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

! have claims in those places where they
have been born to rights, chow many it
is not necessary to inquire, and it would
be wrong to exclude them from such
State; but the talk about negroes having
been brought to this country, and those
who are in the country now having been
born in the country. and having rights
from that fact, applies to other portions
of the Union-it is inapplicable to Kan
sas. They had better stay where they
! have their birth-right claims, than to
come here where they have none.
! Long before the Revolution, Virginia,
| by legislative enactment, attempted to re-
strain the importation of slaves. The
whole system of slavery they regarded as
an evil, as also the presence of the ne
groes; and they said !" the interest of the
country nianifestly requires the total ex-
pulsion of them." But all their acts
were negatived by the Governors or the
King. Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee,
and Patrick Henry, were among those
who advocated legislation against the i'm
lportation of slaves, on account of the
evil of the presence of the negro, thus
occupying the same position of those who
would exclude slavery and free negroes
from Kansas. Other slave colonies ap-
ipreciated the evil, among which were
Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New
York; and SO did all at the Revolution.
2. As to the effect upon the Territory
and the people thereof, if slavery is intro
duced. One thing is certain, all past
experience must be reversed, or it will
retard the settlement and prosperity of
the Territory. Look at the vast popula-
ton, commerce, manufactures, activity,
enterprise, and prosperity of the new free
States northwest of the Ohio, and COM
pare them with an equal number of slave
States admitted about. corresponding pc
riods of time. Compare Iowa and Flor
ida, Michigan and Arkansas, Wisconsin
land Texas, Ohio and Kentucky. Sum up
the total population of the FIVE free States
and then of the five slave States. Ex-
anime the value of real estate, of produe-
tions of the soil, of manufactures, of the
number of children taught in the schools,
tof the number of adults who cannot read
or write, and variety of other points,
and then contemplate the vast preponder-
ance in favor of the free States. All ex-
perience proves that slavery excludes that
energy and perseverance which have built
up the vast manufacturing interests of the
| North. Less of the varied manufactured
articles required for common use are
made in the slave States than in the free
States. You seldom see in free State
anything manufactured in slave State,
while in slave State You must keep your
eyes shut to avoid seeing almost contin-
ually the manufactures of the North.
You see in the North the productions of
the soil of the South, those which cannot
be produced at all or with profit in the
northern cline of the free States, and that
is all you very often see from the South.
And look at another fact: a large amount
of tobacco from the South is taken North
and manufactured, and taken back South
and consumed; so of hemp, and some
other things; but only contemplate the
vast amount of cotton goods, in every
variety, which are consumed in the slave
States, manufactured in the North, out of
cotton from the Southl All these things
paying transportation twice and prof
| it to the northern manufacturer, while
| if the South manufactured these things,
these items of transportation and profit
would be retained in the South. But the
South has the wrong kind of laborers,
and with them she can never compete
with the North. Will you force upon
Kansas such laborers, and thus make her
tributary to the free States? Now, it is
certainly for the interest of Kansas to
produce and manufacture as many of the
necessaries and luxuries which her citi-
zens will use as she can. twill increase
her population, increase their wealth, and
add TO their conveniences and comforts.
1t will increase the value of land, increase
the quantity and value of other property.
increase the number of taxables, and de-
crease the taxes you will have to pay
You will be able to obtain manufactured
articles of every kind to suit you. You
can have them made to order, and you
can buy them cheaper than though they
were transported hundreds of miles by
steamboat or railroad. kis sS
!, The report of the Postmaster General,
for the year 1854, shows one striking
fact, which tells most powerfully upon
the influence of slavery. The surplus of
receipts by the Department during the
year, over and above all expenditures,
from the free States, was 81, $50, ,545 60,
while the deficiency in the slave States
was S703, 459 96. During the year
1854 the North paid s703, ,459 96 for
mail transportation for the South, and
also paid bonus into the Department of
1867 ,085 81. And this is but an iso-
lated case of the withering influence of
slavery.
All experience proves that slavery is
lclog upon the ntilitarian energy and en-
terprise of the age. Whatever it may
have been In times long past and gone, it
IS not adapted to the character of the
present age. In those States where it
exists, it certainly exerts . lethargic IN
fuence upon the practical enterprise and
energy, and the general progress and
prosperity. This age is truly utiiita-
ran age. n.ore peculiarly so than any Pc
triod through which man has passed.
Human skill and ingenuity. enterprise and
activity, are directed TO thoset things which
add to the comforts and eonyeniences Of
life, Ear, far beyond all former precedent
Slavery hangs ike a dead weight upon
those States where IL exists dD
/ Will you admit an institution into Kan
sas which viii so seriously affect her
prosperity, and operate 50 injuriousiy up
on her people, Pause. / beseech You,
and ponder long and deeply upon this
lsubjecs before you take step Of such
momentous consequence, and fastennpon
Kansas an institution which viii east q
lmildew blight upon her prosperity.
/ EEgnchaEitableness generally springs
from happy faculty Of overlooking our
8 own defects. 1smotkeue s;es-ss