Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-24
KANSAs.-FREEDOM AND SLAVERY.

The warfare between Freedom and Slavery, at
this time, the most interesting and important,
perhaps of all the contests now being waged in
the world, u.s. like all other warfares, constantly
changing its chief points of conflict. The first,
of any moment, after the adoption Of the Fed
eral Constitution, was on the admission of Mis-
souri, as Slave State and the establishment of
the Missouri Compromise line between the Slave
and free States, which, though wrong and an
outrage at the time, may have, after all, had
tho effect of preventing Slavery from getting
any foothold and the Saveholding interest from
establishing any color of claim, to any of the
territory north of that line, till the fast increas-
ing North had accumulated as now, a sufficient
surplus of population to override Southern en-
igration, and, in spite of it, people and possess
this rich National domain by the hosts of free
dom. The second great contest between these
great powers of light and darkness in our coun-
try, arouse out of the division of territory &C
quircd in the war of Mexico, which resulted
in tho new Compromise of 1850, and the enact
lnent Of the Infamous Fugitive Slave Law And
the third wehaye just passed through in the
breaking up the first by the passage of the
Nebraska Bill But what will be the fourth
Will it be on the now threatened attempt to
repeal the Nebraska Bill We predict not, for
two reasons First, because, as we suspect, the
real and earnest opposcrs of Slavery who are
fast approxmatng to majority in the free
States, will not press measure, which woa.d
place them back into the thrall OF those Com
promises by which they all now feel they have
been so long beguiled and cheated Second be-
cause the question of repeating tho abrogating
clause Of the Nebraska Bill will so soon bc ST.
perscded by another and perhaps still more ex-
citing question-that of the admission of Kan
sas as a free or Slave State into the Union. And
that will be the next great conflict.
All accounts agree in the statement that
Kansas is filling up with cmigrants with "a
pidity unexampled, even perhaps by the great
influx Of population in 1910 and 1850 in.o CAL
ifornia; one account coming from correspond
ont of the Philadelphia Ledger dated at St.
Joseph, Mo- and said to be reliable man, saws
&C. All the emigration from Iowa and Missouri
is now to Kansas The Indians title will expire
in November, and there are thousands of whites
who will then cross the river here and ut points
above. AT ferry some few miles above here,
the ierryman informed me that he had daily ave
ragged forty families across his ferry This may
seem incredible, but it is true. At least 5000
persons from Iowa alone arc believed to bayc
crossed the river for Kansas between this place
and WostpOrt and at this moment there ar
eight or ten thausand white persons now in the
territory.
- In twelve months there will be sufficient
number OF persons to form State government;
and, mark my prediction, at the next session of
Congress, Kansas will be knocking for admis-
sion into the Union as a sovereign State
Another letter from Dr. Williams u Missouri
Stakeholder, contends, on the other hand that
there are already enough Shareholders in Kansas
to make it Slave State; while the Editor If
tho Presbyterian, Kentucky paper, who appears
to be an unbiased witness, and who has bsen 70.
comfy in Kansas, says:
4 The people of Upper Missouri arc intensely
excited at the prospect Of having free ter,;toryy
anu underground railroads on three sides NJ
them, and will make determined res;ssanoa " "
IT. The squatters who have gone from thot COY ~
ton, have organized and banded together '' =,
keep out the abolitionists. The contoSt III ~
probably be long and fearful one and Will
convulse the nation from its centre to ts nay
cumierence before it is over. The nrobab;I;t;aa
however, are that the emigrants from tba G.eS
will far outnumber those from tho 81. 'uo Tree
and that many even of the latter will, Nv
making 1t Tree State. The prepopderenSes w os
the other way when we were there hn, tho s was
grants from other regions besides M;s,o o,,;
mad not then had time to get there 'aS'V FUR,
months may, and probably will, turn the so ,om
the other way" A '''' scale
lhls last writer probably gives true view Of
'ne case and that, with the other acco,nt,
goes 10 show not only how rapidly the tide of
emigration is rolling into Kansas, but that nj.
territory as Tar as the United States and tha;.
territories, as at present constituted. ara no.
crrnsd atleast, must be the next crsa. hs..'
ground between Freedom and Slavery A..
will the North slumber and let the South sana
into this fair territory enough slavehol dcrs with