Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-13
Mlsrelloncolts.
THE FREE SOIL QUESTION.

curse Wh,ch I teelS tSelt obliged TO exclude
from lis new territories, and in this point of view
the free soil creed is quite sufficiently absurd. vet
the hopes of our country and of humanity cus.
ter more and more around the free soil movement
Let Mr.. Benton say what he will and surtiv he
IS right in point OF Mexican law IN saying what
he does there was never more danger Of any
great national evil than there now is ofth3 intro.
ductIon of chattel slavery into California. The
danger is increasing every moment.
Gold has been discovered and ascarained There
beyond all that the world has ever seen before.
Laboris excessively dear, and hard to be secur-
Ell. The momentthe dggers have amasscd con
siderable quantities, hundreds and thousands OF
! them will naturally castabout to surround them
selves with family comforts while they increase
! their hordes at Their leisure. They will bald
houses, send for their families, or found families
by marrying. But rich folks must not wait ON
themselves. Who shall scour knives. wash
clothes and vegetables, boil the pot and set the
table in California? Free men will not do it
they will desert for the nnos and fortunes un-
less paid enormous prices Free girls will not
do il at any price, for they viii lorsakc all for
their husbands The only resource Of the new
millionaires of California for domostics. will be
to sard TO Africa or Virginia for slaves Cost
price will be nothingto them, and ignorance and
'i''t''N lit " IL ~ IiOitSV-
holds, with great luxuricS, may thus be cstab-
Iishcd, while the lord nabobs are making millions
into billions by selling lands and farming out
mines Mental slavery being accompshed.prao-
dial slavery will easily succeed as the only feast
blc method Of getting crops out of the rich plains
and valleys.
1t will be asked, are our honest, sturdy, demo-
cratic, Yankee. trce-soiI friends, who have gone
by thousands TO the digoings dogs, that they
should do such things? NO, we trust not But
men with gold, are as different frommen without
it, Is Office seekers are different from officers
Il is only the fortunate and successful whose
human nature will experience this natural
c,anuc. But who will resist them? Could
all stop and establish government, before they
rush to the mines. doubtless they would rule ont
slavery But they can do no such thing Dat
of the or-at chase tllay will come, some rich and
insolcnt. some poor and discouraged. The only
law that can cstabdshits in snch circumStan-
ccs Is. Tor every man to mind his own business
and let government pretty much tado care of it.
self Those who are most inclined t. purchase
slaves will do so. and others will followtheir cy-
ample. The circumstance 5 which viii call sla-
very into California are obviously STRONGER than
those which planted it in IIispaniola, Cuba, Bra
I'll or Eiroinia
And what rasists? Not the Free Soil energy
oil the territorial POPULATION. for that will be used
up for long time in cold finding. trade and fght
for fortune. There will he no calm. deliberate
rural population, like that Of oar Wisconsin,
weighing laws and institutions. while their teams
breathe on the pr&irios, OF while the log heaps
shoulder in the forests to make room for their
naGnabia hOmosteala. Nor does the influence
ol the present slaycholding, Wing administration
resist General Smith repudates the ncipient