Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-10
THE DIFFICULTIES IN KANSAS.
The Liberty (Mo,) Tribune gives the follow.
70 account Of the Kansas election:

The Liberty (Mo,) Tribune gives the follow
ing account of the Kansas election:
Even among rogues when whipped at
their own game, there is an acquiescence, gen.
orally to public opinion. The Northern people
commenced by all the appliances of money,
aid societies, appeals to the religious preju-
dices Of the people, and by every sort of in
ducement to abolitionize the Territory of Kan
sas. They were confident that they would ac-
eomplish that object in the election Of a Terri
torial Legislature that would prohibit slavery
as it would have a right to do, il in the ascen-
dency, according to our understanding of the
act creating the Territory. In this they have
been wofuly disappointed; not being able to
elect but one member in either branch. 1t is
charged now by them that the election was
carried by citizens Of Missouri--when the truth
is, that the pro-slavery party have at least two
thirds or three-fourths of the permanent inha-
bitants. The course of the Northern people
would have justified the people of Missouri in
going over upon the principle of selfprotec-
ton, because their peace and property had
been threatened, and hordes of men had been
shipped like cattle to put that threat into exc
cution. Missouri alone, without the aid of any
other help from the South, had young men
enough who had the patriotism to go to Kansas
a
time of great scarcity Of provisions and at an
ncement season of the year, to check the
Roadway of the Freesoil party and those
young men are making bones in Kansas, and
really intend to live there, whilst Northern
men come to do the work of their masters, and
then 60 back to their homes They buy buffalo
robes for the trip" and return them as they
pass back to New England. Now, that the
way is clear, it behooves the whole South to
move, to make common cause with Missouri
for if Kansas, as Mr.. Lawrence says, is to be
the battle-ground" we must be prepared for
it. If we yield Kansas, we yield Missouri next,
then Arkansas, then Texas, and then all is
lost. Missouri, we believe, is able to fight the
battle sing e-handed but it is nevertheless the
duty of every Southern State to join us, and
we doubt not they will do so. BY fighting we
do not noao mean literal fighting, but mere
contest for the supremacy, when the people are
called upon to frame the organic law or Con-
stitution. There should be constant emigra-
ton from the Southern Statesmen only Mis-
souri,, but Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, and Alabama, must rake up, and look
at the thing in the broad daylight Of duty;
duty from which there is no escape, except to
go over to the enemy. The contest is seri-
Gus one; one that ought never to be forced
upon US, but as it is so forced we must meet
it or act the coward we must meet it or aban-
don our property-we must meet it or society
is destined to undergo such a change as will
render life to many of us as undesirable. |
Southern people never can affiliate with free
negroes; the idea of amagamation is as bad
as suicide yea worse than suicide, and ANAL
gamation is the second step in the abolition
platform. The South can't endure it; they
won't endure it. We would, if we thought it
would avail anything, appeal to the Northern
people not to drive us to desperate remedies
but to let us alone as we have let them alone. |
Let us trade together, live together, help each
other, as brethren and as Americans. Let all
sections indulge its own peculiarities without
hindrance from the others when engaged in
peaceful, lawful, and constitutional pursuits.
The South has yielded long enough.