New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-29
GOV. Sc, MoURs SPEECH.

The reader will be struck BY It's tone of mani
f,t insinceri'y and heartlessness. 1t is tbs talk
ds lawyer who has been retained in bad case
sod must say sometaing-sO he does.
In this speech, all preteDse of opposing the
extension of Slavery is given up. Tue coolest
Indifference to the social character Of the States
WITCH are soon to cover our spacious territory
sretchiDg over both slopes Of the Rocky Noun
lhns, ia openly ayowed. "Tbe laws of Nature"
lac to be relied ON TO keep Slavery out OF Kan
ln,, precisely as they didn't keep it out of Mis-
,Our, lying in exactly the same latitude. To
ah complexion have "Soft professions Of
,stility to Slavery Extension come st last.
Their case is parallel with that of the man in the
,sy who, being told that bis house is on FIRE,
Ind in answer to bi, inquiries, Informed thatthe
lueire is out Of order, water unas.ainable, the
Ire escape misplaced &C., sagey concludes,
IsWell, let it alone, and perhaps .. ~A go
laom of Itself" Slavery has OverruD in Texas
within our own day and under our very eyes,
region larger than all the old Free STATES, has
lsruggled desperately for California, aud ia now
Itahtitg an even battle for Kansas-sl proviousl
lFree.Soil-yet Gov. Seymour cOoly tells US that
lone peculiar institution" is not aggressive and
will never grasp Free Territory if it is only let
Jscre Nay, he argues that attempts TO exclude it
lby law are futile and mischisvOus, 10 defiance of
me fact that all the territory saieldedby the i'm
mortal Ordinance of 81 has been ripened ioto
Free States! The man don't believe word he
lhmyDg, no more tbao he believes Intemperanco
It pore common in those States where PrOdibi-
lion is enforced than in this City, where, by ia
Tor of Mayor Wood and Judge Brown, it is
openly defed.
Itis great Democratic principle, Gov. s.
lIens us, that men are to be let alone unless they
Invade the rights Of others. Aud yet mon were
Iuunished under his Democratic rule for bi smy,
Idultery, gambling, seduction, and other Of
lenses against the laws, including selling lottery
Tickets and liquor without license. If these Of
lenses "invade the rights Of Others" then the
l,enpg of liquor nOp without license does the
same; if they don't, why did he allow men to be
punished for what he considers no crimes at all,
when he might have liberated them by stroke
lof the pen And why didn't be recommend the
repeal of the unrighteous laws which oppressed
Ithem'
But "the laws of emigration" Gov. g. has
discovered, will save the new Territories from
slavery. How soi Because people emigrate
from the more populOus States-they go from
lihe dearer to the cheaper lands. If so, then
There should be a constant flow of emigration
from Indiana to Kentucky, from Illinois and
Iowa to Missouri and Arkansas. VIGOROUSLY
Hand is cheaper-far che.per-in the Slave than
H.. ~ Vat in
lpite Of Gov. Seymour's fundamental principle,
+ ohio has thousands of emigrants from the far
cheaper lands Of adjacent Virginia and South
leIn Illinois and Indiana are full Of immigrants
from the cheaper lands Of different Slave States
Nay: the great bulk Of the European inmigra-
ton avoids the cheap soil fthe Slave States aud
fastens upon the dearer soil of the Free States.
Missouri and Arkansas have abundance of fair
land on sale at twenty-five to seventy-fve cents
per acre; yet immigrants shun this, and take
The far dearer lands of Wisconsin aud Iowa.
Gov. Seymour knows scky, but he has his eye
fixed n the Cincinnati National Convention and
dare not speak out.
Democratic Conventions in the Free States
used to resolve that they were inhexibly op-
Territories. In defiance Of these resolves, De-
Inocracy opened Kansas and Nebraska to Slavery,
aypg, LET Freedom and Slavery struggle in
Kansas; the former must win." So hoped, not
'ithout apprebensions, the People of Msssa'
husetts and other Free States, when they dis
stched ii cir sons and brothers 30 become bona
I. pioneers and citizens Of the new Territory.
hey thought'they were doing the very thing
'hich our Seymours and John Van Bdrens de-
ired and would applaud-settlng the Slavery
psstion BY the might of Squatter Sovereignty.
let Gov. S. malgns these noble soldiers Of
ifeedom as spectators in county seats and
apitals, town-lots and corner-lots, (for which,
lit were true, he should be the last man to re-
Ilrosch tbem,) and fairly blsckguards Missa-
dusetts for sending them! Nay, he misrepre-
sents the indignation excited by the ruffian con-
duet Of the myrmidons Of Slavery, poured into
Kansas in armed bands on the day Of her cleo
lion, to seize and vitiate her polls, as If it were
directed against the actual settlers, the sturdy
linen" Of Kansas! Nay, more: the Governor
Affects TO defend these settlers and assert their
"ooble aud generous qualities" against the / N
putations OF Free-Soilers, when he is really
pettifcggpg the cause Of Atchison AMI String
fellows Missouri invaders, trying to pass them
hsf in the guse of a;tual settlers of Ksusas, and
plesding in their behalf "the irregularities Of
"bOrder life - Ifunfairness and prevarica-
hOn can dive deeper than this, let us see how
ens where