Squatter sovereign., 1855-06-05
From the New York Herald.
No More Slave States.

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The Legislatures of several Northern
StatesrMassachusetts, New York, Con-
necticut and others-haye passed resolu-
tons declaring, among other things. that
there shall be ssno more slave States. LII
this doctrine prevails in the North, they
will have the power to enforce 1t in Con-
gress. But it is easy to see that the at
tempt TO enforce it will put usupon the high
road to disunion. The only guarantee which
can now insure the perpctuity of the I'm
ION, is something like balance of power
10 the South, as a breakwater In the gener-
al government against the aggressions of
the North This balance, before the adj
mission of California, the South possessed
in the Senate of the United States; but the
addition OF California to the free States has
destroyed this equilibrium. The South
desire therefore-and they have the right
TO ask-the admission OF another slave
holding State, to restore this lost equili-
brium of forces In the Senate.
To this, end we may expect to see Kan
sas, within year or two, knocking for
admission into the Union. Should the
North refuse to admit her, in the event Of a
constitution recognizing the existence OF
slavery, we are hurried to the ultimate
question of union or disunion. The mo-
ment the South discover that the power of
the North in Congress is to be devoted to
the ''crl,shing out" the institution of slave
ry, the alternative of secession comes up
in palpable shape. And this is the drift
of this Kansas imbroglio.
All this mock philanthropy about hu-
man freedom, liberty, and the horrors of
Southern slavery, is mere stuff AMI non
sense. The real question is union or dis
union. The African race, whether as
slaves in the South or free colored Amer
icans'' in the North, occupy the position
socially and politically, of aninferior race
and properly SO, and simply because the
great Creator has made them an inferior
race. In the same community with the
| white man, the black, enslared OF emanci.
pated, mast forever occupy degraded po'
sition. In community purely African
even the civilised black relapses again tc
African Incidence and barbarisn. See
Hayti; see Jamaica. Stop the supplies o
christianized recruits from our Southern
States to Liberia, and that republic, in the
space of two or three generations, would
probably degenerate into petty kingdom
as cannibals, with savage beast as THEN
ruler, horrible and bloody as the King o
Dahomey. The three millions of the AT
rican race, the most enlightened and thu
happiest in the world, are the three million
slaves of our Southern States.
This cry of slavery, the horrors of slave
~, stop the extension of slavery. is there
fore mockery and snare. Reduced &
its final consequences, it means disruption
disunion, war of sections, a war Of races
fire and sword, anarchy and indiscriminats
slaughter. And these ultimate consequen
ces are interviewer into the treacherou
web of this Kansas controversy. Tn
sectional agitations, jealousies, and reven
ges of half century, are concentrated il
this Kansas question. The beginning j
ominous- end will be disastrous il
right or wrong. just or unjust there are t.
be no more slave States