The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-09-15

not believe negro slavery to be a Christian
institution and national blessing. They ar
proposing to punish with Imprisonment tn
utterance of views inconsistent with thei
own. And they are trying to perpetuate thei
preposterous and internal tyranny, by ap
pointing for term Of gears creatures of thei
own, as commissioners in every county, tt
lay and collect taxes, and see that the law,
they are passing are faithfully executed. Hal
this age anything to compare with these acts
! in audacityE 80 -
The Free State men Of Kansas hate re-
solved not to submit to this daring usurpa
ton of nonresident oligarchy. They have
called a convention of the people of Kansas
to meet in September next, and frame con
stitution for their government. This move
ment will be supported by thousands in Kan
sas, and it will rally and bring to theft aid
the Northern States that have been for the
time staggered and confused by the untoward
events in Kansas.
The next Congress will find, then, this issue
before them-a Free State Constitution pre-
| sented by one portion of the people of Kan
sas, and the Pro -Slatefy Territorial laws OF
the present fraudulent Legislature The
House of Representatives of the next Con-
gress will be largely Free Soil or ti-Neblas-
ka. The Pro-Slavery laws of the bogus Leg
islature will be rejected, and without Con-
gtpssi0nal sanction they are not valid and
the contest will then be on accepting the Con-
stitution presented by the Free State people.
This Free State Constitution 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
slavery that is there will flee from it, and
PERHAPS even the slave property of western
Missouri give way under the panic, and seek
safety in the cotton fields aid sugar planta-
tions of Texas. .f g- --,s ,.1
1t has been the common opinion with
thoughtless persons and thick-headed bullies
at the West, that the Northern and Eastern
men will not fight. Never was greater mis-
take. The sons of New England and of the
Middle States do not LIKE to fight. They
would rather work, plow, build towns, rail-
roads, make money and raise families, than
fight. But fight they will if need be. Re
member, the sons of New-England shed the
first blood in the American Revolution, and
they were the last to furl their flags in that
terrible struggle. They have never disgraced
their country by cowardice, and they will
not. They are Americans, with spirit, cour-
age and endurance, and deep love of liberty.
The Free State men in Kansas will fight be-
fore they will be disflanchised aid tfainpled
upon. Mark the word
Here comes, then, the suicide of Slavery.
The outrages committed by Atchison and his
fellows in the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and by Stringfellow and his followers
in subjugStitig Kailsas to nonresident rule
will bring on a collision first in Congress and
Me,e i0 Kansas who shall tell the end?
Slavery will never sustain itself in bor-
der State by the sword: 1t may cbnduer in
Some respects but It can never ossae,ici a
peace:"-Never, never Once light the fires
of intenecine war in defence of Slavery, and
it will perish while you defend it, Slavehold-
ers will not stay to meet the fight. Proper
ty is timid, and the slaves will be sent to
Texas, to be in "safe state'' while the fight
lasts; and as soon as the slaves are gone
it will be found that ffissotir has moth
ing to fight about, and the fight will end sbe-
fore it begins"
Thus the Slavery propagandists who re-
pealed the Missouri Compromise to make
Kansas Slave State will make Missouri free;
and in endeavoring to eXpel Abolitionism from
Kansas, they will fill Kansas and Missouri
with an entire free White population
more to the two States than all the negroes
in America.
Is not the Kansas outrage the suicide of
Slavery? Have not the people of Missouri,
interested in the preservation of Slavery in
the State, brought themselves into a desper-
ate predicament by following the insane couh-
sells of Atchison and Stringfellow2