Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-12-12

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opened. in fact ard in law. All the re
peal did was to relieve the statute-book
of an obiecsionable enactment, unconstl-
tutional ii effect, and injurious IN terms
to a large portion of the States.
Is it the fact, that, in all the unsettled
REGIONS Of The United States, if emigra-
ton be left free to act in this respect for
ITSELF without legal prohibitions on either
side, slave labor viii spontaneously go
everywhere, in preference to free labor?
Is it the fact that the peculiar domestic
institutions of the Southern States possess
relatively SO much of vigor, that, where
soever an avenue is freely open to all the
world, they win penetrate to the exclu-
sion of the Northern States?
Is it the fact that the former enjoy,
compared with the latter, such irresisti-
bly, superior vitality, Independent of eli
mate, soil, and all other accidental cir
cumstanses, as to be able to produce the
supposed result. In spite Of the assumed
moral and natural obstacles to its accom-
plishment, and of the more numerous
population of the Northern States?
The argument of those who advocate
the enactment of new laws of restriction,
and condemn the repeal of old ones, in
effect AYERS that their particular views of
government have no self extending or
self-sustaining power of their own, and
will go nowhere unless forced by an act
Of Congress. And if Congress do but
pause for a moment in the policy of stern
coertion; if it venture to try the expert
ment of leaving men to judge for them
selves what institutions will best suit
them; if it be not strained up to perpet-
ual legislative exertion on this point; if
Congress proceed thus to act in the very
spirit of hberty,it is at once charged with
aiming to extend slave labor into all the
new territories of the United States.
OF course, these imputations on the in
tentions Of Congress in this respect, con-
ceived as they were in prejudice, and
disseminated in passions, are utterly des-
titute Of any Justification in the nature of
things, and contrary to all the fundamen-
tai doctrines and principles Of civil liber-
ty and self-government.
While therefore, in general, the people
of the Northern States have never, at
any time, arrogated for the federal gov
eminent the power to interfere directly
with the domestic condition of persons in
the Southern States, but on the contrary
have disayowed all such intentions, and
have shrunk from CONSPICUOUS utilization
with those few who pursue their fanati-
cal objects avowedly through the con-
templated means of revolutionary change
of the government, and with acceptance
of the necessary Consequences civil
and servile war-yet many citizens have
suffered themselves to be drawn into one
eyanescent political issue of agitation af
ter another, appertaining to the same SCI
of opinions, and which subsidized as rap
idly as they arose when it came to BE-
seen, as it uniformly did, that they were
incompatible with the compacts of thc
Constitution and the existence of the
Union.
Thus, when the acts of some of thc
States to nulify the existing extraditior
law imposed upon Congress the duty O
passing a new one, the country was in
vited by agitators to enter into party or
ganization for its repeal; but that agita
tion speedily ceased by reason of the i'm
practicability of itsobject. So, when tht
statute restriction upon the institutions o
new States, by geographical line, hat
been repealed, the country was urged t
demand its restoration, and that proiec
also died almost with its birth. The
followed the cry of alarm from the Mort
against imputed southern encroacI
ments; which cry sprang in reality fror
the spirit OF evolutionary attack on tn
domestic institutions of the South. ant
after troubled existence of few month
has been rebuked by the voice of pa
riotic people.
Of this last Rotation, one Iamentab
feature was, that it was carried on at I'll
immediate expense ofthe peace and hal
piness of the people of the Territory
Kansas. That was made the battlefield
not so much of opposed factions or int
ests within itself, as of the confictir
passions Of the whole people of the Tn
ted States. Revolutionary disorder
Kansas had its origin in projects of il
tervention, deliberately arranged by ce
tain members of that Congress, whic
enacted the law for the organization
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