The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-08-14
Of slavery and tho slave
Trade.

When it keeps slavery out OF the terrltor-
les, il does not make one freeman more-not
one bondman less. The slave who 10 pre-
vented from going to Kansas, is none the less
q slave in Virginia. The sum total OF slavery
remains precisely the same, whether ih area
be expanded or contracted, so long as there
is no emancipation.-T The World.
The World is engaged in the very COM
mendable effort OF creating more stringent
public opinion against the Slave trade; and
belittles the policy Of keeping slavery out of
the territories, by such paragraphs as that
quoted above.
Our history shows very conclusively that
the increase Of slave territory has been the
melting cause for the practical revival OF the
slave trade, which that paper so feelingly de-
plores. Had not the Louisiana territory,
Florida, Texas and New Mexico been added
as slave territory to the United States, there
would be no such intense demand for slaves
as we now witness; slaves would not have be-
come so valuable as to induce the Northern
slave States to become mere breeders for the
Southern market. 1t 10 the extent of the
new slave territory that causes this demand
for slaves with which to stock it; and it 10
because slaves have become 50 valuable in
consequences Of this increased demand that
the feeling against emancipation has become
so general 10 the South, and the African slave
trade has become 90 lucrative and inviting.
Could the area Of slave territory be restrict.
cd, the demand for slaves would diminish In
the same proportion. And had slavery been
confined within it's original limits, according
to the instructions Of our Revolutionary ia
theirs, slavery would have become unprofta-
BILE in the old slave States; and Shareholders
would not now be demanding the extension
of slavery throughout all the territory OF the
United States, and the re-opening of the Afri-
can slave trade, in order to furnish slaves to
stock 1t.
abun6antly from Southern statesmen. We
will quote from Southern politicians of the
present day, testimony to the effect that the
great object of the fathers in prohibiting the
introduction of slavery into the territories
was to discourage the African slave trade.
Mr.. Smith, of Virginia, interrupted Mr.. Cor
win during the course of his speech at the
late session of Congress, with the following
remarks:
"Will the gentleman permit me to say q
word here? MIR. Madison expressly states
that the object Of that prohibition lby th.
Ordinance OF '87 was to take away the 6elc
left open for the importation OF Africans
But in bis speech of the 23d of Januar!
last, Senator Mason, Of Virginia, went int'
at greater length, and said:
snow, as far rs concerns our ancestry,
am satisfied OF tbis-they we're not Abolition
. lists. On the contrary, believe this VA
7 their opinion their prejudice was aimee
against the foreign slave trade, the Africa
slave trade, and their belief was, that cut
/ ting that of, slavery would die out Of itself
without any act OF abolition. l attempted a
one time to show, by the recorded opinion
Of Mr.. Madison, that the famous ordinanc
of 1887, 90 far as it pr ohibited slavery in th
: Territory northwest of the Ohio, was ame
$ at the African slave trade, and that alone
= the idea being, that if they would restric
: the area into which slaves would be intro
. duced from abroad, they would, to that ex
y tent, prevent the importation Of slaves, an
Q that, when il was altogether prevented, th
# condition of slavery would die out Of itself
y but they we're not Aboitionists, far les
v within the meaning and spirit OF tae Aboii
II tionists Of the present day."
ln consonance with these views, the pres
Or emit great revival of the slave trade may b
- attributed to the recent extension OF the are
4 OF slavery which Donglas boasts has results
10 ed from the carrying out Of his principles
non intervention.
The Republicans, let it be denoted, al
{, only trying to do, what the Fathers did, an
NJ M-sc- ssys ia. 10 10. aSoi...onis1.
Ex-Speaker Orr a Dlsuni oniss.