The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-30

ton. RemonstranceS there have been,
but not such as We had right to expect
mot such as the case demanded. And
there has been exultation, too. and the
voice of encouragement. We are pained
and surprised. Itseems as if a dread
ful madness were taking hold of our
southern brethren. IS it for them 70 tri-
fie with the restraints of law to talk as
they do.lightly of force and violence ?
Is it for them to play with the trumpet of
citif war-that trumpet, whose first blast
will wake to Blood and vengeance many
of those who now lie troddeGin in the dust
of the earth? 1t may be thst We h9ve
not been plain enough with thetn..., The
people of the north, wiilingto allow them
theexercise of every constitutional right,
according to their honest understanding,
have been slow TO recognise in turn a tlx-
ed purpose of aggression desirous Of
living in peace. finding full employment
for their mental and physical powers in
the development of their own intellectu-
al and material resources, surrounded by
social influences ayerse to insolence
and brutality, feeling none of that uneas-
mess which vents itself in bluster and
quarrel, they have found it hard to ap-
prehend and harder to initiate charac-
ter the product of circumstances SO DIFF
ferent. So we have not responded to
taunts and proyocations as southerners
would have done. We are not used to
their ways. We do not stop our oppo-
nent's mouth with bullet, nor parry his
argument with the thrust of dirk. We
reason, we plead, we expostulate, We
ferbear. And thus it has been IN our
dealing with the south. We have gone
on. reasoning. pleading. expostulatlng,
forbearing. forgetting, forgiving. Per
haps all this has been misconstrued. 1t
is true, indeed, that we love not force,
and that we do not trife with the terms
by which it is set forth; but because we
trihe not, may we never be in earnest 2
There are sights that please us more than
the light of flaming houses, or the torn
flesh of men there are sounds to our
ears mora grateful than the curses of a
maddened soldiery, or the crush of break
ing bones but then it does not frighten
us to think ofthese things. We can per-
ceive no reason why we of the north
should Appropriated ourselves the whole
terror and dread of war. We cannot
tell why the whole weightof its heaviest
stroke will be for us albeit our southern
friends evidently so regard it. We have
more charcoal than they have; we have
more -saltpeter we have more birthstone;
we have more lead we have more case
hardened IRON we have more tempered
steel. and we have more bone and blood,
and nerve and muscle. Will they have
a trial by these? Ere they ready for it?
Are they eager for the clench of death
Let them beware! To insult and con-
tumely long continued they have added
monstrous and unthought of per6dy; and
now into the edge of that deep, slow
healing wound of our abused faith, they
will drive the sting of open and outrage
GUS violence. There is time to stop
If at length force must end that struggle
by a swift and terrible blow will il
then be ended.
We hope not for this; we shall do all
we can to avert it; but slavery will not
get Kansas so. We are afraid. that the
ominious look of things is keeping away
emigrants who ought to go there. If ii
were sure to become a slave state we
would advise no freeman to seek his home
there. No freeman could find one. But
this is not certain, not in our view prob
able. A struggle there viii be, and no
man ought to go there who fears ONE
There will be a call for sacrifice and self
denial but sacrifice and self-denial pay.
The natural resources of Kansas, va
rious and ample as they are, may not De
superior to those of other sections of the
west-but, while the great streams oi
emigration will doubtless take their di-
rection mainly to the facilities offered fol
procuring subsistence and for gaining
wealth, we yet hope that among those
now leaving us there viii be found many
with whom the wealth of the world is
not all its worth, nor the ease of life it:
end; many who win not hold it small
thing that at most important and criti
cal time they are thus allowed to aid II
rearing anew those institutions, civil, so
eial and religious, to whose benign work
ing themselves owe so much. Such mel
and none but such are needed in Kansas
Far more is to depend on the thorough
ness of character of the first free settlers
than on their number. The, danger o
aequiesence is greater than the danger o
overthrow. We say then to whoever il
about deciding in this matter-if you
are conscious of no higher motive thar
love of gain, don't go to Kansas,-you
may grow rich there-but you are likely
enough to wish to do it by slave labor
if you desire only to live easily. don't &c
sleepy men are not needed there now
if you want courage and moral frmness.
don't go-proud. angry men will lool
you in the eye there if you believe lib.
erty to be sweet only as you have it, and
justice sacred only as it guards yoa,
rights, don'tgo-self-suficient, self-seek.
ing men sprout out of the ground any.
where if you have q longing for Office
and favor, if you suppose yourself to
| possess the attributes of postmaster,
don't go-you may not be good for any
thing anywhere else-but then don't 60
Ito Kansas !; if. on the contrary, you can
take with you the mind and strength of q
man, and the generous heart and life of
freeman, go-there is no better place in
the world for you.-Sprinafeid, Eass.,
Repuliedn.
Visiting Kansas % Vote Dangerous
Experiment
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