Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-09-07

Kansas free. IL had been free soil,
by solemn compact. for thirty-fve
years; and they naturally were incen-
sed to see It's character changed
The South would have been far more
indignant if II slave territory had been
thus, by unexpected act Of Congress,
converted into Free Soil.
The Free States had right 10 be
indignant that lifelong Compromise
had been repealed-and they had a
right to try to keep Kansas free as 1t
had been, by peaceable colonization.
They attempted nothing else. But a
portion Of the citizens Of Missouri,
headed by Atchison g. Stringfelllow.
denounced the northern emigrants as
"paupers and hirelings," because they
were sent west by the money of So
ciety and so they held county meet
ings in Missouri, and raised money
and sent Missourians to Kansas 10
make Kansas slave territory Were
these Missourians "h;relings" too ?
And did these two wrongs make one
right ?
Atchison and Stringfellow, with
their Missouri followers, overwhelmed
the settlers in Kansas. brow-beat and
bullied them, and took the govern
ment from their hands. Missouri
votes elected the present body of men,
who insult public intelligence and pop
ular rights by styling themselves 1.-THE
Legislature of Kansas" This body
of men are helping themselves TO iat
speculations by locating "tle seat o
government and getting town lots
for their votes. They are passing
laws disfranchising all the citizens O
Kansas who do not believe negro slave.
ry TO be a Christian institution and O
national blessing. They are propo
sing to punish with imprisonment the
utterance Of views Inconsistent with
their own. And they are trying tC
perpetuate their preposterous and in
lernal tyranny, by appointing for 4
term of years creatures of their own
as Commissioners in every county, tC
lay and collect taxes, and see that tn,
laws they are passing are faithfully ex
ecuted. Has this age anything tC
compare with these acts in audacity
The Free State men of X ansas hav,
resolved not to submit to this daring
usurpatiun of nonresident oligarchy
They have called n convention of III,
people Of Kansas, TO meet in Septem
Der next, and frame Constitution fOl
their government. This movement
will be supported BY thousands in Kan
sas: and II viii rally aud bring to theil
aid the Northern States that have beeI
for the time staggered and confused by
the untoward events in Kansas.
The next Congress will find ther
this issue before them-a Free Stat,
Constitution presented by one portion
of the people Of Kansas, and the pro
slavery territorial laws of the presen
fraudulent Legislature. The Hous,
Of Representatives of the next Con
gress will be largely Freesoil or Anti
Nebraska. The pro-slavery of ih,
bogus Legislature will be rejected
and without Congressional sanction
they are not valid-and the confess
will then be on accepting the Consti
tuition presented by the Free State
people. The Free State Constitution
may pass the House. but not the Sen.
ate. But the effect will be us disas
trous to Missouri and the South
Kansas will be left to anarchy. The
slavery that's there will flee from it,
perhaps even the slave property ol
Western Missouri give way under the
panic, and seek safety in the cotton
fields and sugar plantations Of Texas
1t has been the common opinion
with thoughtless persons and thick.
headed DULLES of the west, that the
northern and eastern men will not fight
Never was greater mistake. The
sons of New England and of the Mid
die States do not like to fight. They
would rather work-plough-build
towns, railroads-make money, and
raise families, than fight. But fghl
they will, ii need be. Remember, the
sons Of New England shed the lirst
blood in the American Revolutions; and
they were the last TO furl their flags in
that terrible struggle. They hav,
never disgraced their country by COW,
ardice, and they will not. They ar,
Americans, with spirit. courage, en-.
durance, and deep love of liberty. tC
animate them. The Free State mer
in Kansas will fight before they will b,
dislranchised and trampled on. Marx
the word.
Here comes, then, the suicide o
Slavery. The outrages committed b,
Atchison and his fellows in the repea
of the Missouri Compromise, and b,
Sringlellow and his followers in sub
iugating Kansas to nonresident rule
will bring on u collision first IN Con
gress and then in kansas-and whc
shall tell the end
Slavery will never sustain itself in 4
border State by the sword. 1t may
conquer in some respects; but il ear
never eco quer peace" Never
never Once light tht fires of inter
necine war in defence OF slavery, anc
il will perish while you defend it,
Shareholders will not stay TO meet tn,
fght. Property is timid, and th,
slaves will be sent to Texas to be in "a
safe place" while the tight lasts; anC
as soon as the slaves are gone il viii
be- found that Missouri has nothing &c
fight about, and the fight will end "be.
foie il begins "
Thus the Slavery propagandists
who repealed the Missouri Comprom.
ise to make Kansas n Slave State, will
make Missouri free and in endeay.
oring TO expel abolition from Kansas,
they will fill both Kansas and Missouri
with an entire free white population
worth more to the two States than all
the negroes in America.
Is not the Kansas outrage the sui.
eide of Slavery ? Have not the peo.
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