Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-03-19


Kansas. Il viii invade you soon IN Del
aware, Mary land Virginia, Missouri and
Texas Il will NEE, YOU IN Arizona, in
Central America, and even in Cuba
The invasion viii be hot merely harm
less, but beneacen;, if you yield season
ably 70 lis just and moderate demands.
II proved 20 in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsy lyania, and ,hc other lave States,
which iave alrrnly yielded Ia that way
10 is advances You may, indeed, get a
start under or near the Tropics, and seem
safe ioc time, hut il viii only be
short time. Even There, you will found
States only gor Free Labor to maintain
and occupy. The inyeres; Of the white
races demands the ultimate emancipation
Of all men.
Whether ihag contamination shah be
allowed to take effect, with needlul and
wise precautions nguinst sudden change
aud disaster. OF be hurried on by vio-
ieacr, is all that remuus for you to de-
eide. Fur tue failure Of your system Of
Slave labor thr6ughoui the Repnblie, tho
responsibility will rest not on tie agita-
tors you condemn, nor the political par
ties you ar,aign, nor evca altogether on
yourselves, Jut It will be due to the in
herent error Of the system itself, and to
the error which thrusts i, forward to op-
pose and resist The destiny, not more Of
the African than that Of the white races.
rhc white man needs this continent to
labor upon. His head i, clear, his arm
Is strong, and His neces.ilie, are fixed
tie must and will have it, 10 secure it,
he will obliee the government of tho
United States to abandon intervention in
favor of Slave labor and Slave States,
and 60 backward forty years, aud resume
the original policy OF Intervention in
favor Of Free Labor and Free States.
The fall Of the castle Of san Juan
fUiloa determined the fate of Mexico,
although more siegr- and severe pitched
battles inlervened before the capture of
the Az,ecs. The defeats you have en-
countered in California and in Kansas
determine the fate Of the principle for
which you have been contending. It is
for yourselves, and not for ns, to decide
how long and through what further NOR
t.fcation and disasters the contest shall
he proiracied before freedom shall enjoy
her already assured triumph. would
have il ended now, and would have tho
wound- Of society bound up and healed.
; But this can be done only in one way. 1t
cannot be done by Offering further resist
ance, nor by any evasion or partial sur
render, nor by forcing Kansas into the
Union as "a slave State against her will,
leaving her to cast off slavery aiterward,
as size best may; nor by compelling Min
nesota and Oregon to wait, and wear the
3 Illuminating costume 81 Territories at the
doors OF Congress, until the people Of
kan-as. or their true defenders here,
shall be brousht 10 dishonorable compro-
mises. Il can be done only By the simple
and direct admission of lhe three new
States as Free States, without qualifica-
tio1, condition, reservation or conpro-
mise, and by the abandonment OF all
: further attempts to extend slavery under
] the Federal Constitution.
You have unwisely pushed the con-
trover,y 50 far that oniy those broad con-
cessious viii nov be accepted by the in
= terest of Free Labor and Free States
p For myself, see this fact, perhaps, the
more distinctly now because | have 50
= long foreseeh il. can therefore coun-
l. sci nothing less than those concessions.
4 | know the hazard. ! incur 10 taking
q this position. know tow men and par
. ties, nov earnest ard zralous and bold,
a mag fall away from ne, as the controver-
~ hail WAX warm, and alarms and dan
o gers, now unlocked Tor. shall stare them
=" in Ihe G.ee, as nlen arid parties equally
- earnest. bold, aHd jealous, have done, in
% Ike circumstances before. Bot Il Is the
q same position took iu the ease Of Cal
lornia. eight years aga. Il is the same
q maintained On 'be great occasion u tue
A" organization Of Kansas and Nebraska,
four years aga. Time and added eK-
is perirnee have yiudicaiei ii since, and
a.sume "a ag.iB. 10 be maintained to the
y last. with confidence thag il will he iusli.
Grl, ultimately, by the eounlry and by
the civilized worid. Yoa may refuse to
b. yleI Il noa, nhd fnr a short period, bas
d youf retasai ail as,iy animate ale friends
}. Ol Freedom with the eouraze and the
Is resolution, aud produce tile rnion among
al b Il 4. =