The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-10-22

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ss.lrn overo before he has left college long.
4 hsye been connected with our University,
as student and professor, for six years, and
am free to ssy that ! know of no institution,
North or South, from which partisan poll
! tics and sectafian religion are so entirely ex-
! claded. AMI vet we are too often attacked
! by the hgJts % both. For my own part,
do not know the politics Of more than one in
/ a hundred Of the students, except as might
! infer to which party they belonged from
4 knowledge Of the politics OF their fathers.
/ And they would no. have known my own
| predictions in the present contest, had not
/ ono Of their number asked me which of the
/ candidates preferred.
I But, If "Ainmnus" would understand the
state Of things here correctly, he had better
make visit 70 the University. He would
fni each member Of tho faculty busy teach
ing in his own department, whether in sci
ence or in literature; and that party poll
tics il one " the branches which we leave
tho student to study at some other place and
time. Ii "hlumnns' does conclude to visit
US. there is another matter to which might
direct his attention. The two societies here,
to the one or the other Of which bil the stu
dents belong, have each very good library,
and in those libraries are to be found the
complete works. Of many Of our great
statesmen. Now, for fear that the minds of
the student may be poisoned" by reading
some Of these stanpch old patriots, would
it not be well for "Alumnus". to exert him
self, through the Legislature or otherwise,
to t'drive'' them out Of the libraries? It's
true the WORKS of Calhoun are In the same
case with Those Of Jefferson; but from ap-
| pearances, the Nirginian seems to be read
pretty often, while the South Carolinan
maintains n posture of "masterly inactivi-
| ty." When I was student in college,
few years ago, the young politicians used to
debate in the '.halls" OF the societies the
Same questions which the old politicians
were debating in the halls Of Congress. The
/ side which opposed slavery in the abstract
| generally h,d the books in their favor, and
us the records 81 the society will show,
/ they had quite often ''the best Of the argu-
| ment."
! SO that when Col. Fremont said that he
was Supposed 10 slavery in the abstract, and
upon principle, sustained and made habitual
4 by long settled Convictions" he but uttered
! tho sentiments of four-ffths af the best
southern patriots from the revolution down
! to the present day (; and | may add, OF tho
nlujority of the people among whom | was
born and educated. OF my neighbors,
! friends and kindred, nearly one-half have
left the state since was old enough to re-
member. Many is the time have stood by
the loaded emlgrant wagon, and given the
parting hand 10 those whose faces was new
| or TO look upon again. They were going to
seek homes in the free Nest, knowing, ~
they did, thai frcl aud slave labor could not
both exist and prosper in the same commu-
nifty. Ii any one thinks that speak with
out knowledge, let him refer to the last GEN.
sus. lie will there find that in 1850 there
were $4,000 native North Carolinians living
in the free states Of the West. $4,000 in
Indiana alone. There were, mt the same
time, 10000 Yirginians living 10 tho free
states. Now, II these people were so much
IN love with the institutions" why did they
NOT remain where they could enjoy its bless
iigs?
/; is not, hawcger, my object to attack the
instltution OF slavery. But even the most
jealous defender Of the patriarchal institu-
ton cannot saut his eyes against few prom
incnt facts. one IS, that in nearly all the
slave States there il deficiency of labor.
Since the abolition of the African slave trade
there Is no source for obtaining u supply, ex-
cept from the natural increase. For this
reason, among others, gentleman from
South Carolina, in un article published in
DE Bows "Reyicw" for August, 1856, advo-
Gates "a dissolution of the Union, in order
that the African slave trade may be revived.
From North Carolina and Virginia near
lv the entire increase Of the slave pop
ulatlon during the last twenty years, has
been sent of 20 tLe new States Of the south
west.
Ia nv boyhood lived on one of the great
tho ,oughfares of travel, (near Locks
Bridge, on tho ladkin riyer,) and have seen
as many AS =, t0Oin single day going south,
mostly in the hands Of spectators. Now,
the loss OF these 2,ooo did the State great +
er injury than would the shipping off OF
million OF dollars. | think may ask any
sensible man how We are to grow rich aud
prosper, while "driyng out" u millioa Of
dollars per day? am glad, however, to say
that the runsns policy is not now carried on
70 such an extent AS il has been. Bat there
10 still too much OF II. !
have very little doubt that IL the slaves
whi;h are now scattered thinly over Tonnes
see, Kentucky, and Missouri, we're back in
Virginia and North Carolina, il would be |
better for all concerned. These old States |
could then 80 on and devclope the immense
wealth which must remain locked up for |
years to come. Whilst the new states, free |
from system which degrades white labor, |
would become land Of common schools, |
thrift and industry, equal, II not superior, |
to any in the Union. But letting that be a. |
it may, still no ono can deny that here in |
North Carolina we need more men, rather |
than more land. Then why 20 to war to |
make more Slave States, when we have
too much territory already, for the force
we have to work it: Our fathers fought |
for Freedom, and one Of the tyrannicai acts |
which they threw in the teeth Of Great Bril-
tain, was that she forced Slavery upon the |
colonies against their will. Now, the seces-
sionlsts are trying to dissolve the Union be-
cause they are not permitted 10 establish
slavery in the territory Of Kansas. II the
institution Of slavery is q thing good and do |
sirable in itself, it is the easiest thing in the
world for the people to vote for its introduc-
ton at any time after they have formed
constitution and been admitted ms State |
II it is not y thing good and desirable, it |
would be an nct Of great oppression to force |
il upon than. For, however, any one may
lament the evils Of slavery, il is almost i'm
possible TO get rid Of the system when once
introduced. Nlllify it by law il you will,
still the evil remains, perhaps aggravated
But in q new State few words in the con-
stitusion may prevent the entire evil from en-
t.,rt,