Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-03

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Coz dshg Kaasas q relation % Alssou1
! blv h~Yser r. p ~ NC should enter sne
| Union = i nee state. sssery negro ~ Kansas
occupies N plsce 81 i white laboring NAH
There are about twenty live thousand slave hos-
ders ia Missouri, 10 eight or nine hundred thou.
sand nou.slaye holders, audit the interests OF
Tie asiorisy are 10 be preferred, no sane mau
can soabl 81 the propriesy and justice OF our po-
si,ion, or Of the advantages which would accrae
| TO Missouri from making Kansas Afrec state
Il is not alone that the negro occupies the place
Of the white man, but that the tares choke ane
| wither tho wheat. White labor thriyes but
poorly i, tho presence ofslave labor. The slave
| holders would be bene6tted in certain degree
| by making Kansas slave state, because II
would increase the value OF their slavei but
what are the interest of twenty-five thousand.
compared with the int est of nearly million
Knnsas. A field for white labor Tor our native
| sgricuiturists and mechanics, for the hardy la
| borers from Germany and ireland, and not
domain for any rich aTistocrccy, Is what we pre-.
| fer, and what every true democrat in the state,
every friend OF commerce and industry, should
prefer The interests of one class OF our COM
| munity should not be permitted, like Aarons
| rod; 10 devour andsw up every other in-
terest Let us judge OF Kansas by California
| Ii slavery had been legalized there, the simple
| act ofremoving q slave from Virginia TO Califor-
| mia, would, according to Gov. Wise, have qua
| drupled his value, making him worth i've thou
| SAND. instead of fourteen or fifteen hundred dol
| lars. With such Inducements the slave holders
| would have precipitated themselves aud their
slaves upon the new country, and IN the very
| first year, niggers would have swarmed IN the
mines like locusts. The young and Courageous
men of our own aud other states, would have to
compete IN that rish field of enterprise with q
combination OF labor and capital which would
have excluded them or crushed them; and in
stead of young white men winning the lavish
treasures OF California, slave owners or rich spe-
culators who would purchase the slaves, would
monopolize those treasures. The consequences
| which would have followed the legalization OF
slavery in Cafo, mia, will, in lesser degree, fo-
| low its establishment in Kansas The Jew will
gain 1t the expense OF the many, the rich at the
expense OF the poor, the slave owner at the
expense of the working man.
Taking the agricultural class Of Missouri
| alone, nineteen out of every twenty who desire
| to live in Kansas, would be more benftted by
its being free State. Taking the trading and
mechanical classes, every individual OF them
except the negro trader, would be more bene-
| fitted by its being free State. 1t is not yet
possible to give estimate OF the gains which
| the river towns of the State would derive from
| the wide market opened to them by free Kan
| sas; nor to form any conjecture OF the extent
of the trade, Including our manufactnres) with
| a white population which must for many years
| to come be mainly agricultural; and which for
many years must buy and sell in e cities OF
Missouri. the merchants, manufacturers and
mechanics of St. Louis, we presume, know their
| own interests, and if they regard them, they
must desire to see Kansas slave State; and
| tIat it consumes five times rs much OF the ne
cessities and luxrries OF life in the ratio of its
| numbers. Every class and every interest save
one, should pronounce for the exclusion OF
slavery from Kansas. The zeal and persever-
| ence Of the twenty-five thousand shareholders,
make them match for million. One other
TACT it is proper to state; for every mile OF rail-
road built in slave State there are five miles
| built in u free State. In view OF the construc-
| boundary, this alone should determine our voice
| in favor of prefering Kansas free. II an adverse
destiny should decree the contrary, some north
ern lival, armed with the hardy industry which
characterzes our Northern brethren, will rob
Missouri of that great enterprise.
| We, therefore, say in conclusion, that it is
better for the whole country, better for the
West, an infinitely better for Missouri that Kan
sas should he free; and in declaring for such an
issue, we declare for white men and against ne
groes, for tree labor against slave labor for COM
nerce, industry aud talent, and for the rights
and interests OF eight hundred thousand against
| those nf twenty-6vo thnusapd