The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
BY G. w. BROWN & co.

sisted by DIR. Moss and others. They
encamped about quarter of mile west
of the town, and, during the next day,
were reinforced by several parties,
amounting in the aggregate to near a
thousand men. They made no secret of
their intentions. They came to vote,
and SO ANNOUNCED On all occasions. The
leaders were evidently men of great in
fiuence with those under their orders,
else they never could have. restrained
such disorderly and irresponsible crew
of blackguards and ruffians. Whisky in
any quantity they had on hand, and
were not sparing in its use, as was evil
dent by the whoopings and yellings that
necessarily arose from their camps" All
the papers in Kansas say thatthe Missou-
rians voted in the Territory several
thousand strong, and some of those papers
not only proclaim the fact but glory in it,
and some of the Missouri papers defend
it as right and proper. One of the Kan
sas papers, very violent in favor of max
ing Kansas a slave State, a paper called
the Squatter Sovereign, boasts that those
in favor of making the Territory free did
not dare to go to the polls, and that they
could not have done so with safety. The
Sovereign says: "Free Sellers, as gen
eral thing, acted wisely, and kept away
from the polls.'
Those who undertake to defend the
outrage of the Missourians upon the eiec-
tive franchise of Kansas allege that the
inhabitants of Missouri had just as good
right to go into Kansas and vote as the
persons sent out to Kansas by the New
England Emigration Society. We have
seen this monstrous allegation put forth
in several quarters. It's both Infamous
and shameless. Itisa miserable mockefy,
which only adds insult to injury. The
apology is as false as the offense is attro-
cious. The people who have gone. to
Kansas from the Eastern States have
gone there to settle. No one but fool
can suppose that men from the East
would be at the heavy expense and the
vast trouble of going two thousand miles,
a large portion of them with their fami-
lies, to cast their votes in Legislative
election, and then to be at the heavy ex-
pense and vast trouble of returning home
again. No, the eastern emigrantS went
to Kansas to establish themselves there,
and to identify their fortunes with the
fortunes of the Territory. If they desi-
red that it should be free Territory and
a free State, they had a right to indulge
the desire and to voteaccordingly. They
have gone to make Kansas their home,
and their children's home They are,
in general, men of character-intelligent,
enterprising, order-loving. They have
taken with them far more generally than
emigrants usually do, the conveniences
and the neeessaries of life. They have
carried with them school teachers and
ministers of the gospel. The papers Of
! all the cities through which they have
! passed have spoken highly of their ap-
pearance and department. There have
been no squallid wretches among them
Undoubtedly many of them are fanatics
on the subject of slavery and have receiv-
ed pecuniary aid from fanatics of the
worst character, but that's nobody's bu
siness; they can do no more than vote IL
Kansas to make or keep Kansas free
5 Territory-and. that they have a right tc
, do. As the n. Y. Courier and Inquirer
says, if they choose to go out in compa
, nies, if they see fit to avail themselves o
any agencies, organized or unorganized
! in order to produce concert of action anc
secure common ends, they havea perfec
: right to do so. No arrangement of thi!
: sort can, in the slightest degree, effec
their character as settlers; and from thi
, character alone, underthe law of Congress
they derive the right to vote. The peo
, pie of Missouri, who took possession o
the ballot-boxes, for the most part ar,
not settlers. They are sheer interlopers
riding into the country one day for bae
purpose, and out of it the next. Thei
abode, both present and prospective, is il
Missouri, and all their civil rights liz
there. They have no more rightto yott
in Kansas than they have to vote in Il
linois or Iowa. They are in no sens'
squatters, because they are in no sense
, settlers, and they therefore have nothing
to do in squatter sovereignty. Thei
, taking part in it, as they have, is fagi
tious usurpation. Ifthey do not like th,
northern anti-slavery emigration socie
ties, as we certainly do not, let them coun
teract these with pro-slavery emigration
societies. The way is as open on the on
side as on the other. 1t is nobody's bust
ness how the emigration is effected, pro
yided it is real. The actaat settlement i
the only point in law; The actual settler
: the only parties in interest.
The determination of the Missourian
J living near the borders of Kansas to max
that Territory a slave Territory and
slave State at all hazards, and by what
ever means, is abundantly evident fror
the late proceedings of the residents c
, Platte county, Mo. In that case all tn
principal men of the county, to the mum
: Der of two hundred, assembled as moi
, destroyed newspaper press simply DC
, causeit would not recognize the right c
) Missourians to vote in Kansas, attempte
, to take the lives of the editors and Pre-
: Eprietors, and solemnly pledged thei
, word and honor, that, if those gentleme
3 should dare to settle in any portion {
r Kansas, they, the people of Platte county
{ Missouri, would follow them into th
Territory and put them to DEATH Thu
e this Missouri mob, a portion the arm
e of pistol and bowie knife voters who ha
{ crossed into Kansas and borne down e,