Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-02
Foreign Emigration and Slavery.

Foreign Emigration and Slavery
Is the influx of half million of for
eigners into this country, annually, COM
patible with the existence of African
Slavery in the South is an inquiry
pregnant with the fate of the South and
her high civilization, and an inquiry which
willy demagogues would gladly evade if
in their power for, if upon philosoph
ical consideration of this question, it
should be determined that this influx of
foreigners will have no tendency to hasten
the period when African slavery cannot
exist in the South, then all their specious
pleading for the admission of foreigners
falls to the ground And right here, be-
fore proceeddg further with this subject,
we will remark that the spasmodic efforts
of the leaders of the dry rot party to
strangle this great American movement
has strong tendency to constantly re-
mind all intelligent Americans of the
strength of our principles and encourage
us all to look hopefully forward to the
time when they shall be embraced by all
true Americans.
The North we take to be anti slavery.
There mauy there we know who are
not political Abolitionists but the moral
and political sentiment of the to/s0le North
are evidently opposed to the Institution
of slavery If proof is wanting to estab
lish this it is 10 be found in the fact that
in all the States north of Mason and
hibited or excluded which shows also what
their moral and political sentiments will
lead them to do with the institution when
they possess the power. All will recollect
the programe Illuminated in Ohio few
| years since by that great embodiment of
| Northern feeling, VIM II Seward. whilst
/ standing before an Ohio audience with
all effrontery, SO characteristic of fanat-
icisr He tells ttcm that 10 more slave
| States must come into this Union-that
! the substratum of free States must be laid
! in all the Territories to the end that all
shall come into the Union opposed to
slavery Thus. says he hedgzng in the
South as arith a ac9H of fre-hindering
the expansion of her peculiar institution
and as a consequence, smotherIng 1t out
| This we take to be the ultimate design of
the North with regard to slavery, and
hence the effort of the New England
States to colonize the inviting Territory
of Kansas with her own people, whilst the
more conservative and less enthusiastic
portion of the North of which the Phi
ladelphia Ledger is fair representative,
rebL kes them for their inprudence, and
| holds toward them the following signifi-
cant language kansas (says this paper)
is a fair specimen of the forcing system
of building up States. If arm ed emigrants
from East had not been sent there to
forestall political war upon the subject
of slavery the European emigration. seek
/ ing its natural channel, would have fewed
in that direction and built up free State
in the Territory
If the North does not intend to keep
out slavery, why is the sentiment of that
section so averse to its introduction into
new Territories at all Would there be
one slave more or less by the expansian ?
Thus asked Charles l. Ingersoll in his
speech upon the admission of Taxas into
the Union But said his Northern
brethren, who opposed it, this measure
gives it room to expend. which is impart-
ing unto it the elexir of eternal life, for
as it has profitable outlets we cannot kill
it. We must circunascribe to destroy it
Here will be found the same idea as ex
pressed by Mr. Seward in his program
me
! 1t being clear that the object of tho
North-the whole North-is to circum
scribe the area and thus destroy the in
stitution of slavery,it well becomes south
erners to investigate the sources of the