The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-06-13

| for years to come be mainly confined to
the woodland which skirt the streams, and
as a consequence must be in most places
thinly populated. To fasten the institu-
ton on the Territory, then, viii be to
doom many of our children to life of
ignorance.
Slavery not only retards intellectual
improvement, but it communicates abso-
lutte ignorance and vice. Like deadly
malaria, it eorrupts the whole social fabric
of State It cultivates the passions, en-
cOurages prodigality, poisons the youth
with its Geentiousness, and corupts them
| with its crimes 1t encircles society with
a superficial garb, and teaches the people
to cultivate habits which incapacitate them
from struggling with the real evils of the
human condition.
Mr. StringfelIow SAYS that slaves have
been prostitutes since the days of Abra-
ham will their presence among us, then
be productive of virtue 1t is impossible
to introduce mass of degraded people, of
any color, into State, without commune
eating their degradation to the people
The bland manners and the soft tones of
the African race make them impressive
teachers. Our children will imperceptibly
acquire their speech, their habits, and
their gestures Slavery overthrows the
black man, and he communicates his con-
dition to the white.
The great American statesman Tho
mas Jefferson, has we'll said, that the
whole commerce between master and
slave is a perpetual exercise of the most
boisterous passions-the most unremitting
despotism on the one part and degrading
submissions on the other. Our children see
it and learn to initiate it." "The parent
storms and the child looks on and catches
the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same
airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a
loose rein to the worst of passions and
thus nursed, educated and daily exercised
in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it
with odious pecuharities. The man must
be aprodigywho can retain his manners and
morals undepraved by such circumstances.
"And." he adds, "with what execration
should the statesman be loaded who thus
permits one half of the citizens to trample
on the rights of the other, transforming
those into despots and these into enemies?''
How will the institution if fastened on
Kansas affect the value of real estate ?
Other things being equal, that State is re-
garded most prosperous where real estate
bears the highest price. The land in the
State of New York, for instance, is worth
| S29 per acre, while the average value of
| land in Virginia, is eight dollars per acre.
The difference is still greater if you COM
pare Pennsylvania with North Carolina.
These States are about the same size and
ratified their constitutions about the same
time. Land in Pennsylvania is worth $27,
33 while land in North Carolina is worth
1928. Why the difference But one
answer can be given and that is slavery.
To see the practical result of the system
on individual interest let us suppose that
your father had settled in North Carolina
and mine in Pennsylvania, both had bought
one thousand acres of land-both have
left us, their only son, the estate. Ny
/ property is worth more than 27,0O(
dollars while your slave States pay dear
very dear, very dear, for their slave labor
whenit thus keeps down the value of real
estate. Real estate may be as valuable IL
some localities in slave States as the same
kind of property may in free States; bu
that results froms other causes. For in.
stance fertile soil, and very lucrative
border trade has given to. the Plat pur
chase, in Missouri, considerable value OF
real estate, but go back into the interio
and YOU will not feel that slavery ha
been blessing to the State of Missouri
!, I.Improyed land can be purchased IN Wes
; tern Missouri quite as cheap.as nnimpro
we'd can in Iowa and Illinois, or Kansas
: Why the difference But one answe
can be given and that one is the blighten
ing deadly curse of slavery. Nationa
! resources being anywhere near equal, fre
States settle much faster nan slave State.
consequently real estate is much highel
q Are we willing TO fasten an institdtiOn O
e this Territory that viii retaTd emigratio
4 and keep down the value of real estate
/. thus beggaring ourselves and our children
The State of Missouri can boast of as muc
i | mineral wealth, more extent of territory
e if we except California and Texas, tha
f any other State in the Union. It's naturi
: | resources are as good If not better than a
most any of the middle or Western State
and yet Iowa, State naturally inferior
: almost every respect, has eclipsed it in lie:
t than twelve wears. The reason is obviou
: one is free while the other is slave Stat
The population of Iowa in ten years b;
= swelled from netting to half million
e while Missouri has made but comparative
le ly little increase To make Kansas slaI
State then, viii be to make it long lea
hunting ground for Missouri, one of I'll
: out-posts of creation, the inteunediat
N links between a dull, slow frontier Ii
Is and that of a savage one. The most of
e is unfit for slave State, hence the bett
class of slave holders viii avoid it, and
will be left an uneultivated waste. Woly,
It may pay their nightly salntations to son
d scattered slave holders, who are unable
IS procure homes elsewhere, but much of
!. will remain for years to come vast pla
J, for Wild beasts and wild men.
n Make this Territory a slave State al
h yoa viii not only turn emigration asis
es elsewhere, thus keeping down the walt
ne of real estate asweila all other interests b
you viii effectually, for years 10 come, d
70 feat atinteTnalimprovemen The greatertl
ut natural resources are, and the more dens
at IL settled the State Is, the greater the i
"a ducements are TO make internal impEoy
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