The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-22
BY G. w. BROWN & co.

the North were iaboring assiduously to
calm the excited public mind, and take
the whole subject of slavery out of poll
tics. by leaving it to the settlement of
the people Of the territories, when the
outrages instisated by Atchison, String
fellow and their associates upon the free
dom of the ballot boxes, and the right of
actual settlers appalled, the sense of the
nation. Still the friends of order and the
Constitution INDUCES hopes that the
Constitution could enforce itself, and
that, after the first outbreak, the return
ing sense of propriety would correct
even the aggravated evils and heal the
wounds inflicted upon popular franchises.
Those who lived in hopes that the polit-
ical errors, which care in their natures
poison" and burn like the mines of
would exhaust themselves and
bring back a healthy tone of feeling who
felt. confidence in the power of popular
sovereignty" as something higher and
holier than the cant of demagogues
would make it, and were heartily anxious
to avoid agitation-prefering to submit
to temporary wrong rather than reopen
it-haye been denounced for their eau
ton, and their forbearance branded as
crime. Bitter experience has shown
them that they have nothing to expect
from the South, and that aggression is
as distinctive feature of the political
slave power, as it is of the slave system
itself. The conservatives of the North
are now compelled to accept slavery as a
national institution, or be branded as
white negroes and fanatical Abolition
lists. 1t is no longer contended by the
South that slavery is local or municipal,
but it is demanded that the entire ma
tional energies shall be directed to ma
king itnational in its scope.
Lpolitical parties were first asked to
adopt this as a principle, and then the
Judiciary was brought in to enforce il
by Judge Kane's decision, which has
made more ''Abolitionists, ''and excited
a more rancorous feeling against slavery
than all the debates, feuds and broken
compromises of the past. We at the
North are compelled to ask ourselves,
was the Constitution framed to extend
slavery over soil heretofore free, and il
not can we permit it to be diverted from
its original purpose. to aid SO fragrant ;
wrong? We are invited by the South t.
estimate the value of that Constitution
as bond of political union, and arr
threatened with secession if we do moi
come up to every requirement of the
slave power. Insane in It's demands
imperious and exciting in its dictatoriaI
tone confident in It's ability TO find
treachery at the North sufficient to aid
consumnating its aggressions, the Soutl
must be viorously resisted, or the Nortl
will lose lis integrity, and be subservi
ent to the introduction of heresies antas
onistieal to true republicanism, and fata
to our free institutions. Hence it is tha
when the North places itself in opposi
ton to the South, it is not that it love
the South less, but the Union more. w
have duties to perform and destiny t
accomplish. The North is the true con
servative barrier to aggression, and upo
its fidelity will depend the happiness AM
perpetuity of those institutions we hav
been taught to revere. We must press or
undeterred by menace and unintluence
by hopes of sectional advantage we mus
comprehend the entire Union in our e1
forts, and never cease to labor until tn
opinions of those who framed our gov
ernment, and the policy of the patrio
fathers of our country, are again engraft
ed on the body polite, whence the
have been wrenched by untilial hands