The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-07-27
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tREE-SOIL VANDALISM.

do towards supplying fhe motive power
ofpolitical abolitionism is shown plainly
enough by the treatment Which negroes
who are not runawaysendWe at the hands
of the people Of the North In business,
Yin social relations, in private, in public,
| in places of assembly, on steamboats,, in
cars, in omnibuses, everywhere and at
all times, the free negro is tre'tcd will
aversion Even those noisiest il thci,
protcstations Of negro equality contra
dict. their words BY their actions
Abolitionism Of the. most fanatica1
stamp was no doubt the originator o.
the frec-soIl party nor can it be disputed
thatit still dt riyes aid from o fanaticisn
as black and as furious as that Which pre-
vailed in the ahti-siavery conclaves Of
1886. But potent as this clement may
be, it forms but a small part of the Black
Republican party.
The vitalizing influence of the party
into which orr northern enemies have
formed themselves is the disposition to
enlarge that area for northern emigration
in which they may not come in contact OF
competition with slavery or shareholders.
The name Free-Soilers' which they have
acquired is better indication of their
true character than that of "Abolitionists"
In many instances their hatred Of negroes
is as great as their hatred of the owners
of negroes Their aversion to coming in
contact with either is such that they look
upon State or Territory, where slaves
are held as closed to their own emigrants
Their continual plea is open the Terri
tories for the free labor of the North by
excluding slavery and they are deaf to
every word urged in proof that the resi-
dence of shareholders and the existence
of slavery neither limits the resources nor
diminishes the profits Of the labor of white
men sent to the Territories from New
York OF New England. They will listen
to no attempt to show them the absurdity
of their assumptions. and only answer:
/" Nomore slavery in Tcrritories--no more
slave-holding States
The farther South any part of the do
main lies the more eager are these Black
Republican Gotbs, Huns and Vandals to
drive out all shareholders and to take
full possession. They have their longing,
enyious eyes fixed upon the rich alluvi
ons, the teeming vallies and the bounti-
full fields of the west and southwest.
They move in annual armies from the east
to the western slope of the MISSISSIPPI
They press in swelling myriads upon the
slave-holding States. From the sterile
and wornout lands at home which barely
suffice to furnish food for their nanufac-
turers and shop.keepers they migrate and
carry with them Yankee institutions and
Yankee prejudices; and wherever they go
they trample upon the right and revile
The customs Of those who emlgrate from
southern States. Were Missouri to-day
replaced in her Territorial condition, with
out the strong barriers Of State SOW
sreignty and self-protecting laws, she
would in a twelvemontli be overwhelmed
With a free-soil emigration as completely
is Kansas nowsis. Tie aversion of these
'ree-soil Vandals to shareholders is over
conc only BY their hope to out-number,
,ut-vote and thereby expei them.
To these surgipg hordes of greedy and
ntolerant northern emigrants the federal
constitution and federal laws can oppose
q i
Tut temporary check. A wave of the
Tandal tide fills q Territory to the dimen-
lions of O State and when the State is
$ erected the free-soil majority rules and
slavery is crowded beyond its borders. 1t !
$ only for the brief interval between the
of Territory and its estab-
ishment as one Of the equal sovereign.
les of the Federal Union that it remains
pen to southern emgrants with their
lave property.
Although this poor boon, this barren
light, is extended to the people Of the
south by the Constitution, as construed
nd interpreted by the Supreme Federal
judiciary, SO petalant, aggressive and
yrannical is the spirit Of frec-soil vandal-
SIN that it would wrest even this meagre /
privilege from them by the power of NAM
ers as soou as the squads of early set
lers, arriving from New England, have
numerical superiority over the settlers
rom Southern States. They claim the
egaI right of the majority toput slavery