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Show Appendix. dcncc, for its own high and inscrutable purposes," has, ns we nrc told by the Charleston p:unphletccr, " l'rovidocl tho whiro~ of rho An~lo-Norrnnn r1re in rho ~o11th rrn ~ta t('R with the nrcrs:<:11·y ntcam; of unexampled proRpcriry, '' lilt that Rla,·u lahor, w irhnu t whidt nR a t!l'llt'l'al mit', no colonization in a new country cvrr has or ever will thri,·o ant! grow ~·<~pi '."-"; it has I!!''On rh_rm a_ distinct and inferior rar~ to 011 a pos_iriun equal to rhctr lu ght•st r:tpaclly, wh1rh, 111 less fortunate couutnos, IS OCI'IIfll\'d hy tho whites rhclll >;olvcs." To prt'S<'n-c this state of things, and maintain the cxistino- "domestic institutions" of the outh, is, as the same writer in forms ns, one of the chirf duties of government, and a system bused upon such institu tions "uccomes in stin ct with life and healthy vigor." "J)ublic opinion," then, as he says, ''works in its true calling, as the moderator, not tho silencer of in tli,·idual differences; " and a community thus establ ished presen ts, as :Mr. C'alhoHn wa' accu tomed to assure his friends, the mo. t perfect form of society the world has ever yet srcn. It is under such circumstances that " ·ca rr to find the highest organization, and for thi -, as we arc told by our p amphleteer, " The ::=:ourhcrn Rtates have peru liar, nncl well nigh indis pr nsahlo ndvnnr:t"<.'S in their :<lave in cnpital. " ~:~ titutious, whi ch ftH'ovcr ohlitorato tho divi:ii<lll hotwcou lu ho~ ancl '''c sec thus that the North and the South nrc st eadily moYi11g in oppo~ ite direct ions ; the one becoming more averse to Slavery, and the ot Iter more enamoured of it. Differences in the morlcs of thought in cre:uw fr0111 day to day. Southern men now require So uth ern ~;ch ool books for th c·ir cllildn'n, and Southern tcachrrs for themscl ves. The tics that 011 cc un i trd the d i.l'c·rc•nt sections of the ~rent l\Icthorlist Association have been broke11, :mel already, in other churches, there arc di fferences that must enntnally lead to ~•epa ration. Southern planters seck to have , outh crn conventions, a nrl dc•cline to attend those to which are im·itcd the agriculturists of the Union. Southern commercial conventions arc h eld with a YiC\\' to measures for avoiding Northern cities. Southern pol itical conYrntions p recede the dissollltion of the tics which form erly connected Southern and Northern \Vhi~s, and Southern and Northern D emocrat$. Vrom year to yrar the tendeu cy, iu anrl out of Congress, is towards sectionalism; and such ucing the cn se, there W011lcl seem now to be some propri ety in examining how far the Northern tatcs depend upon the South for thPir prosperity and their existence, and how far the menace of disunion, supposing it is earn estly meant and may r ea lly be carried out, ouRht to be r egard ed by them with anxiety or alarm. That question we shall take an early occasion to consider. RELATIYE PO\VER OF THE NOH.TII AND THE SOUTH. North of Mnson and Dixon's line, of th<' Ohio, and of the l\fi~souri lin e, there nrc fifteen States, in all of whi ch Slavery is prohibitNI. South of Marylnnd and Missouri th ere arc twch ·c, ta tes in which Sla very is rega rded as a blessing. J3ctwecn these two ~rcat ulocks of States lie three whoso position it is required h ere to examine, to wit: Delaware Maryland .Missouri Appendix. Frre pnpulnti,,,, ~7,71!) • -1 /";i,!J l!i • GO!i, l40 SiaN. 2,liR8 8(),\.!0·1 H7,767 Totnl. no, 101 !'i7.l,l!i0 --- ()!J::!,!J07 Total • • I, 178,805 17!l,o.i9 1 ,35B,•I!i 1 Slavery exists in all of these, but the proportton of SlaYcs to free is, as our readers sec, but little more than one to sc,·cn. The tendencies of the majority must, th ere fore, be in the direction of a Northern Unio11, and their interests carry them nrcessnrily towards the North. .Maryland is fast becoming a min in~ and manufaetming State, and the policy of the North favors di\·crs ification of cmploymrnt, :llld thus furnishes n. market for coal and iron that cannot be obtained in the South. Baltimore has a large trade with the \V c. t., and the lnrgC'st portion of it, that which she has made the greatest cllorts to scrurc, lies north of the Ohio; :llld it is in that quarter augmentation is most rapid. H er Slaves arc few in numbe r, and, in the event of separation, she would have the gnarantec of the North for their possession during the period of preparation for gradual aud quiet eman cipation; whereas, were she in a Southern Union, but few would remain at the close of a ~;ingle yea r from the date of separation from P ennsylvania. Her union with the North is one, therefore, not to be dissolved; nnd Delaware, of comsr, accompanies hrr, and becomes a part of the Northern Union. So, too, with l\lis. ouri. H rr interests look castward, and not southward. Railroads nrc rapidly uniting her with the cities of the Atlantic coa t. H er farm ers and miners look c·a~twnrcl f<1r n market for their products. Her chief city looks westward a11d northward, and not southward, for its trade. H er, laves arc few in nnmhrr, and cann ot be r ctainc1l if Iowa an<l lllinois constitute a portion of anothl•r Union. It may, there fore, be regarded as absolutely certain that, in the rn'nt of a dissolution of the Union, these three States will remain conn ectrd with the North. \Vhat would be the course of Kentucky and Western Virt.>inia it is somewhat, though we think n ot very much, more difficult to determine. Doth would have very strong reasons for ]Hlrsuin ~ the same conrsc with Mar) land and l\1is'ouri; but for the pre:'lcnt we will assume that they will go with the South, and that the following is the p roper classification of the Stnt<'s :- --- In the North arc-New 'England, NrwYork, New Jersry, P ennsylvania, DPlawarc, 1\Ia.rylancl, Ohio, Indiana, Illin ois, Michigan, " risconsin , Iowa, California, and Minnesota, now ·oon to hrcomr a Statt'. In the South Virginia and the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Krntucky, Tennessee, Al:.:.bama, Mississippi, L ouisiana, Arkan ~a.s, and Tc:\.as. Stolt's. Nortlt • • • . • • • 20 South • • • • • • • 12 l<'rre 71()]1Uiatioll. 1 •I ,HOO ,000 5,200,000 STarr. 17R,OOO 3,000,000 T otaT. 14,97R,OOO 8,200,000 Such were the proportions at the date of the census now nearly four years old"; but since then they have been matcrin.lly changNl. The va.-;t immigration of the last four years, couplc1l wit.h the natnral illcrcnsc, mu t ha.ve wrllecl tho population of the Northern set of States to little |