Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-02
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ceiyed. but these who wish to deceive Them
selves.
With these direct and plainly spoken
truths, we would leave the subject, were it
not that the Boston Atlas man. exultant over
the silly falsehoods which his pulling cor
respondent "Yankee" has manufactured
for hum, wakes valiant IN his opposition to
the principle of popular sovereignty" and
thus feelingly discourses. tsAnd yet in the
face Of these facts (refering to the result of
our election We find the organs of Govern
ment accepting this result, asa triumph of
the principles of the Nebraska bill! What
confession more damning could be asked
Of the infamy of that measure, than an out
rage so atrocious as that which has just been
enacted on the virgin soil of Kansas?" Ger
tainly, you sapient ranter of the scissors and
the quill; we do not expect that you or any
of your kith or kin, viii be sparing of your
abuse of Senator Douglas or President
Pierce on account of that bill. When you
remember that that bill, while it asserts
great and cardinal principle, which must
sooner or later command the appreciation of
every American citizen, vindicates at the
same time, the right of the people to es-
tablish and regulate their domestic institu-
tions in their own way, subject only to the
constitution, we are not surprised that it
nearly gives you Gifts" Is it because cit
izen of Pennsylvania whose afinities were
with you and who would have misrepresen-
ted US could not be successfully palmed upon
us, that you thus raise the insane and fanat-
ical cry against the principles of popular
sovereignty" But hear him again: In
the ferver of his feelings, he thus steps be-
tween US and our constitutional rights, refu-
sing US admittance into the Union, in the
event we present ourselves with constitu-
ton recognizing slavery. Referring to our
election he says "and this we shall be
told is popular sovereignty and when
this double fraud has been copsunmated,
and Kansas has by violent and dishonest
means, had slavery forced upon her against
the wishes of her own people does the South
really expect that Northern representatives
will dare to vote to admit Kansas as a slave
State under such circumstances? The re-
suit of the elections only this last fall are
but too recent a lesson of the fate that will
await the Northern dough-face who would
venture upon so fatal step. The North
has been outraged and cheated beyond what
it will bear, and wo to that man who should
venture SO far to disregard his duty to free
dom, and to the rights of the North. It is
not yet too late to prevent the presentation
of such an alternative, but if it is presented
it must and will be met with spirit equal
to the emergency" Fe Fl fo fun! this fell
low may have pricked his finger, and re-
doubtable Knight of the goose quill, pot
house hero of the Boston Atlas, as he is, may
really think he smells blood and how well
calculated are such terrible declarations upon
his part, to frighten the sturdy squatters of
Kansas out of their propriety? and VINO of
our citizens after this, will have the hardi-
hood or temerity to present himself at the
polls, unless he has had the honor of being
transported vagrant and pauper-like from
some eastern city by the Immigrants .Aid
Society s"l But possibly this fearless Boosting
Scribbler, in this boiling over, has not in
tended to jeopardise any one, but merely
wishes it to be understood (to borrow a
nursey rhyme) that
| &C He had little hobby horse,
Whose name was hobby grey,
Whose head was made of pea straw
| And tail was made OF hay"
This hobby is now ridden with ven
geance by fanatical abolitionists, unprinci-
pied demagogues, and the odds and ends
of every faction and ism at the North; and
they may gain a short lived popularity in
their united efforts to check the march of
just principles, and the right of popular SOW
ereignty in the Territories. But the day of
reconing is not far distant, and we confident
/ ly predict that when the people are allowed
to take the sober second thought, that of all
the issues which have been recently made
at the North, not one will stand. One and
all will be repudiated by common consent,
and the grand principles of the Douglas
Kansas Nebraska Bill will be fully endors-
ed in their stead, and affirmed throughout
the length and breadth of our widespread
Republic. And we will venture the fur