The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-30
The Struggle in the West.

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lame and wicked apology for the Missou-
rians who trampled upon the rights of
the citizens of Kansas. 1t says with an
effrontery worthy of highwayman,
Massachusetts, abolitionists combined.
with their money and their influence, to
defeat the honest purpose of the Kansas
law, and by their grand conception fear
! fully menaced the very existence of sla-
very in Missouri" So then, according
to the administration organ, the establish
ment of slavery in Kansas was the hon
est purpose of the Kansas law; and if,
| taking advantage of that law, the free
states seek to reclaim it to its original
freedom. shareholders are justified in out
raging and defeating the great principle
of squatber sovereignty itself. 1t goes
on to say:
"Itw bold and daring scheme, by
the legislation, the money, and the men
of Massachusetts, to defeat an act of Con-
gress which secured to the bona fde and
voluntary settlers in Kansas the right to
choose and establish their own institu-
tons. 1t becomes the true national men
of all politics who love the Union and
desire its preservation, to bear in mind
that the abolitionists themselves are re-
sponsible for committing the first offence
and this fact should be considered in
Judging of the conduct of the Missou-
rians, who are charged with obstructing
the right of suffrage in the late election. !"
1t is difficult to treat with any degree
of patience or courtesy language so
insulting as this.S If it means anything,
it means that the territories belong not to
the people, butto the shareholders, and
that they have the right to exclude all
settlers from the public domain who do
not sanction and sustain slavery. This
is the claim openly made by Atchison
and his gang in respect to Kansas, and
now sneakingly sustained by the admin
istration press. If this is the interpreta-
ton 10 be given to the fact of Governor
Reeder's being sent back to Kansas un-
sustained BY military force, the north
and west should understand it, and take
prompt measures to defend the sons they
have sent to people Kansas, against the
ruffianism which the administration thus
encourages by base and cowardly apollo
gies.
| Another sign of the nullifcation ten.
denotes of the administration, is found
in the fact that the only presses in Kan
sas that receive. government patronage
are the Squatter Sovereign and Kansas
Herald, both in the interest of Atchison,
and both advocating the expulsion and
murder of abolitionists, in weekly TRADES
of malignity and profanity never before
Iequaled this side the Internal regions
The Sovereign of May 8, concludes an
article offalsehood and malice by saying,
sLet US begin to purge ourselves of all
abolition emissaries who occupy our do
ninion, and give distinct notice that all
who do not leave Immediately for the
East, VILE LEAVE FOR ETERNITY -
/ Atchison and his horde of secret ban
di.ti seem to have established a perfect
nquisition. and exercise reign OF ter
ror over the people of Western Missouri,
which many of them neither resist nor
demonstrate against. A former resident
of Platte county writes to the Cincinnati
Democrat:
"This association has had up before
them men of the most quiet and respect
able characters, who have been constant
ly assailed by abuse, villifcation, obscen-
ity and inselence; have been roughly
treated, and dismissed with hoots and
jeers, after every effort has failed.to i'm
plicate them, even inthe ready Judgment
of this slave tribunal. Thomas A. Mi
nard, formerly sheriff in the state of
| Iowa, was the first man arraigned before
the tribunal on July 10th, 1854. He
was tried upon his own evidence. He
was man of influence and character, and
had many strong friends among that por-
ftion of the population not ultra upon sla-
very. He was seized and bound, and
carried before the tribunal, and there, up
on being questioned, stated that he had
said repeatedly that he hoped to see Kan
sas free state that he believed itwould
be for the best interests of the country
that it should be so. He was solemnly
pronounced an abolitionist, and was sem
fenced 10 receive forty eight lashes, unless
at the end of forty-eight hours he was
found missing from the state Of Missouri.
He chose to take the other course ral-
lied his friends, armed himself, and open
Ily defed them. He lives among them
vet, and the sentence has not as yet been
carried, OUT
Such is the rufianism that seeks to
[extend its sway over Kansas, driving both
the election officers and legal voters away
from the polls, and usurping the govern
ment; and then returning to Missouri to
destroy the presses and lynch the men
who dare to condemn their crimes. And
yet, these ruffians, according to the
government organ, are only sustaining
what peaceful northern settlers are at
tempting to defeat, 3the honestpurpose o.
the Kansasiaw !" Ifsuch is to be the issue
let it be made openly and squarely. We
think the people of the free states vii
not shrink from it. Slavery had a faiI
chance legally to take possession of Kan
tsas and establish itself by outvoting the
free state settlers. But if violence an6
bloodshed are to decide the question, le
Atchison and his ruffians look well tc
themselves, or not Kansas merely, bul
Missouri also, shall come out ofthe strug
gle free state, and the eonspirators who
have planned and desperately attempted
this great crime against law and liberty,
shall fill blacker page of our nstioHa
history than Benedict Arnold or Aaron
Burr.-Sprinatfeld Rep.
influence Of Slavery on Free Labor.
! Philanthropy, when it eontemplates q
slaveheldiBg country, may have It's frsi
sympathies excited for slaves; but it is a
narrow beneyolence which stops there
The needy freeman is in a worse condi-
|. ton. The slave has his task, and bis
home, and his bread. He is the member
of wealthy family. The INDECENT free
man has neither labor nor house nor food