Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-21

lSJ--Ffom the New 1oFE Courier ana EiIulFeF
TnE RATIONALE OF REPrBMcANIsM.--Th
certainty, now existing, that Kansas is to be
Free State, is attributable to nothing else than
the speedy and effective organization Of the Re
publican party Immediately after the passage of
the Nebraska bill the design of the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise was TO erect new
Slave State by the side of Missouri; and the
natural operation Of the hiil would have incvita
bly, produced that result With but Wider
ness OH the South and West and the unsettled
territory Of Nebraska the North, EuuSaS
would have been settled in great part by Mis-
souri, and other slavc-hoIding States. But tbs
prompt organization of great political party
in opposition TO that wrong, and to the slavery
propagating policy from which it sptang, tmrned
a powerful Free State immigration into the Terri
tory, and has served as a Stay andan encourage /
ment to the body of the Free State settlers, 1
through all the prosecutions they have had TO
endure from the Federal Government and from /
hortler.ruffians, and added to their strength uD
I'll they have gained the complete mastery. Had
there been no such buwarE behind as the great
Republican party, the Free State men of Kans-
us must have unavoidably succumbcd long ago. |
This triumphant contamination in itself far
more than repays the formation of the party
Even should that party perish Tomorrow, it
will not have existed in vain. 1t would have
done more for the benefit of the country within
its brief career than any party organization IN
our history ever did within the same period.
The sequel of this fierce struggle between slave
labor and free labor for the possession Of Kan
Sas ought to have the effect Of divcrtng the
South from all further efforts Mt Innovation, and
restoring it to moderate counsels. The abr"ga-
ton of the Missouri Compromise, when PropO-
/ Scd to the South by an INSCRIPTIONS Northern
aspirunt for the Presidency, in order to win its
favor, eagerly entered upon aud violently
put through, in the I'LL assurance that it would
rebound to the interests Of the peculiar iuStitu-
tiOn. This net ON its part at once revived more
iiercely than ever the slavery agitation which
had been put to rest 10y the Compromise of
so, and for three years has kept the country
in n raging turmoil OF sectional dscOri. Well,
.e4i bOAOl How has the South been proiiteds
What sensible Southern man can believe that
the Territory OF Kansas would or could have
sprung with such amazing rnpidity into the sta
ture of a State, had the Missouri Compromise
remained undisturbed2 The wrong of the
Kansas Nebraska act prodiGiou>ly stimulated
immigration, and has enabled Kansas to de
Velup itself into Frcc State in three years,
when otherwise it would not have done it in
ten years. But, more than that Under the
Missouri Compromise there wns an implied
ii not express obligation not to oppose the
introduction of Slavery into any Territory South
of the parllel of SO deg. 30 min. Tue deStruc-
ton OF the Compromise did away with that OBJ
legation, and now free labor can aud will dispute
with slave labor the possession of every inch of
virgin territory that is now owned, or ever shall
he owned, by tho FodeI Government II was
not wise in the South to open the way to an
encounter Of that kind; for all experience shows
that when free and slave labor are brought baud
TO hand in a struggle Of that kind, the latter,
even with the whole Federal Government at It's
back, Is sure in the end to be worstcd. Free la
Dor has such an immense advantage in nuneri-
chi strength and facility of movement that slave
labor can never successfully cope with it in
fair field There may be a fierce contest; there
doubtless will be in all Territories not lying far
North; but the final result in all cases. will be
what it has proved TO be in Kansas. Popular
sovereignty is the very last arbiter Slavery
should have invoked.
The South will some day find that innova-
tions upon the old policy Of government can
never work well for it, aud will learn too to dis
trust Greeks bearing gifts" And the quicker
that day comes, the quicker will Sectional agi-
tation cease, and concord return TO the country
DEelsioS on 'Towrls."--The Secretary Of
the Treasury has decided that towels composed
Of linen aud cotton, aud cotton aud linen tapes,
are duitable at the rate Of nineteen, ard cotton
tape and spool cotton, blesched or dyed, at
twrnty-four per cent
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