The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-10-13


not endeavored TO improve my better oppor
tunitles to have become wiser man than
he. 1t would have been much better for
Missouri and Arkansas could they have
foreseen the consequences of their action.
The consequence of their embracing Slave
| ry is that the tide of emigration in 1890.
which would naturally have come, up the
Mississippi river, was driven round into
other regions. Instead of entering at New
| Orleans. it sought the ports of New York
and Quebec, peopled the Provinces of Can
ada and the line of the Northern Lakes
There are three millions of settlers in the
/ Provinces which Slavery in Missouri sent
round there. This same tide of emigration
peopled northern Ohio, Wisconsin and
! Michigan, and thence passed west to Iowa,
Nebraska and Kansas. Missouri has thus
lost from herself all, or large part of, this
population. Well then the mass of imigra
ton got to be so dense that it could not di
i vide and spread itself, so making a great
rush. it swept through the very strongholds
of Slavery. There is not within the longi-
tude of my voice probably one man. if Mis-
I souri, had been wise, and had not driven
emigration from its natural course, that
would ever have set foot on the soil of Kan
sas. There is population enough in Kansas
now TO make Missouri great State. But
Missouri does not want to be great State.
She prefers to wait and be Slave State.
! Laughter. She has no affection for the
people of the North. but great affection
for the people of the South. She has no
affection for free labor. but great affection
for slave labor. She has no free speech;
she is satisfied to have what she may say.
or may not, controlled by the Slave Power.
4 This is a sad case for Missouri, but not
hopeless She must look for deliverauce 10
Kansas, which Missouri refused to let come
into the Union, but which Is drawing emil
grafton through Missouri, and opening the
way, and marking out the very courre. and
inviting Missouri on, and calling upon East
ern capitalists to open national highway
to Pixies Peak and California. Missouri
to day is richer by millions by the settle
meut of Kansas by freemen. All her hopes
) of competition with the free Northern States
) are based upon what you are doing, and
can do, and will do, to makela Pacific Rail
road.
Never was policy OF any State more sui
| cidal; for either she is to be forever slave
State, as she desires to be, or she had bet
ter have been free from the beginning. If
! she is 10 remain slave State. she must be a
land would be nearly worthless-for every
slave State becomes impoverished, and eve
~ free State enriched. Then, if Missouri
wants to be slave State, the wisest thing
she can do is to do on the west what she
has done on the east. e., to be surround
J ed with free prosperous States.
These free States which you are building in
!, Kansas and Nebraska, are showing and
opening the true national highway to the
! Pacific ocean. You are producing around
Missouri the influences which her people
! unwisely dread, and call abolitionism.
2 don't know any way in which such an OPP
Grafton can be done with Sd much Quietness,
: as to 60 round her, aad leave her to aboli-
2 tionise herself She will do it, too; because
} Missouri has got capital, and she will find
out that if she is slave State and Kansas
7 free, Kansas, in twenty years, will send
= more representatives. to Congress than Mis-
g; souri-and Shareholders don't like to give
? up political power.
}. Another lesson which this occasion teach
e es US, is instructive in an eminent degree.
S When Missouri. in 1922. compelled Con-
8, gress to admit her as a slave State, and in
: 1850 to abrogate the Missouri Compromise,
and in 1856 drove all freemen from Kansas,
n in order to have Slavery in Kansas, she did
: not see how futile would be her Efforts
g Missouri obtained these concessions foI
q Slavery from the General Government, not
: because the people of the United State love
: Slavery, but because they love the Union
J, But all the efforts of the slave power were
: defeated by bands of emigrants from New
). England, from New York, from Germany
g and Ireland-who came up the Missouri
y river, fearless of cannons, and found slave
" holders here armed; and they drove them
b out of the Territory and established here
II what is called an Abolition Territory
i making it place for connection by the
y Underground Railroad with every slave
Z? State Who would have belived that thi:
? could have been done, and that We should
: have met here today to celebrate it with al
j. kinds of demonstrations-by the firing o
= cannon, by dinners, and balls-and the I'm
d ion be just as safe now as it was before
n Cheers.
y Another consideration. It is not ou
'e choice, fellow citizens, that our lot as PEG
:. pie is cast upon a continent, and that we ar
ID so constituted that in spite of ourselves VI
K must become, sooner or later. the possess
!, ors of the whole Continent of North Amer
at lea, from Hudson's Bay TO the Gulf of Mex
re leo, from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast
ID formerly occupied vast possessions on thi
t. Continent, have been gradually giving way
ut retiring. Every year they are weaker, ant
y it is only a question of Fifty or hundre1
e. years, before we shall be masters of th
d American Confederacy or Republic.
of Now, government which is to be extend
of ed over continent needs wealth; it need
re riches. A great government needs wealt
IN in proportion to its extent: its people mus
be have wealth as an element of their bappi
D. ness and prosperity. Il is utterly contempt
al ible and ridiculous to suppose. that the con
D. tinent of North Amarica, instead of bein
" peonled by freemen, who are willing to tax
i it at forty acres apiece and enrich tin
n stead of this We ought to turn off all thes
free laborers, and get slaves from Africa a
IN two hundred dollars head. What wealt
e. have they in the slave States 1 muc
as mistake if the people of Kansas would. te
or years Fence. exchange their wealth for thu
ID of the Old Dominion-slaves included.