Liberty And Slavery Contrasted

"To show the impoverishcd naturo of slavory when comparecí wfth freedom, let '■ U3 look lor a moment at a froe and a slave j state side by side. Compare, for instance, j two States in which there was a large section of country thiown open to settiernent ' almost_at the same time, by the removal of : the Indiana and other causes - Illinois atul Mississipj)!. Kuch of these States received an acecssion to its laboring populalion, in the ■ course of llirec or four ycars prior to 1837, i of about 100,000 souls, all devuted to ag ricullure. The hundred thousand pepple 1 that removed from the old States of lüe I North lo till the fine soit of Illinois, coat for 1 their reruuval not exceeding $100 on ati average. And even this was paid, nol by Illinois, but out oí their own formur earnings. Wliile these luborers cost the State nolnng to get th'óm there, rhany of them curried considerable suma of money into the State, and at the same timo, ono of these laborera ia actually worih, for productivo induiitry, two such us ure taken to the Suiith. Look now nt Missvssippi. Her hundred thousand laboréis wtre brouht fioin the slavo brecdir.g States, at a cost of a ilionsuud dollars each, or a tutalofoue hundred milliuns of dollars. Mow, observe, tlio atae of Mississippi hns büthiiïg to show but a laboring pupulation of a hundred ihousi.ud peraopis. - The additton lo ihe wenhh-producing power ot'lhe Sliiio id nóthiñg bun ilie sirength ot tlieno ftrborerï - the Vety samu thing which Illinois gut for nuthing, viih money in pocket liesuio. Nuw, wlioïannol see the great advuntugc which Iilini is possesscm over Missistíipi, merely ia consequenceof beinga free Stalo! livw mucli inore rapidly will sha grow in weLlth und real pr'ósperity ! U it any wonder that Mississipjji, conunencing under such dis- udvanttigus, wah all the unproduclivonesa of bl.ive-labor, afier the labijroiaare tiótüally on the soil, wilh the idle and exlravagant ha bit 8 of the slavehuldors, is it any wonder that her buuks fuil, and that the ■Northorn capital und iho goods of Norlhein morchauts wiiich are sent ihere are