on farms
using exclusively white labor. In Texas, especially, this is a
great truth, nor is there a doubt that skilled, educated,
persevering, and energetic free labor, engaged voluntarily for
wages for its own use, would in time, especially when aided by
improved culture and machinery, produce much larger crops and
better cotton than is now raised by the forced and ignorant labor
of slaves, and at a much cheaper rate and a far greater profit than
any crop now produced in the North.'

With this great truth before us, will Government hesitate to seize on
and settle Texas, as soon as circumstances admit? We have urged Texas
from the beginning as the great stone of resistance which must
eventually, by means of free labor be employed to stem the progress of
cotton-ocracy in the other Southern States. On this subject Hon. Robert
J. Walker's letter of June 28th is one of the most instructive and
remarkable documents issued since the beginning of the free-labor
agitation, and it is to be desired that it should be read by every
freeman in the Union. Colonization, voluntary but effective, is, as he
holds, the only remedy for the terrible evil of slavery, and the only
basis of the peaceful restoration of the Union.

It was urged, months ago, against THE CONTINENTAL by a radical Abolition
organ, that while favoring Emancipation, we were quite willing 'to
colonize the negro out of the way.' And if it could promote the real
welfare of both black and white, why should he not be colonized, even
'out of the way'? 'But it is impossible,' say the Conservatives; to
which we reply that this is an age of great conceptions and great deeds,
and it would be strange indeed if we, with steamboats, could not effect
as much as was done of old by the most primitive races of both
hemispheres. The Incas of Peru had no difficulty in moving hundreds of
thousands of a conquered race to fresh fields and pastures new--why
should we find it impossible? Let the same enthusiasm which has been
displayed on the bare subject of freeing the black, be devoted to
freeing and placing him at the same time in a climate congenial to his
nature, and we should soon witness a solution of our great national
difficulty.

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We are indebted to a genial Western correspondent for

TOM JOHNSON'S BEAR.

A STORY WITH A MORAL.

To ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, this poem