Squatter sovereign., 1855-10-16
ATcHIsoN KANSAS TERRITORY TUESDAY, OCTOBER e,

causes beyond the reach OF governmental
action, and this fact should teach some de-.
pendence upon the will of an overruling.
Providence which works out its ends IN a
mode, and at time, not always apparent
to infinite mortals.
The history of some of our slaveholding
States, in relation to efforts of this charac-
ter, it would seem, ought to be conclusive,
at least, against those who have no actual
interest involved, and whom proper sense
of self-respect, if not Of constitutional obli-
CATION, should restrain from impertinent
interference, Virginia in 1913, and Ken
lucky more recently, were agitated from
centre to circumference by bold and un-
restricted discussion of the subject of eman-
cipation.l Upon the hustings and in leg
islative assemblies, the subject was thor
oughly examined, and every project which
genious or philanthropy could suggest, was
investigated. Brought forward in the Old
Dominion under the sanction of names
venerated and respected throughout the
commonwealth-wellk known to have been
a cherished project of her most distinguished
tatesmen-favored by the happening then
ofrecent servile disturbance, and patronized
by some of the most patriotic and enlight
ened citizens, the scheme nevertheless
failed, without a show Of strength or 4 step
in advance toward the object contemplated.
The magnitude of the difficulties to be
overcome was so great, and so obvious as
to strike alike the emancipationists and
their adversaries. The result has been,
both iii Virginia and Kentucky, that sla-
very. TO use the language Of one Of Ken
tucky's eloquent and distinguished sons,
and one, too, of the foremost in the work
of emancipation, s'has been accepted as a
permanent part of their social system. :
Can 1t be that there is destltution OF hon
esty-of intelhgence-of patriotism and
piety in Slaveholding States, and that
these qualities are alone TO be found In
If not, the conclusion must be, that the DIFF
fcuIties in the way of such an enterprise
exceed all the calculations of statesman
ship and philosophy and their removal
must await the will of that being whose
prerogative it is to make crooked paths
straight, and justify the ways of God to
man.
We have no thought OF discussing the
subject of slavery. Viewed in its social,
moral or economical aspects, it is regarded,
as the resolS,ions of the Convention de-
clare, as solely and exclusively a matter of
State jurisdiction, and therefore one which
does not concern the Federal Government,
or the States where it does not exist. We
have merely adyerted TO the fact, in con-
nection with the recent Abolition move
ments upon Kansas, that amidst all the
fierce denunciations Of Slavery for twenty
years past, these fanatics have never yet
been able to suggest a plan for its remo-
val, consistent with the safety of the white
race-saying nothing OF constitutional
guarantees, Federal and State.
The colonization scheme Of Massachu-
sets, as we have said, excited alarm in
Missouri. It's obvious design was TO ope-
rate further than the mere prevention OF
the natural expansion of Slavery. 1t was
intended to narrow its existing limits-to
destroy ell equilibrium of power between
the North and South, and leave the slave
holder at the will of the majority, ready to
disregard constitutional obligations, and
| carry out to their bitter end the mandates
of ignorance, prejudice and bigOtry. Its
success manifestly involved, radical
change in our Federal Government, or lis
total overthrow. IF Kansas could be thu:
abolitionized, every additional part of the
present public domain hereafter opened tt
settlement, and every future accession o
Territory, woald be the subject of similar
experiments, and an exploded 1Yilmo
Proviso thus virtually enforced Throughout
an extended domain still claimed as ma
tional. and still bearing on its military en-
signs the stars and stripes of the Union.-
If the plan was constitutional and legal. i
must be conceded tkatit was skillfully con
trived and admirably adapted to It's ends
1t was also eminently practicable, if no re
sistence was encountered, since the State
adopting it contained surplus population
which could be bought up and shipped
whilst the South, which had an interest il
resisting, had no such people among he
i white population. TIE Kansas-NebrasL
law, too, which vas so extremely hatefr
to the fanatics, and has constituted th
principal theme of their recent denuncia
tons, would be dead letter. both as re
] CARDS the Territories for which IT was PAL
!. | ticularly framed, and as a precedent I
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