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kening to the subject, because it is one of vast
Importance to the future of an immense por-
tion of the American continent, that cannot do
its legitimate share in the commerce of the
world by and through any other than African
slave labor. Though the Holy Alliance in
1915 took measures to stop the trade, and
though this Government, France, and England,
subsequently, by treaty, agreed to do the same
thing at an enormous cost, annually, to all of
their treasures, it has actually doubled, at
least, in all its victims inundated on the pas.
sage, while 1t has not lessened, so far as the
number actually shipped is concerned. Thus
the result of all that has been done to put
stop to il, has only been an INCREASE of all its
bad features. No man of common sense i'm
AGNES that the African negro is not in better
condition in Slavery in America, than in bar
barous captivity, or even barbarous freedom,
in his native land. Humanity superinduced
the adjustment of the legality of the traffic
and matters now look as though, with the in
creasing horrible Coolie slave trade, (which al
ready equals the African slave trade in extent
when that was greatest humanity will, ere
long, cry aloud for the removal of all existing
restrictions on the old trade between Africa
and America.
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We need not take from the Compendium #
the Census from which we extract these 6,
ures) tables showing the vast superiority of the
n-slaveholding States in wealth and gepsr,
intelligence. Everybody knows it.
But, we have used the term, Southern men
and Shareholders" The Northern men wbo
have filled offices in the General Goverpmar,
have been taken Unfortunately from sU
classes-agricultural mechanical, manufactu,.
ing, mercantile-and from all professionally
representing the opinions and interests of all
the People of the free States. But, not so with
Southern men. In nearly all cases, they have
belonged to one class, represented the views
the policy, the interest, of one class, and that
not embracing the majority of the Southern
People. They have been shareholders and the
class to which they have belonged, numbered
in 1850, according to the Census, 347,OOO
Now, suppose that each one of these stand for
six white RECOMMENDATIONS and dependents-ws
have the Federal Government controlled in all
its departments by class numbering, all told
2,082, 000, or one third of the whole white non.
ulation of the South.
1t follows, therefore, that a class of persons
living chiefly in one section of the Union, iden.
thed with an Interest, peculiar, domineering
and aggressive, numbering about two millions
has given to nation which numbered in 1854
nearly twenty millions of free white persons
seventeen millions and a half of whom have
vast interests which are subordinated and in
many cases impaired by that one Interest TIVE
thirds of its Presidents, nearly all of it's Presi
dents pro tenn. OF the Senate, two thirds of its
Speakers of the House, nearly two thirds of its
Secretaries of State and its Attorney Generals,
and ma ority of its Supreme Court, besides
.p . H.
the Standing Committees in both Houses of
Congress. And yet, this small sectional Class
with its one Idea, and its one Interest has the
audacity to assume to be tie South, and to
raise a perpetual clamor against the aggres
sions of The North y
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FORM OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, SOUTH.

From the Charleston Is. c. Mercury NovembeT s. lssG.
The people of the United States have no con-
scienlous conviction that the Presidency, in
itself, is office necessary to their we'll being.
They make it rather point of universal con-
test, than centre of universal agreement
Parties, as such, care not what puppets they
choose SO be it that they choose a puppet that
they can place in power. If the puppet of the
moment is rejected, he is cast into the rubbish
of the political past; and at the recurrence of
the Presidential election another is selected,
equally contemplate and equally condemned,
TO be treated in the same manner, if he meets
the same fortune.
Believing, therefore, that this mighty element
OF discord, of corruption, and of Capitalization,
might be perfectly well dispensed with, as far
as the just and efficient operations of the Gov
ernment are concerned, we would propose that,
in Southern Confederation, the Presidency
should be dispensed with. 1t is not necessary
for any Legitimate action of Confederate Gov
eminent. 1t is absurd to suppose that it is
necessary to the sanction Of the laws Of such a
Government, and equally absurd to suppose it
necessary for the conduct of its relations with
foreign Powers. All these matters are easily
arranged, and the change would not produce
even a passing shock in the progress of events.
We might gain greet good, without mourning
the least reasonable chance of small evil.
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WASHINGTON, d. c..
THE SOUTHERN DIsUNION PARTY.
THE BOUNDARY OF THE UNITED STATES,
SOUTH.

From the Charleston Is c. Aercury, October 81 1885,
While we appreciate at IFS full value the great
moral force which the movement of Virginia,
Kentucky, and Missouri, would have in the in
auguration Of Southern Confederacy, we do
not see that such a movement is necessary to
the success of the Confederscy, or to the safety
of these States. Suppose that, in the first in
stance, they adhere to the North: they stand
as an impossible barrier between us and the
whole Bedlam of Abolition. They will be even
more secure in the possession of their slave
property than under the present false-hearted
and treacherous Union; for they will always
have il in their power to say to the North, Give
us the security of laws faithfully executed, or
we leave you, and join Confederacy which
your fanatcism has thrown off, and which, by
its separation from you, and its consequent
relief from the grievous burdens which your
sel6shness has imposed upon the productive
resources of the country, has gained for itself
abundant prosperity, and the friendly alliance
Of all the great Powers of the world. Does any
one doubt the answer? Does any one doubt
that these border States would be petted, cher
ished, favored, by the North that they would
be clung TO as the sunny side of the Northern
Union; and that the vainest of all possible
things under such Confederacy would be, the
diatribes against Slavery of Theodore Parker
and Henry Ward Beecher?
We sum up thus: 1t ought to be no discour-
agement TO the Southern States, in Just and
necessary action in selfdefence, that the border
States might possibly refuse to join them. Let
them have their own free choice in the matter
The South would still be strong in itself, with
room enough and resources enough to form a
leading Power; with abundant means of self
defence; and, above all, with that hold upon
the forbearance and friendship of the great
Powers OF the world, which is in itself the grand
est and most permanent recourse Of selfprotec
ton in the possession of any nation.
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KANSAS.
TRIAL OF THE FREE STATE PRISONERS.
Correspondence ofthe Missouri Democrat

Correspondence ofthe Missouri Democrat
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NoU. 6, 1856.
At the earnest solicitation of his Excellency,
Gov. Geary, Judge Lecompte assented to cali
special term of the court, for the trial of the
men who were arrested at Hickory Point on the
18th of September last.
The court convened. The grand Jury, com.
posed entirely of the most ultra Pro-Slavery
men, entered upon the discharge of the labors
imposed upon them, and, as a matter of course,
commenced indicting every Free State man that
was identified in any way with the recent diff
culties.
The young men engaged in the attack upon
the fort at Hickory Point were all indicted for
" murder in the first degree" Many others
were indicted for other offences, and the mar
shals of the Territory were all supplied with
writs for the arrest of different persons, and they
were sent out on grand hunt, having the United
States troops to aid them in making arrests.
Some have since been taken and confined in
the Lecompton prison-house, where they now
are awaiting trial, while the marshals are riding
up and down the country, finding others to serve
their writs upon.
While this has been going on, no Pro-Slavery
man has been arrested. II is said flor efeot
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CONVINCED THAT DIsUNIoN Is A NECESSITY

From the New Orleans Crescent November H.
Until within a very few days, we laughed et
those who limited at the bare possibility of dis
union. We are sorry to say, that the settled
convictions of lifetime have received stun.
ming shock, and that we have no laughter now
to tender as answer to the disunion pronun-
ciamentos of the more impulsive among our
Southern brethren. Recent occurrences are so
significant, so portentous, that no room for
merriment can possibly be found. They afford
matter for serious, grave reflection, on the part
OF our soundest thinkers, our cearest. headed
men, and our wisest statesmen.
The "recent occurrences" to which the
Crescent alludes are thus stated, in the course
of its speculations:
-Four years ago, the Abolition Free Soil party
in the North was in a small-in fact, a con-
mptible-minority. There was not Northern
State they could call their own. Their leaders
were comparatively modest In their assump-
tions-thst is, modest for Abolitionists. How
stands the case at this writing2 Why, in the
struggle for the Presidency, they have swept
nearly the entire North have blotted the Amer
lean Union party out of existence; have well
nigh annihated the Democratic party; have
elected a majority of Congressman; have car
ried State Legislatures that will reject conser-
vative and national Senators General Cass
among the number; and now unqualifedly avow
that not another slave State shall ever be ad-
United into the Union; that they will surround
the slave States with Gordon of free States,
and that if the South attempts to vindicate her
constitutional rights, either by secession or
otherwise, they will coerce her into obedience
compel her to remain in the Union, and con.
strain her to submission to such Federal laws
as they may see proper to insert in the general
statute book
- In the foregoing few lines is faithful por-
traiture Of what the Black Republicans were
what they are now, and what they propose to
do in future. We have made no mistake. We
know what we have said, and have neither ex
tenuated nor exaggerated.
Now, reader, mark: If the sentiment at the
North is SO strong and embittered against the
South as to enable the Free Soil party, under
the pressure of adverse circumstances, to rise
IN four years from the depths of defeat almost
to the topmost heights of victory, what may we
not look for in the next four wears?
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VOL. X.

In other respects, and in the other Dens-
ment, Offices pretty equally distributed.
But, remember, under almost every ADM,
istration since 1929, the Northern men hold
Office have generally been abetting, or acop;as
cling in, Pro-Slavery Policy-in other worS'
members of the Party of Slavery, not that :;
Freedom.
A stranger would naturally infer that 60,
ton which has monopolized so disproportion~.et
share of power in the legislative judicial anS
executive departments of the Federal Cow ~uu
ment, must be greatly superior in populate
intelligence, and wealth. He will be sprnr;.a5
to learn that precisely the reverse is the fe,
The white populations of what are called u.
non-slaveholding and slaveholding States va s.'
as follows, at the periods marked:
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THE BATTLE YET TO BE FOUGHT.
From the Washington Star.


The great battle for the Constitution and
Government, as originally made, has yet to be
fought-their enemy having been worsted only
on Tuesday last, not placed hOrs de combat.
Indeed, in the mere exhibition of its power in
this election it has gained strength which, to
our mind, renders it certain that the only de-
fence of the South against it for the future is
TO be sought in much closer Southern combine
ton, hrmer tone, more memorable jealousy,
and q more determined front, where the Slavery
question is concerned, than she 1.-THE Scuth) has
yet exhibited. If the South waivers now, she
is gone, past redemption. Her trust is in her
self, and in herself only. She must, with all
the means at her command, guard her rights
under the Government, and her co-equality in
it. Those whom Providence helps, must first
help themselves 10 the extent of their ability.
The devotion of Pennsylvania to Mr.. Bu-
chanan has been one of the chief elements
operating to stave off the crisis. But the
South, If che be wise, will not trust her cause
to the tenure OF any mans personal popularity,
or to his life. Mr. Buchanan will doubtless
fulfil TO the letter all his obligations under his
letter of acceptance of the Cincinnati nomina-
tion; and should he not survive through his
four years, Mr.. Breckenridge will, in his stead.
do likewise. But the safety of the South for
the future under this Government is not in the
power OF the Presidency, or the disposition of
its occupant 1t lies in satisfying the proper
ty-holding and business interests of the North,
that she is not only able, but determined, come
what viii, to vindicate her rights, in or out of
the Union, as may be best for her.
The editor of the Star was one of the most
jealous stump speakers for Mr.. Buchanan in the
recent canvass. We suppose he believed his
election would promote an object just now
very dear TO the Buchanan Party of the South,
the re-opening of the African slave trade. The
following paragraph on the subject is from an
editorial in the Star of November 18th:
The African Stare Trade.-Late publica-
tons in the South, wherein the political econo-
my and the history of the African slave trade
have been discussed with marked ability, have
raised hornets nests at the North. -
We are glad to perceive public attention ava.
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Nathaniel P. Banks, Mass.


The Speaker, as we have often explained,
exerts great influence on legislation, having
the appointment OF all the standing commit.
tees, in which the business of the House is
prepared, and being able 80 to enforce the
rules and decide points of order, as to shape
to considerable extent the action of that
body.
There have been thirty -four Congresses since
the organization of the Government of TWEEN
ty one, Southern men and Shareholders have
been the Speakers; of twelve, Northern men !;
the remaining Congress was divided between
them, Southern man being Speaker at one
session, Northern man at the other
Or, counting by years, Southern men and
Shareholders have filed the Speakership of the
House for forty-three years, Northern men,
twenty-five years.
Since 1920, or during the thirty.six years
closing with the present Congress, Northern
men will have filed the Speakership eight years.
Southern men and Shareholders, twenty
Behold another Chapter of the lamentable
sectionslism of the North It's aggressions
are intolerable.
The Supreme Court.
The judicial districts are organized so as
to give five Judges to the slave States, and
four to the free, although the population,
wealth, and business of the latter are far in
advance of those of the former. The arrange
ment affords, however, an excuse for constitu-
ting the Supreme Court, with majority of
Judges from the slaveholding States.
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THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON D. C, NOVEMBER e7 1856.

Where is Governor Geary, that he don't
drive these marauders out of Kansas? If il
was the Free State men committing these depA
relations, he would have them all arrested, o.
Kansas full of soldiers. But his Excellenc,
favors the other partv
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is no increase of strength to this peculiar fea-
ture of our society; Free Labor, in competition
with Slave Labor is necessarily conservative OF
its own peculiar interests, and it has seemed
possible, therefore, that the fortunes of our
Constitution may be determined by class who
have no direct and legitimate connection with
it. Already, in some sections of the country,
it has become more popular to talk of whipping
the North than advancing Slavery; all have
common cause in the one, but all seem not to
have perception of a common cause in the
other; and while the interests of the country
sustain the South, and point to magnificent
career of national prosperity out of the Union,
if not in it, they do not point to the integrity
and advancement of our own peculiar form OF
society.
To obviate the evils of this unnatural condi-
ton, has become the object of very serious in
terest, but it only can be accomplished by an
increase of slaves. With this, every interest
would be harmonized; there is no white man
who would not engrsft his work upon the labor
of the slave, if the slave could be had so cheap
as to allow him to do 80 to advantage; but
without this, the evil must increase, and those
who believe in Slavery-who have confidence
in its efficiency and order, and who would pre-
serve and perpetuate it to the great objects OF
its achievement-are constrained to look for the
remedy which the condition indicates, and these
again are forced to vibrate between the alter
natives of social disintegration and the slave
trade.
At every step of reaction, therefore, we have
been met by difficulties which only find solution
in the measure we propose. To preserve equal
ity in point of States; to recover equality in
representation to have any share, in fact, in
Federal legislation; to demonstrate the eff
cheney of our institution, and turn the tide of
commercial power from the North, and even to
preserve the integrity of our own peculiar sys-
tenn of society-there has seemed to be the ne
cessty for opening up again the stream of our
foreign labor.
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AT the close of the term for which Mr.. Bu-
chanan is elected, it will have been seventy-two
years since the organization of the present Gov
eminent.
In that period, there have been eighteen
elections for President, the candidates chosen
in twelve of them being Southern men and
Shareholders, in six of them Northern men and
Non-slaveholders.
No Northern man has ever been reelected
but five Southern men have been thus honored.
General Harrison, of Ohio, died one month
after his Inauguration, General TAYLOR, of Lou.
isiana, about four months after his inauguration.
In the former case, John Tyler, of Virginia,
became Acting President in the latter, Willard
Fillmore, of New York.
Ut the seventy-two years, closing with Mr..
Buchanan's term, should he live it out, South
ern men and Shareholders have occupied the
Presidential chair forty eight years and three
months, or little more than two.thirds of the
time.
OF the Presidents elect, Washington from the
South, John Adams and John Quincy Adams
from the North, are the only men who have
been elected without specific reference to the
claims of the Slave Interest; but this Interest
has been the preponderatiug influence in the
nomination of all the others.
So reads Chapter LIST of the History of North.
ern Sectionaism.
Presidents Pro Tenn. of the Senate.
Since the year 1909, every President pro
tenn. of the Senate of the United States has
been a Southern man and Shareholder, with
the exception of Samuel l.. Southland of New
Jersey, who held the office for a very short
time, and Mr.. Bright of Indiana, who has held
it for one or two sessions, we believe, having
been elected, however, as known adherent of
the Slave Interest, believed to be interested in
slave property.