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e where il is unresistcd. Free labor ha
. been obstructed in Kansas. There ar,
: nevertheless, $4,000 or &C. 900 freame
: gathered there already; gathered ther
. within four years. Slave labor has bee
free to importation. There are only 10
! to 200 slav es there. To settle and oe
: cnpy new slave State anywhere is pa,
t passu, to depopu.ate old slave States.-
n Whence, then are the supplies of slave
to come, and how Only by revivin
the African slave trade. But this is for
hidden. Missionaries dream that the pr
: hibition can be repealed The idea i
insane. A Republic of thirty million
Iof freemen, with free white laborins
population so dense as already to crowc
on subsistence. to be brought to import
negroes from Africa to supplan. them a.
cultivators, and so to subject themselve.
to starvation. Through Africa is We,
unorganized. and unable to protect it.
self, still it has already exchanged, in E
large degree. its wars to make slaves
and its commerce in slav, for legitimate
agriculture and trade. Al European
States are interested in the civilization o,
that continent, and they will not consent
that we shall arrest it. The Christian
church cannot be forced back two CEN
turie nd Re made to sanction the Afri
can slave trade as missionary enter
prise.
Every nation has always some ruling
idea, which, however. changes with the
several stages of its development A
ruling idea Of the colonies on this con-
tinent, two hundred years ago. was Ia
Dor to subdue and rcclain nature =
Then African Slavery was seized and
employed as an auxiliary, under a seem
ing necessity. That idea has ceased for
ever. 1t has given place to a new one.
Aggrandizement of the nation, not in
, deed as it once was. to make small
State great, but to make a State already
great the greatest of all States. 1t still
demands labor, bnt it is no longer the
ignorant labor of b1rbarians, but labor
perfected by knowledge and skill, and
combination with all the scientific prin-
ciples of mechanism. 1t demands not
the labor Of slaves, which needs to be
watched and defended, but voluntary.
enlightened labor, stimulated by inter
est, affection, and ambition. 1t needs
that every man shall own tho lanl he
tiIls; that every he'd shall be fit for the
helmet, and e'ery han ft for the sword,
and every mind ready and qualife for
counsel. To attempt to aggrandize a
country with slaves for its inhabitants.
would BE- to try to make large body of
empire with feeble sinews and empty
veins,
Mr.. Pre4ilen', tho expansion Of terri,
tory to make slave States will only fail
to be a great crime, because it is i'm
practicable, and therefore will turn out
to be stupenlous imbecility. A free
republican Government. like this. not
outstanding all its constitutional checks.
cannot long resist and counteract the
progress Of society. Slavery. wherever
and whenever. and IN whatsoever form
it exists, is exceptional, local. and short
lived. Freedom is the common right.
interest. and ultimate destiny, of all
mankind. All other nations have al
really abolished. or are about abolishinr.
Slavery Does this fact mean nothing ,
All parties in this country that have
tolerated the extension of Slavery except
one, has persisted for that error already.
That last one-the Democratic partv-is
hnrrying on. irrctrevably, toward the
same fate. All Administrations that
have ayawel this policy have gone
down dishonorcl for that cause, except
the present one. A pit deeper and
darker still is opening to receive this
Administration, because i, sins more
deeply than its predecessors. There is
a meaning in all the> flcts, which it
bccomes us to study WI The nation
has advanced another stag it has
reached the point where Intervention. by
the Government, for Slavery an slave
States will no longer be tolerated. Free
labor has at last apprehendad its
rights, It's interests, its power, and its
DESTINY and is organizing itself to assumr
the government Of the Republic. l.
will honceiorth meet YOU boldly an(
rrso!utely here; it will meet Won every.
where, in the Territories or out of them
wherever you may % to extenl Slavery
1t has driven you back in Calif5rni;
aud in k,nr,u ~ will ;nv,d, Van coo,