The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-26

ute active Intervention by the Sates An act OF incopo
ration was passed company with capital Of five mil
lions was ehteredi and this company authorized TO
enlist army Of mercenary fanatics and transport them
Kansas Recruiting officers stationed in places most
likely TO furnish the proper material premiums of
ered for recruits the public mind stimulated by glow
ing and false descriptions OF the country proposed TO be
occupied and esan band of mereenares thus pre-
pared and forwarded commence add carry on a war OF
determination against slavery
To call these people emigrants sheer perversion Of
language They not sent 10 cultivate the SOIL better
their social condition. TO add TO their individual comforts
or the aggregate wealth of the nation They
nom choice taste from any motive affecting sup
posed to affect themselves their families They have
none OF the marks of the old pioneers who down the
forests of Kentucky Ohio and Indiana or evelled the
caneorakes OF Tennessee and Mississippi broke the
plains OF Illinois and Missouri They mostly ignorant
OF agrcultlre picked up in cities villages they OF
course have experience farmers and il left TO their
unaded resources-if not clothed and fed by the
power which has effected their would
starve or freeze. They hirengs-an army of hire
ings-recruted and shipped indirectly by a sovereign
State OF this Union TO make upon an institution now
existing in the Territory to which they are transplanted
and thence TO inhic fatal blow upon the resources the
prosperity and the peace of neighboring State They
are military colonies, planted by State government
subdue Territory opened TO settlement by Congress and
take exclusive possession thereof In addition to that
esprit a corps which of necessity pervades such an organi-
cation, they have in common reckless and desperate ia
natcism which teaches then slavery is a sim and that
they doing Gods service in fastening its destruction
They have been picked and culled from the ignorant
masses which Old England and New England negro phi
antropy has stirred up and aroused madness this
topic and have been selected with reference their views
on this topic alone They with single idea
and TO carry out this they have been instructed and
taught to disregard the laws of God and man. consider
bloodshed and insurrecon destruction Of property
or servle war; the merest rfes compared with the
glory and honor ofseducing single slave from his master
harborng and protecting the thief who has carried
him of!
That such population would be fatal to the peace and
security of the neigborng State of Missouri and immed
ate destruction Of such of slaves had already
moved to the Territory Of Kansas is clear to admit Of
argument horde Of western sayages with avowed
purposes of destruction to the white race would be less
formidable neighbors.
| The colonization of Kansas with population of this
character circumstance which aroused attention
and excited alarm among citizens here and those who
had already emgrated to Kansas Could any other result
have been expected? Did sensible at the Northdid
| the aboltonists themselves-expect any other?
| Missouri contained have SEEM one hundred thou
sand slaves and their value amounted fifty millions
dollars. Had these fanatics who pronounced slavery
individual sin and national curse, yet pointed out
any decently plausible scheme by which it could be
moved? The entire revenue of State for ordinary s
cal purposes scarcely reaches five hundred thousand dol
lars and the abolition Of slavery here would involve the de-
strucon of productive capital estimated at fifty millions
Of dollars taxation upon the people of five millions of
dollars annually which is the legazed interest uron this
of capital besides the additional tax which would
be necessary raise sinking fund to pay off the debt
created The constitution Of Missouri prohibits the egisa-
ture from passing laws emancipang slaves without full
compensation to their owners and it is therefore apparent
that nod the entire of the State would be barely
a equivalent to the
money value Of the slaves without providing any
means to extngush the principal which such debt would
create We omit altogether in this calculation the ni-
practicabiliy and impocy and cruelty, to both OF
beratng the slaves here with provision for their
val and the additional debt which such removal would
create equal in all probability to that occasoned by their
emancipation. 1t would SEEM then, that the merest
glance the statistical tables OF State showing its
population and revenue must have satisfied the most
gune aboltionist of the fuity of his schemes If the in
/ ysstgaton pursued further and our estimate was
made to embrace the three millions and half Of slaves
in the southern and southwestern States and the bill
lions which computation must ascend in order to
ascertain their valne in money, this antsayery crusade
which presents itself in form Of open aggression against
the white race without the sembance pretext Of good TO
that for which the abolitions processes much
gard and which stands much higher in his affections
than bis own is to be of mere folly aud wicked
ness or what is perhaps worse, selfish and sectional
!
1t is singular fact and worthy Of notice in this
connexon that in the history of African slavery up this
time no government has yet been known to abolish
il which fairly represented the interests and opinions Of
the governed Great Britain il is true abolished slavery
in Jamaica but the planters of Jamaica had potential
voice in British Parliament The abolition of slavery
in New England and in the middle States can hardly be
cited rs an exception, since that abrogation not
much the result of positive legislation it Of natural
cause.-the unftness of climate and productions to slave
labor 1t is well known to those familiar with the jurs-
prudence of this country and Of England that slavery has
been instance created by positive statutory enactment
nor il been thus abolished in any country when the
popular will paramount in legislative action. It's
ence and non-exstence appears TO depend entirely upon
causes beyond the reach of governmental action and this
fact should teach dependence upon The will of
overrung Providence which works out its ends in mode
4 aud at time not always apparent to finite nortas
The history of of slavehodng States in rea-
ton to efforts of this character it would SEEM ought to be
conclusive least against those who have actual in
teress involved and whom proper of sefrespect
If not of constitutional Obligation should restrain from
impairment interference Virginia in 1884, and Kentucky
more recently agtaed from centre to circumference
by bold and unrestricted discussion OF the subject of
emancipation Upon the hastings and in legislative
sembies the subject thoroughly examined and every
project which genius philanthropy could suggest
investigated Brought forward in the Old Dominion
der The sanction Of yeneied and respected through
out the limits OF the Cpmmonweathwell known to have
been cherished project Of her most distinguished states
menfayored by the happening of then servle