Kansas weekly herald., 1854-09-29
Let aks lstsce Peace.

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Wecan heartily second the wish of our CO.
temporary of The Baltimore, .fnserican, that
the country possessed some statesman, ell
eyated In patriotism and commanding In in
fuence, whose voice could be heard through.
out the land rallying to his aid the conser.
vative majority of all sections, and bidding
| Northern fanaticism and southern ultraism,
Free Soil aggression and pro-Slavery agi-
| tation alike to be still. We are tired of
this everlasting commotion about negrodom;
the southern people are tired of it, and
they want peace and quiet if it can be OBJ
tanned without the sacrifice of their inalien-
able rights.
= When the question of the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise was presented to
them by northern Senator, they naturally
took sides in favor of that repeal. Its ex-
istence was an odious and unjust discrim-
ination the great mass of southern people
felt it a duty they owed to themselves and
to their institutions to cooperate In effect
ing its removal. Whether it resulted in
any practical advantage to them or not, was
not SO much matter of consideration as
was the reputation of a principle unfair
and anti-republican. They only asked of
their northern brethren to be admitted on
equal terms with them into the territories
of the United States-the common proper.
ty of all. They ask for no Congressional
Legislation, making those territories Slave
States, but they did, and had right to ask
for the repeal of such Congressional legis-
lation as made them Free States.
Was this demanding too much of the
North Is it fair that our brethren Of the
North should insfs%upen the interposition
of Federal power to aid them in making
free StaFes out of the public domain, by
prohibiting. the citizens of the South from
equal participation therein? The north
would never recognize the power of Con-
gress to interfere and make Slave States,
then why should they insist upon its inter-
| ference to make free States? If it has the
power in the one case it has in the other,
yet the north would resist to the last the
exercise of any such power in the former
instance. Will they ask for themselves
that which they refuse to others, and to
which others have as much right as they
have
The whole question has been forcibly IL
lustrated by showing that the people of the
territories are as much entitled to the right
of disposing of the subject of Slavery, or, in
other words, their domestic institutions, at
the time of their admission as a State, as
any sovereign State, Northern or Southern
has; and this is all that is required.
| Having obtained this in reference to the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, the
South is content. As to the existence or
non-existence of slavery in those territories,
it is matter that must be decided by the
natural course of events. The south has
taken no steps to fill up those Territories
with slave-holding emigrants, by the aid of
elnigrant societies, or to enter into any sort
of a scramble for the ascendancy there. She
is content with the right of Southern emi-
grants to remove into Kansas OF Nebraska
with their slaves, and that right she intends
to maintain whether her people choose to
go there or not.
The n. Y. Courier is right when it says
IN late issue of that paper that: ''If we
are to judge by the general silence of their
journals, the people of the south take but
very little concern in the struggle which
has been going on for the control of the
two new territories. Having essaved to
assert principle by wiping the Missouri
Compromise line of $3.50 out of existence,
| they seem indisposed to carry the conten-
ton further"
If the north gain the practical advantage
in the end by Kansas and Nebraska coming
in as free States, let them have it. While
they gain the advantage by the free and un-
trammeled dicision of the people of those
Territories the south will never object, but
let them gain it in that way and not seek to
convert the Federal Government into ma
chine for manufacturing free territory, or
into an instrument for destroying the rights
and privileges of the people of ANY portion
of the confederacy.
We believe ourselves that the question
will be settled definitely one way or the
other by the citizens of Kansas and Nebras-
ka long before Congress could dispose of it,
and before the Missouri Compromise could
be re-established, or iis repeal re-afirmed,
the question will be placed beyond the ter
ritorial power of Congress. Further agita-
ton, therefore, by the North can result in
no practical good. That is manifest by
their own reasoning. Why keep it up,
thens ALI the South asks to be let alone,
and why not let us have peace ?-Richmond
Whig.
Rock ISLAND, Sept. 16, 4r. NJ.
Judge Douglass is now delivering an ad-
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