The national Republican., 1861-12-03

kinsons pamphlet:
EXTRACTS.
We may safely, although unwillingly, abate
our opposition to slavery as national sin
provided an opportunity shall be given to trs,
its duration by the unerring action of sound
political economy, the practical applic alton Of
Gods eternal justice, which can work no
wrong.
But where Is the opportunity Every acre
OF cotton and sugar land is monopolized and
ours ID by slavery.
Let it then be the policy of the Government.
II immediate emancipation is not the result of
the present struggle, at least to prepare the
way for the overthrow of slavery by the com
petition of free labor upon the fertile soil OF
Texas. Texas contains ten million acres Of
the best cotton land in the country. capable of
producing ten to fifteen million bales OF cotton.
Let the laboring men Of the country demand
that they shall have a share In this most prof.
able branch Of agriculture. Texas has now
10000 free white Inhabitants and only lSO, 900
slaves: make 1t free State, and slavery will
be hemmed in upon the South, and all fllibu,-
tering expeditions will be ended forever. To
purchase all the slaves therein at $500 each.
would cost but 100000 900.
II IT Is true that free labor is cheaper than
slave labor, If 1t Is true that free-grown cotton
will drive slave grown cotton from the mark 1t,
then Is this the true method of ending the
whole question:; for no one believes that slavery
would last moment In any Of the old slave
States, If it were rendered Improbable to the
owners Of the slaves.
Texas contains cotton and sugar land enough
to supply three times the entire crop now
raised in this country, and II II Is true that free
labor can produce these great staples at the
cheapest rate, then will slavery end, the law
Of competition is inexorable.
Have not the laborers Of the free States o
right to demand the extension Of freedom over
at least portion Of the cotton and sugar lands
OF the country, TO compensate them for the
hardships and poverty they will have been
called upon to bear by the effort Of the slave
olgarchy to extend slavery!
Have not the cotton spinners of the world
the right to say to the stakeholder: You have
proved by the experience Of the last few years
that with your slave labor you cannot give us
cotton enough; we must try free labor and s"e
IL that be- fouud wanting.
II may be argued that there is no constitu-
i0nal power to emancipate the slaves in Texas.
even il compensation is granted; but let 1t not
be forgotten that this most ungrateful State
has utterly repudiated the Constitution. and
would seek the alliance of foreign enimies even
savages; and that there lie the greatest reason
for applying martial law, and cripping her
Resources iNr the present by confscstng her
slaves, because she is the only State 10 the
Sou heru Couf deracy which can supply their
armies with salt meats, without which they
cannot BE- kept in the field.
Let then Texas be made free
Let arrangements be completed by the pur
chase and extinction of the title OF the Indians
to the territory lying between Texas and Kan
aas, and that territory prepared for free
State
Let grant Of lands be made for the pur
pose OF building q railroad from st. Joseph
Missouri, via Lawrence. across the fertile cot.
ton lands OF the Arkansas and Red Rivers to
the wheat lands Of northeastern Texas; thence
down the valley of the Brasos River. through
the best lands in Texas, to Galveston "a dis
tanca Of only about GOO miles by which Gal
yes on would he brought within four or five
days Of Boston Slavery will then be hsmmed
III completely by the free population railroad
IL sure to bring; its further extension rendered
impossible the cultivation of its great staple,
fairly begua bv free labor; and this war, which
is not worth fighting except for such a gain,
will indeed have II glorious ending.
Then may we safely leave slavery in the old
slave States to die certain and peaceful
death, protected as far as 1t may be by the
guarantees of the Constitution so often invoked
''t W. PRIV CtioH-Du W ulCu our ldlutrS newer
would have permitted to form a part OF that
instrument had they dreamed, for single
instant, that slavery would continue to exist
at this period of our history.
If slavery is only doomed in the border
States, then Is the claim that Texas shall be
FIRE I'D by compensation-by martial law or by
breaking through the cob-webs OF unjust
human law-far stronger than before
II this is not done there will be an emigra
ton to Texas of shareholders with their chat
tes. entirely unprecedented. The opportunity
for the cultivation of cotton and sugar by free
labor, untrammelled by the neighborhood OF
slaves upon the best lands, will be lost for a
century. After that our only opportunity will
be upon the worn out and deserted plantations
OF the old cotton States.
By the cowardice of the present generation
of rthern men. Texas has been made slave
State after her territory had been dedicated
to freedom by nation which we presume to
call halt civilized. Have we the courage to
redeem her from the curse.
NThis railroad is already In progress, about
l20 miles from Galveston are completed, and
the surveys made to the Red river. The route
through the Indian Territory to Kansas is ind.
Gated upon map Of Texas published in Gal.
weston in 1860.
REBEL BATTLEs.-We have, through rebel
sources, accounts Of the capture of privateer
y scht of Galveston, by the Santee, after a
= battle which was probably not very pro