The independent. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Kan.) 1860-1874, 1862-12-06
j. ~. ROBERTS. Editor.
The North and the South.

on ths White race. We mean the Siav-
cry OF this country. The negroes
themselves are not any more degraded
~ the South than they we're in Africa.
II is true their condition is one Of the
deepest degradation, and that they are
NO worse off in this Cristian land than
they were when in barbarism is very
poor argument for the institution.
a But i, is upon the white man-ihe
poor white trash" of the Slave States
that Slavery rests with the most
blighsing power. Instead Of noble
and intelligent being, conscious of his
ewn worth, with aspirations somewhat
in accord with his immortality. he is a
miserable. groveling, ignorant creature,
hardly equal in intelligence to the COM
6 mon order Of slaves. and totally unfit
TO exercise the right Of citizenship be
cause Of Lis ignorance.
No one can pass from The Free States,
where the benefits of the Common
School System are anywhere. visible.
into the Slave States, where such
Schools are only known in name. or ex-
Isl as shadow without the substance, -
and OF be struck by the contrast. Il
is like passing from midday into dark
ness. 1t is really painful 10 behold the
mental deso'ation which everywhere
appears at the South.
La vain does one look for q bright
picture to relieve the general gloom
Amcng the lower classes i, is all one
black pail; dismal night all the lime
growing darker. 1t is desert wiihou;
an oasis; or if there are any at all, they
only tend TO make The general aspec,
more dreary.
Here in Kansas We have some evil
dences of the effects of Slavery Un-
ion meu who have been driven from
Missouri, generally regarded as not a
bad Slave State, are too often unable
to write their own names. or even to
read them when printed!
And the number of those who can
neither read nor w,ile is growing great
Or every year at the South and less ev-
cry year a, the North. 1t is sickening
to take up the Census reports and look
at the statistics of ignorance in the
Southern States. White men and wo-
men remain almost as ignorant as the
poor beasts they dive! ~
IS. Now. when it is i'll the power Of the
nation to raise this incubus which is
nesting with such deadly aad crushing
f,rce upon The white race through tie
military power, shall it not be done
Is there a man SO lost to the welfare oI
his own "ki.h and kia" as to oppose a
policy so fraught with beneyolence,
hope aud progress to The white man
Ii there are any such. they must be
very ignorant or very heartIess.
The strength of the two sections ol
country is almost equally as great in
contrast. Tie South can produce as
brave man as the North. but not as
many Of them. Besides. her slave
population is an element Of great weak
ness, ,rhen rot kept IN suljection Iy Fed
erat dcgonets.
The commerce Of the South is moth
ing g'c"mpared 10 that of the North. =
Compare Savannah with New York.
Charleston with Philadelphia, Mobile
with Boston, New Orleans with all
her natural advantages with Chicago
And 50 continue through all the other
cities. The only live ones we find in
Slave States are Baltimore and ST. Lou
is. and these both derive their life from
the free North. Were i, not for cotton.
(which can be raise! far better BY free
than by Slave labor.) the Southern
States would be almost destitute of
commerce. E
In all these respects. intelligence.
strength. commercl. the North is al
most infinitely in advance of the South.
Why this difference? Tie soil and the
climate Of the South is much better
than those OF the North. Her natural
resources arc more abundant, profuse,
exuberant. Where is the defect? =
There is but ono answer, SLAVERY.
SlnlI-aot such q monster be smitten
TO the death! Would any sane man
devoid Of prejudice. oppose the down
fall Of such . 81 stem Of blighting ours
ssl
IL is said ihc negroes. il made free,
would rush 10 the North, and interfere
with free white labor. This il a grea,