The Washington union., 1857-11-29

THE REAL MOTIVES OF BLACK -REPUBLIcANISM
1t is quite apparent that blackrepublcans care
nothing for either the white colored population
cept as one or the other minister to their polt
cal necessities Sincerity forms portion Of their
inducements to action. At time they profess
great sympathy for the colored and wall over
the condition of those who are slaves Their hypo-
critical pretensions being credited among few
blacks secures their support wherever it can be
made available. They profess wish to place them,
in all respects, upon equal footing with white
men, This naturally attaches the colored population
in the free States to their interests because they do
not know and appreciate the fact that all such pre-
tensions are wholly unfounded and emphaticaly hyp-
ocritical. They are not aware that these affected
friends are really their most reckless enemies.
InKansas, SO far from being the friends of the
blacks, they inserted in their Topeka constitution
provision forever excluding them from the privilege
of residing there-a singular manifestation of afec
tion and equality This provision is in direct con-
ct with their professions towards the colored pop
ulation in the North and West. This is not all
They assume, when among white who are, or
expected to be, settlers in Kansas that they desire
to appropriate that region exclusively to the whites
and do not desire to degrade them 80 much as to
Nhave them and the blacks labor in the State
Territory because of their low and degraded posi-
tion of the latter.
With class Of people they profess the highest
sympathy and regard for colored people, and ex
press desire to place them equal footing
with the white race and with another they assume
to regard them as 80 debased that by the very act
of laboring, they bring degradation upon labor il
self Neither white men colored can rely upon
their professions, because they both contradic
tory and insincere.
Their course in Kansas demonstrates the
want of honest sincerity. They profess to regard
slavery as great evil, and alege that they wish to
prevent Kansas from being slave State They in
sist that they are very largely in the majority in that
Territory, and can vote up or down whatever they
choose STILL they refused to participate in the cleo
ton Of delegates to prepare consttution--thereby
leaving their adversares to elect whom they pleased,
and to prepare, without their aid or counsel such
constitution as those adversaries might choose to
make, The convention prepared constitution for
the contemplated State the general features of
which, so far az we can learn are free from
able objection, and about which we have heard no
complaints 1t is to be submitted to the people
to determine whether it shall be adopted with
the slavery clause or without rit-thus giving
them, if SO largely in the majority claimed,
4 full and clear opportunity to strike out the
slavery clause If they have the majority Of vo-
ters with Them they have only 10 go to the polls and
vote in the negative and that clause is excluded.
Strange to say under the advice Of northern outside
managers they have indicated an intention not to
vote at a--thereby leaving the pro-slavery men an
opportunity to adopt the slavery clause and make it
undoubtedly desire should happen, because they
prefer the adoption of constitution with the slavery
feature in it for the purpose of agitation If con-
sttuton with the slavery clause in it should be pre-
sented to Congress they expect to renew the work of
agitation and hope TO draw off a portion of demo-
Gratis. and to bring together their scattered forces,
with the view Of securing the future success Of their
party.
Some of their leaders have boasted that they could
produce agitation enough with Kansas to them
success in the free States for ten years They care
nothing for Kansas or slavery, but living solely
upon agitation, they arc man@uvriDg TO secure
pretences for complaint which Iney hope SUCCESS
| fully to charge upon others. If they We're really
| and sincerely opposed to slavery, they would
| now rally all their forces and endeayor to give
! a death-blow to it in Kansas by excluding it
through the agency of the constitution itself II
they were sincere they would leave effort u-
tried to strike down and prevent the existence Of an
institution which they assume to abhor. But they
are not sincere They do not desire tv avoid
slavery but wish it engrafted in the constitution so
that agitation may be continued even at the hazard
of destroying the confederacy. They pretend that
they wish the whole constitution submitted to vote.
| What fors There is nothing in it which they OBJ
ject to except the slavery clause, and they refuse
| to vote that out. No objects to any other
provision in the constitution. They refused to vote
for delegates and insisted that the convention was
| illegal, and its acts nullity. II so, would they
have voted for the constitution If it were the most
| perfect one ever mades Clearly not. That would
tend to fasten it upon them and defeat all future ag-
tation. which would be death to the backrepublican
party. II the question of rejection or adoption OF
the whole instrument had been submitted their only
hope of continuing excitement would have rested in
defeating it altogether, to leave the whole field
open for future schemes of agitation. This would
enable them to galvanize the Topeka abortion. If