[43] Mr. C. Buxton, in _Edinburgh Review_, April, 1859. [44] _London Economist_, Feb. 12, 1859. [45] See _African Repository_, October, 1859. [46] See _African Repository_, October, 1859. CHAPTER XIII. Rationale of the Kansas-Nebraska movement--Western Agriculturists merely Feeders of Slaves--Dry goods and groceries nearly all of Slave labor origin--Value of Imports--How paid for--Planters pay for more than three-fourths--Slavery 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.