Squatter sovereign., 1855-10-16

and culled from the ignorant masses which
4 Old England and New England negro
philanthropy has stirred up and aroused to
madness on this topic. and have been Sc
lected with reference TO their views on this
topic alone. They are men with a single
idea; and to earrx out this they have been
instructed and taught to disregard the laws
of God and man; to consider bloodshed
and arson, insurrection, destruction of prop
erty, or servile war as the merest trifes
compared with the glory and honor of Sc
ducing single slave from his master, or
harboring and protecting the thief who has
carried him off!
That such population would be fatal to
the peace and security of the neighboring
State of Missouri, and immediate destruc-
ton of such owners of slaves as had al
ready moved to the Territory of Kansas, is
too clear to admit of argument. A horde
of our Western savages, with avowed pur-
poses of destruction to the white race, would
be less formidable neighbors.
The colonization Of Kansas with pop
ulation of this character was circumstance
which aroused attention, and excited alarm
among our citizens here, and those who
had already emigrated to Kansas. Could
any other result have been expected7 Did
sensible men at the North-did Abolition
lists themselves, expect any other9
Missouri contained, as we have seen,
one hundred thousand slaves, and their val
lie amounted to fifty millions of dollars.
Had these fanatics who pronounced slavery
an individual sin, and national curse, ev-
er yet pointed out any decently plausible
scheme by which it could be removed 2
The entire revenue of our State, for ordi-
nary fiscal purposes, scarcely reaches five
hundred thousand dollars, and the abolition
of slavery here would involve the destruc-
ton of productive capital estimated at fifty
millions of dollars. or taxation upon the
people of five millions of dollars annually,
which is the legalised interest upon this
amount Of capital, besides the additional
tax which would be necessary to raise a
sinking fund to pay off the debt created.
The Constitution Of Missouri prohibits the
Legislature from passing laws emancipa-
ting slaves, without full compensation to
their owners; ana it is therefore apparent,
that tenfold the entire revenue of the State
would be barely sufficient to pay the ;nte-
rest upon a sum equivalent to the actual
money value of the slaves. without provid-
ing any means to extinguish the principal
which such debt would create. We omit
altogether, in this calculation, the inprac-
ticability and impolicy and cruelty to both
races, of hberating the slave here. with no
provision for their removal, and the addi-
tional debt which such removal would cre-
ate, equal. in all probability, to that occa-
stoned by their mere emancipation. Ii
would seem, then. that the merest glance
at the statistical tables of our State, Show
ing its population and revenue, must have
satisfied the most sanguine Abolitionist OF
the futiiity of his scheme. If the inyesti-
CATION was pursued further, and our esti-
mate was made to embrace three millions
and half of slaves now in the Southern
and Southwestern States, and the billions
to which our computation must ascend in
order 10 ascertain their value in money
this anti-slavery crusade which presents it.
self in form of open aggression agains
the white race without the semblance OF
. pretext of good to that race for which the
!. Aholitionist processes so much regard, and
which stands so much. higher in his affec.
. tions than his own, is seen to be of more
folly or wiclkedness, or, what is perhaps
verse. selfish and sectional struggle fol
: political power. vn e 5a g 9
| 1t is singular fact, and one worthy, o
notice in this connection, that in the history
: of African slavery up to this time, no gov
; ernment has ever yet been known 10 abol
ish 1t which fairly represents the interest,"
!. and opinions of the governed. Great Brit
ain it is true abolished slavery IN Jamaica
! bat the planters of Jamaica had no poten
: tial voice In the British Parliament. Tn
: abolition of slavery in the New EDglan
: and Middle States can hardly be cited a
: an exception, since that abrogation was nc
] 50 much the result of positive legislation a
: it was of natural causes-shez unftness G
a climate and productions to slave labor. ]
: is well known to those familiar with III
0 Jurisprudence OF this country and England
i that slavery has Leenin no instance create
a by positive statutory enactment, mol, has
]. been thus abolished ia any country whe
: the popular will was paramount in Legi:
: lative action. It's ex.s.ence and non-exi.
$ tsencs appears 20. depend entirely upe