The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-03-16


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We are defeased ID ie Ne 10y wisely rive
-. and admit Kansas g ! Free State. eince %.
will ssassnt - be adnisssa only II has charac
tef.
NJ. Prssident, II cosld q Oh soppose il de
sirahae q expsdiens % enlarge The 6eld Of Siavt
labor, and Of slave holding away IL shis Repub
lie, shOald Devesshelees maintain that L 4
Miss - felnQuish sbe effort - suDeasn slavery II
Kansas. The qucseion, IN regard % shat Terri
tory, hAs risen trosp Z private one ebout Saver
- domeotic institutioa, % one Of Slavery q
. national policy ~ every step VOC have beer
falling. Will you 70 On ssill fufther. ever con
ndenk and ret ever unsuccessfull
Ibelievo, sir. to some extent. il the isother.
NAL theory. think there are regions. begin.
ming ct she North Pole and stretching south.
ward, where Slavery win die out aoon. II il be
planted; and / know too wen that in the tropics.
and - some extent northward Of them, Slavery
lives long, and is hard to extirpate. Bot /
cannee dad certain boundary. 1 am sure,
however, that 80 deg. 80 min. 10 too lar north.
think is 10 movable boupdary. and that
every year il advances toward more southern
parallel. ~ =
Bus 10 there just now real want Of new
State for the employment of Slave Labor I
70 b assigned to Free Labor, and Of room for
ouch new State almost every year. l think I
zee how il arises. Free white men abound in
this country, and in Europe, and even in Asia.
speaking, their labor 10 cheap
there 10 . surplus Of is. Under improved con.
ditions Of society, life grows longer. and men
multiply faster Wars which sometimes ware
them, grow less Il equent and less destructive.
Invention 10 con :inually producing machines
and engines. artificial laborera crowdipe them
from one field Of industry to anosher-evermore
from the oyercrow ded Eastern contlnent 70 tho
prairies and wilder nesses in our own. But do
not see any such OVERLOOKING of the African
slave population in this country, even where it
. unresisted. Free Labor has been obstructed
a Kansas. There are, nevertheless, $1,000 or
10, 600 freemen there already; gathered there |
within four years. Slave Labor has been free |
Q importation. There are only 100 to 200
laves there. To settle and occupy new Slave |
tate anywhere is, pavi passes, TO depopulate
Id Slave States. Whence, then, are the sup
lies OF slaves to come, and hows Only by re- |
living the African slave trade. But this is for
hidden. Missionaries dream that the prohibition |
an be repealed. The idea is insane. A Re.
ablc OF thirty millions of fteemen, with free
Jhite laboring population 20 dense a. already
Q crowd on subsis ence, to be brought to import
egroes from Africa to supplant them as cult.
stors, and SO to .u5ject themselves to starva.
ion! Though Africa is yet uuorganized. and
nable TO protect ITSELF still il has already ex.
hanged, in = large degree, its wars TO make
aves, and its commerce in slaves. for lepiti-
late agriculture and trade. All European
Lates are interested in the civilization Of that
ointment, and they will not consent that We
lall arrest it. The Christian Church cannot
g forced back two centuries and be made to
motion the African slave trade 10 a missionary
,terprise.
Every nation has always some ruling idea
hich, however, changes with the &c veraI sta pes
its development. A ruling idea of tho coio.
es ON this continent, two hundred years arc
IS labor to subdue aud reclaim nature. Then
frican Slavery was seized and employed a. an
axilisry, under q seeming necessity. That idcs
ls ceased forever 1t has given place to 4 new
le Aggrandizeinent Of the nation-not in.
ed a. It once was to make small State great
It to make State already great the greatest
all States. It still demands labor. but il ia
longer shc ignorant labor Of barbarians hn,
Dor perfsctad by knowledge and aim and
animation with AL the scientific priucipies Of
IL demands, mot the labor M
ives, which needs to be wstched and defended
It voluntary, esi ghtened labor. stimulated by
terest, Affection and ambition, Il needs tbst
cry man shall own the land be tills: that every
ad shall be NJ for the helmet, and every hama
for the sword, and every mind ready and
'alified for counsel. To attemgt to seersn-
re country with slaves for its iuha6itants.
,uld be to try to make large body of empire
th feeble sine VS. and empty veins. -
Mr.. President, the expansion Of territory to
AXE Slave States will only fail to be a er.at
line because it is impracticable, and the refore
n turn out to be stupeudous imbecility. A
se republican Government, like this, noswith.
andiDg all its constitutional checks. canno,
ng resist and couuteract the progress Of so-
ETY.. Slavery, wherever and Whenever. and
whatsoever form it existat Ia exceD,,onal
cal and short lived. Freedom 10 the common
yht, interest and ultimate destiny of oil man.
nd. All other nations have already abolish.-
!, or are about aboiishing. Slavery. Does
10 fact mean oshingy All parties in this
antry that bate tolerated the extension Of
avery. except one, have persisted for that
rOr already. Tat last one-the Democratic
rty--is hurrying on, irretrieysbly. toward 1
9 same fate. All Administer tons that have |
owed this policy have gone down dishonored
! that cause, except the present one. A nj, ,
eper and darker still is opening To receive
. Administration, because il sins more deem. q
than in predecessors. There 10 . meaning il i
these facts, which it becomes us to studv |
II. The nation has advanced another stage G