Des Arc citizen., 1860-09-26

the holding of slaves in the Territory, anC
 immediately and forever, slave property
 is expelled and excluded, in every in'
 stance, on every soil, under every climate
 as effeciually and permanently as though
 laid under the ban of Congressional inter. dlction. Favorable climatic and geo. graphic considerations might, in per.
 fectly normal and healthy state of public sentiment, ensure it's existence. But the present condition of public sentiment is altogether abnormal and healthy. There is in the moral atmosphere a peslilentia influence far more fatal to the permanent security of slave property in the Terri tories, than is the ice-dagger itself which we are told is borne horizontally on the chill blast of the far northwest. Every arrival of an emigrant train from the north creates an auxiliary of antagonIsm to slavery, which, if left unrestrained by sufficient legal enactment efficiently en- forced, will prove as noxious in Messlla Valley, where cotton is indigenous to the soil as on the shores of Lake Superior.
 Under any circumstances, even with a favorable climate and in healthy slate of public sentiment, the settlement of slaves in an unorganized Territory is at tended with such extraordinary risk that their introduction at that period is scarcely prudent The casualties of travel, the change of climate, the exposure incident to new settlement, Indian hostilities, law less outrages on the part of the Desperate cla ,,f ieIr rp and profit with interruptions impunity on our Western wilds, and many such agen- cies exist, any one of which may suffice 10 reduce to immediate poverty even the most opulent slaveholder who proves sufficiently adventurous to hazard the ln- .troduction of his property into an morgan ized Territory. Thus, it most frequently happens that the slaveholder who desires to push his fortune into the far west, leaves his slaves at home. He goes, like the Northern settler, armed with his rife and axe. With his own hand he hews him self out home in the wilderness, upheld by the hope that better days will establish around him the supremacy and security of law of equal justice which will finally enable him to share the fruit of his toil and enjoy the opulence which 1t procures him, with the dependents to whom he owes protection and control. What encourage ment can such man find in the assurance that tho great object of his enterprise and labor and prvation, may be snatched from him at the hostile fiat of the first band of abolitionists who may secure the first foot hold on new patch of the extended Ter ritory in which he has established an in- terest and property. Is this right? Is tjust?
 Such injustice is not the only evil which must result from the grab-game of Squat ter Sovereignty. It is not in the nature of brave men, who have voluntarily left their homes to encounter all the dangers of frontier life, to submit to oppression like this. Arms are seized, reciprocal violence ensues, mutual outrages follow civil authorities are disregarded by all parties; laws, good, bad and indifferent, are overthrown. and the life as well as the property of the slaveholder becomes a mere bubble on the whirlpool of anarchy and blood-shed.
 This is no imaginary picture. The drama has been already performed and the title of the tragedy is true to lfe- :" Squatter Sovereignty and anarchy--one and indivisible" w.