Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-14
MORE CAUSE FOR hLARsf TO THE
FHiEHDs OF FREEDOM.

The developments of the past week, furnish
fresh causes for alarm among the friends
of freedom, and fresh food for agitation
through the conntry on the great question Of
the day. A first election has been held in Kan
sas, and it has resulted in favor Of Slavery
Gen. Joseph Whitfield, Federal OAice-holder,
and the openly avowed candidate Of the Slave
holders, has been elected Delegate to Congress
by large majority VS. had boen led to be-
lieve here at the North from the almost entire
ly concurrent accounts lately received from tina!
territory that tina free States had furnished twice
as many settlers as the Slave States, and that
the former were unanimous 10. making it a free
State. Now have these accounts been false
and deception, or has there been foul play in
the election After tie Developments which
we Published last week respecting Atohison's
plot to run in voters enough from Missouri 70
control the election by ferco of arms if nscessa-
~, our readers. Hill be prepared'to baliesc the
latter that this election docs not give the voice
of tho settlers Of Kansas but has been obtained
by the grosest fraud and outrage. What a
commentary is this Oh the srguments.of the de-
foodars and apologists Of the Nebraska Bill
Although this is nota very important election,
the delegate now chosen having no vote in Con-
gFess, yet it is full Of gyil portent as showing
what is in reserve Cor tho frecmen Of Kansas,
unless they speedily bcstir themselves in prepa-
ration for tho all important election of Leg
!aIatnre fox framing q State Constitution, which
is to settle tho dostini4s of KANSAS as q free
State or Slave State forever. This election, it
Is nov said is fxa6 for next June, which will
allow tie friends Of Freedom there and else
where, FIVE CT six mouths for action. If they
find tat, that election, also is to be controlled
by Missouri Shareholders, w!ll they not decide
thai this is 4 game which moro than one par
to can Play at If Miss0Iri ia to send in hel
thousands Of vocrs, cannot Iowa and Wiscon
sin Go the same! IF the Conatitu ton and al
law and usuago is to BE- placed at defiance in .
bad cause, Can it rot be doao in a good one
Cur Northern public must wake up in this bust
ness, and decide. now or never, whether they
will take their stand like men at this breach
which Congress made in the line of freedom by
tho r4fsaso Of the Nebraska Bill, and say tt
the iarolins food of Slavery, " Thus f.r aat
no farther or yield the point where THAI fooc
can only he stayed, and thus suffer il TO rol
on and spread ill every square mile Of our al
most bodndless territories OF the West, are sub
merged by the dark and dasolatng waters o
human bondage.
The same mails that bring tks disheart:nin,
news from Kansas bring also tho news 0
another new bat very important move OF til
Shareholders for the spread of thair darling in
stitution. This is involved in the introduction
in the Senate by Senator johnson, Of Arkansas
Ola bill which he quietly IGported at the heel o
last Session, for the organization Of u new ter
ritory lying between Red River Of Louisiana o
the South, and Kansas on North, containing
something like - millions Of acres, christene
BY tho name of Neoshc. This bill by its es
press provisions, goes 'cdois hog for Slavery
providing against the exclusion &C Slave labor
giving the territorial legislature power to pre-
scribe the character of the settlers, 30 as to sha
out Northern emigration, aud giving the peopl
the right to be admitted as State as soon q
they number enough to send d Representative t
Congress.
A bill! Of such All anomalous character, an
so palpabiy designed for the propagation @
Slavery cannot be suffered to progress withou
discussion. And as the bill is m,de the orde
of the day for the l5th Of this month, we shat
soon know more Of this new movement Of til
Slave Power, which, the New York Eucmn
Post says, is well calculated to alarm thos
who think, with its editors, that the prosperit
and honor Of the country depend on tho cor
fnenent Of Slavery within its present bounda
ries,"