Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-30
From The New York News.
Letter from a Kansas FreesoiIer in Search
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ABoLITIoNyILLE, KANSAS TERRIToRY,
June, 1855
BRoTHER GREELEY: | must always write TO
you when get myself mystified and perplexed in
the meanderng path of politics. | find it so diff
ficult TO get along without advise, that You must
certainly forgive my troubling you such occa-
sons. When ] the Tribune, wherein you
say that friend Wilson is man to be consulted,
and so highly praised for his holiness at the Pha-
delphia Convention, | thought | would write TO
himi but then ! thought again you would be the
best, because, If he was knowing chap, you
must be much more knowing one, you had
found out his greatness, whilst | could see moth
ing particular in his actions there, unless it be
that he broke his oath with the Kpow-nothings;
and that Ill admit shows great deal of pluck.
What want to know of you is, in what way the
"nigger drivers" have committed "aggressions
on us people of the North. Many people ask me
that question, and ! can I answer them know
very well that they are always claiming that the
Territory of the country is open for them and
their property us it is for the people of the North
and their property, but can this be considered
"aggresson!" Does not the Constitution allow
them the same rights as it does to us Or, are
they excluded from the same privileges that we
are?
If they stand the same that we do, how can it
be considered aggression" for them to claim
their rights Ifthey should claim that they have
the exclusive right of taking their slave property
to our Territories, and that all new States should
be slave States, without any regard to the wishes
Of the inhabitants thereof | could then see very
plainly in what they would be ''aggressing'' up
on the rights of the North, but otherwise cam
not. Or, if they seem to make as their POLITICAL
cry, "No more free States, and no free territory"
| should begin to think that they had become
crazy and wanted to ride over the rights, as
guaranteed to them, Of the inhabitants of our
Territories: but have never heard that they do
make this their war cry
There is another question / wish to ask: Why
is it that you call Douglas slough face" Is
it because he introduced the Kansas and Ne
braska bill, and thus repealed the Missouri Com
promise' Now as | understand the matter, the
repeal of that measure greatly in favor of the
North, more especially when we consider that
you yourself are in favor of making all new States
free States. This could net be done If this COM
promise had been allowed to stand; for, as | un-
derstand it., that compromise allowed all the ter
ritory north of that line to be free, and implicitly
made all south of it slave States thus striking at
one of our most patriotic and philanthropc prin-
cpes. But now that compromise is repealed I'VE
can make all States free if we choose, by the
'sNew England Emigrating Company" and thus
send away from our midst all the vagabonds and
paupers we have, keeping behind only those
whom may want to work for us. You know
| only speak what | think of this matter, not
claiming to be able to judge of it like you can.
hope you will answer this letter as soon as
possible, as there several who can be made
brethren in the good cause if we answer these
questions satisfactorily. Several have asked me
five are in favor of anna gamation. | thought it
would be best not to say anything about that now,
as the public mind is not quite ready for it.
Yours, fraternally,
CHARLEY FAIR.
z. S.-Some people out here insist that we
Massachusetts, folks deprive men, women, and
children of their liberty because they happen to
be poor and born in another country than ours.
They say send them back to Europe in ships
very much like slave vessels, and that New Eng
landers should take the beam out of their own
eyes before they operate on the mote in other
peoples. hope you will furnish me with some
good answer to Ahs, and show me how the send
ing off of Boston paupers in Liverpool and Gov.