The Kanzas news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1857-1859, 1857-10-03
The Isothermal Lines of Slavery.


ANY one who has examined a map OF North
America, whereon are traced the isothermal
lines, curying up and down altogether indie
pendently of parallels of latitude, will be
able to Get hold of the Democratic idea OF
slavery extension, so happily expressed by
Gov. Walker. We shall not pretend to de-
nv that climate has a great deal to do with
the proftableness or unproftableness OF slave
labor. Cotton and sugar no doubt pay bet
ter than hemp and potatoes Yet the "Na-
tional Democracy" are above merely mer-
cenary view of the question. Their whole
party favors slave rather than free labor, and
they have made the most desperate efforts to
open wide the door to the former, regardless
of isothermal lines. In their zeal for the
spread of slavery, they forget the facts OF
physical geography limited at by the amblg-
uous phrase of Gov. Walker. In lllustra-
ton of this point. we recently quoted par
agraph from the Nation Gazette, an organ
of Douglas Democracy, In which the writer
lamented the abolition of slavery in Illinois,
The State Register affected to believe that
the Gazette only meant to present a supposl-
tious case as an offset to ''negro equailty,
but the latter has too much maniiness to
shirk the issue in this way, as the following
paragraphs from recent number OF that
paper viii show. 1t goes for slavery per Sc,
thus giving frank expression to the unac-
knowledged a1ainaus of the party:
eve are one Of those that utterly discredi
the idea that the presence Of slaves scorEs an
injury to the achites, or that the presence o.
free negroes, enjoying political and social
privileges, is at all beneficial. ne candidis
and firmly believe to-day, Hat1 Illinois acre
a slave State, the best men of Kentucky,
Virginia, Tennessee, and even States further
south, would be here as soon as they coul1
remove their families, and the prairies o.
Illinois would be made to smile as a lovely
garden We have seen the best class q
men come to our State, admire it with en-;
thusiasm, but return to their homes because
they could not bring their whole families
with them.
s'The question comes up squarely to eve
~ business man in Illinois Which woulf
you rather do, make slaves of your family
or provide comfortable home for some O
the enslaYed African race? It is a cleal
case, that when Illinois voted slave labor on
of her limits, she voluntarily voted upon tht
T white females of Illinois life of unmitiga
ted drudgery unsuited to the tastes and phys
ical capacity of large majority of them
and drove from our midst people peculiarly
adapted to such services, without beneftting
them in the slightest degree. When s0il
tie day Of practical beneUOlence arriUe. wheI
aOe shall haze done aUith this eternal, empt.
profession Of mock philanthropy, aiken 1t aOil
not be called emancipation to offer inadWeenae1st
to tie slave-troders Of the South to bay til
negroes of Missouri and send them SOatk a
ehain-gangs !''
: This is as explicit an exposition of tn
fundamental idea of the so-called 'tNationa
| Democracy as could be desired. We hon
or so outspoken an advocate of bondage, an
we lament in equal measure the duplicit,,
| that governs the party at large upon tn
2 subiect.-C Chicago Press.