The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-29

Siiouio nave no power TO legiSlate slavery
out of the States, also in the clauses
giving the right to Congress for two
fifths of all their slaves, and TOR the
right of recapturing persons owing SER
vice or labor escaping from one State in
to another. Nevertheless, the Fathers
of the Nation were not willing slavery
should become dominant, and following
close upon the adoption of the Constitu.
ton came from their hands the ordinance
of 1897. forever prohibiting slavery
from territory northwest of the Ohio.
Bye and bye, however. the policy of
the Fathers was departed from. I re-
member the wit of an Ohio Representa-
tive in Congress when describing the
new theory of parturition and CESSATION
which was for the nation to bring forth
not every time free State, as provid-
ed by the Fathers of the Republic. but
two, one white and one black. Laugh
teri The slavery propagandists style
the new theory, more politely political
equilibrium. Contrary to the prohi-
bition of the institution from specified
territory, Missouri applied for admission
as a slave State. Our Fathers rebelled
the whole country was stirred as never
since, till now the Missouri Comprom-
ise was made. In consideration of that
great concession by the North, all ter
ritory North of 36 degrees 80 minutes
was secured to freedom. Did the South
observe the compact they themselves
named ga solemn compact ?' So gen
eral was the new prohibition regarded
as forever binding, that as late as the first
proposition for organizing Nebraska Ter
ritory, Senator Atchison stated in the
Senate that he should not oppose it, for
ne had no hope for repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise.
WHAT UMTEs Us.-Douglas, Senator
from the free State of Illinois, came for
ward with the Kansas Nebraska bill, and
with his aid the South repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise. Myself and my col
league struggled and voted no. My
friend Campbella and his colleagues in the
House, fought the treason CALAMITY, but
at midnight the act was accomplished
| remember the dark hour of that deed
of darkness. When the struggle was
over, the Senate adjourned we were
walking down from Capitol Hill, alarmed
desponding, when the insulting cannon
doomed over the city, fifty eliminating
the outrages of the night.
The echoes of the insulting cannon
reached Maine, and from every river and
forest came an indignant response
Iowa heard them, and set upon the act
her seal of condemnation. Yes, and
you here, in my own Ohio, heard the
premature reyel of the yiolators, and
hurled from their seats of i'll gotten
power all within your reach--you have
sent TO Congress an unbroken delegation
of twenty -one staunch men and true.
We were united for result SO bene-
fetal last fali What was the bond of
union then? The mere passage of the
Kansas Nebraska Act, though its friends
perambulated all the States to assure you
that 1.-The interests of freedom were safe
in Kansas, because the Northern emil
grafton thither was strong; squatter
sovereignty would make them free States.
What unites US this fall The greater
bond of union, that Kansas is already in
the hands of the slavery propagandists
in the hands of Atcliison and String
fellow. Cheering.] The danger is no
longer one of anticipation the designs
of the violaters are developed--the
crime is committed. We are united now
to rescue that fair land from the clutch
of the slave State bands who have in
vaded Kansas, subdued the squatter SOW
ereigns. and organized themselves into
a Kansas Legislature.