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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
o abolish slavery within the States by a constitutional amendment? Would they wait for that process if they did not know it to be both rapid and sure? With the principles and feelings of this sectional party — which would wield the power of that Confederacy — how long would the institution of slavery endure in the five or six slaveholding States which were attached to that Union? Is there one of the slaveholding States which would voluntarily incur such a risk, with the fate of the British West Indies before their eyes? In a Union with a Southern Confederacy they should encounter none of these dangers. In that connection the slave population operates us a safety-valve to protect the white laborer against an unreasonable or ruinous decline in the rate wages. With an outlet for emigration, the slave is the first to move under a decline in the rate of wages. The law of profit moves him to a theatre where he will earn more for his master, and yet more for himself, whilst the labor