Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-07-12

ern Of the slaveholdinq States, and a. Il viii
continue more rapidly 70 recede by the re-an-
nesstion Of Texas, into Meziso and Central and
SoEthsrs 1r1sriea. Providence thus
will open Texas az q safety valve, into ana
through which slavery will slowly and gradu-
ally recede, and finally disappear into the
6oundless regions OF Mexico, and Central and
Southern America. Beyond the Del Norte
sIors'y UiH Not pass; not only because 1t Is for
bidden by law, but because the colored races
there preponderate In the ratio Of ten to one
over the whites, and holding as they do the
government and most Of the ofHces in their own
poSses sion, they Will never permit the enslave-
ment OF any portion Of the colored race, which
makes and executes the laws CT the country.
In Bradford's Atlas the facts are given a, fol-
"Me1ico, area ,ooO, coo square miles; popula-
ton eight millions, one sixth white, and all the
rest Indians, Africans, Mulattoes, Zimbos, and
ons-slxth white, and the res: Negroes, Eamocs,
ard other colored races south America area
500 90 square miles; population fourteen mil.
lions, one million white, four millions Indians,
and the remainder, being nine millions, ,sblacks
and other colored races. The outlet for our ne
gro race through this vast tegion can never be
opened but bV the reannexstion OF Texas; but,
I In that event, there In that extensive country,
bordering on eur negro population, and four
times greater In area than the whole Union,
with a sparse population Of but three to the
square mile, where nine-tenths Of the people
tile soil, and in that delicious climate, 50
admirably adapted to the negro race, all
experience has new clearly shown, the free
black would fad q home. There also the
Slduss In the lapse OF time, from the density OF
population and other causes are sntaneipatsd,
they viii disappear from time to time west OF
'the Del Ncrte, snd beyond the limits Of the
Union, and among a race 0f their own color will
8 be diSuscd Through this vast region, where
they Will not be degraded caste, and where az
TO climate and social and moral condition, and
all the hopes and comforts Of life, they can oc-
scupy amid sqsas a position they can never at
tain In any part OF this Union"
This, IL n true, was slow process, but it was
peaceful, progressive, and certain, especially
when Texas should have been checksred Dy rail-
roads, and her ~ q connected with that Of the
South and with Mexico l desire then however,
10 accelerate this action, by making 1t part Of
the compact Of Texss with the Federal Govern
ment, that the proceeds the sales Cf her public
lands, eXcee ding two hundred millions of acres,
should be devoted In aid OF the colonization de-
scribed In this extract. The principle, however,
was adopted OF State action by irrrevocable COM
pact with the Federal government, by which,
provision therein was made for dbolishing slave
" in all such states north ofa certain parallel Of
latitude, (smbracing q territory larger than New
England as might be thereafter admitted by
81 6diyisi IN Of the State Of Texas. The power Of
action on tbLs subject, Oy emp ct CT state with
the General Government wds then clearly esiab
lished, Ia perfect accordance with repeated pre-
vtous act of Congress then cited by me. The
doctrine rests upon the elemental principle OF
the combined authority OF the nation, and State,
acting by compact within Its limits, aud will be
fully discussed by me before the close Of these
lettersn - -
'.It being clearly our interest sRd duty to adopt
this system Of gradual emancipation by State au-
thofity, with colonization abroad, aided by Con-
gress, and the expense being comparatively small
less than a few months cost Of the war, II is a
signal mark of that special Providence, which
has so often shielded our beloved country from
imuaIneat peril, that the President of the United
States should have recommended, and Congress
should have adopted, by 30 large majority, this
cery systs,7, which alone can fnaily, justly, and
wisely settle tnls question, ordially reunie the
North with the South. remove the cause Of The
war, and save the country