The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-08

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We Aave received from . correspondent n
Leoonpsoa, copy Of the act lately passed BY
The Legislature Of Kansas, providing for oen MS
u the Territory, and for . convention TO form
State constitution; also, COPY Of the message
of Governor Geary, giving his reasons for re-
fasiDg his signature to the said bill.
The object Of the act, which Yves subsequently
passed unanimously over the Governors veto,
win be discovered at o glance. 1t il, by
desperate pro slavery coup pttas, to make Kansas
q slave State. Hence, in the business of the pro
posed Peoples Convention, the approaching
spring emigrations into the Territory are to be
cut OF; and in various other respects the con-
vention, for the purposes of pro slavery cousti-
tion will be nicely pasked as the late Missouri
Kansas Legislature itself. Another recent aot
providing the death penalty for dsobedience
TO the code known az the bogus laws of Kansas,
is, perhaps intended to intimidate the rebellious
free State squatters into submission to the
" manifest destiny" Of niggers provided for
them by the aforesaid census bill.
These are high handed transactions--so daring
ly despotc, unjust and oppressive that they can
hardly fail TO attract the early attention Of Mr..
Buchanan and his Cabinet. But in the meantime
We perceive that our abolition and Niger wor-
shippers journals of the North are getting
up another hse and cry concerning the immi
nent peril of the establishment of slavery
in Kansas, through the interruptions pro-
slavery expedients Of this Missouri elected
Legislature, and it is against this senseles part
zan hue and cry that we would direct the dispas-
aonate attention of our readers.
Slavery in Kansas! 1t cannot be established
Under all the privileges OF the existing Terrific
rial organic law and with all the pothouse and
despotc appliances of bogus Territorial Legs
lature, bogus officers of the law, and the late
bogus administration at Washington, there are
perhape not over two omnibus loads of negro
slaves located with their masters in the Territory
The great mass of the bona tide settlers Of Kansas
are free State settlers; the great majority Of the
bona fde land holders are free State men, and for
the best of reasons among all men Of business
Make Kansas free State, ind her choice lands
mill seats town sites, &c, will be worth from five
to ten times over the price they would fetch
if Kansas were simply annexed to Missouri; an3
all The men of property, Substance and enter
prise concerned in the destiny of Kansas know
it, Accordingly, we have ne fears that these
desperate expedients of pro slavery Legislative
will result in making Kansas slave State.
But grant that this proposed convention will be-
elected as arranged, will meet, witt adopt State
constitution establishing the institution of slavery
in the State; and granting, for the rake Of the
argument, that the ensuing democratic Congress
will accept this State const' tuition, and that M
Buchanan viii sign the bill, and admit Kansas
under it as slave State. how long will it con-
tinue so three years, or two, or one? Once
a State their work will be dene, and the Nilsson
rians will retire. Then it will appear that Kau
sss is slave State without Shareholders or slaves
and an amendment of the State constitution in
reference to slavery will be one Of the firstt
results of absolute popular sovereignty.
The idea that under a proslavery State go
vernment niggers can be made to pay in Kansa
is absurd. They have ceased to pay in Missouri.
Slavery is there steadily receding before
the advancing waves of westward Europe
an and Anglo American emigration Room
room--for their swelling thousands, is
still the cry-room room move on As far
northwest as Minnesota, the country comparative
ly, is filled up; Nebraska is mling up, and the
heavy tide is pressing down with irresistible force
not only upon Kansas, but upon Missouri, Ken
lucky, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. All
these States, perhaps within the next fifteen, per
haps within the next ten years, will be free States
II must he so. We cannot repeal the laws OF
nature and of climate--we cannot reverse the
laws of population, and this heavy western cur
rent of the white races must have room. As IL
fills up the few remaining waste places Of the
northwest, II will overflow the border States Of
the South.
Thus, while all the country is agitated con
corning slavery in Kansas, slavery is actually
dying out In Missouri and other border slave
States. As the lands in the free States become
higher in price. emigration from the North will
be diverted more and more to the cheaper land
Of the border slave States until the natural boun
diaries Of African slavery are reduced TO the cot
ton. rice ard sugar regions Of th. sunny South.
where the heat and the malaria, which ere death
TO The European, are life and health to the Afri-
can. Kansas slave State While the fanatics
are bowling LEI Us watch the solution Of the prob
lem.
THE NV CTY DnJs.--On Monday last, the
committee having in charge the bills for the
alteration Of The government OF this city, To
ported them 10 the Legislature. There are. a.
we mentioned, four OF them altogether oae 81: