The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-21
KANSAS AFFAIRS.
The AdnAinistraHion, Rcedcr and the Kansas
Question.
From the Warrington Union, Nay ISL

THE KANSAS QUESTION.
with the late In Kansas may be fairly atr
batsd to the fact that sufficient attention has not been
gvss to the provocation under which the Missourans
aetsd and to the peculiar in which they are In
tcrested in te social and political condition OF the Ter
sitory When viewed in it's true light with ali the al
He Nissoursns the question involved is full Of danger
the peace Of the country, and therefore, 20 90 20
tced safely or proftaely must DO correctly , %a
souri, Ia slaTehooiog State and hence tnat nsI .s ~
deep stake in all that concerns the insttuso1 ~
ates in those az in most the other free States
ths sprt of sboonism recently seemed to be pre-
Thus situate ss sseny as to the
erection OF another iee State on another one o. her
o. dfa ss s,ses sd with hostility
40 her institutions and controlled by men who
avow their purpose to adopt every means to effect the
already with omen enemies 10 their institutions, IL
natural that Missoursns should look with absorbing
interest 10 the future political condition OF kanRas,
which bor6ered her third side.
In the next place, it is important to observe that
Congress had adopted the principle OF popular sove
reispiy the rule by which the future political condition
of Kansas be determined The legitimate mean
ing that rule was that the inhabitants of the Terri
tory attracted their future homes, in the
ntsry and ordinary pursuit OF their happiness and
FOR the OF their industrial occu-
patops should determine whether slavery should or
tans of Kanaas themselves the people OF Missouri had
the interest in the settlement OF this question
on whether slavery should continue to exist IN their
evn State They felt that they should be surrounded
three sides with anti sisvery States 1t would oe al
est tantamount TO the abolition OF slavery in their own
state. Yet the principle Of the Kansas bill fair
that its adoption was eheerfuly acquiesced in by her
people.
bered Il the boonists of the free States at
sequiesced in the principle of popular sovereignty
which Kansas to be organized When this principle
vas rst adopted In the compromise Of 1850,
the ooionsts arrayed themselves against H. ana after
ax4snv tad
tory them When the bill to organize Nebraska and
Kansas first Itroouced it contained clause
contained the principle of popular sovereignty, as
adopted in the Compromise of 1880 So soon as 1t was
the abolition leaders in Congress- appealed to
the anti aayery men everywhere to resist its passage
they opposed fercey and fanaticaly before the
clause for the repeal OF the Missouri restriction in
serted afterwards, showing, indsputably that 1t
the principle of popular sovereignty which provoked
their hostility then it did when the Compromise OF
1850 wss passed This settled and unconqueraole hos
tty Of the aboltioniss to the principle of the kansas
bill was known to the Nissourians, and hence they
had every reason to expect that they would spare
Of s I'll. bin
scarcely become law before this spirit of hostility to
its provions was manifested in manner that cond not
fail 70 inHame the popular mind in Missouri In Aassa-
shusetts, situated more than thousand miles from
Kansas act Of Incorporation was obtained for the
organization of the Emigrant vid Company" the
object of which operate upon and control
the future political condition OF Kansas The objects OF
s a. % u. are no involved in ia ~.
Kew Ysrh Tribune the sth o: Nay throws the respon
sibkty Of The failure OF the abolition scheme on tbs
Massachusetts Aid Company, saying This institution,
whose really grand conception fearfully menacei the
very of slavery soon becsms through Its gross
om bs ,na it, r rse oSa
Iense rupg through the patton Atkinson felt that he had
gained point wherein forest hts lever That defiance to
slavery, so unwisey buried, 70 the South call to
arms and Missouri must be- from her position the first
to respond Had the challenge been boldly and ably fol
LEVIED up the legons OF darkness might at once have
Oyp VIC red and mt ich
Is endorsed by the Tribune proceeds to say "Tbe first
step taken (by the vhs to circulate through
cut Missouri the programme of the Emigrant Aid Com-
pany and thus prepare the ignorant and jealous masses
for what was to follow
Here Il en- is the origin Of the Kansas difficulty fully
and suthorti lively confirmed Massachusetts, abolition
lists, combined, wish their money and their influence to
defeat the honest purpose Of the Kansas law and by
sr "a conception enrar sns ysry eS
the danger and set to work to arouse the people t.
sense Of their danger BY circulating throushSut tn
The result is before the country. THIS wri.er whine
over the discontinue of the abolionsts and rebuke
them for the failure CT their scbene whilst he seeks to
cast odum on the Masourans for resortng TO measures
for defence.
Having failed to defeat the Kansas bill in Congress
the aboitonsts resolved to defeat is priucps and
the aid Of Incorporated wealth. 70 locate tss restsr
border OF Missouri community Of aboltionis.s who
nsnts with the aboitons,s of Massachusetts, Il was
bold and daring scheme, by the Legislation, the
Mercy and the men OF Msss,ehusstss' 10 ds'eas az
voluntary settlers in Kansas the to choose and
tabth their own institutions II the sbolitioniss OF
Massachusetts, had organized az armed expedition to
move into Kansas fer the ayowed purpose Of mskrg il
free soil State they would not have been guilty of
more pspsbe violation Of the true intent and spirit Of
the law than they actually in their eort by the
use Of incorporated wealth, to import into The Territory
such az otonists would dedicate Kansas TO perpetual
freefoism II was this open attempt plant colony
OF Massachusetts, abolitonists the western border Of
Missouri that aroused the Indignation of the Mssousn
sna them to adopt tae measures for counteract
Ae schemes which have given rise to the preysio1
fhe movement Of the aboliti. nists
Il M COCO reason 70 believe that the assoaans
voula have inerered with the legitimate execution Q,
are Kansas law They were provoked TO measures OF
counter action ~ tpS o1aane law Of the Terri Wa
do not aintan that the measures resoted to By the
issouyians were legal usthsblewe deprecate them
deepy-but at the same time we are prepared 20 maze
cation OF the aboitonts aud In view OF the deep In
ttrest which they had IN the result Whilst the abol-
fammatory dapunciatons Of the Mssourians becomes
the pato nal Of sll politics who love the Union
and desire its preservation 70 bear IN mind that the
the first offence and this fact should he considered Ia
judging OF the conduct of the Aissourans, who are
charged with obstcuctng the rga OF suffrage Ia the late
electicn
from the Washington Uniop.l
GOVERNOR FEEDER AT HOME.
The Easton Pa) Argus, the leading democratic jour
nal in the Tenth Legion which has tarsHn sueh immense
sjoritiss for good principles for 80 many years AMI
published al the restCencG oil
feilc wing article in the issue of the 10th OF May
We dessn at this time noticing but two papsble false
hoods which appeared in the NEW YoRK HERALD OF Fri
tpurporticg TO have been wrtten in
Esston but which in New York or ash
charging Reeder with having been Van
Ruren foer in 1897 This is glazing falsehood
in this region would be bold enough to m.sc "
Every mau acquainted with the political history OF Penn
syivipis knsw well that Governor Reede In s va,
of General Cass most active supporters and neglected
his business for weeks in canvassing tina State
aad speeches He devoted his time, his means and
talents Of The national democratic ticket
resting until the battle ended Our fes Of that
date reports of his speeches The who mads
that assertion knew 10 be unqusGedly false when he
perned This statement intended for effect a. wash
tnaton In his speech at Eaon Governor Reeaer male
Of such border rufha-s" THIS was error In
the teleraph report and has been seized upon by
this question: the HERALD can expect to gain
nothing but unenviable notorety and sustain the i'm
preston existing in she mnd OF all good and honest
that IL the most corrupt dishonest, and unprinc
pled journal In the country.
WILL KANSAS BE SLAVE STATE ?-ANoTHEa MEET.
ING IN MIssoURI-Lo0KING Aztec FREE SELLERS
AND FREE SOIL NEWSPAPERS
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