The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-22
sauatter Sovereign VS.. Tribune.

The Squatter sovereign is down like
brick on the N. Y. Tribune, and the
presumption is that that paper win close
up as soon as the article shall be spread
before the public. We make the follow
ing pointed extracts =
We can tell the impertinent scoundrels
of the Tribune, that they may exhaust
an ocean of ink, their Emigrant Aid So
cieties spend their millions and billions,
their Representatives in Congress, spout
their heretical theories till doomsday, and
his ExcelIency Franklin Pierce appoint
Abolitionist after Freesoiler as our Gov
ernor get acU are continue TO tar and
feather, drown, lynch and hang, eoery
whde-tipered AboiitioniSt, who dares 10
poiiute oar soil.
And though our fair Territory may be
refused admittanee into the Union as a
slaveholdiug State, by the political DEM
agogues of the North, we care as little
for their decision, as for the continued
and futile attacks which have been made
upon our rights, by the indecisive Cabi-
net who now administer the affairs of our
nation. For we confidently hope that
the last national Congress may meet in
Washington on the first Monday in De-
cember next; and we prophecy, with
the firm conviction that time will verify
our words, that never again will the
southern States of the Republic, suffer
dictation from set of negro-slealers and
rascals, who stand pledged to war upon
their rights until liberation ceases to. be
a virtue.
We ask the slaveholding community,
what object they had in view, when as
free, independent, and sovereign States,
they consented to band themselves to-
gether under the Federal Constitution !?
Now if this Federal compact should at
any time prove insufficient for protection,
and a portion of the States should seek
for their own aggrandizement, to force
or impose measures upon the remainder,
in direct opposition to their interests and
wishes what interest have those whose
rights are trampled on, in the further OBJ
servance of compact which daily less
ems their strength, and serves to strip
them of their few remaining means of
defence?
For what are laws enacted, if not for
the protection of person and property
This same constitution recognizes our
slaves as property, and if it is to be OBJ
served by us, must protect the rights of
the STAKEHOLDER, in whatever portion of
the Union he may be. But when an in
dividual State, such as Massachusetts or
Ohio, sees fit to annul her Federal obi
CATION, and refuses to respect the rights
of our citizens, are not the States whose
rights are jeopardized thereby, freed from
their compact as clearly as if it were
mere civil contract between individuals ?
If this be true-and we scarcely think
it can be denied even by the most preju-
diced-then has the South had sufficient
cause to secede during every twelve
months, for the past ten years. Her in
alienable right to do so, Individually or
collectively, we do not intend to argue,
for we consider 1t as clear mathematical
axiom, which none but fools and fanatics
will attempt to dispute. If the southern
States have it not, what claim have they
to their proud and boasted right Of inde-
pendence and sovereignty ?
If it be not guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition, then they possess it by the right
of revolution, and let "the right make
the might" be their motto.