Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-01-15

Ra~That the people of the South feel interest in
the extension of the South Southward-tnt they look
to the tropc; regions of Central America and the West
Indies aordng legitimate field for the expansion of
Southern institutions and Southern power, there be
no sort of question They look these regions to form
counterbalnce to the preponderating growth Of anti
slavery power and ansayery notions and institutions
within the present territory Of the Union. Our
QUESTIONS will all be free-so Climate and and SOIL and
the price of labor decide that The South must expand
in favorable direction, she must retrograde in
parative power and Importance With the virtual mo-
nopoy of the Cotton raising business of the world it
ly requires that the should obtain Cuba and Central a
meri to hold the virtual control Of the sugar and coffee
production. Thus firmly planted the great tropical
power having possession Of the indispensable elements OF
the manufacturing and trading prosperity OF the globe
the South could rest in the interests not in the
affections Of mankind The manufacturer of Manchester
in old England in New England, may now talk abo-
lition while he spins savegrown cotton Let him only
sip his Southern slayegrOwn coffee from the Southern
State of Cuba Or Nicaragua, Costa Rica-let the
merchant feel that his warehouses filed with tropical
products which we control or are transported over an
ishmus filed with our negroes and the bonds Of the
1t is useless to argue these things abstract princi
pies of law They stand recorded i'll the book of nature
they are physical and moral facts, not arguments OF
speculationS They lie at the bottom of all the real per-
manent sympathy with flibusterng which is known to
exist at the South AS for Wakerismmerc fill
clustering as connected with the VIM. Walker that
is nothing Walker could be dead buried and forgotten
in week. whatever hot-headed friends may say Or think.
There may be managers behind who have their ends
to serve but the real interest in fbustering at the
South arises out of restless feeling created by the
parativey slow growth of Southern power and the dam
gerous preponderance of the North The acquisition of
the tropics gives us power and security.
KANsAs.-The Baltimore Sun has report from Kan
sas ra Washington City which airms that at the cleo
ton for State officers of Kansas, held the 4h ns
in pursuance of the provisions of the Lecompton Const
ution the Free State ticket was successful or at least
such was the tenor of the returns far received
We do not know how this may be. Perhaps it is so,
and perhaps it is not Returns from Kansas terrific
ry are seldom reliable until full details have been recev
ed. And even then there is room for doubt Tickets
do net always represent men, and voters in Kansas
on the revolver principle and fire off five to six loads
There is thing, however which may be pretty
tanly relied upon in this case and that is that the Free
State have voted very generally, thus in effect
ceptng the provisions of the LecOmptOn Constitution
so that difficulty is pretty nearly at end nasmch as
it no longer beconendcd that the proceedings of the
LecOmptOn Convention unrecognized by majority
bya respectable minority CT the people of Kan
sas
Others may be sufficiently sanguine to believe that
X ansas can be ranked with the South. We cannot
The strength of slavery in the interest that men hold
in that species of property There is slave property
in KanSas-nO strong slave interest-nO nducement of
profitable employment to draw slave labor to Kansas
Slavery is not an abstractonit is commercial fact
it is dollars and cents. Let it anywhere to be dol
lars and cents and who will care for it, or what strength
will it possess? Now, slavery in Kansas, we take it.,
could be but an abstracon substantial selfasser-
inc fact. Therefore the maintenance of slave nstit
tUIiS there sumctnmg Tor WnECn do not look
hope The expansion Of slave institutions must be tro-
pical. 1t must be South and Southwest. Hence the
South has for months past abated all effort in the d.
rectOn of Kansas and hence also her interest in Mica
ragua.
But while we do not look for any permanent esaE-
ishments of Southern institutions in Kansas do sin
cery hope that the country may not be disgraced by
the appearance in the Senate of Jim Lane and Gov
Robinson, with whom are threatened as the first
Kansas Senators to be put in by the free State of
the legislature of the new State.