The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-05-23
Pro-slavery Policy shadousd.

The policy of the prO-slavery party is
shadowed in the following article. from the
Star Of Empire. Eope,son is to be allowed
to vote whose name is not on the registry or
census list. The Constitution when adopted
will be submitted to the same class of vo-
ters, and no others. This shows why only
one party has been registered. Minnesota
is to be kept out Of the Union, until Kansas
can come in az slave State. If refused ad-
mission, the old threat of scar is to be reyiy-
ed.
The article is worthy of preservation and
extensive circulation. To be forewarned is
to be forearmed. Will our friends Of the press
in the States, take notice of this lapsu. penusa
Of Mr. Paie's, who is a sort of organ for the
party with which he is connected.
KANSAS SLAVE STATE That Kansas
will be Slave State is now near to a settled
question. On the third Monday in June. one
month from yesterday, an election will b
held for delegates to Convention which is
to meet in September, and frame State Con-
stitution for Kansas. These delegates are to
be voted for by those who are qualified to
vote under the act providing for the election.
The qualifications of such voters are, besides
citizenship Of the United States, three months
residence in the County and registration On
the Census roll. The Census returns show
a vast majority in favor of making Kansas a
slave State, and of course large majority of
Delegates to the Convention will be pro-
slavery, and the Constitution they make wi
protect slavery, which is an established in
stitutiOn in the Territory. This Constitu-
tion will be submitted to the popular vote Of
those irho elected Delegates to make It It ,ciIl
be accepted by them, and then transmitted to
Congress with the petition that Kansas be
admitted as State, with her organic law
so framed.
"The question is frequently mooted I" will
Kansas be admitted with Constitution in
hibiting slayery?" That it will be, is our
belief as it is our hope. There is demo
cratic majority in Congress, or at least a ma
jorlty of those who are opposed to Black Re-
publicanism, and its doctrine Of "no more
Slave territory" Should there be any diff
Guilty however, it can be readily removed
Suppose Kansas is refused admittahce, and
Minnesota, for example, submits its Con-
stitution and asks to be admitted into the
Union The South and its friends will say
| stand back, you refused US Kansas, now we
will refuse you Minnesota, until our peti-
ton is granted Let Kansas csme in, and
we will not keep Minnesota out"
"There is one idea prevalent which should
as well be abandoned or modified at once,
" Kansas may come in as = slave State, but
will not remain so long," Such is the ex-
preston We hear nearly every day. The
fact is that slavery has existed for great
many years in Kansas, say twenty or thirty,
and is an established institution, as we'll by
nature as by law. The history of slavery
in the United States goes 10 show that it is
not so easily uprooted. True. it has been
eradicated by aformal process of emancipa-
| tion in many States, but it was done from
causes peculiar to the circumstances, at
time when slaves and slave labor were far
below par. And then the climate had much
to do with that emancipation movement
which swept negro seryitude from New Eng
land and the Middle States.
But there is a new way adopted by anti
slaveryites to abolish it. They threaten,
coerce, endeavor to drive. Of all people
known, Americans are the most stubborn ::
you may persuade them to do an hundred
things, while you could not force them to
do one. In 1882, Virginia came within one
vote of emsncipating her negroes, while
now, an emanci atiOnist there, is consider
ed as bad as an sbolitIonist. The difference
is that abolitionists tried to drive Virg MIA
into what she was not ready for, and she
kicked And besides, slavery is now in its
proper element, and it is madness to try and
drive it further South. 1t may 60. after
awhile, but it will 60 voluntarily. not from
coercion.
"Let Kansas be slave State once, and
abolitiOnism is power!ess there. Northern
men become Shareholders directly. Most of
those who own slaves in Kansas now were
originally from the North, and when it is
profitable TO do SO, they are as ready TO buy,
sell and hold slaves as any WecOIld point
to numberless instances, to prove this fact,
which is not to be overlooked in calculating
the chances of Kansas remaining a slave
State. Possession is nine points of the
law ;" let the South get Kansas once and
then abolitiondOm will whistle when she
looses it.
"Should those opposed to the extension of
slavery, succeed in keeping Kansas out of
the Union, at first, application will be made
again, and If refusal IS persisted in, ,car may
and ,cill do doubt be the consequence. This We
would deplore, but war is preferable to de-
gradation, and submission to wrong.
Suffice it TO say, We firmly believe that
Kansas will be admitted with whatever Con-
stitution shall be framed by the Convention
to meet in September. That it will be ia
vorable to the South, it is now unreasonable
10 doubt"