Squatter sovereign., 1855-06-26
Maryland on Kansas Affairs.

8 Maryland on Kansas Affairs.
We are gratified TO find that the people
of Maryland are heart and soul with Kan
sas in efforts to establish popular soyyeign-
ty. We publish letter belowfrom.a gen..
tleman there, in which the only true ground
any Umon-loying, national republican can
occupy is set forth Read it.
MARYLAND, MAY, 90, 1856.
SIR:-Feeling deep interest In the po-
sition Kansas State may occupy in regard
to slavery, although / am not in the habit
of writing. yet knowing the opinion and
feeling of, perhaps, the most lukewarm
pro-slavery State in the Union forced from
her citizens in consequence of the recent
elections In Kansas, and the course which
it has been said was pursued by the people
of Missouri, am induced to make some
statements and declarations, which tho
my real name is, withheld, will, think,
be proven in time to be true, and if the
article is worth an insertion IN your paper
you are at liberty to insert. The sympa-
thy and feeling of large portion of the
people of this State--those who who adj
vocate slavery, and those who are opposed
to it-are, believe, with the pro-slavery
party of Missouri, and far more congenial
with the Calhoun doctrine than most OF
your people suppose. One sided stories
through Gov. Reeder and others have come
here, but notwithstanding the efforts made
to prejudice every body against the Mis-
sourians, old Maryland / believe is yet
sound to the core on the subject of slavery,
and the constitution; her feelings and in
dignation has justly been aroused by the
number of unprincipled men, the scum and
garbage of Massachusetts, .fid Societies,
that have been sent into your growing and
prosperous Ter, with the avowed view of
scattering as they went the seeds of dis
content among your negroes, and of for
cing, when they got there, Kansas TO be-
come free State-an unnatural and for
ced state of things that was never. contem-
plated by the constitution, unless to view it
as treason or traitorous to the spirit of it
and laws four beloved country. The un-
constitutional compromise of 1920, that
concession SO ruinous to the south, the re-
fusal On the part of the northerners to give
up. your fugitive slaves, the opposition to
executing the fugitive slave law, and the
virtual nulity of that laval added to-
gether has, as it justly should do, aroused
your Missouri people to a sense of their
danger. and as thescum of Massachusetts,
poor nulEfying, dIsgraced Massachusetts.
has determined to run off your negroes,
depreciate your property, or if need be ex-
cite the most dangerous passions of the
negro; even though you lave violated the
spirit of law, yet under such circumstances
1t becomes with you matter of self-de-
fence OF property or no property, and worse
than all. of life and death. What law
can reach higher laac people than an out
law people, God all mighty, or General
Jackson. Some of your eastern brethren
hope and trust, yea, most of them that YOU
will go to work vigorously and make Kan
sas slave State, it is necessary to do this
to obtain an equilibrium of power no,c.
and l believe to preserve the Union. You
are peculiarly and unfortunately situated
in Missouri, one former powerful party,
nOw two, and a portion of one. of them
and some of the wings, both good and true
patriots in most matters, owning large es-
tates Of land and negroes in the heart of
your hemp and slave country, they forsooth
remain passive on this great subject, or if
an inclination either way it is to the north,
or if active at all, openly advocate mas
terly inactivity in regard to settling Kan
sas. Shame! shame on such suicidal poll
cy, such party demagogism-it is not
reason or traitorous exactly, but it is scan
dalous that such men will fold their arms.
hide their purse, when their constitutional.
states, and personal rights as well as their
very lives and that of their wives and in
nocent babies depend on a vigorous and
united effort on the part of the South
without regard to party, to promptly to re-
sist this northern obtrusion with all their
legal power, either literal or implied. /
am, a union man now and forever. and So
believe are the people of this State, but
the south have yielded right after right and
interest after interest until it ceases to be-
come n yirfI,e and if tho co,,.L iii IL -.
duty-do what it can and should, the north
will back out, Kansas will come In as
slave State: the south will keep the north
sin check,' the union will be preserved,
and these poor deluded Higher Power par
ty become extinct, and peace and auietude