intermediate between Commerce and
Agriculture--Slavery not self-sustaining--Supplies
from the North essential to its success--Proximate
extent of those supplies--Slavery the central
power of the industrial interests depending on
Manufactures and Commerce--Abolitionism
contributing to this result--Protection
prostrate--Free Trade dominant--The South
triumphant--Country ambitious of territorial
aggrandizement--The world's peace disturbed--our
policy needs modifying to meet
contingencies--Defeat of Mr. Clay--War with
Mexico--Results unfavorable to renewal of
Protective policy--Dominant political party at the
North gives its adhesion to Free Trade--Leading
Abolition paper does the same--Ditches on the
wrong side of breastworks--Inconsistency--Free
Trade the main element in extending
Slavery--Abolition United States Senators' voting
with the South--North thus shorn of its
power--_Home Market_ supplied by Slavery--People
acquiesce--Despotism and Freedom--Preservation of
the Union paramount--Colored people must wait a
little--Slavery triumphant--People at large
powerless--Necessity of severing the Slavery
question from politics--Colonization the only
hope--Abolitionism prostrate--Admissions on this
point, by Parker, Sumner, Campbell--Other dangers
to be averted--Election of Speaker Banks a Free
Trade triumph--Neutrality necessary--Liberia the
colored man's hope.

FROM what has been said, the dullest intellect can not fail, now, to
perceive the _rationale_ of the Kansas-Nebraska movement. The political
influence which these Territories will give to the South, if secured,
will be of the first importance to perfect its arrangements for future
slavery extension--whether by divisions of the larger States and
Territories, now secured to the institution, its extension into
territory hitherto considered free, or the acquisition of new territory
to be devoted to the system, so as to preserve the balance of power in
Congress. When this is done, Kansas and Nebraska, like Kentucky and
Missouri, will be of little consequence to slaveholders, compared with
the cheap and constant supply of provisions they can yield. Nothing,
therefore,