Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
QUESTIONS AND NswERs.

Messrs. Brooks and McQueen, of South Carolina,
Clingman, of North Carolina, and Mr.. Smith, Of
Virginia, addressed to General String fellow, Of
Missouri, questions, which he promptly answers.
Thc object of the questions is to stimulate emigra-
ton to Kansas from the the slave States. We
copy brief extracts from the answers:
l. WM Kansas be a Siaycholding Statef
I answer without hesitation, it will. Though a
citizen of Missouri, yet residing on the borders OF
Kansas, | have necessarily felt n deep interest in
the decision of this question, and have watched
anxiously the progress of the struggle which has
been going on in that Territory. A residence OF
nearly seventeen years in Missouri had, | believed
enabled mt to form q reliable opinion as to the
class of population which would naturally and
permanently occupy Kansas. | admit, however, ]
was somewhat alarmed when ! saw our Southern
friends seemingly ready to surrender it, deferred
by the declaration of those on whom they were
accustomed to rely, that "it was not adapted to
slave labor" while, at the same time Abolitionists
were organizing their Companies with millions OF
capital, to colonize that Territory. Yet l never
despaired. ! still declared that, though sent out
they could not remain; they could not live in the
prairie! 1 can now refer you to the result of the
late election for Delegate, Us evidence conclusive Of
the correctness Of my opinion.
2. Is slare labor profitable in KansasF
As yet no opportunity to obtain its value has
been given | can hence only refer you to its value
in Missouri, and say that, lying in :the same lati
tude, Immediately west and alongside of Missouri
the soil and climate of Kansas cannot differ mate
rally from those of Missouri. / am inclined t
believe that Kansas will prove even healthier than
Missouri, there being less low marshy land il
Kansas. There can thus be no reason why SLAVE
labor should not be as profitable in Kansas as II
Missouri.
He proves slave labor to be enormously profit
able in Missouri, and argues that it will be mort
so in Kansas.
8. Is il safe to take Sldres TO Kansas nop?
OF this there can be no doubt. They are les.
likely to escape than from Missouri are further
from the underground railroads and hiding-piace'
of the Abolitionists while the people of the Ter
ritory are more on the alert, and watch more close
" those who would steal them.
From the law there can be no danger. Slaves are
nowhere and have been FOR years, so that slavery
in fact, is already established. | need not say t
you that no lawyer, unless he be an abolitionist
will pretend that any positive law is necessary t.
make slavery legal. Laws have been passed re
cognizing its existence after it had an existence
never to establish it before it existed. 1t has beer
abolished, not by the repeal of laws cstablishin,
or permitting it, but by laws positively and ex
pressly prohibiting it. Without such prohibition,
laws, it would now exist in every State in tn,
Union. Until such laws are enacted by som,
competent legislative power, slavery is legal il
Kansas. Such lars toiH neuer be enacted! What
ever might have been the result, if abolitionist
had not attempted to force the people of the Terri
tory, their movements have fixed the I" fact" The
cannot harm us now.