The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-01-18

Influences may TOR lime intervene 70 warp
il from its appointed way. it viii forever.
like tie magnetic needle, revert ba OK to the
eternal current wh;rh God has set to bind
it to it's course. Consequently. between it
and slavery there Is. in principles. an eternal
antagonism. The Law of the one is to ac-
complish the identical result which the 9TH
er is bound by its Ia~ to prevent. To dom
mate government. and keep it from obey
ing the true principle of it's being. is there
fore the chief task Of Slavery. Il must sub
vert Government. With respect to itself. to
have an exisience. Nor is this all. Gov
eminent arises from tie eleme ntary spirit of
justice operating TO the end of maintaining
among men the divine order. Slavery IL
at war with this eles entsrv spirit. and con-
sequently TO merely neutralize Government.
leaves it still exposed to the force of natur-
al justice. 1t must therefore. subvert this.
which it can only do through the forms OF
authority; hence it must control the ma
chinery and symbols of Government. Thus
possessing the power Of the State. it can
confer upon itself legal sanction which ma
'uTe denies it. So that the existence of
Slavery necessarily involves its mastery of
the Government in some form or other. But
the tenacitv of Government to the law OF
its being. gives it powerful tendency. when
thus perverted, to recur to its true functions.
which calls for. an equally strong opposing
influence to counteract this tendency.
Hence shareholders are forever at work. for
tifying themselves in the Government, bv
augmenting every possible way their po-
liticai control.
Security is the great necessitv of Slavery:
security is what it wants and must have.
The value ofproperty in slaves. like that Of
any other. depends on its tenure. But a
secure tenure is much more difficult to get
for slaves than for ordinary property. The
latter NAV be tolerably safe under any cir
cumstsnc except those of the widest
anarchy, because mankind recognize and
respect. inatinctivelv. the natural AMI nee
essary property which is in the order of ma
tura incident tn man.
But "a to slave property. the danger is
simply that OF an interference to set the
bondman free. Negro thief" favor,ts
epithet of Shareholders. ia with than only
another name for an "Abolitionist." It be
ing only possible to render slavery secure
by interposing the embodied force of the
community. in its G 'vernment, against the
natural impulse Of each DISTINGUISHED mem
Der thereof to strike it down. ths slavehold
or must not only govern the Government
to keep it from doing justice between him
aplf and the bondman. but he must own il.
that he may use it as shield against indi
vidual intervention. Yet it is constantly
li4ble to be swept out of his hands and car
red back to its natural orbit by the power
full tides of human thought and feeling
which never cease to fow. And so he i:
never at rest. He must be always rolling
his stone. A precarious tenure Of his slaves
is intolerable t. him. The constantly re
curing fear of losing the power of govern
ing excitas in his mind visions-to him thu
most hideoua-of universal emancipation
The probability of it goes directly home t.
his pocket by reducing the market value o
! his slaves.
| It is. therefore, by no means enough 70
| him to have present possession Of Govern
ment. He must have it for all time: and o
this he must have guarantees. It results
that the more he gets the more he wants
He can. of course. never get absolute guar
antees. because he ia in conflict with thu
Absolute. The moral world moves. anC
Governments move with it. and both move
though irregularly. in the direction of eter
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tinuas more or less in question. in spite o
all he can do. Thus slaveholding inevita
bIv begets an intense and ever-augmentins
lust of power. which nothing can fully ap
pease. but which would, If not overcome
advance. step by step, from one seat Of au
thority to another. until it covered the
whole continent with its black pail.
The annals of our country abound will
illustrations to enforce this teaching.
It never occurred to them that the Nortl
would. in spite OF their judicial decree
wrest their possessions from them by gu
perior emigration. But it so happened tina
Kansas was the key to the whole issue, ant
the North fixed its eye upon Kansas. anc
determined. cost what it might. to secure it
The acquisition of Kansas. by an intensely
Anti-Siavery population, dashed the 6ne
scheme of the Shareholders. and left then
no other resort. if they would have indie
pendence, than an attempt 20 win it by wal
against the Government. And this attemp
We have in the present rebellion.
Aud here let me pause for brief mo
ment to par = merited tribute of respect anC
gratitude to my constituency. Brave. de
voted. magnanimous. heroic people! proud
~ do bear your honored name in these
halls. Sir. theirs is the glory of these
eventful DAYS: to them belongs the credits
of having first interposed barrier to check
the progress of despotic rule on this CONT
nant. Kansas lost. we should now, b.
hopelessly. irretrievably subjugated. No
such Republican party as we have, seen
would have been organized. or if organic i'd
it would have been speedily extinguislled
Abraham Lincoln would not now be Presi-
dent. but rather some such STAKEHOLDER As
jefferson Davis. We, should not nov see 8