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

the Southern States hey are aictually or
ganizing militia against the freemen who
are establishing Freedom in Kansas and New
Mexico, as if the settlers in Kansas were no
wiser than they are, Ind know no better way
TO propagate freedom than by the sword.
When freemen wa4k To make Territory
free, they give i s. lles boxes, and school
houses, and churekess and Slavery win
never triumph whers these are first estab-
| lished.
But to go little Aesper into the subject.
In 1897, there were wise men administer
ing the Government 9f the United States !;
aud if you look int heir sayings, you will
see they had all fonEa out that the Republic
was to be the home of an ever-increasing
people. SO free. SO pscud. so wise, so vig-
orous, that they essalS not be confined in
the old thirteen Slass /; they saw this was
to be the home of tie free men, of free la
Dor. So, they set apart all the Territory
within their reach =, all they had con-
troll over-for FFeedszn and for free emf
4 grafton. Now. contrast that which was
tho't wise in 1887 with what actually hap
lpened in 1850! In 1890, it wasffound that
the population of the United States had
reached the Mississippi. Then, what was
necessary was, to provide exactly the same
kind of government for the terriroy west of
the Mississippi, as had been provided for
the country east of it; so that, when the
Government should be extended to the Pa
ci6c, all should be free. Could anything
have been wiser, than for government in
1850 to have given Freedom to these Ter
ritories ? But Congress didn't do it. They
had previously given Missouri to Slavery,
L L IL L.
now they wished to block up free labor by
the barrier of slave Missouri. Could any
! thing have been more absurd than this at
tempt to stay the course of freemen? They
determined that free labor must go cut oil
the United States, or go round Missouri to
: Kansas and New Mxico, but it broke their
barriers, and passed through the hear of the
slave power,
) There were long ago good and brave men
who foretold this result.
) There were Henry w. Tayler, and Tai
nadge, and Rnfus King, peerless among
them all. who declared in the Senate of the
! United States, that the Slave Power in Mis-
t souri, would prove a mockery; that this
land was for liberty; and that the Slave
: Power would repent in sackcloth and ashes
t But these good men were overruled Mis-
with Slavery. And for what reason Il
was because the shareholders had property
I-eapital which must not be confscated
even 10 prevent Slavery from being estab
) lished over as large domain as half of Eu
f rope. This was the aeason the Federal
e Government determined to secure theil
: slaves to the capitalists of Missouri. What
capital had Missouri in slaves that was saw
ed at that time? All the slaves in Nilsson.
ri, at that time, were exactly lO,2 in
4 number, which were worth-and l was
i born STAKEHOLDER, and know something Of
! the value of slaves-at that time, three
S hundred dollars head, including the ole
: and Young, the sick and decrepid, which
e made the total value of the slaves in Mis-
souri,. in 1890, 5000, 900. Arkansas ther
i had 500 slaves, worth S480.00O. The
, whole capital of slaves in Missouri and Ar
# kansas was about So, 500 900, but to saw,
4 that capital in negroes the great compromise
: of 1920 was made, and Kansas given up t.
r Slavery. Three million five hundred thou
: sand dollars was a large sum, but nobody
u then or ever proposed to confscate it,
It They were to be left free to sell their slaves
= they were at liberty to keep them, SO ONLY
q that they should import and make no more
q There was no need of confscating tn
e slaves in Missouri any more than there wa
+ in Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New York
: New Jersey and Pennsylvania, SO this So,
it $780, 600 was never in jeopardy.
lie Now, fellow citizens, even if it had bee
= coDfscated, how small sacrifice of proper
if ty it was, weighed against the incalculabl
k blessings of Freedom over the American
g continent. Look now at the advantages re
IS sulting from their success, and see how un
availing are the contrivances of politicians
, and even of nations, to counteract and con
le troll the great moving principle of the age
= Who would have thought that by MAXIM
e Missouri slave State in 1890, that fort
t. years afterw ards, when the canals of Ne'
er York and Pennsylvania were burdened wit
,e commerce, when steamers floated on all on
id lakes and rivers, when teachers and preach
r? ers were abroad through the land. the
10 could make Slave State out of Kansas
Id They tried it, and what have they got
re They have got Slavery in Missouri and Al
e, kansas: Freedom in Kansas, and pract
re cally in Texas, in Utah and California
/? This is what comes from attempting TO bin
4, up the DEGREES of Providence in flake
D. bands by human skill. EApplause.l VIII
y did their attemp: fail It failed becaus
IN society has its rights and its necessitie
ID 1t was just as necessary that men shouI
4. move out of Massachusetts and New Yor
be and the Western States, and Missouri eve!
ne into the Territories. as it was necessary tn;
Kansas and other Territories should receiy
them when they have come. 1t was just
n necessary that the exile of Europe shout
have an asylum where be would be perfec
is " free TO have no slaves. This movemel
of the age is quickened by the agenc
Sc of invention; all the operations of trad
On the arts and manufactures, are accelerate
lie. by mechanical skill. Who thinks now
or drawing himself to town with q pair
nd mules The steam engine carries him the
with less cost than he could walk or go c
rs wheels driven by animal power. All Il
implements With which work and husban
is ~ are done, are The product of mechanic
as skill. Every farmer sees that by the in
ed provements for cultiyating the soil, eEel
w year be is able to dispense With the serv
on ces of one more laborer, who becomes hin
in self an independent farmer.