Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

had the population to cultivate all these lands,
I but if we look to facts we think that the op-
ponents of the measure will allow that the
admission of wheat, -four and other agricul-
tural products of Canada is undoubtedly a
blessing to the country and likewise benefit
| to our own.
/ Taking the crop of wheat raised in 1852 in
the United States, as nearly as can be COM
puted, at 125, 100000 bushels, and allowing
FIVE bushels as fair allowance to each person,
we find that this quantity is nearly the
amount required for home consumption, but
if we deduct therefrom about 100000 per-
sons, slaves and Others, whose breadstuff is
principally corn, this will leave about 25,OOO,-
900 bushels only for export; and with AN un-
favorable season such as the last, we have in
point of fact none to spare.
OF the thirty-one States composing the
! Union, six may be considered raising enough
wheat for their own use, sixteen have to pro-
feure from other States their wheat or flour.
and nine produce more than they require; and
these after supplying the wants of the sixteen
have but twenty-five million bushels over;
truly a small amount to supply the world
with, we think
This WILL during the coming season, proba-
bly, be increased, ,dMt the State of affairs in
Europe will also swell the demands.
The Gazette would seem to consider that
BY admitting Canadian produce we were to
receive no equivalent for it, which is far from
1aoe'hiig the case, as by the same treaty our
manufactures, our sugar, cotton, tobacco, rice,
mining products, &C., are admitted into THEN
lImis on the same terms, and, as the wheat
and flour received from them goes only to in
crease the surplus we have for export, the
benefit Of its transportation through the coun-
try must result to our interest
The enhanced value of labor, and of all the
products Og the soil since the abandonment
nf a protective tariff system, shows that the
energy and enterprise Of Americans will al
ways compete successfully with foreigners.
and the necessity of exerting this energy is
more apt to call forth all their inventive fac
ulties than if these were fostered and bolster
ed up by successive administration.
The National Democrat, at Jacksonville.
has the following suggestions on the interest
ing question of slavery in Kansas
VIII Kansas become slave State :?
From all the information which we have
been, by dilligent research and inquiry, en-
abled to gather; from the observations of
those who have resided there the longest
from the study of the geography, the soil and
the climate Of the territory, we arrived at the
conclusion that slavery can never be estab-
lished there, either while it remains as ter
rltory or when 1t becomes a sovereign State.
| We will add few of the reasons which have
controlled ouropinions in this respect
L. The character of the population there
already, and that of the constant flow of emf
grafton there preclude the i,lea of the tolera-
ton OF slavery there. A large majority of the
emigrants even from the slave holding States.
like the majority of the emigration to South
ern Indiana, are men of small means unable
to own slaves, and in the majority of cases,
left their homes in the old States to remove
beyond the reach and influence of slavery and
slave labor, and consequently are opposed to
the admission of slavery into the the terrific
ry. 1t is needless to say that emigration from
the free States are almost to man opposed
to slavery.
2. The nature of the soil and its productions
preclude the idea of slave labor ever being
established there as more profitable than
white labor The products of the territory
which grow and flourish most in abundance
there, are not considered peculiar to slave la
bor The different kinds of grain and veget-
ables which are most thrifty in the Northern
and Western States are the same which are
best adapted to the soil of Kansas.
3. The climate is favorable to free labor
and consequently opposed to slave labor
Kahsas hasnot the hot and burning sun of the
South se severe .s.sxkik; - ~ - =.
sts-.s--pa- farm tcsns work Witt comfort &
himselfse4as month Of the summer season
and have ia cattle to Craze il the fields dur
ing the winter
Hence we come to the conclusion from
|, these brief facts that as the climate is congo
NAL to white labor, and as white free labor i
antagonistic to slave labor, it cannot go there
t And further, if slave labor from the natur
, of the productions Of the soil, is of no pesu
liar profit there, as the facts show, no grea
exertons will be made to introduce il there
even by those residents who see no political
t moral, or social evil in the institution.