White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-18

inward IN career o. proefes7 ene W
even our most sanguine expeetahi nsi
new movement Of European capital viii bow
n upon Us for permanent investment, and new
Exodus Of the European masses, aided 3 the
pre-enptiOn principle, carry westward the ldvan.
cling column Of American States in or "a unbro.
ken phalanx to the Pacific IN
And let ne ask you, what POssibh good has
been accomplished BY agitating in q Sngress and
n Presidential conflicts the slaver question:
Has l. emancipated single slave Or improved
their condition. Has it made single State
free, where slavery otherwise woufd have exist
Sdi Has It accelerated the dis appearance Of
slavery from the more northern 4 of the slave
holding States, or accomplished any practical
good whateyer7 No, my fellOw-f citizens, moth
ing but unmitigated evil has already ensued.
with disasters still more fearful impending for
the future, a. a eonsequenceFof this agitation.
There is law more powf rful than the lerisla-
ton Of man, more potent Khan passion or preju-
dice, thai must ultimately determine the loea-
ton Of slavery in this untry; it is the isother-
nal line, it is the Law Of the thermometer, of
latitude and attitudes tsguIating climate, labor,
and productions. and as consequence, profit
and loss. Thus evS upon the mountain heights
Of the tropics, slavdy can no more exist, than
in Northern latitndes, because it is Improbable
being unsuited to the constitution of that sable
race, transplanted here from the equatorial heats
Of Africa. Why is it that in the Union, slavery
reeedes from the North and progresses South?
1t Is this same great climatic Law, now operating
Tor OF against slavery in Kansas. II, on the ell.
evated plains Of Kansas, stretching to the base
Of our American AIps-the Rocky Mountains
and intending tSeir eestem crest crowned with
perpetual snow, from which sweep over her open
Prairies those chilling blasts, reducing the ave.
rage range Of the thermometer here to tenn
perature nearly as low as that Of New England,
should render slavery Improbable here, because
unsnited to the tropical constitution of the negro
race, the law above referred TO must ultimately
determine that question here, and can no more
be controlled BY the legislation OF man, than any
other moral or physical law of the Almighty
Especially must this law operate with irresistible
force IN this country, where the number of slaves
Il limited, and cannot be increased by importa-
ton, where many millions of acres of sugar and
cotton lands are still uncultivated, and, from the
ever sugmenting demand, exceeding the supply,
the price Of those great staples has nearly dou
bleI .manding vastly more slave labor for their
prediction.
from the operation of these causes, slave
~ should not exist here, trust it by no means
follows that Kansas should become State con-
trolled by the treason and fanaticism of aboli-
ton. She has, in any event, certain constitu
tional duties to perform to her sister States, and
especially to her immediate neighbor-the slave
holding State of Missouri. Through that great
State by rivers and railroads must flow to great
extent our trade and intercourse, our imports
and exports. Our entire eastern front is upon
her border, from Missouri come great number
Of her citizens; even the farms Of the two States
are cut by the line of State boundary, part in
Kansas, part in Missouri; her citizens meet US
IN daily intercourse, and that Kansas should be-
come hostile to Missouri, an asylum for her fu-
gtive slaves or propagandist of abolition trea
son, would be alike ineKpedient and unjust, and
fatal to the continuance of the American Union. |
In any event then, trust that the constitution
OF Kansas will contain such clauses as will for
ever secure to the State of Missouri the faithful
,s.s-s-s==Ero constitutional Guarantees, not
only by Federal, but by State authority, and the
supremacy within our limits, Of the authority Of
the Supreme Court of the United States on all |
constitutional questions be firmly established.
Upon the South, Kansas is bounded by the
great Southwestern Indian Territory. This is
one Of the most salubrious and fertile portions
Of this continent. It is great cotton growing
region, admirably adapted BY soil and climate
for the products of the South, embracing the val
legs Of the Arkansas and Red river, adjoining
Texas on the South and West, and Arkansas on
the East, and it ought speedily to become
State Of the American Union. The Indian trea-
ties will constitute no obstacle any more than
precisely similar treaties did in Kansas for their
lands, ralueless to them, now for SALE but which,
sold with their consent and for their benefit Ike
the Indian land Of Kansas, would make them |
most wealthy and prosperous people, and their
consent on these terms would be most chesrfulIy
given. This Territory contains double the area
Of the State Of Indiana, and if necessary, an
adequate portion of the Western and more ele-
waited part could be set apart exclusively for
these tribes, and the Eastern and larcer portion
be formed into State, and its lands sold for the
benefit of these tribes, (like the Indian lands of
Kansas thus greatly promoting all their inter.
ests. TIE the Eastern boundary of this region
on the State Of Arkansas, run the railroads of
that State; TO her Southern limits come the great
railroads from Louisiana and Texas, from New
Orleans and Galveston, which viii ultimately be
Joined byrailrOads from Kansas, leading through
this Indian Territqy, connecting Kansas with
New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico, and with the
Southern Pacific Railroad, leading through Tex
AsaO San Francisco.
Ills essential TO the true interests, not only of
Kansas, butof Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas,
loRa and Missouri and the whole region west
OF the Mississippi. that this co terminus South
Western Indian Territory should speedily be-
sAssa State, not only to supply US with cotton,
and 1keeive our products in return, but as occu.
pix the area over which that portion of our
SArodds should run, which connect US with New
Orleans and Galveston, and by the Southern
route With the Pacific. From her central posi-.
ton, through or connected with Kansas mist run