The Kanzas news., 1858-11-13
From the Missouri Democrat.

from Ine mlSSOurl DefnOcFaL
The Gold Solution of the Negro Cues
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1t was the discovery of gold that effected
a solution of the negro question in our Ter
ritories of the Pacific. No sophistry of
politicians could resist the living forces that
were shaping out those new commonwealths:
no artful postponing of industrial interests
to pride of caste, and the patriarchial idea
could be had in the presence of such masses
of laborers and such fraternity of work.
True, the effort was made first to claim Cal
ifornia for the slave system, second to di-
vide it, third to effect lodgment in Oregon;
but the world knows how ANONYMOUSLY
each and all failed. The relation between
tell and return war so direct, the conflict of
race so evident, that no one could be blind
to the consequence, and slavery consequent
dy never set foot in our possessions on the
Pacific -r
1t seems not at all improbable that like
solution of the same vexed question is soon
to be found in the valley of the Great West,
and that the slopes of the Rocky Mountains
equally with those of the Sierra Nevada are
to witness that practical determination of a
territorial policy. The accounts which we
have from the vicinity of Pixies Peak,
Cherry Greek, and the sources of the Ar
kansas, may be exaggerated, although we do
not think they are, yet still they indicate
the outlines of the vast auriferous region
known to extend southwark, embracing the
spurs of the Cordilera, the San Juan Noun
tains, and the broken ranges of the Sierra
Madre. Remains of former civilization
indicate this to have been worked under the
Affects as one vast gold field Mexican re-
searches and Indian tradition likewise be-
speak for it the same fame which recent
geological reconnaissance attests it to possess.
Indeed, it is related on good authority that
so late as 1886 party of French trappers,
camping at the base of Pixies Peak, and
discovering the shining particles in the bed
of the stream, collected and transported to
Laramie wagon load of the deposit, which
was pronounced By the saVans there to be
fools gold, and was accordingly thrown
aside. All our aggregate information, there
fore,-and some of it is of a very reliable
and scientific character points to this cen
tral section of the continent as soon TO claim,
In an exclusive manner, the attention. labor,
enterprise and competition of the white races
that are thronging westward Ia search of
deposits OF the precious metals. We have
no doubt that this fact win start ont of the
past, and that millions of miners win be
picking aud -pulyerizing quartz along the
Fontaine .qui Bouil in the future, Just as
they are about the sources of Feather river
and Frazer river in the present. This will
impress upon the social growth of the noun
famous regions Of the continent and the ad-
iacent pastural lands, civilization very far
different from that which late Administra-
tons and Southern politicians have both so
confidently hoped for, and so persistently
worked for through every device OF strategy
and legislation. In the presence of the gold
mountains af the interior the DFed, Scott
decision with its negro propaganda clauses
viii sink into absolute ridicule. No Bra
lillian curse win ever Africanize that FL Do
rsdo. That which through long struggk
has been initiated as the policy Of freedom
upon the plains of the adjacent tsble lands,
win also obtain under these fortunate aus
pices in all the intermediate provinces from
Arizona to Utah. OF course. we shall ex-
pect q conflict; we shall see the attempt
made, we shall witness the blessed Consti-
tulion perambalating the ranches. y and
visiting the ':diggings" with the negro on
It's back bu. Ne shall never see the s.insti-
tution occupy another foot Of the interior
basin OF the United States, or dehler the