The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-03


They oppose every schemefo for its removal.
If it is agitated at the North. they say,
$50 South and discuss it That is the
place" Go there and discuss it, and they
kill you. Despotism has no standard but
force. eiie rssa
My opinion said the speaker is, that
this oligarchy are determined to use this
republican form of government as long as
it suits their purposes, and no longer.
Their children are taught to despise the
social institutions of the North, which
are said to produce only sneaks and cow
ards. What says the Richmond Enqui-
rer-none Of your heavy country papers
but the organ of Virginia's elite :?
"The northerners are the seryile Greeks,
fit only for the more menial employments,
while the southerners are the conquer
ing Romans, and they mean to rule you !"
'The aseendancy of the South, I" is the
motto. Not equality" but "aseendan-
cy'' is the term everywhere used.
They gather at Memphis, Knoxville,
and at Charleston, and resolve to divert
their commerce from New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, and Bath, to Norfolk and
other southern ports. They resolve and
re-resolve, and then 90 home, and not
another ship is built, New York does
not 90 down, neither does Norfolk go up.
Wise men laugh at their seeming folly.
All, the South know what they are about !
They are wise statesmen. What is their
purpose ? They are constantly drilling
southern sentiment and testing its
strength, which they mean to use when
occasion requires.
No matter what man may have been
before he comes under the pressure of this
oligarchy. He is absorbed in it surely
Like the snowflake on the river-
One moment white then gone forever"
The South is continually saying that
they should be glad to get rid of the sys-
tenn; but as soon as they are shown way
in which this could be accomplished,
they are seized with sudden fit of phi
lanthropy for the "poor blacks ''What
shall We do with them what win become
of them ?'' Yet all this time they are
steadily extending their empire-all the
time looking out for the southern inter-
est. Does the South want or refuse a
high tariff ora bank? Thenit is as they
say. They look well to their, own inter
est in every commercial treaty. As to
Cuba, San Domingo, Liberia, the South
gained her point. surt~e as
What has she done ? She has laid
hold of the District of Columbia, where
it sometimes seems as if the North was
determined to have a little slave patch OF
its own. Thrice have the inhabitants
tried to rid themselves of the curse-but
to no effect. The system has been ex-
tended into every State, contrary to con-
stitutional requirement. 1t not only ex-
panded, but Louisiana was bought and
three slave States made out of it, contra
ry to the spirit of the constitution. They
go into Georgia and violently rob the In
dians of their Territory. Again into
Pensacola, contrary to our treaty with
Spain, because slave had escaped there.
So into Florida, for the same reason; and
because the poor fugitive had tasted Of
the red mans salt, and he therefore re-
fused to deliver him, you blotted the In
dians out at the expense of fifty millions.
Not yet enough. Does it seem as il
still the free States were gaining upon
them ? Then comes a foreign war, which
costs fifty thousand lives and millions oi
money. Texas is a slave State, with five
more to be carved out when needed.
Still expanding-is this not enough
By q most solemn contract of the peo-
pie three times uttered-in 1887, 1890,
and i850-the Northwest Territory was
dedicated to freedom. And yet the
South, not yet satisfied-prating of the
saeredness of the constitution-tha in
strument which aspired to 60 even above
1.-THE higher law'-(Mr. Webster's sal
ly will be remembered trampling ruth
lessly on each and all of these. Dark
ness clothes itself in robes of light, as is
often the case. Europe proclaimed her
"Holy Alliance" to serve as cloak for
the most unholy of acts and the South.
clamorous for popular sovereignty, I'M
itates her course, sa
Popular sovereignty p To Violate a
solemn contract thrice repeated-to de-
stroy the elective franchise-to intrust
the appointmentof Governor and the Ju-
dietary to the President at Washington
to give that Governor the power to veto
the peoples will. G 81 q q
What next ? When election comes,
this oligarchy marches over from Missou-
ri, takes possession of the ballot-box by
violence, elects a Delegate alien to the
wishes of the people-and you aequi-
esce
Was the subject not far too serious for
jest, the North reminds one of that Ken
tucky magistrate, who was once presid-
ing at the trial of cause. He was a
man who stood upon his dignity, and al
ways insisted upon being called by his
title of Squire After he had heard
the case, he said '.WelL gentlemen of the
jury and friends, it are the opinion of the
Court that the defendants ought to gain;
yet, out of abundant caution, 1 give tie
case 10 the plaintiff" s;z
The North has certainly "abundant
caution.''. The n. Y. Evening Post put
the case well comparing the South to a
spoih child, who says to her grandmoth-
er, upon being denied any request, If
you don't let me have it, I'll throw my
self down stairs The South say,
"We'll dissolve the Union" The North
say, "Don't, and YOU shall have whatever
you want" 80 -
This must stop. If this is to be an
empire of slaves, give up every idea of
republicanism, and blot out your common
schools. If Bunker Hill is to be made a
slave prison, and Toombs and Stephens
are to call the slave roll there, then forget
at once Concord and Lexington and the
precious Mayfower, and boldly maintain
that despotism is the best form of govern
ment known.
As for myself (said Mr. Clay, in con-
clusion. ! / can do nothing. Long years
have struggled in vain. Would that
/ had that power which should be in each
of you by your birth and association,