
Slave, shows, beyond dispute, that free
white labor is the best for the nation at
large, and therefore, to remove the blight
ing curse as fast as it can be constitutions
lally done, is the permanent duty of Gov
ernment cost what it may. But the pres
ent state of affairs gives the Government
right to remove slavery by force, if with
out such step the laws cannot lie executed
nor the public property be protected. But
let it be done peaceably if possible, but
forcibly if it must.
But what shall be done with the blacks
Send them to Africa at the public expense.
We don't want their blood to mingle with
ours in our posterity. Line the entire
coast of their native and natural home with
colonies and states like Liberia, and with
the taste they have had of slavery they
viii be sure to etfectually cut off the slave
trade. There is no place for them on this
continent; the Anglo Saxon race is des-
tined to occupy it, and put them where
you will on it the whites would soon be
crowding upon them, and another removal
or an amalganation would be the conse-
quence. 1t is but few years since Presi-
dent Monroe recommended what is now
Wisconsin for the final resting place Of the
Indians. If that policy had been adopted
where would now be Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota.
But we are told that the whites cannot
endure the climate Of the South, and there
fore the blacks, free or slave, must occupy
the country. But this is all pretense.-
Look at the Germans in Texas, where one
Of whom produces equal to two slaves;
see the whites who become acclimated to
New Orleans and other Southern cities ];
and see the white oyerseers and inhabitants
of the Slave States; all these can and do
stand the climate, and so can others.
Now hereis the way and the only way
to save and preserve the Union and to rem
der the Whole country more prosperous,
wealthy and peaceable; and the present
crisis offers favorable opportunity, nay,
forces upon the Government the paramount
necessity Of adopting it, or something in
the nature and tendency Of it, or dissofl-
ton and ruin must ensue. Against this
the feryent prayer and the strong neryed
arm of every true patriot is raised TO
heaven; and the people, men, women and
children, all respond with a hearty Amen !
A. BRUNsoN.
Prairie du Chen, Jan. Doth, 1861.