Excerpt from De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc., 1853, Vol. 15: Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Political Economy, General Literature, Etc.; New Series, Vol. I Thus, too, those northern members of Congress, who compre hended the real character of the celebrated Proviso, and that it was only the means to reach an end, abandoned it as soon as California adopted a constitution excluding slavery; and none but fanatics, or those incapable of distinguishing between means and ends, or an abstract principle from its practical application, continued to recall and worshiy it as some eternal and vital truth, when, in reality, even if s avery extension were an evil instead of a blessin as it is, in fact, the Proviso was no longer even the sha ow of a shade. Smoc the admission of California, and the settlement of the territorial question, there has been a remarkable degree of quiet at the North on this subject, for the occasional irruptions or outbreaks, in res ect to runaway slaves, are confined wholly to abolitionism, anti) are indications onl of that moral disease which festers in the veins of that smal portion of the northern people poisoned by Britishism, without any necessary, indeed without any connection whatever, with the question of slavery extension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.