The Doom of Slavery in the Union Author:John Townsend Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: States, and to bring them into the Union with fractional populations, even, so as to procure the constitutional number required ? The question presents a fac... more »t too plain for argument, and the treasons of Kansas and Harper's Ferry do not permit the mind to halt in its conviction because of the immoral nature of the proceeding. But without this, recurring to our argumentative appeal above quoted, as submitted to the tenators and representatives from the South during the Kansas issue, it must be seen that the ceaseless accumulations of Northern population, and the legitimate accessions of Northern States from the territories, combined with the rapid subversion of Southern States in the Union, will surely accomplish, in this respect, within the time designated, all the aspiring anticipations of Seward, and chain the South to the triumphant car of his ambition. I It is only necessary to give to these extracts the careful examination which the profound importance of the question is entitled to, for any reflecting mind to be convinced that the Abolitionized States will have the power, within a very few years, to alter the Constitution in any way they please; and so fulfil the intentions of Mr. Seward and his Black Republican colleagues, of " abolishing slavery in all the States in a constitutional manner. Whether this shall be allowed to be done at all, will depend upon the South: or whether il shall be done within the time indicated by this Virginia writer, (ten years) or whether it be delayed some five or ten years longer, does not affect the question of their power, sooner or later, todo it. That they will do it within the shortest practicable time, we may certainly expect, when we consider that it has been fur years the object of their earnest labor and ardent desires; and when...« less