The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-09

and associated his name with that of one
whom ne had always regarded with limit
less admiration.
The FIRST step taken was to circulate
throughout Missouri the programme of
the Emigrnnt Aid Company and thus
prepare the ignorant and jealous masses
for what was to follow. The second was
to proclaim by hand-bill, newspaper and
public speech that the persons sent on by
that Association were paupers transport
ed at the expense of the company, and
solely for the purpose of voting slavery
out of Kansas. The proclamations next
staied-this was during the winter and
the case began to look desperate-that
resistance on the part of those emigrants
was no longer expected that they were
sent here merely to vote at the spring
election and then to return; that they
were coming by thousands, previous to
the Goth of March with this sole intent /;
that Gov. Reeder-whom it had been
/ found impossible to corrupt-was leagued
with the abolitionists and had given them
private advices Of the time of election !;
and that The great object of all this labor
was to turn Kansas into another Canada,
which should be the center of operations
Of an Organised band whose exclusive
business it was going to be to steal Mis-
souri, niggers and enable them to escape
from their masters! With these absurd
talsehoods reiterated in every speech did
Atchison stump the Safe duringthe win
ter !; and amazing as it may seem, in ev-
cry audience did he find fools enough to
believe them. All Missouri was in a fer
mcnt and in every town he was able to
swell the subscriptions to his million
fund for the purpose of organizing his
"Emigrant Aid Company" which does
send paupers into Kansas to- live, and
supports them till the first harvest on the
single condition that they are true to sla-
very. And to many of US near the from
tier the raid Of the 30th March was as
confidently expected as the eclipse of the
bst of May.
| Time and space fail me to enumerate
half the absurdities and abuses of this
enterprise. Perhaps no one has been SO
great a sufferer as Gov. Reeder. Deter
mined from the first to do his duty fear
lessly, without respect to party, the in
saue course of the conspirators has driven
him into the arms of the Freesoilers.
The falsehoods, the threats, the insults
resorted to "to crush him OUT are be-
yond belief BY any but those on the
ground. When the whole truth shall
come to be known, it will be seen that
Gov. Reeder has acted the part not only
of an honest man, but of brave and
prudent one. That he has withstood the
solicitations of the conspirators, is an evil
dence of his honesty; that he has not
been frightened or disguised into resign
ing. is proof of his courage and equa-
nimity; that he has had no personal con-
fiict with any of the DULLES who have
been but too anxious to find an occasion,
is sufficient to establish confidence in his
prudence. Cut off as he has been from
civlization-desntute OF any means of
Profession against the drunken rabble
who followed him with the most fearful
threats-it is wonder how he has found
courage to sustain him in his course
TIE diniity critics who affect to call his
visit to the East "flight," and censure
him for not remaining at his post!' and
reforming the lawsn'-Heaven save the
mark!-should be prepared for their re-
sponsible duties by one good glance at
the knives and revolvers of drunken
mob brandished at them, and thus if they
choose to rant in this fashion we will
charge the folly to the want of wits and
let them pass. As one single specimen
of the means used to exasperate the Mis-
sourians against him / will mention that
a few days prior to the last eleetion(!)
handbills were spread throughout the
State-and the newspapers gravely at
tested the truth Of the statement-pro-
claiming that large numbers of Pennsyl-
vanians were on their way to Kansas to
vote and then return home again, and
that their entire expenses were paid by
Gov. Reeder! Throughout the State of
Missouri to-day Gov. Reeder by a large
portion is believed to be Garrisonian
and the President of great Abolitionist
League, whose purpose is the kidnapping
of Missouri niggers
How far the plans of the conspiracy
have been iudicious and are likely to sue
coed each must Judge for himself; butt
seems to me that the only danger lies in
the apathy of the North. The very vio-
lence and desperation of the efforts show
clearly that the leaders have desperate
cause, and but for habitual subserviency
to the slave power it would seem absurd
even TO fear their success. But knowing
its habit of triumph-the determination
of the leaders and the ignorant fanaticism
of the -led-the imbecility if not real
completely of the Administration
advantage of proximity which must tell
terribly against us--the practical luke
warmness of the violent faction at the
North who assume to lead the anti-slavery
movement, yet stand always in its path
the clustering of Missouri DULLES which
many will Judge to be the roar of the
lion while in fact it is only the bark of
the cowardly wolf, and which viii so far
as the mistake goes tend to discourage
emigration from she North knowing aud
seeing all this, feel that the North must
sustain us or our peril is great AS yet
the North has given us but ,cords, and
even those are not rightly aimed; for
while alleges are anxiously watching the
result and while so much depends upon
the support and approval extended to her
Reeder at Washington, Atehison isstrain-
ing every nerve to procure his recall,
and the North is waiting with open eyes
and mouth to see If he succeeds Mis-
souri, has had her pubic meetings, aud
has sent on its memorials, urging his dis
placement by a southern man but where
are the mass meetings of New York and
New England, and the monster memoir
ais protesting against the preparation of
ANY such foul injustice and injury to the
man himself, to the read citizens of Kan
sas, to the outraged North, to the insulted
nation, to demoralized humanity? And
vet IT mas be that the conscience and the,