Squatter sovereign., 1855-02-03

Of stone, orsaf of timber, framed alta heasy /
expenses; fencing of plank, OF hauled Il n |
great distance.
In the timber, the !. poor min with his |
own strong hand can, build his cabin; esEth
his axe. ean ''fell his trees, ard wirh his One
horse plough, can pus his little field in eas,l-
tivation. There Is 10 such land in .K in-
tsass I.iwia reqlires money to- E,il'e sais
house; to bteak prarie, six yoke of cattle
are necessary; fencing will be too costly
for small fields. Te the man of capital,
to him who can command labor alones is
Kansas desirable. To such, it is easiest
and cheapest to make farm in the prairie.
The soil is adapted to the culture of helnp,
the raising sof stock. Its climate peculiar
ly healthy 10 the negro. Nature intended
it for slavcholding State necessity will
force it to tie such, unless our friends fool
ishly abandon il to those who cannot odcu-
py it.
Our friends can thus see that to them
the land is worth a struggle. Were there
NO other interests at stake, they wha: be
paid for doing their duty.
We have now shown the immediate
evils to which we are exposeds the means
by which we p oppose as far as practicable
to meet these evils; we have shown, That
we are now in that condition to which, If
the abolitionists succeed, other slavehpld-
I ing States win ere long. be driven. We
propose now to consider that which lies at
the foundation of all these troubles-oppo-
sition 10 hegro slavery.
TO Shareholders, we will first address
| ourselves.
With all due Difference to the wisdom of
the great and good men who have so long
governed the councils d the slayeholding
States, though it may seem pfesumptuous,
we yet feel that we are justified in saying,
that experience has shown the errdr of
| their course. In .decrying discussion, in
seeming to admit negro,slaveryi an evil to
be borne, not an institution to be defended,
we have not only strengthened the arjn of
our enemies, but tied the hands of our
friends. BY such seeming admissions we
have deprived ourselves of the sympaa alies
of too many good men. Our silences has
been construed INTO confession that the
institution could NOT be defended. We
should have learned long ere this, thai the
more we protest against agitation, the
more abolitionists agitate; we should! re-
member. that victory is rarely won by re-
treat; that courage wins half the battles.-
| We have been so much accustomed to hear
slavery denounced as ain evil, that sse kuve
ourselves, with the evidence of its effect
before our eyes, feared to look and .eYam-
inc them. With this daily cry resembling
in their ears, with all the moastrous ekag-
erations Of the poets fancy, the knave's
cunning, TO mislead them still flrther,| lit is
not strange that good men who could not
see and judge for themselves, should have
been taught TO look with horros uponI the
master, with pity upon the slave. With
so many tg denoance, SO few to deferh, it
:
willing to ossustain our strict legal rights,
the honest coed men Of the north. should
yet feel reluctant TO do any act by which
so great An evil should be extended. II
has been well said, that Id otir cotsnfry
truth loosss nothing by discussion. We,
who have lived in slaveholding States,
have had On opportunity to see and feel
the effectsiof negro-slavery, have fl 4 tia,
it was no evil. Until now, we have had
no simple striking rule, the correctness oI
which all would admit, by which, to test IFS
effects. We have now the test, and. it il
our duty to apply it. Ii is due to Ourselves
!, it is due to our friends in the non-slave-
holding States, that we should have more
than bare assertion for proof. II be
true that negro-slavery is, as represented
| by the aboiitionists, not only crime, spk, p
political and moral evil, degrading me
character gf the master as we'd asthe gave
retarling The Arrangement of our coantry
in prosperity and happiness, we sbo,Hd a
once as men, teach otnseises-to look the
II esiI In the face-we should set about rid
ding ourselves of such curse.
| II, however. it be found that negrs-sla'
very is noTerime: If II be found neither q
4 political nor moral evil, bta thai lei efe
Yates the character of the master, prorE,ote.
his happiness, contributes 10 the adyfnce
!, meni of the country inwealth and prosper
!. ity. is the best possible condition fot th,
!, slave race, all good men, all real plIilan
& thropisss, all praetscal Statesmen. all| tu,
sipatriots, ssin say, let rs presere ssscl a
institution, let us extend It's blessingsI
81 La - not be understood as sagggstin.
tl,af the number Of slsIvesshes.n be int:resae