Kansas weekly herald. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan. Territory [Kan.]) 1854-1858, 1855-06-15

masses for what was to follow" Here, then,
is the origin of the Kansas difficulty fully
and authoritatively confirmed. Massachu-
sets abolitionists combined, with their mon
ey and their influence, to defeat the honest
purpose of the Kansas law, and shy their
grand conception tsarfully nsenaced the very
existence of sLaveTy in Missouri. The Cit
izens of Missouri saw the danger, and set
to work to arouse the people to sense of
their danger by circulating throughout the
State the programme ofMe Massachusetts
.aid Society. The result is before the
country. This writer whines over the dis
comfture of the abolitionists, and rebukes
them for the failure of their scheme, willis:
he seeks to cast odiurn on the Missourians
for resorting to measures for defence.
Having failed to defeat the Kansas bill
in Congress. the abolitionists resolved to
defeat its principle. and, by the aid of in
corporated wealth. to locate the western
border of Missouri a community of aboli-
tionists who would forever sympathize in
their fanatical sentiments with the abolition
lists of Massachusetts. 1t was bold and
daring scheme, by the Legislation, the
money, and the men of Massachusetts, to
defeat an act of Congress which secured
to the bona tfde and voluntary settlers in
Kansas the right to choose and establish
their own institutions. If the abolitionists
of Massachusetts had organized an armed
expedition to move into Kansas for the a.
vowed purpose of making it a free-soil
State, they would not have been gully of
more palpable violation of the true intent
and spirit ofthe law than they actually were
in their effort, by the use of incorporated
wealth, to import into the Territory such
abolitionists as would dedicate Kansas to
perpetual free-soilism. 1t was this open
attempt to plant a colony of Massachusetts
abolitionists on the western border of Mis-
souri, that aroused the indignation of the
Missourians, and impelled them to adopt the
measures for counteracting the schemes
| which have given rise to the prevailing ex-
citement. But for the movement of the
abolitionists, there is no good reason to be.
lieve that the Missourians would have in
terfered with the legitimate execution Of tie
Kansas law. They We're provoked. to
measures of counteraction by a movement
| which threatened their interests as well as
the organic law of the Territory. We do
not maintain that the measures resorted to
by the Missourians were legal or iustifable
we deprecats them deeply-but at the
same time we are prepared to make much
allowance for their excesses in view of the
labolitionists, and in view of the deeo inter-
est which they had in the result Whilst
the abolitionists are seeking to revive Sec
tional agitation by infammatory denunci-
atlons OF the Missourians, it becomes the
true national men of all parties who love
the Union and desire its preservation, to
bear in mind that the abolitionists them
selves are responsible for committing the
first offence, and this fact should be consid-
cred in Judging of the conduct of the Mis-
sourians, who are charged with obstructirs
the right of suffrage in the late election