The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-02-28

slavery there. Slavery will be en-
barrassed by its own overgrasping
spirit. No one, I am sure, anticipates
the possible re-establishment Of the
African slave trade. The tide of emf
grafton to Kansas is therefore to be
supplied there solely by the domestic
fountain of slave production. But
slavery also has other regions besides
Kansas to be filed from that foun-
tain. There is all of New Mexico
and all of Utah already within the
Uuited States and then there is Cuba,
that consumes slave labor and life as
fast as any one of the slaveholding
States can supply it; and besides
these regions, there remains all of
Mexico down to the Isthmus. The
streams of slave labor flowing from so
small fountain, and broken into
several divergent channels, will not
cover so great field; and it is rea-
sonably to be hoped that the part of
it nearest to the North Pole will be
the last to be inundated. But African
slave emigration is to compete with
free emigration of white men, and the
source of this latter tide is as ample
as the civilization of the two entire
continents. The honorable Senator
from Delaware mentioned, as if it
were a startling fact, that twenty
thousand European emigrants arrived
in New York in one month. Sir, he
has stated the fact with too much
moderation. On my return to the
capital day or two ago, met twelve
thousand of these emigrants who had
arrived in New York on one morning,
and who had thronged the churches on
the following Sabbath, to return
thanks for deliVerance from the perils
of the sea, and for their arrival in the
land, not of slavery, but of liberty. /
also thank God for their escape and
for their coming They are now on
their way westward, aad the news OF
the passage of this bill preceding them,
will speed many of them towards
Kansas and Nebraska. Such arrivals
are not extraordinary-they occur al
most every week and the immigra-
tion from Germany, from Great Brit
ain, and from Norway, and from Swe-
den, during the European war, will
rise to six or seven hundred thousand
souls in year. And with this tide
is to be mingled one rapidly swelling
from Asia and from the islands of the
South Seas. All the emigrants, un-
der this bill as the House of Repre-.
sentatives overruling You have or
dered, will be good, loyal, liberty
loving, slave-fearing citizens.
"Come on, then, gentlemen of Mt
Stare States. Since there is no escaping
your challenge, l accept It in. behalf O
tie cause Of freedom. He wU engage
IN competition for The rirgias soil O
Kansas, and God gice the vietOry to tn
side ,ohieh is strongest IN Numbers as 4
is IN right.
"There are, however, earnest advo
Gates of this bill who do not expect
and who, l suppose, do not desire
, that slavery shall gain possession O
Nebraska. What do they expect tC
! gain =? The Senator from Indian;
Mr.. Petit says that by thus oblite
rating the Missouri compromise re
strictioH they will gain tqbuia raso
s on which the inhabitantssof Kansas
, and Nebraska may write whateve
they will. This is the great principl
of the bill, as he understands it
Il Well, what gain is there in that
You obliterate a constitution of free
dom. If they write new constitution
! of freedom, can the new be better thai
the old? If they write constitution
of slavery, will it not be a worse one
| ask the honorable Senator that
: But the honorable Senator says tha
D people of Nebraska will have tn
privilege of establishing institution
for themselves. They have now tn
privilege of establishing free institu
1 tions. Is it privilege, then, to es
S tablish slavery? If so, what mock
, cry are all our constitutions, whicl
prevent the inhabitants from capri
ciously subverting free institution
and establishing institutions of slave
ry? Sir, it is sophism, a snbtlety
D to talk of comforting upon eountr!
already secure in the blessings 0
q freedom the power of self-destruc
tion."
Other Senators also spoke wit
much earnestness and power, fore
shadowing the evils which would fol
low so unexpected and SO exciting al
act. In vain they attempted to sten
the current and suspend the final actor
of Congress till such time as the pee
pie could be heard at new election
Mr.. Chase, In order to test the sin
cerfsy of the majority in their new
born zeal for individual rights, an
Squatter Sovereignty, introduced a
amendment to the bill that the inhabi
: tants of the Territory should be PEI
mitted to choose their own Gov
ernor and other officers. This wa
voted down. Every fair arrangement
for a free government was rejected
and all was left in the hands of thos
who expected to make it slave State
The rights of the people of Kansa
under the enqbling aet,'' were thu
: stated by Alr. Banks, in Congress
' during the discussion of the bill -
n "Sir. the essence Of this act is, tina
r until the Territorial Legislature de
8 terfaines the question. it is open alik
n to slavery and to freedom. If tn
: South does not gain this, it gain
: nothing. -
i "Now, then. can the people contro