Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-18

Kansas may possibly come into the Union
as a slave State but that question Is not
yet determined; it is to be left to the free and
unbiased choice of the bona fde inhabitants.
But, even il slavery should be incOrpOra-
ted into the State constitution, it would ex-
lst only on paper, it would be but name,
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
Slavery in Kansas would be what it is in
Delaware. 1t would soon pass away into
regions more suited to the Negro, and better
fitted for his labor, and which for a long
time tO come will be large enough for the
employment OF that labor. The Southern
people have no slaves to spare to take to
Kansas. Compared with the North, they
are not migratory race; and millions of
acres of sugar and cotton land are yet t.
be occupied. Besides, the annual increase
of the white population, compared to
the black, is nearly nine to One-a most
significant fact, for it proves beyond contro-
versy, that the political superiority of the
free States must go on increasing forever.
This fact is deeply to be pondered, as it
demonstrates how utterly false is this clamor
about Southern aggression. The Southern
States could not be aggressive if they would;
they have not the power, and the dispropor
ton between the two sections is increasing
every day. The full tide of population,
native aud foreign, is sweeping on from the
free States to the prairies and forests of the
West, and must in the course of nature and
by the inevitable necessity of things cover
those vast regions with free people. Sla-
very, in nine-tenths of our present national
domain, would be as powerles against the
ocean of immigration as Bishop Hatto was
against the army of rats. Nebraska and
Minnesota will make five tree States to two
slave States from Kansas. In defence OF
the South it should be said she does not de-
sire Kansas for purposes OF profit 1t would
be better for her citizens, in pecunlary
point of view, TO take their slaves to Texas.
She wants Kansas simply as means of pro-
lection against the encrOachments OF the
Abolitionists of the North; for she fears and
has good reason to fear, unless the Democracy
maintains its ascendency that all this agita-
ton and animosity t0iU end in violent inter-
ference with her domestic concerns. She
does not believe that those who disclaim
such interference will be able, twenty years
hence, to make their disclaimer hold good.
Therefore, her desire to colonize this new
territory is not the offspring of avarice, but
i
was respected such apprehensions would be
groundless, for one single slave State, though
surrounded by free States, would be perfectly
secure under the broad shield of that instru-
ment. But Southern statesmen know full
we'll that the abolition feeling, gaining every
day in intensity and malignity, will soon
cease to be a respecter of constitutions; and
their resistance to the free-soil party, is in
fact, struggle for their affairs and fire sides;
a gallant, but it may be a vain attempt to
save their sunny cline from the barbarism
and sterlity to which Hayti and Jamaica
have been doomed.
Southern people believe that indiscrimi-
nate emancipation would be damnable in
iquity alike destructive to master and slave,
folly and sin TO make angels weep, and
which would put back the clock Of human
progress a thousand years. And yet any
man who reads the speeches of Seward, Sum-
ner, Hale and Wade, all members of the Uni
ted States Senate, cannot fail to perceive that
they are thirsting for the power to perpetrate
this enorm;ty. Wade calls all shareholders
vandals, Seward charges them with fraud
perfidy and dishonor, and Sumner exhausts
the whole vocabulary of vituperative epithets,
and yet every word of this abuse applies to
Washington, Jefferson, Madison Monroe,
Jackson, Henry Clay and thousands of the
best men that ever lived. How different is
this spirit from that which actuated our
fathers.
1--WE have lived and loved together,
Through many changing year.
is sentiment which should encircle the
stars OF our natioRal flag, and find an echo in
IL - e
Nor can we Justly blame the Southern peo-
pie for this alinenation of feeling; the Black
Republicans have caused it; they have chill
lngly repealed the warm advances Of men
who have a common inheritance Of glory in
the history Of the past. The South loves
the Union, for she helped to make it. The
great thoughts and strong minds of those v'ho
formed that immortal league belonged to her.
But she loves self-preservation, and the
safety of her wives aud children, even better
than the Union. Listen to what James
Buchanan said on this subject in 1855. His
warning words are as true now as then,
though Heaven forbid that his apprehensions
should ever be realized:
This question of domestic slavery is a
weak point in our institutions. Tariffs may
he raised almost TO prohibition. and then they
may be reduced so as to yield no adequate
protection to the manufacturer our Union
is sufficiently strong to endure the shock
Fierce political storms may arise the moral
elements Of the country may be cOnvulsed by
the struggles of ambitious men for the high
est houors of government. Tho sunshine
does not more certainly succeed the storm,
than all will again be peace. Touch this qucss
ton Of slavery seriously-let it once be made
manifest to the people of the South that they
cannot live with US except in state of con-
tinual alarm and apprehension for their wives
and their children, for all that is near and
dear to them upon the earth, and the Union
is from that moment dissolved. 1t does not
then become question of expediency, but
of self preservation. 1t is question brought
home to the freside, to the domestic circle
of every white man in the Southern States.
1t is against the vindictive, unbrotherly and
unchristian spirit which finds an utterance in
the trades Of Seward and Sumner, that the
Southern people ask assistance from the
Northern Democracy-and to them they
would gladly surrender Kansas as a free
State, because in their hands the fact of the
freedom of Kansas would not jeopardze the
safety of fifteen States. We repeat il, the
OOutn has no WISH 10 TAKE uer slaves 10 Man.
sas, provided she can carry there the coucil-
iation, brotherly love and mutual respect
which presided over the councils of our
fathers when they formed the Constitution.
AS willingly would she yield all its fair ex-
panse to her Northern brethren as she gave
them the great NORTHWEST in 1857, on con-
dition that she could evoke from the
dead past the kindness, sympathy and good
will which then filled the hearts Of the wise
founders of our republic. James Buchanan
is a man who is imbued with their statesman
ship and actuated with their spirit, and his
triumphant election will be token and
pledge that the American people are one in
soul as in name, and worthy of the magni-
cent destiny before them. And he will be
elected. To doubt it is to arraign the good
ness of God.
Throughout the vast extent of this Union
the nations heart beats in full and harmo-
NOUS throbs of JOY at his nomination. His
name will be more potent than an army with