The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-06-13

invested and employs l460o0 hands,
while North Carolina gives employment
to 1900 hands The average value of
labor per hand in New York, Pennsylva-
MIA and Ohio is $3.50, while Virginia, Ken
tucky, North Carolina and Missouri pays
$50. How does it happen that Free
States pay $50 per annum more to her
laboring hands than the slave States
The answer is obvious. Free States are
more prosperous and can afford to pay bet
ter prices. They have no worthless slave
competition to contend with. The laboring
portion of Kansas should oppose slavery
because it degrades labor and reduces the
price, while all should oppose it because
it curtails the amount of money in circu-
lation, thus disenabling the employer to
pay high wages.
Once more. Take our agricultural in
terest, how viii slavery affect it? AT
present, and for years to come, our agricul-
trral interest will be one of the chief
sources of prosperity. Place this interest
in the keeping of .uminterested, careless,
and ignorant slaves, and it will not require
prophets pen to foretell the result. Our
light sandy soil will be either filed with
noxious weeds or exhausted with careless
management. The old corn plow, or
one little better, wooden forks, nigger hoes,
and few hemp hooks will be about the
farming implements to be seen. Expe-
rience has shown that it requires the in
telligence of white men to keep pace with
the valuable agricultural Improvements of
the day. A slave may cut one-half or
three-quarters of hemp with his crude
hemp-hook, but it requires the intelligence
of white man to cut ten with his
machine.
Slavery would have flourished much
better in Illinois, Iowa, or Indiana than it
ever can in Kansas. Those States arc far
better adapted to slave products and
slave requirements. The most of those
States might have been converted into
large farms while large portion of this
Territory is unsuited to farms of more
than eighty acres If freedom prevails
here there will be tens of thousands of in
telligent and prosperous tax paving farm
ers located on small pieces Of lGnA. If sla-
very prevails, these garden farms SO nu-
merous along the streams will remain I'M
cultivated wastes. Slave labor will prob
ably cultivate one-twentieth of our Terri
tory, while free labor will certainly i'm
prove three-fourths or four-fifths of the
land. Need | ask which viii most en-
rich us ? Besides this Territory is insult
ed to slave products with the exception of
a narrow strip of land on and along the
Missouri River and on the lower Kansas
bottoms, and few pieces along one or
two other streams, we have no land suited
to the culture of hemp Nineteen
twentieths of the land will not grow hemp
three feet high. The soil is too dry, sandy
and light, nor is it adapted to the cultiva-
ton OF cotton or tobacco.
The chief products for years to come
must be those of the Western States, such
as corn, rye, wheat, oats, &C. When we
lose the profitable commerce we now have
with Utah, California, New Mexico and
Oregon which we must do by home COM
petition, what will be the value of these
products to us? Slavery viii defeat our
railroads. and for the want of them the
Agricultural interest will be of little value.
If we would prosper we must shape our
domestic institutions so that the capital OF
the State cannot be sunken in slaves. II
we do otherwise, removed as we are from
the sea board and from easy access TO
Eastern markets our real estate will be
almost valueless and our land will become
proverb and the people too poor to secure
comfortable subsistence.
will not weary you to allude to but
one other interest and then close, and that
one is town growing. Kansas like other
portions of the country must have heI
points of commerce, her centers of trade
Generally, towns are the result of agricui-
tural wealth, but here associated capital
in towns is necessary to agricultural
wealth. If any one wishes to know how
slavery affects town growing let him traveI
thro' western and northern Missouri. The
value of town property depends on the
success of freedom here. Make this {
slave State and whole towns viii be solo
for less money than viii now purchase /;
few lots or shares. The truth is, slavery
is such curse to State that it blighti
and paralyzes every interest. Politician
tell lis that slavery is an old venerable IN
stitution, and they mean BIZ it that it is
proper, a God-ordained institution. Sucl
men seem to forget that severy stone il
/ this evil superstructure has been carve,
from the rights of man and cemented il
the tears and anguish and blood of human
ity. Exmine it, get hold of its eompo
nant elements and you will find every on
of them at war with every dictate of hu
manity the great law of Eternal Rectitude
What is slavery but series of wrong acts
+. These acts create it and they give it it
| immortal character and its destructjy
tendencies. If taken individually the,
1 are evil per sc, if taken collectively the
| form an institution that legitimately vic
lates every known principle in the mora
government of God. The rights of ma
/ being overthrown the reflex influence re
/ coils on every human interest. discrinl
mate between the slave holder and til
system. With the master / have nothin
i to do. He may be a man of the ptlres
/ motives and intention, and his institution
+ one of the most deadly scourges to ever
human interest. The hospitality and tn
/ sal glory of the South, does not conces
one particle of the real deformities of til
i system. The men and women OF til
4 South may fayoFably compare with an
other portion of the land, and the institu
ton still remain great, Heaven-darin
wrong, and one that must, sooner or late
4 gather to itself the sweeping power of til
circIing tornado. Introduce 1t here an
). the tide of enterprising emigration WI
! speedily turn aside and the ten thousan
appliances of prosperous life viii be eth,
dwarfed OF destroyed Introduce il an
the Arts viii wither under it, and th
Sciences viii remain IN their infanc,
while our agricultural and commerce:
j, wealth viii be about as valuable as OF
! real estate IS worthless. Introduce it an
socially, morally and politically you vi
: have opened up all the food gates of VIZ
and the dark steaTns of iniquity viii col
2 tiHuss to meTe on and on and on Hnth q
most all that is grand, all that is God-hk
5 viii be swallowed in the whirlpool OF pc
petual desolafion. Introduce it and q
! gigantic wrong viii continue 10 expan
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