Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-20
The Fate 81 X u nsa..

The Fate 81 Kansas.
Ii seems to be now generally conceded that
Kansas win be a Free State. The lending jpur
mails of the anti slavery party. while AGO SO
violep, in their language when there wa pros
poct Of Freesoi defeat in Kansas, now change
their tone-anl jublant with ioy. Even in
the South the contest seems TO have been we'll
ugh surrendered.
When the Northern advocates of the Ncbrns
ks Bill proclaimed that it was measure in favor
of freedom and that by its operation not anoih
Or Slave Slate would ever be added 10 the Union.
they no, only awaited themselves Of potent ar
gument before a Northern constiiueney-b
they uttered the words of sagacious vaticina-
ton. Correct as the principle of that bill may
be- in the organization of incboate States, there
is too much reason to believe that its practical
application will prove disastrous TO the rights Of
the South, and TO the political equality of the
South in tho Union.
The next Congress will witness the admission
of at leas, four States into the Union In
Oregon. Minnesota. and Nebraska, no giimmer
Of hope exists that any of them will be Slave
State-and if Kansas be added to the list the
feeble protection which the South now hns in the
constitution Of the Senate of the United States,
will be at once swept away by the admission Of
eight free. soil Senators. With an overwhelming
prepondernnce Of Northern Representatives III
the House already-and with this important re
enforcement, to the swelling ranks of he Free
soer. in the Senate-tbe South may well pause
and consider what she may expect in the future,
la this condition of extreme peril ia which the
South now finds itself placed the loss of Nan
sas possesses a significance which extends al,
most indefinitely into the future II Kansas,
the battle ground of the two parties. be
lost 20 the South under the principle enun
cated in tho Nebraska Bill. IL may well be
enqured what security the South has that
the same principle hereafter applied to other
Territories may not result III the still
greater ACKNOWLEDGMENT, of Northern power, and
the oorres spending ela,ive decrease Of the poli,
cal power of the South.
That Kansas will be Free Slato-nud by the
consent, If not the connvanoe of the Admins
tration-- seems scarcely TO ndnit of doubt, --
When Bigler the Senatorial exponent of Mr.. liu
chanans policy, announced in the Senate Inst
other Northern men, preferred tina, Kansas should
be a Free State, it was a virtual confession that
the influence of the administration, So far il
could be employed, would be used for TIA, pur
pose. The late declarations of Mr.. Secretary
Stanton disclose the plot
In these developments there is too much rea.
con 10 fear that the interests of the South will be
sacrificed to the interests Of party. The admis.
sion of Kansas as u Slave State would have
swept away the last vcsiige of Democracy in the
Free Staies-and Democracy thencefor,h would
have been utterly poweress in the nation. On
the other hand, its admission us IL Free State i.
not only necessary TO the perpetua,ion of Dem
ocratic rule leven though ut ia expense of tn,
SOUTH but is also required in redemption q
the pledges made by the Northern supporters a
the Nebraska Bill. Thus, repeat. there il
reason for believing that the rights and equal
ty Of the South will be sacrificed to the e1igen
cies Of party.
They who maintain that the security of III,
South WAS attained by the election Of Mr.. Bu
chanan will discover ere long, that il ia griev
Gus mistake. Missouri. environed on three side
by Free States, will be the next battle grount
between North and South. From opposition t,
the extensios of slavery. the transition is an cas-,
one to an attack upon it in the border States
where it already exists. With an administrator
opposed to the extension of slavery and. as al
appearances indicate, using ITS influence toward
making free territory that which is now de
bsteaole ground-it yet remains to be wha
substantial advantage the South has gained i
the election Of Mr.. Buchanan.