Cosmopolitan Ideas on the Union (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Cosmopolitan Ideas on the Union A fruitful source of contention has grown out of the efforts of the South to preserve the balance of power. Desirable as this might have been, a glance at the incidents in the flow of population at once shows its impossibility. Not territory, but population has been wanting to make slave States. In 1850, including California, four-ninths only of the territory organized into States were free. Population stood in an inverse ratio; 13,432,245 inhabiting the free States, and 9,654,631 occupying the slave States. Another incident worthy to be taken into account is the passage of population from the slave to the free States. Estimating the excess of population emigrating North, and its offspring, not less than ten or twelve representatives in Congress had been taken from the South, and placed to the side of the North or account of it. It is mentioned in the compendium of the census of 1850, that "there are 726,450 persons living in slave States who are natives of free States, and 232,112 persons living in free States who are natives of slave States." The truth, as shown by the tables in detail, is exactly the reverse. The 726,450 were born in the South and had emigrated to the free States. Of this number, Virginia had contributed about 184,000 - Kentucky 150,000 - North Carolina about 64,000 - Missouri near 20,000 - Maryland 72,000 - Delaware near 7,000, and Tennessee over 50,000. If the whole emigration from the slave to the free States since the adoption of the Federal Constitution, together with its offspring, be taken into the account, there will be found near two millions of people of southern extraction now inhabiting the free States. This equals half the slave population of the South. It exceeds by several hundred thousands the slaveholders and their families, including all persons having proprietorship in slavery. By a careful analys´s of the census statistics it will be perceived that the flow of the southern non-slaveholding population has been to the west and north-west - that slaves, in a nearly equal ratio, have gone to the west and south-west. Under this drain, South Carolina has increased her white population but fifty per cent, in sixty years, whilst her black population has nearly trebled. It now remains for the statesmen of that State to consider whether they have not too much indulged in the Aristotelian doctrine of "caste and class," and whether by so doing, the political, or governing element has not been too far theorized out of the State. Had that State adopted the policy of retaining its white population, the same as Maryland, and put it to the like useful pursuits of commerce and mechanism, perhaps she would now have felt her strength, and been as little inclined to contumacy. She is now overshadowed with a black cloud in the character of her servile population. Her pride and chivalry remain, but her strength has measurably departed. Perhaps it may be well for South Carolina to consider whether it will be best to repudiate that union and that strength, which may still be her strength; and whether she will act wisely and well to sever that bond which is still competent for the protection of all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historica
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