Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-09-07

every department Of life we ieel tue par
alyss. Instead Of bounding forward, buoy
ant, strong and rejoicing, we sit with dull
eyes and heavy spirits, and listen to the
tick of death-watch.
These are the bitter fruits of the repeal
of the Missouri compromises wicked and
wrongful deed-;hat will yet bring hell
of bitter selfreproaches to its authors
Missouri did not demand that repeal. The
] South never asked it. Atchison solicited
it-and in a moment of political insanity,
the South consented to the wrong and made
the wrong her own. This 1OGs the suicide
Of slavery.
Every step since taken has deepened
the wrong and enhanced the danger. The
Free States organized Aid Societies, and
sent tn cir men 10 make Kansas free. II
had been free soil, by solemn compact, for
thirty five years; aud they naturally were
incensed to see its character changed
The South would have been far more indig-
nant if slave territory had been thus, by
an unexpected act of Congress, converted
into free soil.
The Free States had tight 10 be indig-
nant that a life long Compromise had been
repealed-and they had right to try tokeep
Kansas free as it bad been, by peaceable
colonization. They attempted nothing else.
But portion of the citizens of Missouri,
headed by Atchison & Stringfellow, de-
nounced the Northern emigrants as "pau-
pers and hirelings," because they were sent
West by the money of a society; and so
they held county meetings in Missouri, and
raised money and sent Missourians to Kan
sas to make slave territory Were the
Missourians "hirelings" too? And did
these two wrongs make one right?
Atchison & Stringfellow, with their Mis-
souri, followers, overwhelmed the settlers in
Kansas, brOw-beat and bullied them, and
took the government from their hands
Missouri votes elected the present body of
men, who insult public intelligence and pop
ular rights by styling themselves "the Leg
islature of Kansas" This body Of men
are helping themselves to fat speculaiions
by locating 'the seat of government" and
getting town lots for their votes. They are
passing laws disfranchising all the citizens
of Kansas who do not believe negro slavery
to be christian institution and national
blessing. They are proposing to punish
with imprisonment the utterance of views
inconsistent with their own. And they are
trying to perpetuate their preposterous and
internal tyranny, by appointing for term
Of years creatures Of their own, as commits
soners in every county, to lay and collect
taxes, and see that the laws they are pass
ing are faithfully executed. Has this age
anything to compare with these acts in au-
dacity?
The Free State men of Kansas have re-
solved not to submit to this daring usurpa-
ton of non resident ohgarchy. They have
called convention of the people of Kansas,
to meet in September next, and frame a
Constitution for their government. This
movement will be supported by thousands
in Kansas; and it will rally and bring to
their aid the Northern States that have
been for the time staggered and confused
bv the untoward events in Kansas.
The next Congress will find then this is
sue before theGl-a Free State Constitu-
ton presented by one portion Of the people
of Kansas, and the pro-slavery territorial
laws of the present fraudulent Legislature
The House of Representatives of the next
Congress viii be largely Freesoil or Anti
Nebraska. The pro-slavery law of the DO.
gas legislature viii be rejected, and without
Congressional sanction they are not valid
and the contest then will be on accept
ing the Constitution presented BY the Free
State people. The Free State Constitution
NAV pass the House, but not the Senate
But the effect will be as disastrous TO Ms
souri, and the South. Kansas will be lef
to anarchy. The slavery that is there vii
fee from it-Perhaps even the slave prop
erty of Western Missouri give way under
the panic, and seek safety in the cotton
fields and sugar plantations OF Texas
1t has been the common opinion will
thoughtless persons and thick-headed bul
. lies Of the West, that the Northern and
Eastern men will not fight. Never was {
greater mistake. The sons of New Eng
land and of the Middle States do not hk,
/ to fight. They would rather work-plougf
t build towns, railroads-make money
) and raise families, than fight But fgh
they will, if need be. Remember, the SON
of New England shed the first blood in th'
American Revolution; and they were The
last to furl their flags in that terrible strug
gle. They have never disgraced theil
4 country by cowardice, and they will not
They are Americans, with spirit courage
endurance. and deep love OF liberty, to AMI
mate them. The Free State men in Kan
sas will fight before they will be disfran
chised and trampled on. Mark the word
Here comes, then, the suicide of Slavery
The outrages committed by Atchison ant
. his fellows in the repeal of the Missour
, Compromise, and by Stringfellow and hi
/ followers in subjugating Kansas to non
f. resident rule, will bring on collision frs
! in Congress and then in Ransas-and VIII
: shall tell the end.
:, Slavery will never sustain itself in Dor
K der State by the sword. 1t may conque
e in some respects, but it can never "conque
4 a peace" Never! neverl Once light tn
+ fires of internecine war in defence Of slave
= ry and i: will perish while you defend i
: Shareholders will not stay to meet the fgh
: Property is timid, and the slaves will b
l. sent to Texas to be in "a safe place" Will
= the fight lasts; and as soon as the slave
are gone it will be found that Missouri hs
b nothing to fight about, and the fight wi
! end before it begins!"