The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-22
0figigaI Correspondence.
Fs the Msrad # Esecd.Ds
Letter from New England.
PRoK1pENcE, r. /. Sept. Sd, 55.

.I'ReFIDENcE, IL. l., sept. Sd, %.
Ed. HERALD OF FREEDOM Accord
ing to promised again address you, and
through you the readers of your valuable
paper, if You choose TO publish it. |
write for your encouragement and the
encouragement of the people of Kansas.
Your paper is highly appreciated in the
East and multitudes would take it if an
agent was to pass through the country to
get subscribers, or if it was to be had as
a penny paper. ! have heard men say
that they would willingly give 1sA cents
a number for it rather than be without it.
| shall do something for you.
The free State people of Kansas have
great reason to be encouraged. Since
leaving the Territory / have been sur
prised and delighted at the feeling which
everywhere exists in regard to Kansas
matters. It is universal and pervades
all parties. You have the strong sympa-
thies, aud will have, if necessary, the
united corporation of all the free States.
The people begin to understand that the
contest is between freedom and slavery
generllly-between Liberty, for which
our fathers fought, and bled, and died,
and Despo:iSm, the very worst kindof
deSpotism. 1t is becoming generally
understood in the free States that the
question is not whether the negroes and
their posterity in our country shall be
free, or continue slaves but whether all
the unsettled United States Territory
shall be cursed with slavery when it is
settled, and whether the States now free
shall be finally subjected to the slave pow
er. The plans and purposes of the pro-
slavery people are now well understood.
Their graSping, oyerbearing and allah
sorbing course, SO far, renders this issue
ce:tain, and is forcing it upon the coun-
try I; and the free States are prepared to
meet it. And meet it they will, in the
spirit of re.
The Missourians viii find that they
have raised and are raising storm
about them that they cannot aliay. When
AtchiSon and Stringfellow, and their
gangs of fire-eating bandittl, have gone
their length-haye run to the lend of
their chain" by the permission and COM
mission of the better part as well as the
majority, as | believe, of the citizens of
Missouri, who have had it in their pow
er to stop them, but they would not; then
the day of reckoning and retribution will
come, and a fearful day it will be TO them.
Their whole course, and all the acts of
their Eordes of fire eaters has SO far been
directly opposed 10 the interest of the
cause which they advocate; and they
have awakened spirit in the people Of
the free Staes, which viii not sleep till
these hordes and their abettors are CON
signed to eternal infamy, and until slave
ry is entirely swept from this fair land.
"Whom the gods have determined to de-
stroy they first make mad" Let these
hordes of fire-eaters once more invade
Kansas and attempt to control the ballot
box by violence, as they did at our last
election, and let the residents of the Ter
ritory give them Il warm reception and
make them a,kuGl settlers by the assist
ance of Sharp's Rifles and other similar
Arguments let blood once be shed in
defense of your ri shts, as trust it will
be if the. Missourians give you occasion,
and it will not be two weeks before an
army offifty thousand or any other num-
Der necessary will be raised and thrown
into Missouri. and will proclaim liberty
throughout all the land, aud to all The in
habitants thereof" and abolish slavery
at least in tGat State, and make it an ex-
ample to all others that may desire to
pursue a course similar to that of the
Missourians. Yes, sir, Missouri, and not
Kansas, viii be the battle ground, and
the contest vii, not cease until the inhab-
itants of that State have received the full
reward of their doings--the firc-eaters,
of their active oppression, of their un-
lawful deeds, and of their silence and
connivance thereto.
The spirit of resistance is thoroughly
aroused, not only among the people, but
at the sacred desk, and soon in the halls
and chairs of learning and science; aud
| solemnly warn the Missourians against
committing any more overt acts in Kan
sas which viii cause it to burst out in a
devouriHg fame.
But notwithstanding, the whole people
here are uni;ed and determined to resist
any further aggression of the slave pow
er, and vii! take a firm and united stand
on the principle of mo more slave Ter
ritory aud no more slave States" come
what may, and will fight for this princi-
pie; yet they are peaceably disposed and
do moi wish the pro-slavery party to press
the subject to this issue. They are will
ing the slave States already in the Union
should manage the subject as they please
within themselves, and should enjoy all
the rights aud privileges Of independent
and sovereign States but We do not be-
lieye that our constitution or its trainers
ever contemplated or intended TO sane
ton the increase of slave territory, and
this they mean toresist, peaceably if they
can. forcibly if they must. But they
sincerely hope this necessity will not be
forced upon them by the slave power. If
it is, however, they are prepared to meet
it.
And the Missourians viii find that
now, in case of the peacable adjustment
of this mater, they have lost much by
their unlawful and oppressive course
The people of the free States are deter
mined that they viii not encourage and
enrich such men by their tradeaDd busl-
ness. There is another route by which
Eastern men can get to Kansas aud the
Western territories besides that through
Missouri, and another city in which they
can enjoy equal facilities for business as
in st. Louis. They reed not pass through
nor deal with slave States. The railroads
through Iowa are mostly in the hands of
Eastern capitalists, and they are hurry