The Kanzas news., 1858-03-27

sistence, to Be brought to import negroes
from Africa to supplant them as cuItiyators,
and so to subject themselves to starvation !
Though Africa Is yet unorganized, and un-
able to protect itself, still it has already ex
changed, in large degree. Its wars to make
slaves, and its commerce in slaves, for le-
gitinate agriculture and trade. AL Euro
pean States are interested in the civilization
of that continent, and they viii not consent
| that we shall arrest it. The christian church
cannot be forced back two centuries, and be
made to sanction the African slave trade as
missionary enterprise.
| Every nation has always some ruling idea,
which, however, changes with the several
stages of its development. A ruling idea
of the colonies of this continent, two hun
dred years ago, was labor to subdue and re-
claim nature. Then African slavery was
seized and employed as an auxiliary. under
seeming necessity. That idea has ceased
forever. It has given place 70 new one.
Aggrandizement of the nation. not indeed
as It once was, to make small State great,
but to make State already great the great
est of all States It still demands labor, but
it is no longer the ignorant labor of bsrba-
rians, but labor perfected by knowledge, and
skill, and combination of all the scientific
principles of mechanism. It demands, not
the labor of slaves, which need to be watch
ed, and defended, but voluntary, and enlight-
ened labor, stimulated by interest, affection.
and ambition. It needs that every man
shall own the land he tills that every head
shall be fit for the helmet, and every hand
fit for the sword, and every mind ready and
qualified for counsel. To attempt to ag-
grandize country with slaves for its inhab
itants, would be to try to make large body
ofempire with feeble sineWs and empty veins.
Mr.. President, the expansion of territory
to make slave States will only fail to be a
great crime because it is impracticable, and
therefore will turn out to be stupendous
imbecility. A free republican government,
like this, Notwithstanding all its constitu-
tional checks, cannot long resist and coun-
teract 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, inter-
est, and ultimate destiny of all mankind
All other nations have already abolished, or
are about abolishing slavery. Does this
fact mean nothing? All parties in this
country that have tolerated the extension of
slavery, except one, have perished for that
error already. The last one-the Demo
cratic party-is hurrying on irretrievably
toward the same fate. All administrations
that have ayowed this policy have gone down
dishonored for that cause, except the pres
ent one. A pit deeper and darker still is
opening to receive this administration, be-
cause it sins more deeply than its predeces-
sors. There is meaning in all these facts.
which becomes us to study well.
The nation has advanced another stage
it has reached the point where intervention,
by the government, for slavery and slave
States, viii no longer be tolerated. Free
labor has at last apprehended its rights, its
interest, its powers, and its destiny, and is
organizing itself to assume the government
of the Republic. It will henceforth meet
you boldly and resoIutely here !; it will meet
you everywhere, in the Territories or out oi
them, wherever you may go to extend slave
ry. It has driven you back in California
and in Kanzas it viii invade you soon in
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri
and Texas. 1t will meet you in Arizona. in
| Central America, and even in Cuba. The
invasion will be not merely harmless but
benefcent, if you yield seasonably to its
|
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and the other slave States, which have al
ready yielded in that way to its advances.
You may, indeed, get a start under or near
the tropics, and seem safe for a time, but it
will be only a short time. Even there you
viii found States only for free labor to
maintain and occupy. The interest of the
white races demands the ultimate emancipa-
ton of all men. Whether that consumma-
ton shall be allowed to take effect, with
needful and wise precautions against sudden
change and disaster, or be hurried on by
violence, is all that remains for you 10 de-
eide.
| For the failure of your system of slave
labor throughout the Republic, the respon-
sibility will rest not on the agitators you
condemn, or the political parties you arraign,
or even altogether on yourselves, but it viii
be due to the inherent error of the system
itself, and to the error which thrusts it for
ward to oppose and resist the destiny, not
more of the African than that of the white
races. The white man needs this continent
to labor upon. His head is clear, his arm
is strong, and his necessities are fixed. He
must and will have it. To secure it, he will
oblige the Government of the United States
to abandon Intervention in favor of slave
labor and slave Ststes, and go backward
forty years, and resume the original policy
of Intervention in favor of free labor and
free States. The fall of the castle of San
Juan d'Ulloa determined the fate of Mexico,
although sore sieges and severe pitched bat
ties intervened before the capture of the
capital of the Aztecs. The defeats you have
encountered in California and in Kanzas de-
| termines the fate of the principle for which
you have been contending. It is for your
selves, not for Us, to decide how long and
through what further notifications and dis
asters the contest shall be protraeted, before
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