Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-04-26

people IN the vast regions or the w est TO be
blasted, to administer to the pride, to the am
bitien, to the false views of interest in which
the 347 900 slaveowners would indulge them
selves In their arrogance they stigmatize as
| Black Republicans those who would make a
constellation of free, bright republics, constitu-
ted of the white race alone untarnished by a
slave of any color their history and their laws
unblemished by that word Are they called
black because they would redeem their white
brethren of the South, by reserving to them q
refuge from the thraldom imposed on them by
the negro slavery there, and which makes the
master the oppressor of all beneath him, of
whatever complexion Are they called black
because they would resist the slaveowner with
his sword in his attempt to expel from their
homes the sons of the Free States who have
already cast their lots in the new lands to
which their fathers taught to look forward as
their inheritance, under compromise of more
than thirty years standing?
This derogatory epithet is inappropriateIy
applied to those who labor to build up Free
States composed of white men, to transfer the
odium of the black institution from those who
cling to it as part of their republican system.
1t is not proposed to touch the subject of
| Slavery in the States where it exists, but to
shut the door upon it, and exclude it from
Territories to which its approach has been for
| bidden
The attempt will be made to persuade those
who would identify themselves with this cause,
| that there is no necessity to make sacrifice of
minor differences to make Kansas a Free State,
| that the proclamation of the President has
put down all danger of invasions-that Gen.
Atchisen and his bandtt and armed allies from
! the South have given up all idea of forcible in
| terference-that they mean to acquiesce in the
peaceable settlement of the question in favor
of that section which has shown that it can
furnish the greatest number of emigrants, and
this pacific attitude is to be held until after the
Presidential election. If the Nulfers of the
South shall then triumph in the election of a
President nominated by them at Cincinnati,
the usurpation established by Atchison will be
found in full activity-itS laws introducing
Slavery into the Territory and protecting it
from reversal at the ballot-box, by the dsfran-
chiSement of the settlers by test-oaths will be
enforced, and a Constitution framed by defeat
ing the suffrages of the Free-State settlers by
disabilities will be adopted, and the whole pro-
Cceding will be sustained by the military force
| OF the United States, upon the principles and
under the authority of the Presidents procla-
nation.
Here we might close our Circular but may
we not trespass upon the patience of those we
address by exposing the workings of the nsti-
tuition which those who arrogate to themselves
the character of Democrats are laboring to m-
pose upon our virgin Territories, and upon the
principle asserted by them that it is Nation
al Institution? The movement to open the
Free Territories to Slavery, by repeating the
compacts upon the subject, began with the null
lifiers of South Carolina. We will begin with
that State, to make an exhibition of the sort
of government it will enforce in the West from
its results in the South.
Popular sovereignty in South Carolina thus
exhibits itself Six districts in that State, in
the rice and long staple cotton region, where
the slave population is most dense, containing
population of 49, SOB whites, elect majority
of the Senate, leaving in minority those re-
presenting 209,08 whites in the rest of the
State, In ii districts, 1889 whites elect %
Senators and GA Representatives, while l8 dis
trictS having lSl, las whites, are represented
by II senator's and so representatives. Thus
less than one-thrd of the Free population in
the negre-quarter region have the supreme con-
troll of the State The Legislature elected by
Supreme bench to common justices of the
peace elects Senators in Congress and the
electors of President and Vice President of the
United States for the people are not allowed
to vote at all for the electors of the President
and Fice-Presdent of the United States, this
being done by the rotten borough Legislature,
in defiance of the spirit of the Constitution and
the Interpretation of every other State.
q L.
this body, which represents minority of the
State-and negroes and land exclusively-for
no man is eligible to it unless he has real es-
tate to the value of S 1000, clear of all debt,
or FIVE hundred acres of land and ten negroes
Nor can this state of things be changed unless
two thirds of this land and negro qualified body
consent to the alteration of the Constitution
thing never to be expected.
In Virginia and Maryland the system of mi
nority government, to give the control to the
slave section over the greater white population
in other portions of the State, prevails, but in
less degree but in all the Slaves states, whe-
ther contrived by constitutional provision or
not, the result is that the Slaveholding class is
sovereign throughout the South.
1t results from the concert produced among
the masters by their common interest in an in-
stituton which can only stand by force OF ar
tificiaI means The slaves themselves and the
non-slaveholders are, as individuals, naturally
against it this makes it necessary that the
shareholders should become phalanx--an edu-
Gated, disciplined army, to sustain by political
intrigue and united force all attacks upon it.
There is no one all-absorbing influence among
its enemies to combine adversaries in opposi-
tion The consequence is that the 347 1000
masters, forever animated by the same instinct,
can always vanquish partial and desultory op-
position. as standing armies in absolute Gov
ernments keep millions of people in subjuga-
tion The monopoly which nearly 1000, 900