St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-12-18

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exclusion of those of the Northern
StatesH Is it the fact, that the for
mer enjoy, compared with the latter,
such irresistibly superior vitality, in
dependent of climate, soil, and all 9TH
er accidental circumstances. as to be
able to produce the supposed result, in
spite Of the assumed moral and natu-
raj obstacles to it's accomplishment,
and Of the more numerous population
of the Northern States 7
The argument of those, who advo-
cate the enactment of new laws of re-
striction, and condemn the repeal of
the 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 no.
where unless forced by act Of Con-
gress. And if Congress do but pause
for moment in the policy of stern CO.
ercion if it venture to try the exper-
iment of leaving men to Judge for
themselves what institutions will best
suit them if it be not strained up to
perpetual Legislative exertion on this
point if Congress proceed thus to act
in the very spirit of liberty, 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
intentions of Congress in this respect
conceived as they were in prejudice
and disseminated in passion, are ut
terly destitute of any justification il
the nature of things, and contrary tt
all the fundamental doctrines and prin
ciples of civil liberty and self-govern
ment.
While therefore, in general, the PEG
pie Of the Northern States have never
at any time, arrogated for the fedora
government the power to interfere di
rectly with the domestic condition OF
persons in the Southern States, but on
the contrary have disavowed all such
intentions, and have shrunk from con.
spicuous utilization with those few who
pursue their fanatical objects avowed
~ through the contemplated means Of
revolutionary change of the govern
ment, and with acceptance of the nee.
essary Consequences civil and SER
vile war-yet many citizens have suf-
fered themselves to be drawn into one
evanescent political issue Of agitation
after another, appertaining to the same
set of opinions, and which subsidized as
rapidly as they arose when it came tc
be seen, as it uniformly did, that they
were incompatible with the compacts
of the Constitution and the existence
Of the Union. Thus, when the acts o.
some of the States to nullify the exist
ing extradition law imposed upon Con
gress the duty of passing new one,
the country was invited by agitators
to enter into party organization for its
repeal but that agitation speedily
ceased by reason of the impracticabil-
ity of it's object. So, when the stat
ute restrictions upon the institutions
of new States, by geographical line,
had been repealed, the country was
urged to demand it's restoration, and
that project also died almost with it's
birth. Then followed the cry of alarm
from the North against imputed south
ern encroachments which cry sprang
in reality from the spirit Of revolution
airy attack on the domestic institutions
of the South, and, after a troubled ex-
istence Of few months, has been re-
buked by the voice Of patriotic peo-
pie.
Of this last agitation, one lamenta-
BILE feature was, that it was carried on
at the expense ofthe peace and happi-
ness of the people of the Territory of
Kansas. That was made the battle
field, not 80 much Of opposing factions
or interests within itself, as of the
passions of the whole peo-
pie of the United States. Revolution
ary disorder in Kansas had it's origin
in projects Of Intervention, deliberate
" arranged by certain members Of that
Congress, which enacted the law for
the organization of the Territory. And
when propagandist colonization of
Kansas had thus been undertaken in
one section of the Union, for the sys-
promotion of it's peculiar views
Of policy, there ensued, as matter of
counteraction with opposite
view, in other sections of the Union.
In consequence Of these and other in
many acts Of disorder it is un-
have been perpetrated in
Kansas, to the occasional interruption
rather than the permanent suspension,
of regular government. Aggressive
and most reprehensible incursions into
the Territory were undertaken, both
in the North and the South, and enter
ed on it's northern border by the way
of Iowa, as well as on the eastern by
way of Missouri /; and there has exist
ed within it state of insurrection
against the constituted authorities, not
without countenance from inconsider-
ate persons in each Of the great sec
tions of the Union. But the difficulties
in that Territory have been cxtrava-
gantly exaggerated for purposes Of
political agitation elsewhere. The
number and gravity Of the acts of vio-
lence have been magnified partly by
statements entirely untrue, and partly
by reiterated accounts of the same ru-
mors or facts. Thus the Territory has
been seemingly filled with extreme vi
olence, when the whole amount of such
acts has not been greater than what