The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-08-22
The Isfalo Of FfesaOiq.
LAWRENCE, K. T. =
Saturday MornIng, August-zs, 1857.
White Hen EiSst.

mayor ftoLLiSs, the aDGiitlon" candl
date for Governor of Missouri, and nov
in all probability her Governor elect, as
sumed very tenable position in a reccn
speech in st. Louis, and one from which i
viii be difficult to dislodge him-evel
using all the batteries of the Nationa
Democratic, alias pro-slavery party. Sait
he, in reply to the interrogatory of an op
ponent: 81 like the negro tolerably well
but / go for the white man frst:" ant
therein lies the sum and substance of th,
Free State, Free Soil or Anti Slavery
policy. Their efforts are directed mainly
to the welfare of the white race, rather than
to the elevation of the African, although
he may have some claim upon their at.
tention. Do the opponents of this line
of policy love the nesro-do they seek
his welfare in preference to their own, and
is it only to better his moral and physical
condition that they desire to extend the
peculiar institution into territory now
free by every law of right? Assuredly
not. They love the irlate man tolerably
well, and do not like the negro in the
least. They advocate a system which
will add to the welfare of the few, to the
serious detriment of the many, and, like
disihterested politicians, urge ths principle
OF "the greatest good to the greatest pos
sible number"-proyided that number is
comprised of number one.
The position assumed or declared bv
Rollins, and one that has been recognized
by the anti-slayery party, with the cx-
ception of those of the Garrison and Fred.
Douglas school, should still the naudlin
cry of abolition" on the part of those
who dare not or cannot define their own
position. Is it not the same as that OF
their opponents? Do they like the Afri-
can better than the Caucasian? This
question cannot be answered afirmativeIv:
for if so, the acts of nine-tenths of the
slave oligarchy would give the lie direct
to the assertion. Then, therefore, theil
position must be the self-same as that ol
that liberal or conservative party, with this
exception: National Democracy affects
no love for the negro, and consequently
their efforts cannot be assumed to lend
to the amelioration of his condition
therefore this policy differs. from their
antagonists only that it seeks the agyran.
dizement of the few; the aristocraey oil
the South, rather than the welfare of the
democracy, the masses of mankind, ire
spectiye of climate or social position
The other advocates the great system oi
free labor, as tending in every way to bet
ter secure the prosperity of States and
nations. This is the only true position
neither extreme in moderation nor in
agitation-but conservative and union
position upon this vexed question. When
In the course of years the disproportion
between the races is so great that it will
no longer be to the interest of any party
tos seek the extension or perpetuation ei
the system, it will become extinct; but
this extreme policy, this agitation on
either side, though it may tend to prevent
the spread of slavery, can do nothing to-
wards emancipation in the States where
1t now exists and has existed, and where
it will exist, until self-interest, the same
power which supports it tnow-eompels its
extinction.
It's our province, as lovers of the white
rather than the black race, to prevent its
accumulating further vitality by a foot
hold in new territory-to keep it impris-
oned within its present limits, and in due
time it will die out of itself. A tree or
shrub confined does not flourish, but rath-
er withers, fades aud dies. So it will be
with the system of American slavery; con-
lined within its present limits it will not
long be to the interest Of present slave
holders to continue such, and as consc-
quence it will be abolished. The time
has gone by, if it ever existed, when an
appeal to principle would accomplish
aught, if at the same time was demanded
ssaeriiicc of interest. The former is of
tenersacrihced. Principle is allowed no
valuation in cent per cent, and anything
without direct or indirect reference to
the matter of dollars, will be cody re-
ceived.
kyen now, in many of the slave States,
interest demands the application of the
emancipation movement. and the people
are in many instances as keenlv alive to
it. In Kentucky it is rapidly gaining
ground; in Virginia it has something
more than "a local habitation and name,n
and in Missouri Chief Magistrate is
elected on the open, un,lisguised platform
oil emancipation, or abolition" Not at
present, nor even by coercion, do they
seek the extinction of the pet socially of
the South, but by inducing emigration from
all parts of the Union to those favored
States, till the disproportion between
uaHoae ct aoir compels an application of
pracsieaiabolitionism. Theoretic abolition
isu.in the light in which it is regarded bv
shareholders, is far more distasteful to
them than the practical. Many of them
know it to be for their interest to favor
the movement; but will not yield be.
cause they deem it succumbing to the
demands of what they term abolition
agitation They win not surrender at
the summons of "fanaticism," choosing
rather to bear the evils and abide the
consequences.