The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-25

ten millions given for IT, before they could be induced TO
do their duty under the constitution by passing the fug
tyeslave law .s
They alone chargeabe with the aggressive spirit and
lust for power which they impute to the slayehoding
States. e0
The act of 1920 had been recognised by the anti
slavery party as COMPROMISED and II il had been, what
harm there in repeating it, after had become incon-
sstent with the subsequent Compromise OF 1885, and after
several Territories had been organized by antsayey
votes without reference TO m Was not the tariff compro
mise repealed in 1912 by northern votes without equally
good reasons in fact without any at all The
only desire of the savehoding States is to regain in
Of the branches Of the national legislature the equality
which, through unguarded lberality, they have lost
The territory of the United States has been acquired with
the treasure and the common blood Of the entire
country and s the profit Of the association of the States
II that association was dissolved, each would be entitled
TO share of that territory and the shares falling 10 us
would surely be slave territory. ..
No reason has or can be given why we should not
enjoy in the Union the right which no would deny us
out OF and considering the greater numbers OF the pco
pie of the nonsavehoding States and their superior ac
tiles for coonzaon the principle OF the Kansas Nebraska
act gives them decided advantage n0 ss~E 81
We have accepted it, because believe 1t just and in
accordance with the spirit Of our institutions; but fur
ther concessions must be asked We wished nothing
but fair play in the settlement of those Territories and
fair play it would have been TO the end in Kansas il
will be in Nebraska If the North trusting to its superior
advantages had let emigration to that Territory take its
natural Instead of this Emigration Aid Societies
formed in Massachusetts with large capital many Of
the emgrans they sent OF the worst character
who in passing through Missouri reused the fears and the
T.
Not long after their arrival in Kansas the first murder
committed there by McCrea abotonst the person
OF settler from Missouri for that murder and the conse-
quenceH which have followed It, the clergy OF the North 10
primarily responsible before God and man. That there
have been wrongs both sides since, denies; but
have honestly tried to redress those wrongs and have
not thus far been permitted to do so. ~
As both parties armed the outlaws, who at all
times nfest frontier settlements turned that state of
things to their account and commenced their depre-
datons the peaceful settlers, calling themselves prosla
very or treeSate men, as they pundered free-Stae or
pro-slayery
This is the naked truth and the nnumerabe falsehoods
by which it has been obscured the resorted to
by opponents to conceal their ueror objects and unite
the States against and the institution
OF slavery itself
Under that of things deem it proper that they
should know feelings and views in relation to that
institution; and when say views, mean the views
of the entire white population of the sayehodng States
with here and there exception in ces for he has
little knowledge OF human nature who asserts seriously
has been done by the ables paper in New York. that those
among us who own no siayes against the Ella
very question by most of the masters of slaves slavery
is viewed merely legal right; but TO the white
chanics and aborers Of the saveholdng States it is
privilege and rs man is alive TO the preservation of
his privileges than Of his legal rgh those mechanics and
aborers ready to go TO greater lengths than
approve the subject of slavery, and their violence is
often mistaken at the North for that of the planters them
selves.
am assured that in three of the men who have
at different times gone from Missouri TO Kansas owned
slave and have doubt the disproportion would
be found in any force raised among resist armed
aggression upon rights We entertain fear for the
institution OF slavery interviewer as 1t is in all our social
relations and habits we know that il is stronger than all
popular deusons-stronger than demagogsm--5tronger
than parysonger than the constitution and the Union
Money Is power here elsewhere and slavery In the
value of the slaves the products Of their labor the profits
those products afford to and manufactures the
wages which they enable millions Of operatives otherwise
destitute to earn and the epbanced value which slave
labor gyes TO the land which it s employed possesses
the accumulated power Of at least four thousand millions
Of dollars Every cotton mill il the Christian world is
fort built in its defence the occupants Of which depend
| upon il, and upon ii alone for their support
Abolish slavery, and cotton must to be cultivated
for expectation After the experience Of France and Eng
land one has the sudaey TO sSer that free blacks
be made work, and a admit that the white man Is
physically incapable to stand the continuous field labor
which the staple crops O. South require in the
and fall. The London Globe in a late article on the
difficulties OF Central America thus dscourses the sub
ject:
! "0ur West India Islands are fast relapsing into
primitive savageness When the rich lands OF Jamaica
| being yearly abandoned and when in Trinidad and
Guiana cultivation has almost ceased 1t is not likely that
England will to extend her sovereignty further
tropical territory which can only be brought into by
\ system which has been solemnly condemned
There il Isl The system Of slave labor been solemn.
condemned by the British government and people and
they nd the only result Of their mistaken philan.
thropy that their colonies fast espspa Into primitive
savageness and the partially civilized blacks into worse
/ than African barbarsm.
The policy would necessarily lead to the same or
greater caamites here Are the people OF these Sacare
/
produc2 Where viii they get when none is to be
had from US What s 10 be the fate Of the operatives far
exceeding In number our slave population, who now
supported by the manufacture Of that single stape Are
they to sarve2 Are the hundreds Of millions whom their
labor clothes In the garb Of decency and civilization
to be doomed again TO the nakedness OF savage life in
der that the negroes Of America may be enabled break
the heavenly command which enoins labor upon and
TO lose in dleness and vice they have lost in St Don.
60 and are rapidly losing in Jamaica the civilization they
have acquired and the regor In which they have
| reared
Let not the people OF the North deceive themselves sa-
very has mission TO fulfil this continent 10 rendering
fruitful those regions lying waste in which white la
Dor cannot live and until its destiny Is accomplished the
law of necessity Is the higher law that win regulate the
condition Of the black Strong proof Of the feeling
of security at the South results from the fact that the
price OF slaves commenced rising when the antsyery
this day than three times high thirty
years ago.
Let the Union stand or fall cotton must still be
king and II we were compelled TO 90 out OF IT, there
would be formed instantly between England, France
and ourselves closer and cordial union than
exists with the nonslavehoding States Let the trade
between them aud ourselves become direct their ahips
| be mainly employed in carrying products aud
bringing back TO those articles of manufacture we
now buy from You, and Exeter Hall will be mute as
the grave forever after the wrongs Of the Afri-
can. IL is because know slavery to be strong and
sefsusainng institution and the most staple basis upon
which the right Of property rest for its support that
wish to restore equality between the sections
this coniederacy. We sincerely wish to preserve the
Union we love II for ITSELF aud believe 1t to be mutually
advantageous TO yop and ourselves but firmly believe
nj the time that the dissolution Of Il would inure
you more than it would us.
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