The Nevada journal., 1854-11-17
Slavery in Kansas.

three miles from Fort LeavenWorth, and
appointed a committee of nine to report
resolutions expressive Of the sense of the
meeting Two reports were made by the
committee - the minority report being
adopted The "whereas " " of the resolu-
tions declares that the citizens of Kansas
in public meeting assembled, in the abb
sence Of the Governor duly appointed for
the Territory, and desirous of enacting
laws for our government, to continue in
force until superseded by laws passed by
Legislature elected by the sovereign peo-
pie, &C., resolve One resolution is as
follows:
"That Kansas Territory, land as a con-
sequence the State of Kansas j Of right
should be, and therefore SHALL BE slave
territory"
BY the logic of these gentlemen slavery
is now the legal attribute of Kansas Ter
ritory Their resolutions have the force
Of laws" A tenth of the actual present
population Of the Territory, and thous-
andth Of what it will be in two years hence,
have presumed to fix the destiny of the
State. Kansas of "right" is a slave
State, and a slave State it shall" be-
These Jealous propagandists have the
merit Of good conscience. They are
discharging a duty. They do only what
is right" Nature, providence, or reli-
gion-they do not tell us what-but some
thing makes it aight for the peculiar in
stitution to exist in Kansas-therefor it
"shall " exist OF course, then, the Af-
rican slave trade as far as it peoples Kan
sas with slaves, is also right, for it helps
the right. Slavery has been acknowledged
by the nOblest intelccts Of the South to be
wrong per Sc, but an evil that could not
be well abated, and a majority of men of
the South we think entertain this opinion
Northern public sentiment has uniformly
said, let slavery alone where it is-it is
wrong, but our neighbors had it entailed
on them, and are not so much to blame
they cannot get rid of it. But it seems
that in Kansas it is ''right" The accu-
mutation Of servile population-compe-
ting with and degrading free labor in the
Territory or State it is right to intro
duce into vacant territory, where they
may just as well as not be excluded. If
slavery is light " in Kansas, freedom is
wrong morally and politically wrong.
Every vote for free constitution will be
sinful. Heaven has smiled on the propa-
gandists-a new revelation has been Civ
en- the peculiar institution, like Brig
ham Young's, has had a dispensation in
Its favor, and has become "right."
We notice furthermore in the proceed
ing that those present who objected to
these resolutions, and to the prospective
Introduction of slavery are denounced as
" abolitionists." Heaven save the mark.
With such an application the term will
soon become honorable. This term, in its
original meaning, was designed to desg-
nate those who attacked slavery in the
States, where it existed, and sought to
cause its abolition Now, it seems that an
objection to the introduction of slavery to
a new region is abolition in that region !
There is no difference in refusing a privi-
lege and invading it after it is granted
between refusing to give man money,
and stealing that he has SO every man
who voted for the free Constitution ofCal-
ltOrnla, or who is desirous to maintain it,
Is an abolitionist But this is no new
rendering of an old phrase We all know
who abolitionists are. We have been told
over and over again. Every man from
free State is one - especially if he asks,
or his friends for'him, for office. He isn't
sound, say the bar-room oracles. No mat
ter what his antecedents. If at home he
was denounced and defeated by hot-heads
as pro-slavery because of his attachment
to the constitution, Missouri and other
compromises, established by the fathers of
the republic, but swept away by modern
definitions, nevertheless he is here an abo-
litionist. 1t is strange how many aboli
tionists there are in this State In mod
ern calculation they embrace three fourths
OF the population of the Union, and espe-
cially of this State Every man is an alb
ohtionist now who comedies with the fol-
lowing orthodox whig doctrine, as enun-
clated at the National Convention in 1862
"ReSolred, That the series of acts of the
3lst Congress, the act known as the Flu