The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-11-12

and more acceptably carry out the constl-
tutional guarantees of the rights of South
ern Shareholders. He would consider the
Union a broken compact, if these plain
guarantees were denied by the deliberate
and persevering action of any part of the
confederacy.
If Congress, clearly representing the will
of the country, should pass laws legalizing
and protecting slave property in Territories
previously free, Mr.. Bates would execute
those laws as promptly as any other laws of
the land If Territory should organize
into State, with sufficient population to
Justify its admission, and present a constitu-
ton tolerating slavery, Mr.. Rates would not
oppose the admission of such State because
it had pre-slavery constitution.
REJoIcEs THAT MISSOURI IS BECOMING A FREE
STATE.
His creed is, that every State has right
to say how much it wants of African
slavery, and how long it wants it, and how
to get rid of it when its people are tired of
it. He does not regard it as perpetual in
stitution, but as in its very nature abnor-
NAL and evanescent, changing rapidly under
the influence of climate, commerce, civili-
cation, religion, and laws. He knows land
is glad to know it, that Missouri is rapidly
becoming free State; and he does not de-
plore the fact that it is by transportation,
and not by emancipation, that the State is
so rapidly becoming free; for he knows
that the emancipation of the slaves, to re-
main in this country and mix with the
whites, is abhorrent and intolerable. And
! to send them abroad by sudden and total
exodus, is beyond the means of any govern
ment. What is beyond his own wisdom,
he leaves 10 the inscrutable ways and Infinite
wisdom of God. The rapid and peaceful
extinction of slavery that is going on in
Missouri without the aid of emancipation
parties" and without the heat and acrimO-
ny of domestic discord, is entirely in accord
ance with the views and feelings of Mr..
Bates While Mr.. Bates is glad to see
slavery declining in Missouri, other strong
Gppositionists are sorry to witness the
same.
SLAVERY BEYOND REACH OF DEMAGoGUES-
FREE LABOR BOUND TO BECOME DoMI-
NANT.
Mr.. Bates finds no cause of discord be-
tween himself and that pro-slavery neigh
Dor on account of this difference for he
knows that neither the joy of the one, nor
the sorrow of the other, will quicken or de-
| lay the inevitable consummation that is
ahead. Mr.. Bates regards the fate Of slaves
as out of the domain of demagogues-ut-
4
that power that brings the times and sea-
sons to their appointed course, and rolls up
the Heavens as a scroll, when He has done
with the wondrous panorama. BY his
own example he has shown that he prefers
to live by his own labor, and not on the la
| Dor of slaves. But he claims TO be, in this
particular, only claw unto himself"
| THE NECESSITY OF PROCURING FOREIGN
TERRITORY FOR COLoNIzING FREE BLACKS.
He would never, under any circumstan-
| ces, countenance National organization
| having in view the interference with slavery
in the States The entire function of the
Federal Government in regard to slavery,
in his opinion, should be to protect il where
| it is-not to extend it where it is not-and,
so far as policy and ability may allow, to
| help those States get clear of it that may
wish to do SO, by the procurement of for
eign Territory, suitable to the ready and
cheap colonization of free blacks, already
become grievous nuisance to every State
of the Union, both free and slave. This is
National nuisance, and should begin to
| find a National remedy. The policy already
preached in some States of selling again
into slavery the free blacks whom humane
or grateful masters have emancipated, I'M
less those freed persons leave the State
when, indeed all the slave States and many
of the free, prohibit their entrance within
their limits under heavy penalties, is in the
highest degree cruel. 1t IS barbarous. And
it would disgrace the American Govern
ment in the face of ChriStendom, to permit
such a policy to prevail, nom the lack of
| its own Intervention to procure a suitable
home for these sorely hunted and distressed
freemen of well worked and faithful SER
| vile race.