The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-22
A Good Article.

A Good Article.
A late number of the st. Louis Intel
ligencer has the best article we have yet
seen on Kansas matters. A part of the
article is copied in another place being
quoted from the N. Y. Spectator. We
copy the concluding remarks
"Atchison and Stringfellow, with their
Missouri followers, overwhelmed the set
tiers in Kansas, brow-beat and bullied
them, and took the government from their
hands. Missouri votes elected the pres
ent body of men, who insult public in
telIigence and popular rights by styling
themselves 'the Legislature of Kansas" ,"
This body Of men are helping themselves
to fat speculations, by locating "the seat
of government" and selling town lots for
their votes. They are passing laws dis
franchising all the citizens of Kansas who
donot believe negro slavery to be Christ
ian institution and national blessing
They are proposing to punish with i'm
prisonment the utterance of views incon-
sistent with their own. And they are
trying to peFpetuate their preposterous
and internal tyranny, by appointing for a
term of years creatures OF their own, as
Commissioners in every county, to lay
and collect taxes, and see that the laws
they are passing are faithfully executed.
Has this age anything to compare with
these acts in audacity
'.The Free State men of Kansas have
resolved not to submit to this daring
usurpation of nonresident oligarehy.
They have called a Convention of the
people of Kansas, to meet in September
next, and frame Constitution for their
government. This movement will be
supported by thousands in Kansas: and
it will rally and bring to their aid the
northern States that have been for the
time staggered and confused BY the un-
toward events in Kansas.
..The next Congress will find, then,
this issue before them-a Free State Con-
stitution presented by one portion of the
people of Kansas, and the pro-slavery
territorial laws of the present fraudulent
Legislature. The House of Representa-
tives of the next Congress will be largely
Freesoil or Anti-Nebraska. The pro-
slavery laws of the bogus Legislature will
be rejected, and, without Congressional
sanction, they are not valid, and the con-
test viii then be on accepting the Con-
stitution, which may pass the House, but
not the Senate. But the effect will be as
disastrous to Missouri and the South
Kansas will be left to anarchy. The slav
cry that is there will flee from it-and
perhaps even the slave property OF west
ern Missouri viii give way under the pan
ie, and seek safety in the cotton-fields
and the sugar plantations of Texas.
cit has been the common opinion with
thoughtless persons and thick headed
bullies of the West, thab the northern
and eastern men will not fight. Never
was greater mistake. The sons of New
England and of the Middle States do
not ike to fight. They would rather
work--plow--build towns, railroads
make money, and raise families, than
fight. But fight they will, if need be-
Remember the sons of New England
she'd the first blood in the American Rev
olution, and they were the last to turi
their flags in that terrible struggle. They
are Americans, with spirit, courage, en-
durance, and deep love of liberty, to an
innate them. The Free State men IN Kan
sas viii fight before they will be disfran-
chised aud trampled on. Mark the word.
'Here GENES, then, the suicide oi
slavery. The outrages committed BY
Atchison and his fellows in the repeal oi
the Missouri Compromise, andb String
fellow and his followers in subjugating
Kansas to nonresident rule, will bring
on collision first in Congress and then
in Kansas-and who shall tell the end
| slavery will never sustain itself in a
border State by the sword. 1t may con-
quer in some respects; but it can never
conquer peace" Never, neverl Once
light the fires of internecine war in de-
fence of slavery, and it will perish while
you defend it. Shareholders will no
stay to meet the fight. Property is tim
id, and the slaves will be sent to Texas
to be in '.safe place" while the fgh
lasts; and as soon as the slaves are gone
it will be found that Missouri has nothing
to fight about, and the 6ght will end ''be
fore it begins
.s,rhus the slavery propagandists, who
repealed the Missouri Compromise t
make Kansas slave State, will max
Missouri free; and in endeavoring to ex
pei Abolilionism from Kansas, they vii
! , find both Kansas and Missouri with al
: entire free white population-worth NOR
to the two States tl.an all the negroes Q
America.
Is not the Kansas outrage the suicid
Of slavery? Have not the people of Mis-
souri,, interested in the preservation o
slavery in the State, brought themselYe
in a desperate predicament BY followinf
! the insane counsels of Atchison all
Stringfellow.