The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-05-12
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pemon Of the BLACK Power.


ZExtracs from an Grafton, delivered in West
81 Chester. Pa. upon the Anniversary of Wash
ington's Birth Day, by Rev. Robert Lowry.
The Demon of the Black Poacer has
the Nation by the throat. 1t is ques-
tionable whetherany legislation has shorn
this monster evil of It's desolation while
it is certain that the inevitable and pre-
determined tendencyof much Legislation
has been to extend its rayages and in
crease its victims. Slavery, as popular
institution, is stronger to-day, with all
the augmented wealth and industry of the
North than at any time since the forma-
ton of the Government. The slave in
terest in the Halls of our National Leg
8 islature is more potent than the voice of
millions of Northern freemen. Resis=
lance to the demands of a caucus is GER
tain defeat to the party that opposes
Never did such an oligarchy find place
under the shadow of Free Institutions
1t is an anomaly in the workings of po-
lisiS-ti seiS,s .-l---sA thIa haart .af a
free nation a spirit whose very ailment is
the virus of despotism. 1t cannot be
that the brood of the serpents and the
eaglets of Freedom remain in the same
nest forever. The determination of one
race or separate nests for both must be the
ultimate alternative.
1t cannot be disguised that we are
rerging toward great crisis, which will
try the patriots heart-strings to their ut
most tension. The Union, priced, prayed
for, eulogized, almost deifed, swings on
the pivot of the slave question. All
other clouds on the national horizon are
but flimsy vapor, compared with this
robe Of midnight that covers the heavens
like pail. The statesmen of the past
met the evil as an insolent mendicant; and
having not the moral courage to deny the
boon demanded, invited it to the National
freside to conciliate its wrath. The
statesmen of the present find the worlds
outcast still sitting at the Nations heart,
now master. of the domicil, and more
lnsOlent than ever. The politicians of
the day not only dare not eject the intru-
der, but have no power to curtail his de-
mands. What has the South ever asked
for that she has not obtained !? What
administration ever held the ship of State
that she did not direct ? And yet the
sordid hacks of the political stable fawn
on her favors and evade her frowns.-
We cannot stave off the solution of this
monster problem. Wemay trayelthrough
domestic feudsand riven ties and dismem-
bered States to find it, but the solution
will come atany price. How long will the
Nation make compromise of its virtue
with the rapacious eneroachments of the
Black Power
What is the prime element in the
Manifest Destiny" doctrine of the po-
litical Solons of the times? Is Destiny"
of such tropical tendencies that it can
only make advances toward the equator
Why have we no DESTINY" toward the
shore of the st. Lawrence and the banks
of the New Feundland? Why have we
no Destiny" into Bafiin's Bay and Rus
sia America ? Why have we no ten mill
IONS for a strip of northeastern territory,
or for some fertile s'Mesilla'' in British
America? The answer is obvious. The
demands of the slayeocracy are the rule of
national policy. We can inscribe on our
banners "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" !"
and then give away portion of Oregon
we can make patriotic speeches on the in
fegrity of our territory, and then yield,
with diplomatic flourish, slice of the
State of Maine because those northern
climes are not exactly adapted to our Pc
esiiar institutioa, and we could not afford
TO go to war for soil that cannot be em
p!oyed in the humane purpose of slave
breeding. Every project for the annexa-
ton of territory. either by purchase or
conquest, has been for the interest of the
Black Power. Why this morbid grasping
after foreign territory? 1t is not even
pretended that it is needed by the de-.
mandsof immigration. "To preclude war
with contiguous nations by incorporating
the nations" is too specious a pretext,
since the warlike nations are only IN one
direction. What is this territorial ae-
grandizement but the inhuman rapaeity
of the slave demon, entrenching itself in
new acquisitions, and fortifying itself
against anticipated danger? Let the
American Union once be dissolved, and
two-thirds of the territory viii be conse-
Grated to human bondage. And still the
demand is renewed for drafts on our ma
nonal treasury. It is not enough that
Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico,
California and the Mesilla Valley have
almost been devotedt to the sellingof blood