The "Draining Off" System

Thp Demócrata olnim that the Annexation of Texas would drain off Slavery from the Northern Slavc Stales, and thus they would become Free States. But what says exporience on this subjpct? A constant drnin from he shve breeding to the planting States has een in prorrcs over since ihe purebase of LomVinnn. Has S!avey become extinct in the States? Has it at all diminish ed? Hore are some facts adduced by Hon. Mr. Pralt in the New Yok House of Representativos: Slaves norlh of .Yorth Carolina. In ifiOO 496,630 " 1810 540,673 1820 561,438 " 1830 581,941 1840 545,788 Senator Walker estimates the number of slaves sold soulh from the slave-raifiing States at halla milhon; vet the slaves in these States hnve mcreascd 50,000 in 40 years! - How soon will they become Free States ut íhis rafe? But take the census of two of thesn States, and see how Slavery has been dramed out of them. It is from Mr. Pratt's report: Slaves in Kentucky and Tennessee. ïn 1810, 5f?,927 1810, 125,096 " )820, 206,859 " 1830, S06,16 " 1840, 365,317 Mere is an increase of 60,000 slaves during the last ten years. When Democrats attempt to excuse their support of more Slavery by such shallow pretences, which are contradicted by all experience, does it rrot show the desperateness of their project - that they are hard pushed for argument, and that they feel the need of sojtic kind of npology for the warfare they are waging on the cause of Freedom?flp The Legislaíure of Massachusetls have nppointed a joint committee on Texas,. South Carolina, fee. of which Hon. C. F. Adams, (son of John Quincy) is ciiairmnn. - A committee of the Libetty party have had severa 1 hearings before the Lcgislative Committee. Several gentlemen have spoken. - Mr. Sewall ''advocated the passage of a law which should make every citizon of Sxuth Carolina, coming into Massachusetts, or havng property here, personally responsible for the imprisonment of the cilizens of Massachuselts there, and subject to a suit by any cirizen of Massachusetts who his. been imprisoned in South Carolina, simpiy on account of bis color. He contended that sucha law ivould le constituí ionnl, and exactly effeetual for the purpo.-e of bringing the constitutionality of the Soulh Carolina luwa before our tribunals." Mr. Andrews wished the Lpgisinture to prohibit elavehoiding by citizens of Massachusetts as a crime. He was proceeding to establish this position from the best authonties, when he was mterrupted by the Committee wiih tlie assurance that they had examined the subject, and fully concurred ia Ihe position that slaveholding is a crime. Thus these politicinns were far ahead of many Doctors of Divinity! Mr. Andrews ihen urged the legislaticn asked for, because it was noforious that slaves were owned and tr&nsported by citizens residing in Boston and elsewhere. - The Committee required their names, which they were promised ut a subsequent hearing. There is progress in Massachuseite! Cl3 Chief Justice Nelson, of N. York, has been confirmed by the Senate as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the ü. States.