Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-22
WASHINGTON, d. c.
WILLIAM M. BURwELL, Edil
The XIIih Section-The Compromise OF
Nature and Interest.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1855.

Nature and Interest.
We have in previous article adyerted to the
superior wisdom Of transferring the question
Of slavery to be settled by the people in the
territorial States, and this would have been the
regular, as it was the natural, method Of set
Element, except for the ambition Of the politi-
clans. No sooner was this question referred
to the decision Of the people of Kansas, than
violent effort was made to secure that region
to the Free-soil interest immigration associ-
atoms were formed, appeals were made to the
fanatical, and the most reckless representations
were made to nlame the people of the North
against those Of the South. This resulted in
conflict Of opinions amongst the immigrants
into Kansas, and as the pro-slavery immigrants
have thus for succeeded in giving law to the
Territory, their antagonists have taken refuge
in the newspapers, from which they assail the
legislators of Kansas as cut-throats and rob-
bers. As this conflict is one between citizens
Of the United States, who are to determine un-
der tho law their own institutions, IL is not
improper to see who is to blame for conflict
SO disgraceiul in many of its features
The first encouragement to this contest APP
pcared in the speech of the Hon. William ii.
Seward, upon the passage of the Nebraska
Kansas BILL He invited this contest lie de
lighted his friends with the assurance that the
cause Of free institutions must prevail. After
having demonstrated the superior numbers of
the North, he relies upon the foreign immi
grafton to aid in fixing upon the new Terrific
lies those opinions which he maintains
but African slave emigration is to compete with
free emigration of white men, and the source OF this
latter tide is ample the civilization OF the two
| entire continents The honorable Senator from Del
aware mentioned, if it a startling fact, that
twenty thousand European immigrants arrived in
New York in month. Sir, he has stated the fact
with too much moderation On my return to the
capital, day or two ago, met twelve thousand OF
these immigrants who had arrived in New York on
one morning, and who had thronged the churches on
the following Sabbath to return thanks for deliver
ance from the perls of the sea- and for their arrival
in the land not of slavery, but of liberty also thank
God for their escape, and for their coming. They
are now on their way westward, and the news Of the
passage of this bill, preceding Them will speed many
| of them towards Kansas and Nebraska. Such arri-
walls are not extraordinary-they occur almost every
week; and the immigration from Germany, from
| Great Britain and from Norway, and from Sweden
during the European war, will rise to six or seven
| hundred thousand souls in year. And with this
tide is to be Mingled rapidly swelling from Asia
and from the islands of the South Seas. All the i'm
migrants, under this bill, the House of Representa-
| tves overriding you have ordered, will be good,
| loyal, liberty-loving, Strengthening citizens"
Here is boast that the German serf the
| Irish Papist, and even the Chinalnan and the
South Sea Islander, with their infamous super
stition, and contempt for MI the obligations of
| faith or decency, shall come in to decide the
institutions of land which American citizens
have fought and paid for! Having announced
his confidence in the result, Mr.. Seward adds :
Moreover, since the public attention has been so
well and so effeciuay directed towards the subject
| cherish hope that slavery may be prevented even
from gaining foothold in Kansas" "Come on,
then, gentlemen Of the slave States Since there is
no escaping your challenge, accept in behalf of
| the cause Of freedom. We will engage in compet
ton for the virgin soil of Kansas, and God give the
victory TO the side which is the stronger in numbers
as it is in right"
! Now, alter this can it be doubted that Mr..
! Seward invited this conflict or, can he or his
followers, if honorable men, complain that
contest invited and brought on by him shall
have terminated adversely
But, as we have affirmed in apreyious num-
her, slavery would find more profitable en-
ployment within the slaveholding States, and
cannot spread extensively into the new Terri
tory. We are aware that those who wish to
alarm the North viii offer two objections TO this
position:
|. That il slavery be once planted, it cannot
he eradicated.
The establishment Of slavery depends upon
interest, and it is not probable that it will be
carried into the northern territory, because it
is not so profitable or safe there as elsewhere.
For If this war Of opinion goes on, it will, like
that which ragged between the Wings and To
ries Of Carolina, result in an alternate coniis-
cation Of interest The STAKEHOLDER may carry
the day at first, but the heavier immigration Of
the free States will triumph ultimately, and
then follows aboltion by law. In the mean
time the Rev. Mr.. Parker, with the under
ground directory, viii have nothing to do but
furnish fugitive slaves with home and provis-
ions, and they can defy pursuit. Men do not
care to carry property and settle farms where
their interests may be destroyed by malignant
partisans, any more than the ironmongers
liked the tariff contests which, in reversing a
principle Of per centage, ruined hundreds Of
unlucky proprietors. Besides, as slavery has
existed in the principal States Of the North,
and they have abolished it without much ap-
parent difficulty, it is not proper to regard it
as ineradicablc.
The second objection is, that free immigra-
ton will not 90 where slavery exists Free
labor will go wherever wages may attract it.
1t has poured into New Orleans, Baltimore
Texas, Virginia; and its first inquiry is-in.
ducement 1t cannot compete with slave labor
in the culture Of slave staples but, in all
other pursuits, it takes its place alongside Of
slave labor, upon which, at last, its chief pro-
! fits depends.
W. I'LL n L. tl.a