The Kanzas news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1857-1859, 1857-10-10
From the Richmond South.
The Slavery Aeitation--Who Begun It
and Who Should End IL.

deprecate the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton. all are convinced that il is the fruit
full source of fierce and bitter contention and
strife between the different sections of the
Confederacy Everybody plainly sees that
it is each day destroying the harmony of our
system, alternating the affections and divid-
ing the sympathies of the Northern and
Southern people, and must sooner or later
terminate in political disruption. These are
momentous facts, which no devices of in
genuity can evade, and which no sophistry
can conceal from the public gaze. They
stand out boldly and prominently in the po-
litical foreground, and completely overshad-
ow all other questions of public concern
ment Considering the great issue involved
no less problem than the perpetuity of
the Union-it is not at all surprising that
so much anxiety should exist to witness a
final and mutually satisfactory solution of
this baneful controversy. Bus, for ourselves,
we have no room to hope for such consum-
nation We are thoroughly convinced of
the utter impossibility of bringing about
such an adjustment as would forever exclude
the subject FROM popular discussion. The
difficulties are in their nature perfectly ir
reconcilable, and it Is beyond the power of
political agencies to remove the causes of
distraction. The hostility of the large mass
of the Northern people to the institution is
deep and implacable. 1t is manifested in
every passing event, whether of public or
private character. All the machinery which
can operate upon, fashion and control pub
lie sentiment, is made subservient to this
one great ruling passion. The pulpit, the
press, the theatre, the college and school, all
combine their efforts to scatter the seeds of
strife, and to exasperate the anti-slavery
feeling into deadly enmity. Hatred of slave
~, and consequently of the people who toll
crate the institution, has become a part of
the educational system of the Northern
States. Children are taught from their era
dies to regard Southern Shareholders as mon
sters of inhumanity, whom it were polite
ness to call barbarians. Under such COM
bination of exciting influences, always at
work and becoming every day more and
more powerful, what rational ground is
there to expect that the slavery agitation will
cease? How is it possible for US to get rid
of the disquietudes and annoyances which
grow outof the controversy? If it were suf
fered to remain merely harmless difference
of opinion in regard to question of social
ethics for philosophers and schoolmen to :
debate, there would be little danger of
rupture, and the harmonious movement of
the Federal system might not be disturbed.
however violent the rage of the disputants.-
But such is not and cannot be the case
From the very nature of our confederated
Government, it is absolutely futile to attempt
to exclude the subject from the halls of Con-
gressional debate. Men are sent there from
the North with positive instructions to sag
itate'' and stir without intermission this ele--
ment of discord, and keep the waters in
continual fury. They are elected for this
one object, and, if they do not fulfil their
mission to the letter, their political occupa
ton is gone. To talk, then, of putting an
end to the slavery agitation is simply absurd.
Ignore it? You might as well try TO Gig
nore' the black plague. Know Nothing
conventions may strike the word from their
platforms-Botts and Sandy Stuart may fall
into commissions at the mention of 1t; but
it is impossible to expel the subject from the
arena of political excitement, or to Danish
it from the halls of Congress. No political
party at the South can, with any justice, be
said to be responsible for the agitation, and
none certainly is able to terminate it. The
North began the strife, and it is for the
North to say when and where it is to stop.
The South has ever acted on the denfensive.
Standing upon the Constitution, she has on
~ repealed the repeated assaults of her ad
versaries, and demanded nothing more than
her equal Constitutional rights. She cannot
control the opinions of the Northern people
and extinguish their hatred of her institu-
tons. The origin of our woes is beyond
her reach. She has demonstrated and ad-
monished over and over again, and been
answered fy insulting taunts and menacing
defances. Her only recourse is to remain
firm and united, and to await the issue with UNI
blenching determination. When the North
has changed its views in regard either 10 the
social rectitude or the constitutional relations
of slavery, when it is prepared to acknow-
lege our equal rights in the common terrific
ries, to recognize the Fugitive Slave law as
binding upon the conscience of ali good cit
liens of the United States, and to yield as.
sent to the doctrines of the bred Scott de-
cision, then, and not till then, may we look
for the probable termination of existing diff
fculties and happy issue out of all our
calamities.
We confess there is at present little en-
couragement to hope for such radical reyo-
luton in public sentiment. On the contra
~, the breach is evidently widening every
day. The question is farther than ever from
a definite solution, and it therefore becomes
the part of prudent and rational forecast TO
be ever ready to meet the worst that may
come.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL TRIUMPH
The Lowell NeaCs says that some twenty
seven months ago young man named VIM.
z. Foster had the whole of one elbow joint
torn out by an accident. He was taken to
the hospital where Dr. KimbaIi, advised by
Drs. Graves and Dickey, proceeded to saw