Year: 1861

The last slave State that was admitted iato the
Union was Texas, and that was nearly sixteen
years ago. Texas was not Federal Territory,
but an independent nation so that Florida was, in
fact, the last slave State admitted into the Union
out Of Territory previously belonging to the Union.
Bat, since The admissionof Florida, how many free
States have been added to the Union2 Iowa, Wis
consin, California, Oregon and MiRnesota-iye free
States and not q single slave State. Nor was
there any probability that under the Union as it
was there ever would be another slave State added
to the Confederacy. The chief end and aim Of the
Black Republican party was to prevent the extern
sion Of slavery. 10 more slave States " was their
ralying cry and the leading object of their DESIRES
So that, eyenif by any possibility, under the ad-
verse legislation of Congress and the active efforts
Of Emigrant Aid Societies, Territory with slavery
should apply to Congress for admission into the
Union, that party was pledged to resist its admis-
son--and they have the power to redeem the
| pledge, whenever the occasion may arise.
| The South then, by remaining in the Union, has
/ this prospect before her: A steady increase Of
! free States out of Territories already organized,


with no prospect tebaseue of an increase of the
number of slave States. The free States already
number eighteen, while there are only fifteen with


slavery. Then there are the Territories OF Kansas,
4 Nebraska, Washington and Utah, most Of which
! are already demanding admission into the Union
! and every one of them will come in as a free
State. Already, in consequence Of the numerical
4 preponderance of the North, the South will be
/ completely at the mercy Of that section, so far
Legislation is concerned, whenever sectional lines
are strictly drawn. But when these Territories
/ are admitted asStates, and raapportionn1ent of
Representation in Congress, to be made this year,
shall still further increase the political power Of
the North, it will be seen at once that the South
Will be bound hand and foot in Congress, and in
such slender minority that she will be powerless
to protect herself against legislative aggression.
The longer, then, that the South stays in the
Union, the frmer will be the grip Of the North
upon her The North already has majority of
ifty-seven in the House Of Representatives, and
six in the Senate. Under the new apportionment
this majority will be considerably increased. So,
also, the North has majority of sixty-three in the
Electoral College and ttis majority, also will be
increased BY The apportionment. Thus, then, with
out counting the Territories at all, which, when
they come in as States, will still further increase
the power of the Nerth, the prospect already is
that the South will not only be politically subju-
gated for all me, but will be denied the right of





Union. ~


But when the Southern Confederacy is estab.
lshed, we can expand our institutions without diff
Guilty. We can never do so in the present Union
but We can easily do so out of it, Mr. Toombs, of
Georgia, like every one else who has examined the
question, declares that our slave population in
creases 50 rapidly that it will be necessary, long
before the close Of the present century, that ne
have territory, or rather that slavery shall
be allowed to go into territory we already have
Everybody knows that this will not be permitted as
long as we stay in Federal Government which
Black Republicanism controls


We haze before rs an extract from paper pub
lished in Arizona Territory, called the MesiIla
Times, which says that In the event Of the estab
iishment Of Southern Confederacy, Arizona will
kaock at the door of their first Congress for adis-
sion as State, and it is probable New Mexico will
do the same.'f We have no doubt this will be the
case. Arizona and New Mexico lie along the same
parallels Of latitude with Arkansas, Tennessee,
North Carolina and the Northern portions of Mis-
sissppi, Alabama and Georgia. The Southern bor-
der Of Arizona is on the same parallel with the
most Southern point Of South Carolina and The
Northern border Of New Mexico corresponds with
the Southern line of Kentucky and Virginia. This
large extent of country by geographical position
is with the cotton States; lying South, as it does
Of the parallels which run through Virginia, Ken
lucky and Missouri Thus, then, their interests
will be the same as ours, and their destiny will un
questonably be the same also. All efforts of the
Federal Government of the North to retain these
TeTrifores-eyen if such efforts be made-would
be utterly useless. Theywould GO with the South
4ern States, and link their fortunes indissoIubly
with our own. The Indian Territory west of Ar
kansas where slavery already exists-would also
be with Us. And thus, through the whole vast ex-
tent Of territory lying beyond the western borders
Of Louisiana and Arkansas, all the way through to
the Pacific Ocean, we would have field for the
expansion Of our Institutions an outlet for our re-
dundant population of all sorts, and territorial
area where may be grouped together before the
close Of this century, the individual members of
the richest, grandest, and most prosperous Con.
federaey known to the history Of the world


The dissolution Of the present Federal Union be-
ing already accomplished fact, needing only tie
formality Of ordinances fsecession by the several
States Of the South, it becomes as to look little
ahead, and appreciate the immense benefits result
ing from it, not only in respect of the preservation
from destruction Of onr peculiar institution, but
also our capacity to extend and strengthen it,
almost without limit, in the Southern half of tie
North American Continent. 1t is with pleasure and
satisfaction, then the people of the South will re-
eeiye this declaration from the Territories Of Ari
IONA and New Mexico, that Sin the event of the
establishment Of \ Southern Confederacy ,--an
event certain to happen--these Territories will be
of us and with us.


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