The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-06-06

WHICH SIle COIlScf1IS 10 SUCH eAtmDflOn.
This should be done in the Constitution,
upon terms just to Kansas and to the
Federal government. ,1
Should Kansas relinquish the right of
taxing the public lands for equivalents,
she should. in my judgment, although.
sustained by irresistible conclusions from
the decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and sound constitutional
views of State Rights, place the dues-
ton III its strongest form, BY asking moth
ing more than has been granted to the
other new States, including the grants for
Education. Railroads, &c. She will thus
give the highest proof that she is not
governed by sordid views, and that she
means toexact nothing from Congress that
is unjust or unusual.
cannot too earnestly impress upon you
the necessity of removing the slavery agi-
| tation from the halls of Congress, and Pres
idential conflicts. 1t is conceded that
Congress has no power to interfere with
| slavery in the States where it exists and
if it can now be established, as is clearly
the doctrine of the Constitution, that Con-
gress has no authority to interfere with the
people of Territory on this subject, in
forming State Constitution, the question
must be removed from Congressional and
Presidential elections. 81
This is the principle affirmed by Con-
grcss in the act organizing this Territory,
ratified by the people of the United States
in the recent election, and maintained by
the late decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States. If this principle
can be carried into successful operation in
kansas-that her people shall determine
| what shall be her social institutions-th
slavery question must be withdrawn from
! the halls of Congress, and from our Pres
idential conflicts, and the safety of the
Union be placed beyond all peril: whereas,
| if the principle should be defeated here,
the slavery agitation must be renewed in
all elections throughout the country, with
increasing bitterness, until it shall even
tually overthrow the government.
1t is this agitation which, to European
powers, presents the only hope of sub
verting our free institutions, and, as
consequence, destroying the principle of
| self-government throughout the world
1t is this hope that has already inflicted
deep injury upon our country, exciting
monarchical or despotic interference with
our domestic as well as foreign affairs, and
inducing their interposition, not only in
our elections, but in diplomatic inter-
course, to arrest our progress, to limit our
influence and power, depriving us of great
advantages in peaceful territorial expan-
| sion, as well as in trade with the nations
of the world
Indeed, when reflect upon the hostile
| position of the European press, during
the recent election, and their exulting
predictions of the dissolution of our Union
as consequence of the triumph of a
sectional candidate, cannot doubt that
the peaceful and permanent establishment
of these principles, now being subjected
to their final test in Kansas, will terni-
nate European opposition to all those
measures which must so much increase
our commerce, furnish new markets for
our products and fabrics, and by conserva-
tive peaceful progress, carry our flag and
the empire of our Constitution into new
and adjacent regions, indispensable, as a
part of the Union, to our welfare and Sc
cllrity, adding coffee, sugarand other arti-
cles to our staple exports, while greatly
reducing their price to the consumer.
Nor is it only in our foreign intercourse
that peace will be preserved, and our pros
perity advanced, by the accepted fact of
the pemanence of our Government, based
upon the peaceful settlement of this
question in Kansas. but at home the
same sentiment will awaken renewed
confidence in the stability of our insti-
tutions, give a new impulse to all our
industry, and carry Us onward in a career
of progress and prosperity, exceeding even
our most sanguine expectations; new
movement of European capital will flow
in upon rs for permanent investment, and
new exodus of the European masses
aided by the -emption principle, carry
westward the advancing column of Amer
ican States in one unbroken phalanx to the
Pacific.
And, let me ask you, what possible
good has been accomplished by agitatine
in Congress, and in Presidential conflicts
the slavery question? Has it emancipa.
ted single slave or improved their con.
dition? Has it made a single State free
, | hiOlC stdh CIN OlIC4nloS nave CA
, isted? Has it accelerated the disappear
! anee of slavery from the more northerr
of the slave-holding States, or accom-
plished any practical good whatever?-
No, my fellow citizens, nothing but IN
, mitigated evil has already ensued, witt
disasters still more fearful impending 70
E the future, as consequence of this agita
ton.
r There is a law more powerful than tn
q legislation of man, more potent than pas
: sion or prejudice, that must ultimately de
termine the location of slavery in thi
e country; it is the isothennal line, it j
the law of the thermometer, of latitud
: or altitude, regulating climate, labor an,
f productions, and as consequence, prof
e and loss. Thus even upon the mouHtail
T heights of the tropics, slavery can N
( more exist, than in Northern latitudes
: because it is improbable, being unsuite,
: to the constitution of that sable rae
: transplaated here from the equatoria
G heats of Africa Why is it that in tn
S Union, slavery recedes from the North
s and progresses South 1t is this sam
e great climatic law now operating for O
!, against slavery in Kansas IT, on the el
I, eyated plains of Kansas, stretching ts tn
e base of our American Alps-the Rock
e Mountains-and Including their easter
4 crest crowned with perpetual snow, fror
S which sweep over her open prairies thos
n chilling blasts reducing the average rang
S of the thermometer here to a teInperatur
, nearly as low as that of New England
!, should render slavery unpFoftable her
e because aRsuited to the tropical eonstitu
q ton of the negro race, the law above re
: ferred to, must ultimately determine ths
question here, snd can no more be con
i trolled by the iegislasion of man, than an
e other moral or physical Law of the Al
; mighty. Especially must this law operat
II with irresistible force in this countr,
IS where the number of slaves is limited
g and cannot be increased by importafio,
: where many millions of acres of sugar an
) eetson lands are still uncultiyated, and
S from the ever augmenting demand, ex
e ceeding the supply, the price Of thos
81 great staples has nearly doubled, demand