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Show 494 Appendix. r csourcc-s of the South," which constitute, as we arc- assured in the h'n? u~rer, "the basis of the commerce of the UniYNse." It would, therefore, 1f 1t could, put a stop to the voluntary immigration of free men, while it would gladly reopen the African slave-trade, now regarded at the South as the real measure of civilization. North of Mason and Dixon's line, of the Ohio, and of 3G0 30', we hnvc l~ncl s ufTicient for hundreds of. mil~im~s of i1~habitnnts. \\7e need population, and the .suJ:est wny to lH'tt~g tt 1s to nllonl to the people of J.:lll'ope reason for be!tovtng that ~y comtng here th<'y will be enabled to earn highrr wages than they can obtatn at hon1 e, antl enjoy, in greater perfeetion, the adva~1tnges of fr c-cdom. }:Ycry p<'rson that co ntes h ere is worth to t/ 1 (' rommwuty all h<' cost to raise, and the 'aYerage cost of the men wom"II . d l . . . . ' ' ' ,I II c 11ldren we ltnport, 1s certamly not l<'ss than a thousand dollars. \Vrre thesr proplq hlad:, and did thry come from Africa to Southern ports, they woulcl he JU'OJU•rty, and !lie commu11ity would l1e regard ed a being ri eher by ut lcn st fhc hundred doll ars a head, because of th eir importat ion. If so th err, why not so here ? To the commu11ity it matters not who is the ,o,wner of ~ropcrty, lH·o,·idecl it cxi~ts nnd i:-; owned among themselves. lhe nrg ro 1s the property of another, but the free immigra11 t is his own propr.rty, and hence. 1~1orc valuable than the nrgro, and every such person com;tttutcs an nduttwn to the wealth of the commu11ity of at k nst a thousand dollars. Northern policy, c,·cn as it is 110w carried out, attracts nearly 400,00? such persons annually, few or none of whom wottlcl come undt'l' an c nl!rc .Southrm policy, and to this vast immigration is to a great extl'nt clue thr faet th at in a single \V c~trrn ~tate, lllinois, the inc'rC'ase in th.c ~·:due of proprrtr in the year 18.3:3, O\'C'r that of 1 8.3~, was fifty-c'ight null10ns ~>f dollars, or more than (i,·t~ times as mut'h as the annual ntluc of tl.1at lH>~·~ t,o n. of ~u~· trade with t.hc ~<ll~th, th:1.t is de•pcndt'll ton its rt'fraining ftom rxc < 11t111g 1ts threat of clt ssolut iOn. . Jl ncl thr Northern poli cy been fully c·nrrie'd out, " <' should now he illlportlllg .pcople at double our present rate, nncl c,·ery lll:lll so itnported wo1tltl he adcltn~ to t~1c value of Southern products, by <'OIIsllllli ll g" thri<·l', nne! )> C' rhaps f1Ve ~ tltH'S, as muc·h cotton ancl sugar as he consuntc'cl at hon1 r . At :h~1sn111~ ttnlc they would be ndeling to the value of Northernl nnd and labor 0 10 <'xte~1 t. of at lrn.st the sum we have named, or an amount of fonr htmdn'clnlllll()ns of dollars, being more th:tn twenty dollars per hc:1d of the present J10J)til ation of tl1e t"tcs e h •· l · . . • .. · w ave as:-;tgnec to a N orth r rn UniOn. Adcltnrr thts CJII 'lll tity to tl1c s I 1 b · ·' · th ~. ' > e a reac Y o tn111cu, we feel dtsposrd to place e loss of the North, from the continuance of the Union, at about forty dollars ]> <'r hc·td · while tl · 1 f 1 . • ' 1c gnm t 1erc rom c oes n ot rxc·ced forty rents-the differen ce or ,~~.t•;Jf) GO l> ' · 1 , cJ '· · · to the N orthcr' n l::•lwt atc•s . Cl lea , uemg, ns we tlunk, th e net annual loss 'l'IIE CASB AS IT STANDS. \Vc havcnow inthoseSt· t · · t1 · · . · " cs n~<n c 1an srventr011 milli ons of people, aud lf we add thereto the ) l· t' f 1 n . . . · l 0p11 .l lOll 0 tIC l'ltlSh prO\ lll Ct'S, the S lllll will be nearly twenty lllillions A · · f 1 · · nucxatHm o t \osc provtnccs can n ever talco Appendix. place while we. shnll continue so busily ocrupicrl in rxtrnding th<' nrea of Slavrry, to wh1ch the p t'o ple of t'anada arc so much opposed. They tell us, frankl y, thatthcy will make no connc'ction with us, "That will C1111JltlWC'r tho s lavo driv€'r tn ntnl o Cnn:ui:L a h1111ti 11~ gro11 utl. lf 11 _ ~l!nn fl t•,;.h and. hlood s hall ttOV<'r ho hart t'n' rl in Canada like tho hPasts of tltu tiolrl. ] Ito h:ttll l! ot tit ~> hloocl!lOil!lds shall ll OVtlr ol'ltu tlt ro11:,.:h our woorll'l. If ,\lill·hnll wnnts a plantatton of. tnt ll c>l!nlt.JS to ti n:.:,' ho wt ll ha vu to St'!'k it in t<o1110 otltur plat:o .th a n .u:.lll :ula . If <_'an acla ovPr hcrot u<'~ a t'-it:ttu of tho lJuio11 , it wilt not ho uuLtltLH ~otltH Hoalcod \Vllh hlood."- 'f 'urouto Colonist . \Vith a Northern Union, this cli{[iculty could have no existrn ce, ancl the advantages of Union a rc to the ProYincrs so great that, were it rcmo,·cd, annexation would follow as a n ecessary consequence. \Vhat, then, would be the real loss resulting from n secession by the South, with a view to carry out the now favorite project of a. great .SiaYc ltopulJlie, entbracing some of the Slave States, Cuba, Br;,zil, and probalJly Hayti, whose people would be r e(1nslaved? * \ Vc should lose the companion~hip of (i,·c 111illion 'i oi white men who gi"c seven millions of Yotes, :mel tlwrt·by deprive the whole fr <'e people of the North of all control over thl·i r cmn actions, while tax ing thc'm hundreds of millions for the purchase and prot ection of te rritory sutTic:ient to enable t ht•n1seh·cs to hold the reins of goYCl'lllllrnt. \Ve s hould, on the other ha nd, gain a connection with two and n half 111ill ions of free people who sell th eir own labor, and th crcfon' dPsirc that" the hirrling" shcndd be largely pa id. \Vo shoulcllose a r·ottll('('tion with fin' millions who di ff'cr from us in all our mocl<'s of thought in regarcl to the ri ght:-; of man, and gain a conJH'ction with hnlf that numhn who agree with us in rcfcrent'c to that important subject. \ Vo should lose a. con nection with mrn who look only to exhausting th rir land ancl lhtn abandoning i t, nncl gain one in which r,·ery lllan is Cltlti ,·ating- his own h omcst<'ad, and, lh rr<' forr, u<•si rous of impro' ing it for the hrncfit of hitllsdf, his wife•, :111 cl his children, ancl rrady to unite with us in e' Pry ntcnsurc t r nding to that n•sttlt. \V shoultllosc n con nection with a deacl body, alltl gain one with a li vin~ man. Furthr r than thi s, n North<·rn Union, pnrsui tt g- n policy 1<'tttling to <'lPvatc the labora, by di,·ers ifying- nnd ine·n'asing thC' clt'n talld l'e>r l.tbor, would nttract twice th<' llutnllcr of inun igrants we now J'Cecive, :ttlll would thus ad(l so r normotudy to our ll tllllbNs and our wc:Llth, that we hC'sitate not to e~press our full belief that s uch a Union would, in tw<'nty years from this uatc, be r ic·hcr :melmore populous than will be our present Union if it continued for that time. Stronger it wonlcl certainly be, for Slav<'ry is an elel11Cnt of weakn rss. Mfl rc respectable it woulcl certainly bt', for we c:wnot command the respect of the world while npp<'a ring every where ns the a<h·ocatcs of ~lavery, and the cxccu tors of the Io'ug-it i ve 1-;la vc Law. t l\1 ore ntora l * Hccnslavc tho llaytionK ! All tho force:; c>f tho f-iout h, <1ncl all the lc~;itHts of hull cotu hin od, wuld uot roo us lavo tho 11 aytlo ns. lt would llo l'C] tta lly o,tsy lO Ctt t;lave tho \' unkoot<. t :-luch a IJnion wol!ld h <L·- ton tho advent of RO!lllhli<·auism .in Europo ouo half a century at toa s t. Jtoformors of tho Oltl VVorld could then p0111t to a truly free llopuhlic: No10 they daro 11ot Hpoak in praise of~ ru1~ntry which ca~rit~H tho Hlavolwldor's lash ill itl:l riglH haud, auu Llto Dcclarat iOil of lndopomlouce Ill llt; loft. J. lt. |
