The Kanzas news., 1857-10-17
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Editorial correspondence Of THs Nrvs-


keenly felt in New England. a prominent
shipping merchant assured Us to-day that
commerce had never been so depressed since
the war of 1919. The panic overshadows
everything else even the State election
sinks into insigni6cance by the side of if:
Day after day long lists of failures are re-
corded in the journals, and many of the
principal financial kings have been dethroned.
How long must the commercial system Tor
no system) which affects to regulate the
trade of this age, De such "a mere game of
chance and speculation. IL is not the rich
that feel this so bad ultimately as the work
ers and laborers. The hard earnings of
honest toll are taxed to support the drones
of society and commerce, and from their
eUertions do the legalized gamblers and spec
ulators replenish their purses. We do not
believe that commerce and trade should be
anv more the victims of chance than the
phvsical elements of the Universe. In Ma
ture the harmony and unity of the opera
tons of the controlling Cause is everywhere
discernable All things move in their ap-
pointed sphere, and are governed by immu-
table and eternal laws. In morality and re-
igion there are fixed principles on which all
doctrines are supposed to rest. Why, then,
should there not be equitable laws and prln-
ciples to regulate and govern trade, COM
merce, and the whole system of exchange,
instead of the yillainous manner IN which
it is now conducted ? The workers at pre-
sent endure all the hardships, produce all
the wealth, and have smaller share of 1t
than any other class. There can be no true
freedom, no real progress till labor is every
where honored, and receives the full fruits
of its own exertions. Industry is rightful
monarch of the earth, and its organizers and
leaders the natural chiefs and governors of
humanity. Our present monetary and com
mercial tumble, called system, is one of
the principal drsgs on the feet of reform,
and until it is regulated on equitable princi-
pies there viii always be slavery in the
capital, is second only in degree to chattel
slavery, and must fall with the downfall of
the latter.
Next to the money crisis, the approach
inc Gubernatorial election In the Bay State
is the most interesting topic. n. P. Banks,
Henry J. Gardner and VIM. Beach are can
didates. The first named is the choice of
the larger portion of the Republicans and
liberal Americans. A portion of the Re
publicans are opposed to Mr.. Banks in con-
sequence of vascillation in regard to his po
sition, but as regards the choice between him
and Gardner there can he no hesitation in
the minds of the friends of Freedom. Gar
diner is the choice of the Old Hunker ele-
ment, the debris and fag ends of the Wing,
Democratic and Know Nothing parties
Mr.. Beach is the candidate of the Democra-
ey. The contest will be pretty close be-
tween Banks and Gardner, though the form
er will probably be elected, Parties are IL
sad state of chaos and confusion, and we
do not think the Republican party stand so
well as when they closed the Presidential
| campaign.
| We were much surprised and panied to
find the apathy and neglect of Kanzas af-
Airs and the struggle of the slave power for
supremacy. The general impression East
seems to be, among those supposed to be-
veil informed, that the oligarchy will sue
ceed in the October election, and that through
that Kanzas will become slave State in
name This reasoning has disheartened
them, and they have given up hope at the
time when more rigoF and determination
was required than ever in resisting this ag-
gressive power. 1t is surprising with what
indifference the Northern people look upon
the advance of the South.
There never was time when the slave
drivers were nearer their object than to-day.
With an Executive bound hand and foot to
their interests, they calculate TO secure suf-
6cient new territory during Buchanan's ad-
ministration to eounterbalance the increased
representation the North and West win gain
by the apportionment to be made under the
census of 1860. By organizing the Indian
Territory south of Kanzas, making its slave
holding Indians citizens, thereby securing al
pro-slavery preponderance in the future
State, they expect to soon have another
Southern State in the Union. Buchanan's
darling project of securing Cuba is sup
posed, so far as Spain is concerned, to be in
"a fair way of accomplishment. 1t is said. |
in weIl-informed political circles here and In
New York, that the Cabinet know the price |
required for the ssQueen of the Antilles -
and that they intend to make the purchase |
of Cuba the price of admitting Kanzas as a
Free State. Walker, the pirate and free
booter, is about to start for Nicaragua again, |
aided and abetted openly by the South, and
secretly by the Administration. Three di- |
visions of his expedition will shortly sail, |
one from New Orleans, Baltimore, and New
York. By 1860 the slave power hope to
have Central America, Cuba and Hayti fair
" in their clutches. In Texas they are
planning fllibustering expeditions against
Mexico, and it is hoped that, by the mail
route to California. the Southern Pacific
Railroad viii be advanced, and Southern
California be made slave State. Thus the
slave oligarchy hope to be able to win in the
next Presidential election, counterbalancel
the increased vote of the North in the House
of Representatives or, at the worst, dissolve
the Union, and form Southern Confedera-
cy. This seems to be the plot which the
Calhoun men are striving to carry out, and
to US it looks as if they wonld accomplish
.he;r object With fbo Rat;a.,aI- F,,.o,,,;x,a