Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-14
JACK FROST, THE LAWGIVER TO
THE TERRITORIEs-THE KANSAS
ACT-THE LAW OF CLIMATE AND


ACT-THE LAW OF CLIMATE AND
SOIL.
What harm can the Kansas law do? What
injury will the repeal Of The, Missouri line ac-
complish?
These are questions which Fanatics will not
with cand9r.
The Kansas la Toes not take slaves to
Kansas. No mere LEGISLATION can carry slavery
any where. If the Kansas bill does carry
blii, which is precisely the same, carry it to
Nebraska? Why net to Utah and New
Mexico?
If the law does not take slavery to Kansas,
what harm does il do?
All it does is to permit people to carry their
slaves there, if they please-that is all. The
permission to take them is not compassion J;
nor will the permission, ,cithoH something else
that has nothing 10 do Nth the laO, effect the
introduction of slaves into Kansas. That there
ia something else, which is independent of
human law, is proved by the fact that slavery
goes under the law into one Territory, but,
under the same law, refuses to 90 into another
Territory. The same law gave Territorial gov
ernments to Kansas and Nebraska; and yet
slavery goes to the former, but keeps it out Of
the latter.
What IL the something else which is indie
pendent Of human law?
1t is climate and soil, the God appointed
Legislators, who admit or exclude slavery at
their will, and spurn the dictaton of human
Legislators. They throw open Territories, which
lie towards the tropics, to the African, with his
Saxon master; and shut up the doors Of those,
which lie towards the frigid zone, to his ingress
forever.
Why should men seek to oppose the Edict
Of these laws Of Nature, and of Natures God |?
Why should not these divide our fair domain
between the North and the South, and settle
the question Of slavery forever? Neither would
get more than was best for both; and each
would thus, at the dictation Of superhuman
laws operating, as motives Of selEinterest, OBJ
tain that which would most advance the pros.
perity Of itself, and the glory and civilization
of the whole country.
What does the South ask? To be compelled
10 take their slares phere climate and soil for
Gid' To be forced to take them where their
interests do not induce emigration2 Surely
not. The South only asks that that, which is
in part our own, they may not be excluded
from, if their interest shall induce them to
occupy and enjoy il. That is all; aud is it
unreasonable?
What does the North ask? I'VE mean the
.fdndticdl North.) That the South shall be
excluded from what is in part their own, by
human prohibition, though climate and soil,
the vice gerents Of Heaven, unite in inviting il,
with its labor, to occupy, enjoy, and improve.
And it asks more-that in that cline, where
none but the African can labor on the soil.
where the white man would die in the attempt
to Gil the sails Of commerce with tropical pro-
ducts, no African labor shall be admitted
the wilderness and solitary place shall not
bloom like the rose, civilization shall be for
ever banished; and the white race, like the
foolish dog in the manger, shall remain starv.
ing upon the land Of the sunny South, no
longer beautiful in the gorgeous dress with
which the African slave alone, can clothe il.
but desolation and reproach to the Amer.
can people! Can anything be more unrea.
sonaJle!
Garry out the policy Of the Black Republ.
cans, and where will be your prosperity to.
morrow?
Abolish Siarery-(sueh is the darling wish
of the Black Republican hearty and where
will be your cotton7 your sugar. Your tobac-
co? your rice2 Go ask jamaica
II cotton, and sugar, and tobacco, and rice,
be stricken from the list Of your exports, what
will remain2 From eighty 10 one hundred
millions Of exports, Ia liberal estnate,) instead
OF S3oo,Ooo,0O0 Of exports. And If SO re.
duced IN ports-imports would fall of in the
same proportion.
II imports fall to sl0O,00O,00 whore is
your revenue? Reduced from $40, O00, 900 to
S25,000,000l Thus with an annual expendi.
ture of $4,000, 000--you will have revenue
OF 90 per cent upon your yearly expenditure,
or be compelled to increase your tariff more
than double, or to resort to direct taxation as a
means Of revenuel
Buff cotton be lost as an item OF National
production, where will be the factories Of New
and Old England7 Every spindle will be
hushed-every loom will be still forever !
Where will be your free white laborers, whose
dignity you assert, by taking bread from their
mouths, and labor which furnishes it, from
their bands7
Have you ever told the Northern laborer, that