Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-02-07
Misfrllanf0us.
IOWA AND ARKANSAS.

over against the Il rec OtateS. Inc other
lies over against the Slave States. Iowa
is as far from the Slave States, except
Missouri, as Arkansas is from the Free
States, The latter became State in
1885, the former in 1916. The one is
now twenty years old, the other is ten.
By the act OF Congress of 1920, au-
thorizing the people of Missouri territory
to form State government, the terrific
ries of which these two States are now
composed, fell under different organic
laws. Slavery was expressly prohibited
in all Louisiana north of 36 degrees, 80
minutes, not included in Missouri while
south of that line the implication and
the understanding was that Slavery might
be introduced or not, as the people might
desire. Twenty-Five years afterwards,
this implication and understanding found
formal expression in the laws of the Uni
ted States for the first time, to wit /: In
its application to Texas. Stephen Arnold
Douglas extended its application in 1854
to Kansas and Nebraska.
Behold now in Arkansas and Iowa the
results of different organic laws in the
former of squatter sovereignty, in the
latter of slavery prohibition.
We have seen no census of Arkansas
since 1850, taken in June of that year,
when Iowa was only three and half
years old. Arkansas had then the larg-
est population by seventeen thousand.-
Forty seven thousand, however, were
slaves. So that Iowa had then the larg-
est free population by thirty thousand.--
Since that time Arkansas has advanced,
according to all accounts, at a snail s
pace while Iowa has made giant strides.
The population of the latter State in June,
1856, was over half million.
A comparison of these two States as to
the places of nativity of their population
shows that the most plausible object lion
W e'-- z.f- -Slasar<l.i riz.: that
1t Is unfair TO portion of the citizens of
the United States, is entirely without
foundation. The reverse is rather true.
The allowance of slavery in a territory
serves to bar out much larger number
of the citizens of the Union than the pro-
hibition of it would. An overwhelming
majority of the American people do not
want to go into slave territory to re-
side, and will not go. They are not will
ling to expose themselves to the disabili-
ties and disadvantages which slavery i'm
poses. Very little emigration has ever
gone from the Free States into slave ter
ritories, while the free territories have re-
ceived a very respectable portion of their
population from Slave States, In 1850,
Arkansas contained s, 492 natives of the
Free States, while Iowa numbered among
Its population 81 1874 natives of the Slave
States. AT the same time, let il be re-
membered, that the white population Of
the Free States is more than twice as
great as the white population of the Slave
States. This fact must be borne in mind
to see the full nature of the unfairness
and wrong perpetrated against the Free
States by the allowance of Slavery in the
territories. The single State of Kentucky
sent more of her native born citizens to
Iowa than all the Free States together
sent to Arkansas Kentucky and Vir-
ginia each sent more of their native born
population to Iowa than they sent to Ar
kansas. Maryland sent to Arkansas 326
of her sons, while she sent to Iowa | 1888,
more than five times as many.
These remarkable facts are highly in
structive and well worthy the thought
full consideration of every citizen. They
show that those Southern statesmen of
former times, to whom the country is so
much indebted for the prohibition of
slavery in the west, were not unjust to
the interests or the preference of the peo-
pie of their own section. Henry Clay,
who, as Speaker of TIE House of Repre-
sentaliyes, gave his influence in 1929 to
the act which saved Iowa from slavery,
performed part III no wise derogatofy to
his native State, Virginia, or his adopted
State, Kentucky. More than sixteen
thousand of the sons of those States, pri-
or to 1850, ratified and endorsed his
course By becoming citizens of State
where slavery had been forever prohibited
by an act bearing his name. The history
of Iowa thus shows that il is free terrific
ries and free States that a great majority
of the American people in the whole
country demand
Slavery also erects barrier against
the adventurous sons of the old world
who come to the new, to find an asylum