The Richmond palladium., 1856-05-22
NO. q.
Southern EmiS ration kan>as--Revival Of
the Slave Trade,

the Slave Trade.
The Winnsborough Is. CO Register. thus
speaks out against the emigration of slave
holders 10 Kansas. and condemns i, as ruin
Gus policy
We negat,ed the idea that South Carroll
ia should send MEN 10 kansas-and whvs
Simply because she caaRot spare them. Her
population IS daily decreasing from emigra-
ton. and already she has peopled more West
ern and Southern States than any State in the
MON. Not only SO. but each Kansas emil
grant diminishes the size of our ballot box
and many OF them leave behind them wives
and children TO follow them. If successful. but
70 welcome them back to Carolina If failure
should follow their enterprise. Some of them
carry slaves with them, but how small mi
nority do they comprise? Those who do not
are not slayeowners In South Carolina, either
from necessity choice. and ace t6ink It er-
frcme!g probisplQticQi arkether their gains IN
hansas iriR erer be iarested ia This species Of
property. For Few years past our State has
been decreasing in politicsl power. because
she has been severely taxed by the loss Of
clIizens 10 populate ether States; but this di
minution IN numbers is Of far less importance
than that occasioned by the emigration 10
Kansas, because the former carried with them
their slaves 10 settle Slave States, and the lat
Ter are lessenlng our tax paying voters. who
eml-rate 70 populate a Government Territory
whose future admission rs State is SO wrapt
in doubt as TO make it prudent not TO carry
slaves there yet awhile, at any rate
The Charleston Is. c. Standard concurs
with the Register, and thus depicts the condi-
, yion of slaves in competition with the "ichite
race" and recommends a restoration Of the
Slave Trade as panacea TO all the evils which
threaten the peculiar institution
Thus we felt, bu, we also felt that there
vas danger from an increase OF population.
While Slaves have been excluded. the totIe
rd-e has still come in upon They can no
longer come as masters for the ranks of mas
ers are full and nearly closed they must come
o offices Of labor; in Offices ol labor they will
De ia competition with the Slave. the compe-
ution they must find ilksome and repulsive,
and. whatever NAV be the theories upon the
subject II 3aatSf Be tie insfint ot' Ire lrhns
koborer IN opposition TO the Slave. seek a
release from the seventies oi that condition.
1t was to be apprehended, therefore, that
from sudden increase OF population. under
existing laws there would be aroused in the
railing race sentiment Of opposition TO our
institutions; without such increase there was.
as we have shown, no possibility OF successful
competition with tie North, in both the fields
before Us. 1t was hard to be defeated OF equal
ity in the Union. and be forced TO dissolution
TO preserve the functions Of self government;
il was hard 20 leave our homes and native
States the subjects of contemptuous specula-
ton, and for this it was that years ago, we
took the position that 'the want OF Slavery
was the Stare trade. and we have certainly
not seen. since, the cause for its abandonment
The Standard holds that the restoration Of
the Stare Trade is the only means by which
Slavery can retain the balance of political
power aud by which the Union can be pre-
served. Hear ii:
"Wc believe that the Union will be tempo.
rarity prolonged BY the introduction of Sa-
very into Kansas. but we believe it might be
extended to All indefinitely distant period by
the measure propose the restoration of
the Slave Trade. With the certainty ofturn-
ing the balance OF political power, we would
have little motive to dissolution; while the
stability and repose TO the North from the
prcdominance of Slave power in the Govern
ment. would counterbalance any inclination
hey might have to leave US"
/; remains TO be seen whether the North
yill purchase stability and repose" at such
price