Kansas weekly herald., 1855-03-30
For the Kansas Herald.

The crisis has come and the work must
be done, the masses every where is arous-
ed and the intense interest felt here are but
an epltome of public sentiment throughout
the States. The Nebraska Resolutions,
which gave rise to such heated animation
and discussion IN Congress during its pass
age, zealno less burning, an excitement
no less OVERWHELMING is destined to impell
our citizens forward until the principles of
Southern Rights are established, and politi-
clans who recklessly attempt to oppose the
extension of slavery in Kansas, will as GER
tainiy be swept away by its wave, and if
we wish to expell the dark and mystic cloud
of Northern fanaticism that seems fast gath
ering In our political horizon, and rid our
selves of the TRADE of abuse that is being
heaped upon the bright escutcheon of our
fair country, then let us rise up In the might
of our strength and make ourselves what
nature and natures Ged designed us to be.
The very fact that the pro-slavery party in
Kansas having carried their first election,
IS sufficient to give tone and character to
the political institutions there-and If we
will work, there is time, yea, ample time to
save ourselves from the political thraldom
into which our own inaction will forever
and irretrievably thrust us.
Strike blow then, for Southern princi-
Piles and Southern lights and the ship is safe.
The power as. well as the right is in the
people of Kansas to say whether slavery
shall there exist or not; for it is a well set
tied principle In the structure of our politi-
cal Institutions, that the people are the SOW
ereigns and have the undisputed right to
form themselves into body polite; con-
struct their own political edifice and make
their domestic and social laws. The eternal
principles of seh-preservation, the perpetu-
alton of political liberty, the preservation of
national greatness and State severeignty,
as well as the domestic peace and social
circle of the family altar, demand at our
hands. immediate action. Society in every
State is blessing and requires the protec-
ton OF the law. The wickedness of our
nature brings US to legislate for our own
safety and the good of society, and suppress
the evil that would otherwise mark and de-
fame the now morals of the country. Then
freemen of the South, shall we falter now
IN the discharge of high duty we owe to
our country and our counfry's institutions.
Remember that the extension of slavery
in Kansas not the ultimatum, for the seeds
of disunion are fast terminating in the
North, and Northern fanatics are looking
forward to the time when they shall hold
the balance Of power. And when that day
shall have come, and that dark and porten-
tous cloud shall rise in our political horizon,
great will be the struggle-:he States Right
party on one side and the Abolition fanat-
of tho Norfb o+lx IL.
see, know and feel, that the rejection of
slavery in Kansas, was but applying the
match to explode the mine to convulse the
world.
Then freemen, you who love your coun-
try and country's institutions, rise in your
place, and suffer not Northern fanatics to
desecrate this fair western soil with their
lmplous tread. A VOTER.