Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-05-26
What the Free States have Done
for SlnyPry.

What the Free States have Done
for slavery.
From The Free Sonth, one Of the
boldest AntiSlavcry papers in the
country. published in Newport, Ken
tucky:
1.-The slave States never could have
perpetuated slavery by extending its
domain without the all of the free
States. They have been the aiders.
abettors and conspirators in this crime
against God. against the constitution
of our country, and the rights Of man.
Without free State votes, the Slave
Power never could have carried a
single measure in Congress; it never
could have added single slave State
to the Union, or elected President to
serve its purposes. On the other
hand, the free States, without single
vote from the slave States might have
consccrated every foot of our territory
to freedom, and might have made
every new State come into the Union
with free Constitution. But instead
Of this, they have enabled the slave
States to do what they could not ac-
complish alonc-to add more slave
States to the Union and to open our
territories to the Shareholders with
their herds of human cattle.
"See what the free States have done
for slavery! They could have done
for freedom all that they might have
desired, though all the slave States
hal, in a solid phalanx, opposed every
measure. But without help from free
States, the Slave Oligarchs was, as it
is now, utterly powcrless. 1t could
not now keep Kansas out of the Union
three months longer, nor could it for
longer term keep the territories open
to slavery. or visit with fine and i'm
prisonmcnt the citizens of free State
who gives food and shelter to broth
er man seeking for that liberty which
is the common birthright of every hu-
man being.
"Yet we hear men in the free States,
saying, We have nothing to do with
slavery in the slave States We re-
ply. and the charge is susceptible Of
the clcarest proof, in nine of those
States, men in the free States have es-
tablished slavery; they have invited
Shareholders with their human chattels
to take possession of the territories;
they enacted tyrannical fugitive slave
law, and they are at this moment, in
political speeches, in resolutions Of
Conventions, and in the columns OF
newspapers, both Democratic and Re-
publican, pledging themselves to the
Slave Power, that il it can make any
more slave States out Of free territory,
it shall have their aid ia bringing them
into the Union.
"'The free States have nothing to
do with slavery in slave States =
Never was o more cgrcgious fallacy
imposed upon the human understand
ing. The free States perpetuate slav-
cry in slave States by extending it
where it did not previously exist, thus
creating fresh market for slaves and
increasing their value in the old slave
States.
"IIcre on the soil of slave State,
we appeal to men in the free States to
cease from med,lling with slavery by
perpetuating 1t IN the States where IT
now exists, and to assist in undoing
what the free States have done for
slavery. Will men in those States
cut themselves loose from the shackles
Of party and dare to interfere a little
in favor Of liberty and human riglitsY
There are some noble souls, we know,
in every free State. who arc dctcrmin-
ed that the Interference shall not be
for slavery, and it is to those noble
men and women, and to such as they,
we look for that substantial aid that
shall help free the South from that
withcring blight which the North has
enabled her to bring upon herself and
also upon the whole Union"
Provoking.