Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-05-01

""N "Neiu iuoh'h! thomselVts with this cause
that therei is no necessity 10 make sacrifice Of
minor differences to make Kansas free state
thst The proclamation Of the President has out
down all danger Of invasiOns--that Gen Atch.
ison and bis bandlti and armed allies from the
South have given up all idea Of forcible inter.
ferenee--that they mean to acquesce in the
Peaoeable settlement Of the question in favor Of
that section which has shown that il can furn
ish the greatest number Of emiVrants and tbi,
pacific attitude is TO be held until after the
Presidential election. If the nullifers of the
South shall then triumph 10 the election Of a
President nominated by them at Cincinnati, the
lusurPatiOns 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 disfranchise-
ment of the settlers by test-oaths, will be en-
forced and constitution framed by defeating
the sufragts Of the free state settlers bv disa-
biities, will be adopted. aud the whole pro-
ceedng will be sustained BY the military force
Ofthe United States, upon the principles and
under the authority Of the Presidents procIa.
mstion.
Here we might close our Circular; but may
we not tresspass upon the patience of those we
address by exposing the workings of the insti-
tuition which thoSs who arrogate to themselves
the character ofdemocrAts are laborng to i'm
pose upon our virgin territories and upon the
principle asserted BY them, that it is a National
Institution? The movement to open the free
territories TO slavery, by repeating the compacts
upon the subject, began with the nuTi6ers Of
South Carolina. We will begin with that
state, to make an exhibition of the sort Of gov
ernment il 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 stable cotton region, where the
slave population is most dense, containing a
population of 49,5O3 whites, elect a majority
of the Senate leaving minority those represent.
ing GO9 .084 whites in the rest Of the state. In
eleven districts, II $50 whites elect 28 senators
and "a representatives, while 10 districts, hav-
ing l61, ,145 whites are represented by II SEN
| ators and so representatives.. Thus less than
one third of the free population in the negro
quarter region ave the supreme control of the
state. The Legislature elected by this third,
appoints the judciary--from the Suprene
bench 10 the common justices of the peace;-
elects senators 10 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 Presidentand Vice
President of the United States, this being
done by the rotten borough legislature, in de
hance Of the spirit of the Constitution and
the Interpretation of every other state.
The governor Of the state is also elected BY
by this body, which represents minority Of the
state--and negroes and land e1clusively-fo
no man is eligible to it unless he has real es-
tate to the value Of $7eO, clear of all debt, or
FIVE hundred acres Of land and ten negroes
Nor can this state Of things he changed unless
two-thrds Of this land and negro qualified body
consent 10 the alteration of the CONSTITUTE on--a
thing never to be expected.
In Virginia and Maryland the system of mi
nority government, to give che control to the
slave section over the greater white population
in other portions Of the state, prevail s. but in
less degree, but in all the slave states, whether
contrived by constitutional provision or not,
the result is, that the slsveholding class is So
vereign throughout the South.
1t results from the concert produced amongst
the masters, by their common interests in an
institution which can only stand by force Of ar
t6cial means. The slaves themselves and the
nou-slaVeholders are, as individuals, naturally
against 1t; this makes it necessary that the
slave owners should become phalanx-an ed
ucated disciplined army, to sustain by political
intrigue aud united force all attacks upon it,
There is no one all absorbing influence among
It's enemies to combine adversaries in opposi-
ton The consequence is, that the 347. 1000
masters forever animated BY the same instinct,
can always vanquish partial aud disultory Op-
position as standing armies in an absolute gov
eminent keep millions of people in subjugation.
The monopoly which near four millions Of black
men give to the united authority which COM
mands them, makes it impossible that any
single handed competitor in the field Of labor
can, in cultivating the products of the soil en-
ter the market with the staples of the South
on equal footing With men who WELD the force
of tea, twenty and thirty and hundreds of
slaves in companies. The owners Of slaves
command the markets-they put down indi-
vidual competitors they buy out the little