The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-22
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Will Kansas be a Slave State ?

tician, and staked our reputation as
prophet, that Kansas qOould be fire.
and we arc ambitious for our own SAX,
as well as that of Kansas, that the pee
pie of that Territory, in their sovereig
capacity would early will its freedom.
The facts, however, since the organi
zation of the Territory have bee
against US. The outrages of the Mis-
souri, marauders, state of things whic
no original Nebraska man could forsee
have for time thrown some doubt upo
the subject. But now We consider tn
tables fairly turned The acts of Mis-
souri, desperadoes are fast recoiling upol
! their own heads, aud the rush of bribeC
voters thrust into the Territory before
the late elections have found it no plac,
for them, and they ard their hackers
J the would be slave owners, are returning
from the Territory iu great numbers
"OGe righteous man can put Thousand
to flight" says the good book One
active anti-slavery man can put thou
sand shareholders to fight in any com.
munity where that is an open question,
as one hooting owl can keep a whole
neighborhood of hen eoops in u, roar, by
warning them there is danger about.
Slave property being an exception to
the republican rule, needs not only law
lawyer and law courts, but an unwav-
ering public opinion to back tkem, in
order to be secure. This state of things
can never exist in Kansas. There is
not Free Soil paper now in Kansas
that has any fears of that becoming a
Slave State. When they give it up, it
is time we began to have full faith.
Here is an article from the last Her
aIdof Freedom, published in Lawrence,
Kansas Territory, which gives facts and
figures to sustain our hopes and conclu-
sions. Thisais the oldest paper in the
Territory, and the Editor is fully posted
as to what'he says. Hear him: Plain
Dealer.
"Nor TRUE,-Tho Leavenworth Her.
GId, writing for buncombe' in Missouri,
says 'fve-sixths of the citizens of Kan
sas are in favor OF making this Terri
tory slave State, and in proof refers
to the election for delegate to Congress
last fall, and then to the election for
the Legislative Assembly in March.
The Editor who would make such an
assertion, can have no regard for his
character for veracity. for it is notori-
Gus fact that there is uot an election
district in Kansas Territory to-day but
would poll three votes, of the actual
Uot.rs in such district, for freedom, to
one for slavery. The Lcavenworth dis
trict, which is conceded to be the strong
hold Of the pro-slavery party in Kansas,
will give large majority of free State
votes, if not controlled by external in
iuences. Any Intelligent person at all
with the people there, knows
such to be the fact
''The Fort Scott district is principal
y settled by people from Missouri, but |
We deny most positively that they are
n favor of making Kansas slave State;
IN the contrary they are as energetic
riends of freedom as we have in the
Territory. The differ with many 9TH
rs il regart! 10 minor issuee, but declare
linOst unanimously, that if free persous
# color can be excluded from the Ter
itory, they are decidedly in favor of
the slave. Thousands of free
State men from other western, and some
rom the eastern States, take this posi-
ion, assuming that as there are no free
ersons of color here now, no injury
nil be done to them by keeping them
ut of the Territory, and by taking this
curse they will secure powerful infu-
nee in favor of making Kansas free
tate
eve met in Pawnee the other day a
liserable doughface from Indiana, who
'e believe was a candidate for every
flee in the Legislative Assembly, from
,lerk in the Council to Door Keeper in
he Hogse-and who lost them all
'ho claimed that every ybody in the Fort
cott district was pro-slavery; but we
lw five free State Missouriaps from the
lme district the other day, who gave us
ositive assurances to the contrary.
''The truth is, and it is needless to
ssert otherwise, that the tide of pro-
avery emigration towards Kansas has
egun to ebb, and at this time the State
is larger from Kansas to
Iissouri than vice versa Every we'll
lformed person in the Territory, who
as been a close observer of men and
lings and movements in different Sec
ons, knows this to be the case. The
Herald may struggle as )
ard as it will to inspire confidence
nong pro-slavery men, and thereby in
uce emigration to Kansas, but intelli-
,nt Shareholders are not going to run a
SIX of losing what they conceive to be
roperty on such barefaced representa-
ons."