The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-10-10
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Speecil@of HonsssR. W.Royce.
Ysstarda y Ne stated cursoriIy;; ;shesresult Of
5the barbaeds irss honor of1Mr Boyce, the. elo-
gqpent Representative Of tho 9th Congressional
pjstrtcs. Since! then, We have read m more care,
4 tl64ly The Register report of his speech on
the orcasion, aud can:ereaail " appreciate the
I tscs stated BY The Register, that. .iit eyideatE
] gave mgeh salts faction, We wouldgladly pub
isR Ae full report Of the speech, but the state
spf e0Ecolamhs forbid it, SO our readers must
{ hsycontent With the extract on she Kansas Bill.
+ We invite especial attention to the. portion
which urges upon the South the duty of fitting
ont expeditions and furnishing aid forth set
tlement'of Kansas. -. .
i sHecammenced by an allusion to the condi.
asioa fhe country Prev6us to the present
s sEeagtass. The Democratic Party in all sec
skipnss sof the country had become tired of agita.
lion. 4 Acting under this impulse, they had
elected the tpresent Administration to office,
3 aud with him a large portion Of the members
lof Congress, fnbued wi,h the, same desire for
sgpeaces ~ 49,
ssss 0ae Of the first subjects that engaged their
attention was the organization of the vast ter
sritory contained iil the Northwest I'M
mense empire. of uninhabited wilderness, lying
Eontiguous to the Northwestern States, and
tide shave States ofsaiissouri and Arkansas
Iyabisteffitory the hardy pioneers Of these
had been casting wistful eye, and dc.
ssired SHAT tit shonld be placed by Congress in a
sscopditiont tosbe settled. In the organizations,
the first obstacle that met them, was the un,
iust and odioas Missouri restrictio 6y which
the slave holders of Missouri saw, IN close prox.
Unity, the rich fertile and Yirginsssoil of Kan
Ssas, from which they were excluded:@ Libefal
ssNorthern men saw This; Southern men felt it;
s acting under this feeling, it was determined in
y the organization OF the territories Of Nebras.
.sska and Kansas, TO connect with it arepeal OF
3 the Missouri Compromise Of 1921, as an act
OF Justicelto the slaveAolders Of Missouri and
& ARKANSAS. All the menibeis from those States
with the exception OF Benton urged them to
this. They represented to them, that all the
hardy isiayehotding pioneers of these States
Iswanted, was the 'removaito of this restriction,
sand they would Immediately take possession
sof sthe country with their rifles, revolvers, and
Sbo&ie knives, in defiance of all the abolition.
..SistssiRG Ghristendom.s The position of Nilsson
! ri was a precarous one. Look at it on the
map and observe how boldly it juts out like a
pHpn1p8tory Sifsos the very heart of the non
sfasshold ding States; Illinois bounded it on
xthes East and extended down almost to its
1 'sputherns boundary Iowa headed it on the
North, and, if Kansas should be made free
FsSfate, her fate was sealed, aud she would in
seyitablyTb be sacrificed to ffee-soilism. Such
ssaRas tlfe.imminent danger which threatened her.
1,J
sgas some hope of her preserving slavery; if
ssitswereiuot, and the Kansas country be with
held from them and given up to- Northern set
tiers, therewas no hope. With the repeal there
wass,a chance; without thefepeal there was no
! chance
Another consideration, which he thought
senttied tosmuch weight, was the relative posi-
stiorsof Utah territory towards the South, and
/ its hostility to the North growing out of the
treatment they bad received. sin viewing this
people, although we may regard them as delu-
sded still they were honest and .fanatcal in their
creed i;sspdf believed as .relgiously in the di
syinity md inspiration Of their Prophet, Joe
sSmith, as we did of Jesus Christ. They were
;sTeligi0 fanatics most terrible to lie en-.
@eomteTsd. Driven from their homes, forced
% abandon their beautiful city of .Nauvoo, and
4 with The inpieus murder of their Prophet, as
they regard him, still ranking in their bosoms,
they carried with them to their new homes in
stbe ensIoas ef the Rocky Mountains an ap.
piicable hatred for the agents of their persecu
stion and expulsion: They, therefore, enter
stfssano friendly feeling for Northern men,
I'm this lonely and isolated position, they felt
themselves without sympathy in the Unon.-
AS an act, Of polieY to obtain the friendly dis
spesiitioncf the slaveholding States, they legal
led slavery m their territory,so so that the inst-
ton Is now established and protected by their
statutes Now all we wait is,to-make Kan
sas slave State and we will hayea continu.
aous line of slave territory reaching out to Utah.
thus securing that tsrsitory.
The fateof. slavery in Utah, as well as in
Missouri, would be determined by the fate of
Kansas, a1i possibility of fayorablesde,
ssseisioR Of (which IS as :precladed By the Missouri
ComPromise, and could only be effected by its
arepeal. Another advantage 70 be gained by
Asenfing Kansas was, that it would strengthen
our position. tro see this more, clearly, refer
Ito anap. itwill be seen that the free States
extend out westward, between the slave States
Fahd 1dhada; forming a single line of States,
Z Whose hank could be easily turned. Opposing
: this line, area he slave States lying three deep,
sand prescribing anuch more formidable front
Nov suppose that we gainsK Kansas and with
shef Btah. any one OF practical sense will per-
8ceive what great strength It win add. Our
front will be fortified, andin ease of rupture,
between the two sections will result .hfs
abolitionism aceomplishes its purposes, those
2Sardy aud fanatical mounaiueers Of Utah,
Nsbla asdescend upon their flank, and like the