The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-09-13
A VOICE FROM KENTUCKY.
To the Editor of the National Era:

To the Editor of the National Era:
In such times of political excitement, it might
not be amiss to impart few items, which
may be of some little advantage in posting the
freemen Of the North, and the lovers of Justice
freedom, and humanity, everywhere, in regard
to the high-handed outrages of the Slavery Prop
uganda, as now being exemplifed in Kansas
Territory.
We will not reiterate the atrocious deeds of
which they have already been guilty-deeds
which are well known, and need but to be
known, to merit the curses of all honest men.
Every breeze from the West freshens them
in the memory of millions of freemen, and
heaven rings with cries of vengeance against
their perpetrators.
We can have no sympathy with any maa,
much less a professor of religion, who would
pass them by, even in silent appreciation. Were
these all, our patience might endure but they
are not all. BY letters from various parts OF
the South, we learn that men in mass meetings
are advocating the policy Of raising money suf
ficient, at ell hazards, to make Kansas slave
State. This plan meets with great approval
and is advocated by pulpit and press: The pro
fsssed Legislature of that Territory is working
beautifully in;0 the hands of Southern men
and scarcely had they passea the infamous act
legalizing votes on the payment Of one dollar
poil,tag, when a Congressman Of South Caro-
lima was publicly urging his constituents to
subscribe literally for the above purpose; sta.
ting, as an incentive, that the Legislature lad
passed an act legalizing eli votes cast on pay
ment of one dollar on election day; and that
the tax would be collected from the voters at
the polls. This being the case, t the money
was raised, thousands OF n,eE could be hired to
go from the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Ten
Iessee, and Arkansas, and vote and return
home again and in this way they would be
enabled to carry ths vote of the Convention to
form a Constitution, and thus secure kansas to
Slavery.
The South is unit on Slavery extension
and no means are too base and unj ust for heI
to use in this her first and highest object. But
we wish TO ask, if such atrocious designs can
not be frustrated. We the Anti-Slavery mel
of the South, are tied hand and foot, and cal
| do but little, until stern necessity compel3 ~
| to action, then, rest assured, we will come out
| right. 1t is only eirculR distances which render
us weak. But how man in the free North
where freedom of speech is not abridged, caI
sanction or even submit to such outrages a:
are characteristic of these propagandists we
cannot see or account for. Surely there is no
a single Representative from the free States
in the next Congress, who VIII be so false t
his trust as to bear with such things.
The time has come when the North mus
unite, and act in harmonious concert on the glo
rious side of Freedom. She loust rise in hel
might, and execute the laws, and defend he.
| citizens, now trampled down and enslaved By
concentration of the Slave Power in oui
Western Territories. She has the power, she
alone is responsible for its exercise. There i:
no danger of the South dissolving the Union
And even if she does, every freeman should
consides anything preferable to being enslavet
by Slave Oi;garchy, equal in rapacity to th'
Thirty Tyrants of Athens.