When I Declare That I Desire No Dealings With The Negro,
I Speak Of Him In The Position In Which I Now Find Him, Either As A
Free Servant Or A Slave.
In either position he impedes the
civilization and the progress of the white man.
In considering this matter it must be remembered that the five or
six States of which we are speaking are at present slave States, but
that, with the exception of Virginia - of part only of Virginia - they
are not wedded to slavery. But even in Virginia - great as has been
the gain which has accrued to that unhappy State from the breeding
of slaves for the Southern market - even in Virginia slavery would
soon die out if she were divided from the South and joined to the
North. In those other States, in Maryland, in Kentucky, and in
Missouri, there is no desire to perpetuate the institution. They
have been slave States, and as such have resented the rabid
abolition of certain Northern orators. Had it not been for those
orators, and their oratory, the soil of Kentucky would now have been
free. Those five or six States are now slave States; but a line of
secession drawn south of them will be the line which cuts off
slavery from the North. If those States belong to the North when
secession shall be accomplished, they will belong to it as free
States; but if they belong to the South, they will belong to the
South as slave States.
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