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The SouTH, AND SLAVERY IN KANsNs.-A
gia, for the purpose Of considering the best
mode of strengthening the pro-slavcry nte-
rest in Kansas. Both the United States SEN
ators of Georgia, the Hon. Robert Tooml s
and Alfred Iverson, made speeches of some
significance. Mr.. Toombs said li-protec-
ton demanded that they should teach the
North that the South would not submit to
=" such diabolical attempts to aboitionze a
Territory, whose climate, soil and rroduc-
tions, indicated it as favorable for the extern
sion of slavery. 1t was an attempt to cir
cumscribe it,
The report of his speech proceeds
He proceeded to show the Importance to
the South of the admission of Kansas into
tile Union as a Slave State it was the key to
the great West the high road to the Pa
ci6c it's influence in the formation of States
from the Territories South and Vest oft
was of vital consequence to the STAKEHOLDER
in Missouri. 1t had been said that slavery
would not be profitable in Kansas this was
great mistake. 1t was in the same latitude
with Missouri ; its soil very much the same
In no State in the Union was slave labor
more profitable than in Missouri the histo-
fy of the institution there was the best evi
denee of this. By the census Of 1910 her
slave population was only forty thousand ;
by the census Of 1850 it was more thandouble
this number. Out of the eighty odd
thousand slaves the census showed that fifty
thousand Of them were in the estcrn hor
der counties of the State, Immediately ada
cent to Kansas. Hemp, tobacco, wheat and
corn are the principal products of Missouri.
The soil of Kansas has been found equally
adapted to their growth. Their cultivation
was by far more profitable than cotton ; the
history of slave labor in Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri had proved 1t to be SO,
A Capt. Lomax next made what is called
spirited speech in which he said that
g, Missouri, led on by her gallant Atchison,
done nobly." Kansas was the keystone of
the arch of the Union. 1t was of vital i'm
portance, not only to Missouri, but to each
of the .laveholding States, that it should
come into the Union as Slave State. The
admission of California had deprived us of
the balance of power in the Senate. Now
was the time, and the occasion to restore it
The Hon. Alfred Iverson next spoke.
Inc polcy Oh the Nortn, SAID he, was to
surround the South with a Gordon of Free
States, and, by combining slavery to a limited
area, to crush it out. In this point of view,
the maintenance of slavery in Kansas was a
matter of vital interest to the South If
slavery gives way in Kansas, Missouri will
be surrounded on three sides by non slave
holding States, and the institution must give
way there 1t will also be in peril in the In
dian Territory lying South of Kansas it
will then only remain for the Abolitionists to
extend their influence to Western Texas and
the great object of their ambition will be
attained. The South will then be reduced to
hopeless minority in the Union D.; her insti
tutions will be confined to the narrow limits
they at present occupy, and their overthrow
will only be a question of time. On the 9TH
er hand he contended that if slavery were
maintained in Kansas, that it would also be
maintained in Missouri 1t might possibly
be extended to Utah, New Mexico, and South
ern California it would certainly be pro-
tected in the Indian Territory and Texas and
when the Northern provinces of Mexico are
annexed to the United States-as they GER
tainly will be in the course of time-the
field for the extension of Southern institu-
tions will be indefinitely enlarged.