White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-22
Hon Mr. Seward on the Admission Of
Kanaaa

Hon Mr.. Seward on the Admission Of
Kansas.
Mr.. Seward presented a memorial Of
the Legislature of Kansas, praying fer ad :
mission into the Union.
Mr.. Seward then spoke: He opened
by remarking on the evils of slavery.
Labor. either of fellow-men, or of slaves,
was the cardinal necessity Of society.
Some States have one kind, and some
the other. The Slave State strikes down
and affects to extinguish the personality
of the laborer. not only as q member Of
the political body. but also as a parent.
husband. child. ncighbor, or friend. He
thus becomes, in political view. merely
property. without moral capacity, and
without domestic, moral. or social rela-
tons, duties, rights or remedies, a chat
tel, an object or bargain, sale, gift, in
heritance or theft. The States protect
not the slave as a man, but the capital
of another man. which he represents in
contrast.
Mr.. Seward reviewed the condition of
the free laborer and the Free States. He
said the State that repels slavery, encour-
ages the laborer by maintaining and de-
veloping his national personality in all
the rights and faculties of manhood, and
with the privilege Of citizenship. He
thought he might not inaccurately call
the Slave States capital States" In
the opinion of Mr.. S., the fathers of the
Republic adjusted the slavery question,
so that it might have given us much less
than our present disquiet, had not cir
cumstanees afterwards occurred which
they had not clearly foreseen.
He condemned the practice of slavery,
and hoped for its discontinuance. They
expressed this as fundamental principle
in the Declaration Of Independence. that
all men are created equal, and thought
the Constitution recognized every human
being not as capital, but as person. AT
ter giving brief history of the settlement
of Louisiana Territory, the speaker refer,
red to the question of Congress legisla-
ting for the territories. The question of
1920 was identically the question of 49,
go. lie alluded to the conflict going on
between freedom and slavery. The Dem.
ocratic party was generally found sup
porting policy of capital. He quoted
instances-Mr. Van Buren, launched q
prospective veto against the anticipated
measure Of removing slavery from the
District of Columbia. A Democratic
Congress brought Texas into the Union,
STIMULATING probabilities for its future
organization into four Slave States.
MIR. Seward referred briefly to the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise and its
effects upon the Territory of Kansas
Immediately after that event the Wing
party went down, never to rise again,
and the Republican party was organized.
He spoke of the efforts of Democrats to
make Kansas Slave State, and to force
it into the Union as such, and denounced
that party's efforts to mask itself behind
the battery Of the Supreme Cont. The
same party was itself responsible for the
act to subvert the free Republic of Nicar-
aqua and open it to slavery and the Afri-
can Slave Trade.
Mr.. Seward said the Republican par
ty embodies the popular protest and re
action against policy which has been
fastened upon > nation by surprise, and
which the reason and conscience Of man.
kind condemn. He spoke of the coming
Presidential campaign. and the Republi-
cans holding to the principles of proven
ting the Territories by constitutional
means from becoming homes for slavery
and polygamy.
He said the policy Of the Republican
party was to stand 0y the freedom Of
speech and Of the press. The speedy i'm
provemant of the public domain by home
stead laws, and it will encourage min
ing, manufactures and International
Commerce. He was no assailant OF
States. All the States were parcels Of
his own country. He said it was well
and wisely arranged that the States were
sovereign on the subject of slavery with
in their own borders. He said that John
Brown and his associates acted on earnest
though fatally erroneous convictions. He
pronounced it an act of sedition and trea-
son. and criminal in Just the extent that
it affected the public peace, and was de-
structivs of human life. He did not think
anything serious would grow out of the
repeated threats to dissolve the Union.