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

State which controlled the case, the cour
would find itself between the horns of ;
dilemma, from which no ingenuity eoult
extricate it. The case could never be de
cided. The claim of right On the par
of stakeholder to take his slaves into thu
Territory and hold them, because SLAYER,
was legal in the State from whence h,
came, would give him the right to hole
them In defiance of territorial authority
1t would make him above the reach o
territorial law; and if the principle were
good in this case, it would hold good a:
to other emigrants- But there is nothing
IN this new-fangled mode of getting sla.
very into the Territories. The idea is g
plant of nightshade growth, and withers
in the sunlight of reason. The conse
quences of the claim show its absurdity
so manifestly, that it is astonishing any
sane man could ever become so deluded
as to have the face to urge it as right.
Senator Atchison, of Missouri, in a
speech at Liberty, Mo-, Nov. 9th, 1854,
says: "The organic law of the Territory
vests in the people who reside in it the
power to form all their municipal regu-
lations. Theycan either admit orexclude
slavery" Hero, then, is a distinct ad-
mission that slavery does not exist in
Kansas, and the Legitimate action of the
people is required to admit it. The peo-
pie may admit; that is, let in, or exclude
keep out-slavery. Allmen, in every
thing they do, act from motive. They
have an object to accomplish in doing as
they do. So far as our acts affect others,
we are morally bound to so act as to do
them no wrong.
Now, what motive can you have in
voting for slavery in Kansas? What can
be your object9 How viii your action,
if successful. affect the people of Kan
sas, present and future? What effect
will it have upon the prosperity of the
Territory? These are questions which
you should ask yourselves, and should
coolly and carefully examine and decide
by the full exercise of all the powers of
mind which God has given You; and
when your decision is made, it should be
made feeling a sense of the obligations
you are under to do right,
!. AS to your, motive and object in
voting for slavery in Kansas J. for the mo-
tive and object really amount to the same
thing. Why should you do it? What
benefit do you expect to derive from ii?
Very few of you expect to buy slaves
Their high price-the large Investment
of money it requires-the risk you run
of their loss of health and death, and
running away, makes the investment a
hazardous one. l have conversed with
some of the most ultra pro-slavery men
in slave States, and they say slavery is
an evil; that slave labor is improbable,
as general thing; that if slavery and
the negroes were out of the country, it
would be better for the country Ger
tainly there is nothing peculiarly pleas
ant in having negroes about you. There
is nothing SO attractive and agreeable
about them as to make their presence
around you peculiarly desirable. If you
were hiring help to work on your farm,
you would certainly prefer to hire white
man instead of negro. 1t would GER
tainly be more pleasant to have white
woman about your house than negress.
Every thing which can reasonably be re-
-quired of negro or negress to do, a
white man or white woman performs with
cheerfulness, and generally much better
and more readily All labor is honora-
bic. The man who earns his bread by
the sweat of his brow, no matter how
humble his employment, is just as respect
able and honorable, and more so, than the
man who never earned his salt. The
men who consider it a disgrace to labor
at anything honest, are sunk too low for
contempt. 1t is no disgrace for man or
woman to labor for others for living.
But if you introduce slavery into the
Territory, white men and white women
will dislike to place themselves on level
with the negro. All the pride of human
nature is aroused. Kansas can never be
slave State with sufficient number of
slaves to perform all the labor which
slaves can perform; and it viii create a
serious difficulty to those who have to
hire, in obtaining the amount of help ac-
tually needed. Slavery win keep out a
class of laborers generally needed Ex-
clude slavery, and you viii find that the
supply of laborers Will keep up with the
demand. Now Kansas is In position to
exclude slavery and protect herself from
the evil of the presence of free negroes.
On this point she can place herself in
nearly as favorable position as though
there was not a negro In America. Ex-
elude slavery and free negroes, and make
Kansas State for the abode of white
men. / heard an ultra pro-slavery man
complaining bitterly, the other. day, at
this. in a slave State, alleging that the
tendency of excluding free negroes was
to heathenize them, and make them as
barbarous as they were in Africa. That
allegation l consider base SANDER upon
the people Of the slave States. I do nos
believe, if Kansas excludes free negroes,
the people of the slave States are going
to push them all back into the darkness,
barbarism, and heathenism of African
negroes. The idea of such thing is
preposterous. But the motive, the object,
which induces that man TO promulgate
such notions IS transparent. He is one
of those men who would like to GET all
the free negroes out of the slave States,
to remove them from association with the
slave. If we exclude them from Kansas
we shut of the chance of throwing !
portion of them upon US. II the posi-.
ton of excluding slavery and free negroes
is taken by Kansas, and carried out, we
shall incur the wrath of such ultra pro-
slavery men as have alluded to, and
also of Aboliiionists who long for an oc-
casional chance to take negro by, the
hand and give him 3 cordial greeting
The two extremes would denounce such
territorial action, and such denunciation,
from the extremes Of altraism, would be
strong evidence in favor Of the correct
ness of our medium position.
Negroes have no claim Of right 70 come
into the Territory. They are not cisi
zensef the United States. The Supreme
Court Of Pennsylvaaia has 50 decided