The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-31
Gov. walker an kbolisoais,.

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pressed some views at that period which
are now considered heterodoxical on the
slavery question. The letter was advc-
eating the admission of Texas into the
Union; III. Walker taking the position Of
god father of that measure. In the eouTse
of that letter he said -
sBy the re. annexation of Texas, slave
n viii disappear from Delaware IN ten
years, and Maryland in twenty, and have
greatly diminished in Virginia and kea-
lucky. 1t is clear that, as slavery advances
in Texas, it would recede from the States
bordering on the free States of the North
and West; and thus they would be re-
leased from actual contest with what they
consider an evil, and also from any influx
from those States Of large and constantly
auementing free black population. Nor
can it be disguised that, by the re-snnexa-
ton, as the number of free blacks aug
mented in the slave holding States, they
| would be diffused gradually through Tex
as into Mexico and Central and Southern
America, where nine tenths Of their pres
ent population are already Of the colored
races, and where, from their vast prePon-
derance in number, they are not degrad.
ed caste, but upon footing, not merely
of legal, but what is far more important,
of actual equity, with the rest of the pop
ulation. Here then, if Texas Is re-aE.
nexed throughout the vast region and
salubrious and delicious climate of Mexi-
CO, and of Central and Southern America,
large and rapidly increasing portion OF
the African race viii disappear from the
limits of the Union. There is coBgenfal
climate for the African race. There
cold, and want, and hunger viii not drive
the African, as we see it does in the North,
into the poor house and the jails and The
asylums of the idiot and the insane
There, the boundless and almost unpeo-
pied territory of Mexico, and of Central
and Southern America, with its delicious
climate and most prolific soil, renders
most easy the means of subsistence; and
there they would not be degraded caste,
but equals among equals, moi only by law,
but by feeling and association. Beyond
the Del NOrte slavery soiH not pass, not Ofsiy
because 1t is forbidden bg latr, but because
tie colored race there predomiRates an the Ta-
ito of ten to one ouer the sohttes; and hold
ing, as they do, the government and most
of the offices in their possession, they will
never permit the enSlsvement Of any por-
ton of the colored race, which makes and
executes the laws of the country"
In that letter Mr.. Walker appears as a
colonizationist, not in favor of sending the
negro across the Atlantic, but he seems 10
think that the natural effect of the annex
alton of Texas would be = open UP re-
zion in the southwest to which the free ne
gro would elnigrate, and the Northern
slaveholding States, would, in time,
through the partial workings of annexa-
ton, become free States. He thought
Delaware would be free State IN ten
years and Maryland in twenty. 1t seems
he erred in time, but who is prepared to
say he erred in the final result? We all
know that Missouri is Withdrawing her
slaves to Texas; and the universal charge
of the anti-slayery press has been, that
the black population was recedins from
the Northern to the more southerly Of the
slaveholdiDg States; while the facts show
that the Southern Atlantic States are being
gradually depopulated by the heavy re-
moval of the negro to Texas.
The admission of Texas into the Union
was the great Pandora's box which has
flooded this country with discord, and has
been the cause of the strife and ill-feeling
which has prevailed between the North
and South. 1t involved us in a war with
Mexico, and added the Territories Of New
Mexico, California ane other immense re-
gions of country 10 the American Union
which will ultimately be sources of i'm
mense trouble to us; yet, like other great
evils, we believe Providence will oyerruie
all for good, and that what we now view
as monster wrong, and which is such in
fact, viii be made to rebound to His glory
and for the final extinction of evil.
Mr.. w. seemed to have been convinced
that slavery would become extinguished
| in the old States. and he wished new ter
ritory for ii to Withdraw upon. The South
charge it upon him that he then was. and
now is an aJolitionist; that his endorse
ment Of his position in his celebrated po-
| Iitical letter of last autumn, advocating
the election of Buchanan to the Presiden-
cy, in which he showed that the natural
workings of the laws of emigration would
certainly make the whole Northern tier of
slaveholdine STATES, and soon after anoth-
er tier, and so on to the end, free States.
in confirmation of this opinion. And
then, they say every word and action Of
his in Kansas Il net intended, the effect
has been g maxi { free. They dencunce
him in nl.-zs xis.siis language than any
Republie jos.zza we have seen, has
thought Of dor They charge him With
being a Pennsylvania, and that his eerli-
er prejudicesin favor Of freedom have been
revived in Kansas, and that he Is going Ell
lengths to make Kansas free State.
Oh. the consistency of politics and pol.
! iticians!
{ While the South is thus raying with
] madness, the North are furious in their at
tacks upon the Governor, seeming 70 be
j spprshsnsivs ths. he may do something
: favorable TO freedom, and they wish 70
drive him as far from them Is possible.
or George Washington Pazke Gusts
the grandson Of the wife Of Gen. Georgs
Washington, and the last survivor Of the
r family circle Of Mount Vernon. died ii
s his resideuce at Arlingtcn, il Alexandra