Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-04-06

- fTosI'cFtGh a yeiLI stctUs etftHS nocHHT.
Mr.. President, it is an occasion for Joy and
triumph, when community that has gather
cd itself together under circumstances of pri-
walton and exile. and proceeded through
senson of Territorial or provincial depen-
dence on distant central authority, becomes
State, in the full enjoyment of civil and reli-
giOus liberty, and rises into the dignity of
member of this Imperial Union. But, in the
case of Kansas. her whole existence has been,
and ID vet is a trial, a tempest. chaos-and
now you propose 10 make her nuptials a cele-
bratiOn OF the funeral of her freedom. The
people of Kansas are entitled to save that
freedom, for they have won it back when it
had been wrestcd from them by invasion and
usurpation. Sir, you are great and strong.
On this continent thel e isno Power can resi- t
you. On any other, there is hardly Power
that would not reluctantly engage with you
but YOU can never, never conquer Kansas
Your power, like throne which is built of
pine boards, and covered with purple, is weak
ness. except il be defendtd by people coniid-
ing in YOU. because satisfied that you are Just
and grateful for the freedom that, under You
they enjoy.
Sir, in view once more, of this subject of
slavery submit that our own dignity requires
that We shall give over this champerty with
shareholders, which we practice In prescribing
acauicsence in their rule "A condition of toler-
alton OF seif-government in the Territories
We are defeated in il. We may wisely give it
up, and admit Kansas "A free State, since she
will consent To be admitted only in that char
acter.
Mr. President, il | could at all suppose IL
desirable or expedient To enlarge the held of
slave labor aud of slaveholdng sway, in this
Republic | should nevertheless maintain that
il is wise To relinquish tue effort to sustain
slavery in Kansas. The question, in regard
to that Territory, has risen from private one
about slavery as domestic institution, to one
OF slavery as national policy. Al every
step, you have been falling. Will You go on
still further, ever confident, and yet ever I'M
successful
olieve, sir, to some extent, in the isother-
NAL theory. think there are regions, begin
ming at the North pole, and stretching south
ward. where slavery will die out sOon. if it be
planted; and | know, too we'll, that i'm the
tropics, aud To some extent northward of
them, slavery lives long. and Is hard to extir
pate. But cannot hnd certain boundary.
| am sure, however, that SO deg. 80 MIN. IL
too for north. I think il Is movable boun-
dairy, and that every year it advances towards
q more southern parallel.
Int Is there just now a real want of o new
State for the employment OF slave labor!
see aud feel the need of room for a new State
TO be assigned 10 tree labor, OF room for such
a new state almost every year. think see
how IL arises. Free white men abound In this
country, and ia Europe, and even in Asia.
Economically speaking, their labor is cheap
there is u surplus OF H. Under improved con-
ditions OF society, life grows loager, and men
multiply faster. Wars, which solnc times waste
them. grow ls-ss frequent and less destructive.
Invention Il continually producing machines
and engines, artificial labor.rs, crowding
them from one held OF industry a. another
ever more from the EAstera regions of this
contiaent % the Wet, ever more from the
Overcrowded Eastern continent 10 the prairirs
aud the wildernesses ia our own But do not
see any such OVERLOOKING OF the African slave
population in this country, even where il is
unresisled. Free labor has been obstrlctcd in
Kansas. There are, nevertheless, 10000 or
CO., 900 freemen gathered there already gath
er there within four years. Slave labor has
been free to importation. TheIe ars only 100
10 200 slaves there. To settle aud occupy =
new slave State anywhere is. pars pass, 10 de-
populate old slave States Whence, then, are
the supplies Of slaves 10 come, and howf Only
by reviving the African slaxs trade. Bat this
IL forbidden. vizonarEez dream that the pro-
hibiiioa can be repealed. The idea Is insane.
A Republic OF thirty millions Of ffeemen. with
: free white Iaboring population 30 dense As
already TO crowd On Subsistence, 20 Be brought