The Feliciana Democrat., 1857-10-10

date in relation to Robert j. Walkers reasonable
course towards the South had not that course been
emphatically endorsed by some who could have bet
ter served their country. By branding it as it descry
ed In the confidence Of the President he has trans
grcs.cd his instructions honorcd by the Democratic
party he has violated the sacred principle of the
Nebraska Kansas bill trusted by the South. he has
been false to her interests and thrown himself with
all the influence of official station he possessed into
the contest to make Kansas free State. Furgetful
of the hostility Of the South to the odiou' doctrine
of squat,er sovereignty. no less bitterly than justly
aIhorred, he has adopted that creed. and insolenly
dictates to the people of Kansas that they shall adopt
it under the penalty Of his high di.peasure, and
determined opposition Debating to the members
of the Constitutional Convention their action in the
adoption Of that instrument, and demanding that
they shall submit the same for ratification to the
whole people of Kan.as-not only those who are here
now, but those who will be here net faR as actual
residents" and that If they do not thus submit it.
that 1t will be and ought to be rejected by Con-
gress, and that he will join them In lawful oppJsi-
ton to their course. La his inaugural address he
says:
"lndecd, cannot doubt that the convention. af.
\ ter having framed State Constitution. will submit
u
then actual Jo,,a tide resident settlers oi Kansas
| repeat, then, as my clear conviction.
that unless the Convention submit the Constitution
to the vote of al he ac4di rcsiit stiers n krHsas.
and thc election bc justly and fairly conducted. tie
Constitution rW Je and oygh d b r9ea'ei By Cyagre,
And whom does he mean by the then actual joh4
fde resident settlers Of kansas! Does lie moan
those who have acquired a residence there, or the
abolition lordcs that may be poured into that tor
,.. b., ~ g.1It "a
England: We will let him speak for himself and
give to his words that meaning which he uami-taka-
bly, wished them TO convey, and for that purpose
make the following extract from hi, speech deliver
cd at Topeka, before the abolitoniss Lane, Robson
and others there assembled.
II speak not now in regard TO the past or any
registry Of votes. But speak as regards the future
Ny doctrine Is this. that in the future, when tle
Constitution shall be submitted to the vote Of the
citizens Of Kansas that it shall be submitted to the
vote Of the whole people. do not mean those who
are now registered under the territorial law. do
not mean those who residing here on the 18Th
OF March last, but mean he rigls yfy's d kaaas
not only those who are here now. but those tio rii
be here HcR FaV as ac'si rssi99ts-tRh hcy-the pcJ-
pie over whom these Institutions are to operate
that they. by a majority OF their votes. shall decide
for themselves what shall be their social institutions.
On this subject desire repeat. 10 read to you an
extract from my inaugural address to the people III
the Territory Of Kansas. together with the ye"s Of
the President Of the United state. !"
And he proceeds 10 quote that portion of h'- naa-
gnra. address which wc have given above. What 4.
this but squater sovereignty: what Int high handed
and mbushing trcachcry to the South ~ which har
rights in Kansas are TO be utterly and forever de.
stroycd by the cmissaries Of New Easaud abolition
societies:
lie says further in his Topeka speech:
/" That Constitution they will or they viii not sub
nit TO the vote of the majority Of the then actual
H. rW join y0u. fe'or-citi.As. in ifrW opFprioa 10
thar course. [Crics of Good" and Chcers.l And
| cannot doubt. gentlemen. that one much higher
than l. the Chief Magistrate Of the Union. will join
you in opposition. But. gentlemen. for myself. !
cannot doubt that the Convention will submit such
an instrument as they may frame, for the adoption
or rejection Of tie pioc pei n Ra8as 10 All clo aor
are or then may be ac'a bona fds ngdtt selrs ef te
Territory n KaHsas.
But this is not all. lie not only dictates 10 the
convention their duties and threatens them with
his ycngancec in Of their noncompliance. but he
sends warning voice to the South to deter and dis.
courage emigration from that quarter that The law
OF climate has made Kansas a free State and that
slave labor there would be unprohable
There is law more powerful than the legislation
Of man. more potent than passion OF prejudice that
must ultimately determine the location O slavery IN
this country: ii is the sohermal line ii Is the Lass
of the thermometer, of latitude altitude regulat-
ing climate labor and productions. and consc-
qnencc. profit and loss. Thus even upon the noun.
tain heights Of the tropics slavery can no more exist
than in Northern lattudes because il is unproita.
blc being unsuiied to the constitution Of that sable
race transpantcd here from the equatorial heats Of
Africa. Why is it, that in the Union, slavery re-
cedes from the North and progresses South? 1t Is
this same great climatic law operating for or
against slavery in Kansas II, on the elevated plains
E of Kansas, stretching to the base Of our American
Aps-the Rocky Mountains including their
eastern crest. crowned with perpetual snow. from
which sweep over her open prarlcs those chilling
blasts reducing the average range Of the thermomc
! ter here to a temperature nearly as low that OF
: New England, should render slavery improbable
here, because unsued to the tropical constitution
of the negro race the law above referred TO must
ultimately determine that question here, and can
more be controlled by the legislation of man, than
any other moral or physical law of the Almighty, "
I, What necessity called forth his opinions so ad
Q ycrscly to the South as TO the adaptabty Of Kan
sas to slave labor? Why cast this damper upon
5 southern emigration to that territory. What else
: than to give Kansas to the abolitionists?
f By interfering in the formation and submission
ofthe Constitution, he has violated the principle OF
d on-intorycntiOn of the Kansas Nplra ska bill by