Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-03-25

Tended by a people conhding IN ven
because satisfied that YOU are Just, an6
grateful for the freedom that. under
you. they enjoy.
Sir, IN view. once more. Of this sub
iect of Slavery, submit that our owl
dignity requires that we shall civ,
over this champerty with Slavehold-
ers. which we practice in prescribing
acquiescencc in their rule as a condi-
ton of liberation of self-governmcnl
in the Territories. We are defeated
in it. We may wisely give it up, and
admit Kanzas as Free State. since
she will consent to be admitted only
IN that character.
Mr.. President, il | could at all sup.
pose it desirable or expedient to en-
large the field of Slave labor. and o
Slaveholding sway. in this Republic
should, nevertheless, maintain that
it is wise to relinquish the effort tC
sustain Slavery in kanzaS The cues
ton in regard to that Territory, ha.
risen from a private one about Slavery
as a domestic institution, to one OF
Slavery as national policy. Vt ey-
cry step You have been failing. VIII
You 60 ON still further. ever confident.
and vet ever unsuccessful?
/ believe, sir, to some extent. in
the i>othelmal theory. | think there
are regions, beginning at the North
pole. and stretching southwark, where
Slavery will die out soon if it bc
planted; and / know, too well, that in
the tropics, and to some extent north
ward of them, Slavery lives long. and
is hard to extirpate But ! can not
find a certain boundary. / am sure,
however, that Sc deg. 80 min is too
far north. | think it is a movable
boundary, and that every year it adj
vances towards more southern par
allcl.
MORE SLAVERY NoT WASTED.
But is there Just now a real want 81
new State for the employment OF
Slave labor? see and feel the need
of room for new State to be assigned
to Free labor, of room for such new
State almost every year. | think |
see how it arises. Free white men
abound in this country and in Europe.
and even in Asia. Ecouomically
speaking, their labor is cheap-thcre
is surplus of it. Under improved
conditions of society, life grows longer.
and men multiply faster Wars,
which sometimes waste them, grow
less frequent and less destructive In
vention is continually producing ma
chimes and engines, artificial laborers.
crowding them from one field of in
dustry to another-ever more from the
Eastern regions of this continent to
the West, ever more from tn ever
crowded Eastern Continent to the
prairies and the wilderness in our own.
But do not see any such ovcrflowing
of the African Slave population in this
country, even where it is unreSisted
Free labor has been obstlucted in Kan
zas. There are, nevertheless, 80, 600
or $4,000 freemen gathered there al
ready = gathered there within four
years. Slave labor has been free to
importation.
There are only 100 to 200 Slaves
there. To settle and occupy a new
Slave State any where. is, 1ari possu,
to dcropulate old Slave States
Whence, then, are the supplies of
Slaves to come, and how? Only by
reviving the African Slave Trade.
But this is forbidden. Yisionaries
dream that the prohibition can be re-
pealed. The idea is insane. \ Re
public of thirty millions of Freemen.
with free white laboring population
SO dense as already to crowd on sub
sistence, to he brought to import ne
groes from Africa to supplant them as
cultivators, and so to subject them
selves to starvationl Though Africa
Is yet unorganizcd, and unable to pro-
tect itself, still it has already ex-
changed, in large degree, its wars to
make Slaves, and its commerce IN
Slaves, for legitimate agriculture and
trade. All European States are in
terested in the civilization of that
Continent, and they will not consent
that we shall arrest it. The Christian
Church can not be forced back two
and be made tn sanction the
African Slave Trade as missionary
enterprise.