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Show 72 feeblest of all ; constitutions like those of South Carolina, ·which provide that nobody shall sit in the Popular House of the Legislature, unless, in his own right, he own "ten , negro slaves." 10. There will be no universal suffrage, as in Massachu-setts; but a man's political rights will be determined by the color of his sldn, and the amount of his estate. One permanent class will monopolize government, money, education, honor, and ease; the other permanent class will be forced to bondage, ignorance, poverty, and shame. This is the prospect which the Northern man will find before him, if slavery prevails in the new Territory. 11. That is not all: his property and person will not be safe, as in Michigan ; border-ruffians will permanently have gone over the border, and a new Arkansas be established in Kansas. Under such circumstances, Northern men will not go there j and SO KANSAS, AND THEN ALL THE OTHER TERRITORY, IS STOLEN FROM THE NoRTH, AS EFFECTUALLY AS IF CEDED TO RussiA OR ANNEXED To THE SPANISH DOMAIN. Yes, more completely lost: for, if it did belong to Spain, we might reclaim it by filibustering; and the American Government would not disturb, but help us. Then, if a Northern man wishes to migrate, he has only the poorer land of Washington and Oregon before him, and is shut out from the most valuable territory of the United States. If the city government of Boston were, next month, to establish a piggery on Boston Common, with fifty thousand swine, and set up an immense slaughter-house of the savagest and filthiest character in the Granary Burying· ground, on Copp's Hill, and in each of the public squares ; were to give all vacant land to the gamblers thieves pimps, kidnappers, and murderers,- they would 1 not com~ mit a worse I·D J·U S t'I ce, and they would not do a greater 73 proportional damage to the real estate, and more mischief to the health of the in habitants of the city, than the American Government would do the working people of the South and North by creating this nuisance of slavery on the free soil of Kansas. So much for the effect of this on the individual interests of the working people of America. I have only taken the lowest possible view of the subject. See its Pfiects on American Politics,- on the Welfare and Progre~s of the Nation. If Kansas is made a Slave State, we shall either keep united, or else di~solve the Union and separate. 1. Suppose we keep united: what follows 'l First, New Mexico \Viii be a Slave State, then Utah. California is only half for freedom now, and will soon split into two; Lower California will be slave. Then Texas will peel off into new States; Western Texas will soon be made a new Slave State. The Mesilla Valley, bigger than Virginia, will be a slave Territory. Then we shall dismember Mexico,- make slave territory there. We shall re-annex the Mosquito Territory: the Government wants it, and lets all manner of filibusters go there now. We shall seize Cuba, to make that soil red with the white man'~ blood, which is now black with African bondage. St. Domingo must next fall a prey to American lust for land. Then we shall carry out the Fugitive Slave Bill in the North as never before. In 1836, Mr. Curtis asked the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to decree that a slaveholder from Louisiana might take his bondman to Boston as a slave, hold him as a slave, sell him as a slave, or, as a slave, carry him back. In 1855, Mr. Kane decreed that a slave- 10 |
