The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-20

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pie of KaasEs, in their first elections,
would decide the question: whether or not
the STAKEHOLDER was TO be excluded, and
it depended upon majority of the votes
cast at the polls. Now if set of fanat-
les and demagogues thousand miles on
could afford to advance their money, and
exert every nerve to abolitonize the Ter
ritory, and exclude the STAKEHOLDER, when
they have not the least personal interest,
what is your dutys When you reside In
one days journey of the Territory. and
when your peace, your quiet, and your
property depend upon your action, you
can without an exertion send i've hHa-
dred of your yoang meh Who viii yete
in favor of your institutions. Should
each county in the State of Missouri only
do its duty, the question win be decided
quietly and peaceably at the ballot t-box.
If we are defeated, then Aissouri and the
other southern States viii have shown
themselves recreant to their interests, and
will deserve their fate. The Abolition
lists will have nothing to gain or lose. 10
| is an abstraction Hitk theAA- We have
much to lose am. much to gainS
Said he, if you burn my barn l srs-
tain great loss, but You gain nothing.
So it is with the colonization societies and
the dupes they send here 10 abolitionize
Kansas.
If these Abolitionists steal all your
negroes. they Gain nothing the negroes
are injured, YOU are ruined--so much
greater is the motive for activity on your
part.
Fellow-cisizens, we should not be apa-
thetic when SO much is involved; we
should be up and doing. He wss for
meeting organization with organisation
He was for meeting those phihnthropic
knayes peaceably at the ballot-box and
outyoting them. t
If we cannot do this, it is an omen that
the institution of slavery is to fall in this
and the other southern States but It
would fall after much strife. civil war;.
and bloodshed.
IL abolitionisnl under It's present aus
pices is established in Kansas, there will
be constant strife and bloodshed between
Kansas and Missouri. Negro stealing
win be principle and vocation. It.
will be the policy of philanthropic knaves-
until they force the stakeholder to abaa-
don Missouri !; nor will it be long until
| it is done. Yeu cannot watch your sta
bles to prevent thieves from stealing your
horses and mules neither can You watch
your negro quarters to prevent your
neighbors from seducing away and steal
ing your negroes. =
Ii Kansas is abolitionized, all men who
love peace and quiet win leave Us, and
all emigration to Missouri from the slave
States will cease. We will go either to
the North or to the South. For himself
he could gather his household goods. and
depart as soon as the most active among
us.
/ He had neither wife nor child to i'm
pede his flight In hybrid state we
cannot live: we cannot be in q constant
quarrel-in a constant suspicion Of our
neighbors. The feeling is entertained by
a large portion of mankind everywhere
Yet he said he was willing, notwithstand.
ing his pacific views, to hang negroth thieves
he would not punish those who merely
entertained abstract opinions but negro
thieves, and persons who stirred up insub
, ordination and insureetion among oul
, slaves, he believed it right to punish; and
they could not be punished too severe
Ily. He would not punish a man who
believed that rape, murder, or larceny
was abstractly right, yet he would pun
! ish the man who committed either.
| He said that there were few men who
entertained those opinions in the western
part of the State of Missouri, and who no
doubt practieedupon them, and that when
full evidence was obtained, justice should
be done them. Convincing evidence
must be had. He wast opposed 10 vio-
lenee, indiscriminate violence but let
punishment fall on tie guilty. Was it
not strange to find in State 50 deeply
interested in the question of slavery q
portion of the press denouncing such men
as Douglas, Cass, Bright, and others, and
exulting over victories lately obtained by
the Abolitionists in the northern States /?
Yet it is so. As to slanders and abuse
heaped upon himself he cared but little.
Ii was the fate of better men. But a day
of reckoning would come. There will
be q reaction in the northern Stafes.-
The people of the North cannot be in Ia
yor of dissolviag the Union.
The mad platforms, upon which the
recent fusion victories have been obtain
ed, if carried out would enevitably dis
solve the Union. :.
He bad always had great confidence in
the intelligence and virtue Of the people,
but he acknowledged that this confidence
had been somewhat shaken in late years.
He again told the audience that to sssc-
ceed in making Kansas slave Territory.
it was not sufficient for the South 10 talk
but to act; togo peaceably and inhabitthe
Territory. and peaceably to vote and set
de the question according 70 the princi-
pies of the Douglas bill.
Mr. A. said much moro than is here
reported, and some things he did say are
not reported; but the above is the SUBJ
stance of his speech.