Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1856-01-22
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Kansas Slave State.
The time has arrived when it needs no
argumentto prove that slave labor is profit
able In Kansas-no where in the United
States is it more so. Slaves will now yield
greater profit in Kansas, either to hire
out, or cultivate the soil, than any other
place; and it will continue to be SO. il
saved from abolition rule. Those who
have brought there slaves here are reaping
rich reward Cor the few priyations incl
dent TO new country, and feel as secure
in their property here as in Kentucky or
Missouri, and even more so. for the means
and mode of escape are more difficult from
Kansas. Why it is that more OF our
friends in the old States have not brought
| their slaves with them, we are at loss to
devise, unless the faisehoods and threats OF
the abolitionists have frightened .them.--
We know that there are thousands of set
tiers in the old States, who. own number
of slaves, WHO are. working hard from year
to year, on poor land. without producing a
cent of profit, who could ,syilh half the la
Dor, in Kansas, make q, clear yearly profit
of from twenty-five TO thirty per cent on
the cash value Of their whole investment.
We say to them, come and try it. others
| have proven that it is no fiction. and Kan
sas needs your aid. Good negro men viii
hire out readily at from twenty to forty
dollars per month-women, from ten. 10
! twenty, and girls and boys IN proportion
and yet the cultivation of our soil w:llyield
even a greater profit than that. We have
good market at home for everything We
can raise, and it will continue SO for all
time to come.
We purpose submitting a few PROPOSE
lions for the consideration of our friends.
| First-Should Kansas be made slave
State !? We say that location, climate
soil, productions, value of slave labor, the
good of the master and slave all eonspire
and cry aloud that it should be; and the
/ whole country, save the blinded freesoilers
and aholitionists. admit the fact. The
squatters, too, have already said three sue,
sive times, at the polls, that Kansas should
be slave State. But if all this is no
enough, then we say, without fear of sue
/ cessfui contradiction, that Kansas MUST bs
a slave State, or the Union viii be dis
solved. Who so blinded as not to be able
| to see it2 Let abolitionism once contro
| the United States Senate and the Unior
is at an end, or the Southern people mus
debase themselves by submitting to psui
ano injury, such as we know they neve
will. And if Kansas is not made . slave
State, it requires no sage to leEetell, that
! without some veFy extraordinary revoll
ton, there never will be another slav.
State; and the administration Of the gov
eminent must fall into the LANDS of til,
abolitiollists-and experience has proven
that none but slaves can sublnitsto be gov
erned by them. With the iabolitionists a
the head of the federal government, th'
sovereignty Of the States is at an end an,
the Union curse. rather than blessing
i We say, then, that all good men, in or on
of Kansas. who honestly desire TO see til,
Union pe1petuated, should unite with tn
pro-slavery party, and aid in preventing
Kansas from falling into the ha nds of til,
aboiitionists; for certain it is, that it mus
be slave or an abolition State. There
no middle ground, ami cannot be. Thos
WHO come among us, and cry out agains
freesoil and abolitionism, yet do not unit
and work with the pro-slavery party, ar
our worst eteinics, whether knaves, fools
or honest men; and are doing US. NOR
injury, ana rendering more aid to aboli
tionism in Kansassshan the neanest open
moathed, avowed negro-thief in all tn,
land; yes, are rendering them more Ser
r vice than the notable editors of the Terri
r torial Register at Leavenworth, and Il.
Herald of Freedom at Lawrence.
; Secondly-Can Kansas be made slav
State. Thus far the pro-slayery party ha
triumphed in Kansas, in spite of the abe
S litionisis and their aid societies. The
have raised their millions of money, an
sent upon us their hordes of tools, arme
with Sharp's rifles, to trample down OF
> institutions, and con6scate our property
3 and drive US from the country. yet We har
peaceably whipped them at the polls, an
: forced them to beg for quarters inthe fielt
and proven to the world that truth and iu.
q tice are on our side; and all this has lee
: accomplished by the hardy squaiters wifi
! out any aid from the South, save now an
+ then a struggling g border rufian" frol
q Missouri What, then, is in the way
e making Kansas slave Statea Nothin
: can prevent it, if the Southern people d
p hrf half