The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-01-12
SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES.

"Eow we aver that there is nothing practical
about the que stion of slavery in the Territories
The right which the South claim with regard to
the Territories lie purely an abstract right Their
claim is that they have the right OF going into The
Territories with their property and having it pro-
teced there, the that the North have the right
of settlement and protection. Grant he right, aud
1t will not make one more slave nor one more
slave State. Grant it, and there is not Terrific
ry where slavery can eurvive--nOt one-simply
because soil and climate are against slave labor
few years ago the North cOnvulsed with
fear. excited by unscru ulous PolitIcIans, that
Kansas would be made i slave State. It has turn.
ed out that white people eau scarcely live Kan.
sae. Now Mexico has b,en ol en- to slavery tor
several years by the Of Grafton vi the local law, but
the late census shows that there but ty slaves
in all that Territory, and that these domestic
servants of army and other Federal officers tell-
pOraiy resident there. It is impossible that STA.
very can be eAtended beyond Its present limits,
whatever privileges of emigration NAY be gwen
To it, Then why should The North stand out with
regard to this abstract question Of right which, II
admitted to Its fullest extent, would be a barren
right The South are tenacious with respect to
it, because they think it affects their equality
Stairs. This Is ALL NointellIgenC southern Iliau
dreams that any of the Terri ories will become
slave Statee. The South stand tor principle
nothing more, nothing less-and they are the more
tepacouS Of the principle because they are the
weaker seetIon.
We clip the above choice bit, from the
Detroit Free Press. one of the most abiect
of all the race of dirt eaters. We have heard
SO much Of this twaddle about the soil and
climate of the territories, beng uniavorabie
to slave labor, that we are heartily tired of it.
Will some Of these wiseacres BE- SO kind
as to descend from their lofty platitudes,
and inform US wherein is the difference in
the soil and climate of Kansas. Utah, New
Mexico, and the Iudian Territory and such
slave States as Missouri. Arkansas, Ken
lucky. Tennessee. Virginia. Maryland. Del
aware. and North Carolina. Will they tell
the ''soil and climate" of Illinois and Mis-
souri, that the former must be free, and the
latter slave coil ? There is not an intelli-
gent child in the country but knowE,-and
therefore we may infer that the editor of the
Free Press knows-tbat nothing but legis-
lation, positive legislation. kept slavery out
of Indiana, Illinois, and California. Il must
be fattering to the southern people. to be
told that they have been fighting for thirty
years. for mere "abstractlon;" that they
resisted the admission of California; over
threw The Missouri Compromise: and en-
Geavored with ali their might to plant sla-
very in Kansas; and now are trying TO over
throw the government. all for ''barIea
right" an abstract question
Away with such nonsense. The people
of Kansas. think they have been fighting
for something more than abstract rights
When we have Dred Scott decisions forced
upon Us: when our Federal judges re-afirm
that decision in our midst; when our Gov
ernors veto our prohibition of slavery: when
Southern traitors and Northern plug uglies.
threaten to destroy the Union, because the
government is about to pass into the hands
of party who differ with them on this ''ab-
straction," then. we think il is time for
sensible men to imagine there must be some
thing more than .'barren right" at stake.